School starts! Ethan Ruan and Joe Cheng have mixed up with the registration date

ource:udn.com
translated by Kassy @ http://asianfanatics.net

The eve before college starts, the headmaster of National Taipei University, Li Si-Chen has been calling out to the students to [sleep early and wake up early], yesterday most of the student artists were able to do just that however they didn’t wake up early because of their classes but for work instead. The headmaster of National Taipei University has been sincerely instructing the students that early birds get their worms but the student artists seem to be [the birds that are busy making money instead of going to school].

Like the [Hsing Wu College] gang of 3, Ethan Ruan is busy filming the movie [Meng Jia], Zheng Yuan Chang was in Japan promoting his idol series [Honey and Clover], Mike He was having magazine cover shoot for the idol series [Calling Big Star] and will be appearing in a press conference as the ambassador for Taipei Film Festival today.

While Ming Dao, who has just transferred to Tungnan University in the beginning of the year, is busy filming [Xing Fu Yi Ding Qiang] at Xiamen, Mainland and only gets to come back to Taiwan after the filming is done, which is sometime in September. These 4 idol series main male leads, other than Mike He who has rushed over to register yesterday, until now the remaining 3 have yet to register, in another word, not sure they will be able to maintain their student status or not.

Student artists have always been extending their courses, if they can’t continue in this college then they will transfer to another college instead, continue to hang on to the [student status]. Every start of new term they will be asked ‘Have you registered?’, ‘How many more years to go?’ Artists and their managers will try to avoid those questions as best they could, they most afraid of the phrase [rushing to apply for extension just so they don’t have to enroll into military service] this open secret from the entertainment industry has started to surface. This year other than Xiao Tian, Xiao Mei, Xiao Zong, Ming Dao, Kun Da who have applied for extension, the list has also included Danson Tang as well.

Ingeniously even though they have turned the second year in college into a medical school, they are still not that clear with the rules set by the college. Yesterday CATWALK representative has mentioned that because Hsing Wu College has their [Own rules and regulations for each division] so they have different registration dates and timetable to choose from, Xiao Zong and Xiao Tian only requires to make their registration in this week.

But according to the announcement board in Hsing Wu College, yesterday was the official open day, yesterday the head of the registration department mentioned that normally the students would have registered their classes already, as for these couple of students artists because they have applied for extension so they could still come to register their classes before this coming Saturday and if they failed to do so then they will be considered as dropout. The head of the department has also generously revealed that the male students do have the intention of extending their course so to avoid joining the military service, it’s not just the student artists, nowadays a lot of students are doing the same and the college cannot do much about this situation.

Caption: Zheng Yuan Chang has been extending his course to maintain his idol career.

Caption: Ethan Ruan, who is still busy filming movies when school has already started, has yet to register for his classes.

poor Ethan, Mike and the rest of the gang.. they need to work instead to go to school.. hmmm.. is this really what you get from being an artist, the so - called, "school deprivation" ?