Lose Ur Breath

Hello

2011-02-18T16:39:00.002+08:00

I guess there are quite abit of cobwebs lying around my blog now that it has probably been almost half a year since I blogged.

Well, life has been hmmm fine. From what I can say. Good and bad things come my way. So I cant really say I am fully satisifed with life now. Well, as much as you can guess, I've been dancing but not as much as Dawn. Decent amount still since there are other important stuff that matters to me.

Recently, there has been quite alot going on around me and I am happy that there are friends who give me advices and such. You know who :) heh...But time will heal I think.

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SCHOOL

2010-08-27T11:39:00.003+08:00

In less than two weeks, school reopens for me. I can sense the similar stress coming towards my direction just like the days when I was in secondary and junior college. The expectations and the challenges awaits. Yikes...

Nevertheless, it is the start of something new. I should look forward to it.

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NBS camp 2010

2010-07-27T11:56:00.003+08:00

Before everything in my memory gets wiped out, I shall blog about the most recent and most unforgettable experience of my life. In addition, I provide free entertainment to my boss - Mr YY. :P

Anyway, the 5-day camp was hell tiring. By the last few days of the camp, I was already a walking zombie that shifted around mindlessly.

Day 1

This was the dirtiest day ever. According to the seniors, the camp will gradually get cleaner. Indeed, it is true so the dirtiest day is absolute yucky. We were brought to a field with lots of grass *note LOTS of GRASS. My OG's first game already made us significantly dirty - we had to slide across a canvas sheet splashed with raw eggs, soy sauce, mud etc. and what not. Yucks!!

The subsequent games were not much better with some that needed the girls to dip their long hair into squid water (there is really a squid in the pail). That stinks man. There is smacking flour and tomato sauce on other people's faces as well as pouring raw eggs in the hair of another (this is really the ultimate).

By the time the games were over, the field transformed into a mud land with my grass. haha

Thinking that we could bathe, all of us were wrong. We only got to clean up with the little water we can find (since everyone was fighting for the hose or a place in the toilet to grab hold of water to wash off the cannot-be-washed-off stuff on our body). It was dinner after that.

Night games started about 8pm and ended at about 2am. It was pretty much the normal games except some unimaginable stuff like walking through the canal. We practically lift the lid of those drains that we walked over everyday on the streets and climbed down. With only two candles - the first and the last person, we walked for about 20mins. Nice experience. Another was the classic NTU lake which we were led to while blindfolded. I didn't buy the story that we had to slide down the lake cause the beneath of the lake is really dirty and unpredictable. They couldn't possibly risk the lives of the students. BUT we end up sliding down some freaking steep slope in NTU via a canvas sheet. It's like sliding from the height of the second storey of the school to the first. I screamed.....

Day 2

We had only an hour to bathe after the night games ended. After that we bused down to sentosa at an absurd time of 4am. We had less about 2hrs of sleep in a room in Costa Sands. Sounds decent right. But what if you squeezed 20 girls into a 2 single bedder room. I was literally sleeping on my back. I could not stretch my legs while sleeping. :(

After breakfast, we had sand games. This day was not as dirty as the previous day since we are only dealing with sand and seawater. Nothing much interesting to blog about anyway. After lunch was some cross-dressing skit thing that lasted till evening where we got to bathe.

After that, we bused down to a chalet near the Changi yacht club and had dinner. The night activity was fright night. It was that frightening, maybe at the beginning. But it was fine after that.

The most anticipated part has come and we finally got to sleep for the longest we ever had in this 5 days. About 4 hours of rest.

Day 3

POOL games!!! One of those that I enjoyed most and it is my element - water. haha. The rather challenging one was the confidence jump where we had to jump down 3m high. There was an optional jump from 5m high.

After dinner was the performance night. The theme was Lady Gaga meets K-pop. Magnus won the first for the performance while our sister OG Regna won first for the cheers.

Next, we had a short meet with our SP while being blindfolded. By then it was 1am and we bused to another chalet in Changi (again) NSSRC. Pretty nice a place to stay.

Day 4

Another interesting day where we walked around Bugis area in search for some of the nice food sold in Singapore. We have the wonderful Dou Hua - soft and nice, traditional desserts, chicken rice, Rojak, Minced pork noodles and more.

Night time was the SP night where we went out with out dates. The process where the guys had to get their girls was really amusing. It is as though the seniors were marrying off their own children. They were pretty harsh on the guys. heh...

After dinner with the SP, we head off to Butter Factory where we went back to our individual OGs to have fun till 3am.

Day 5

With little sleep, I really really shacked. We had a final telematch in school and after lunch there was a round off session before we break camp.

Was an interesting camp that I will do it once and never again. It is pretty insane not sleeping. And made me realised how much I missed sleeping. :)

BKK

2010-07-15T10:27:00.002+08:00

I'm back again from not blogging for a long period of time. This morning I guess woke up from a nightmare. It was rather terrible since I was crying when I opened my eyes and made me realised how much I feel like seeing the person now. zzz...

Anyway, recently I just got back from my Bangkok trip with my mum.I must say that I will not miss any part of Bangkok except her food and super cheap clothes. Food, was one irritating one. For the first two days there, I was enjoying hot and spicy tom yam soup and those glass noodle salads that have vinegar in them. It took a troll on me and for the last two days, I was suffering from gastric pain. This was the worst I ever had and it came and go intermittently. The food there is really WOW. Yes, I know I didn't go and eat their cheap shark's fin soup or bird nest. But I didn't feel there was a need to. Their authentic Tom Yam soup is the one that I miss most.

SHOPPING: one word to describe "SHOIK". You really just buy without thinking. Did most of my shopping in Platinum Mall (the best choice over MBK and other malls). The way the shops are situated makes it easy and convenient to move from shops to shops and to ensure that you have covered all grounds. Don't think twice as if you want to go back to the shop I shall say good luck to you. It is really difficult to get back to the same store once you passed it. And the mall is six stories high. Imagine the amount of things to shop. :)

One thing I don't like about Thailand. The WEATHER. It is so damn hot. At 9am there, it feels much hotter than Singapore's afternoon sun. Coming back to SG seems much cooled in fact.

A place that I wished I could go is the lady boy street. Haven't experienced going there. zzz...

Oh well, when shall be my next BKK trip to shop crazily again :P

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SFDF

2010-06-22T15:34:00.003+08:00

Wow it has been a long time since I blogged. Well, probably I have no inspiration to type anything that is interesting enough to read. So today's post shall be really random.

Of course the most happening event that took place recently was the SFDF graduation night. There were almost 18 items lined up for the audience. And I did nearly half the number of performances. Further elaboration can be found on Dawn's blog since both of us did the same things and had the same change area too...

It really funny how the body works where throughout the whole night where one keeps dancing non-stop and speed changing in between, we do not feel the tiredness. HOWEVER, the moment everything ended and you sit down to rest, your entire body feels limped and fatigue sets in. It's amazing how the adrenaline works to keep one filled with energy even though in actual fact is sooooo tired. Even up to today, I am still suffering from the effects of the lack of sleep. I really do need to catch up on that when my contract ends in 8 working days!! Yipee!!!

Since I will be jobless when July comes, naturally there will be activities lined up apart from sleeping. One of which is my Bangkok trip in early July where mum and I will be there shopping. Ha...I must really say a big thank you to the huge civil distress that occurred over the few months such that there is going to be a major sales in Bangkok to revive the tourism economy. So cheap goods on discounts makes prices freaking low... WHOA (eyes bulging out).

Of course there is the NTU NBS camp coming up next on the whole third week of July. Personally, I kind of dread going for it. But, for the sake of building my social circle, it is deemed beneficial to me. hizz...hope the camp turns out well since it is going to be a solid five days event.

Another thing that I will look forward to is a new image. I will probably dye and give my hair waves in August, near to when my school is starting. OOoo...

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ChinaOne a coffeeshop?

2010-05-20T14:21:00.003+08:00

Yippee!! So happy...So many things happened this week and majority are good news. Of course, when there is good, there is bad. But I rather not think about them.

Today, I will probably go down to ChinaOne to celebrate for whatever I'm happy for. But the main reason for the gathering is to send of one of the xen peeps.

ChinaOne is really a random name to call a club. Initially when Emma said let's go to ChinaOne to hang out, I thought we were going to a coffee shop in Chinatown. haha... Naturally I feel that it was a really weird place to chill. And it was only on Tuesday that I realised what the real place was.

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For ms Dawn

2010-05-14T17:07:00.002+08:00

oh request by ms Potato, here's an update of what she missed when she is in Turkey holiday-ing. The most obvious thing that she missed isssss doing her VOLUNTEER HOURS. muhahaha... yeah!!

Let's see. On Tuesday, the class was taught by Maricel. Since Brenda still had her exams. Shine class was not bad since the class only comprise Ivy and I, it was practically a private session. Not bad...

Yesterday,yq competed the Bachata choreography finally as she ran through from top to toe for the song.

Today, it's Una...

What else you want to know ms potato.

There are some things that I want to say here but it ain't convenient. But we talked about it on and off. Even on your blog if you know what I mean. Hizz...

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Office observation part 2

2010-05-12T13:52:00.004+08:00

Okie...really random post. But felt like typing nonsense. Here is part two of the "Observations in Office" post. This time my focus will be people in my room.

Being temporary staff of the company, most of us are not entitled to one cubicle to ourselves. Thus, we are grouped into small numbers and put in rooms. Recently, there was a reshuffle and one of my colleague went to another conference room and his seat was replaced by a rather odd fellow i must say.

He's English name is C******. Somehow, I think the name doesn't suit him at all. Whenever I see this name I get the impression of him being like the character in a show that is titled with his name. And what's more the Keane Reeves is one of my favourite actor since he is sooo hot. haha. And compared to the guy in my room, it is indeed two worlds' apart.

Anyway, that was abit of a side-track. Here is the main stuff. When he first entered the room. Another colleague of mine by the name of L introduced a really refreshing new game to him, NEOPETS. He was like that is so childish. Well, ya i have to admit since both guys are at the age of 21 where they are SUPPOSED to be more mature. But people get influenced, soon I think C dug out his old account or started a new one and played all the neopets games.

Practically, from the time he turns on his laptop till the free time he has in between work, I see the neopets website on his computer. Gone were the days where he just watched a movie. Gone were the days when he tried to influence me to watch them just like him.

This time, the new thing that he will try to promote is "Play neopets".

I'll go "...".

Oh well, this is just one typical observation of a cute (which he describe himself as) and MATURE young adult in the society today.

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Swensen's

2010-05-09T21:34:00.004+08:00

Yozz...

I'm blogging a really short post just after I removed the eye-irritating purple blogskin that I once had. And now I'm back to basics again with the white background. Really like the simplicity. When life is so terribly corrupted and with people that are full of ulterior motives.

Anyway, my life right now is really passing by at a rapid speed. Week after week passes by so fast. And every week is like another chapter. I'm happy with how things are progressing right now.

Yesterday, my clique had a mini gathering at Swensen's Ion. Really, Ion is like a maze where you have to walk roundS to get your bearings right. Anyway, we had the ice-cream buffet thing at the restaurant. There was a rather wide selection to pick from. But all had one thing in common. All the food were SWEET SWEET SWEET. Ice-cream, cakes, wafer, brownie, sweet toppings. All of them are sugar-loaded. And halfway through I had this throbbing pain in my head. I guessed it was either a sugar-rush or a brain-freeze. Thus, we ordered fries to counteract the effect since the dish was salty.

Most of us were cam-whoring. This time it's not me. MUHAHAHA. Ms Dawn is under the cam-whoring list for the reader's information. :P

It was indeed a rather enjoyable outing to meet up with the old friends. Next time, no more Swensen's okie...

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My journey in ACTFA

2010-04-29T09:27:00.003+08:00

Recently I have been writing essays for xen and one of which is about my journey n xen. This essay that I wrote is truely what I feel about the school and I shall publish it here...

"The year 2010 is almost the fourth year that I am with ACTFA. I remembered the first time I stepped into this school, I was a secondary student. And now, I am already waiting for my admission in to university. Time really flies and so has the amount of progress that ACTFA made over this period of time. I am one person who saw its growth over the years.

Climbing up the creaky wooden flight of stairs for my very first hip-hop class in a shop-house in Chinatown, Pagoda Street, ACTFA used to be known as Xenbar. The place compared to today’s location in Bukit Merah is two worlds apart. From the point of view of a parent, I think if you were to see the school in Chinatown, you will not even considering signing up your child for any dance classes there. The layout of the school was more mature where you have shady lights and elaborated decorated interior that creates a mood for couples and lovers to chill out.

Upon stepping into the entrance on a warm Saturday afternoon, the first thing I saw was a lady dancing some sort of dance with another guy. Moreover, I recalled seeing another man sitting along the stairways shouting and telling them what to do. Yes! The lady is our principle dancer in ACTFA, Yanqing and the man instructing them is Justin.

From there, my journey in ACTFA officially starts. I took on hip-hop classes on a weekly basis and would usually come in about two hours earlier to do my own self-practice as I was hooked to dancing.

Soon, Yanqing asked me to join the school’s salsa classes held at night. This school offers basic and intermediate salsa every night all these years. Their tradition never changed. Thus, everyone is able to make it to dance no matter how busy they are. Upon being exposed to salsa, I finally realized what Yanqing was dancing on my first day in ACTFA.

At that time, salsa was not as hyped up compared to today. And this school is one of those which found a niche in this scene and try to expand the salsa scene in Singapore. Indeed, ACTFA has achieved that as most of the students that it has trained are recognised in the salsa scene and are frequently sought after to social dance during salsa events.

I remembered the first few lessons of salsa, I wore a sport shoe to dance. I was a tat too clumsy and I felt slightly uncomfortable embracing a guy and dancing with a partner. However, in a few sessions, I got addicted to this dance and carried on signing up for their intermediate classes. Intermediate classes are always more interesting as they teach us on the different variations in salsa. In fact, the amount of moves you can think of is endless. People can always come up with new variations that are impressive and probably making them their signature moves.

What ACTFA could offer me did not end here. The school pushes for all their students to perform in their annual salsa congress to give them the exposure of standing on the stage. I feel that this helps me boost my self-confidence and stage presence. Be it dancing or in school, I am able to use this skill and apply it to my everyday life. My very first performance item was in Kallang theatre, doing a hip-hop routine. That very first experience standing on stage dancing was satisfying and scary. It was satisfying because I can never imagine myself standing on the stage dancing and it was scary for Kallang theatre is a huge space and the crowd watching us was pretty big.

Subsequently, ACTFA shifted to Bukit Merah Central with a studio space that is more than twice the size of the one in Chinatown.

Initially, the whole area was a mess with no mirrors installed on the walls and we had to dance on dusty cement floors that were not lined with parquet. Over time, the whole school transformed into one that is furnished with chairs and tables, a proper counter for students’ registration, equipped with numerous fans and air-conditioners and the mirrors and floor properly set up.

ACTFA also developed its line of products such as costumes for ladies and shoes for both males and females. Furthermore, students of the school are guaranteed progress in their dance caliber for the school provides a series of programs catered to the different standards of dancers. From the most elementary dancers to professional artists, ACTFA has a syllabus for each of them to improve from where they are.

Phew! The journey in this school has been an exhilarating one. I wonder what other things I can expect of ACTFA in the near future… "

Wee...

Random observations

2010-04-21T09:26:00.003+08:00

Presently I am in the office typing this blog entry. Since I have nothing much to do now I might as well hone my writing skills.

After the end of this month, I have worked in my company for exactly four months already. Thus I kind of have a feel of the culture and the working style of the people here.

Since I am working in a department where staff turnover rate is really high as well as the number of temporary staff like me is rather great, this place is filled with a rather significant number of young people of my age. To be more specific, there are more guys than girls. The ratio is like 4 guys is to 1 girl. The gender count is really unbalanced.

As such, I am able to make some interesting observations of these guys who are hitting 21years of age this year:

Firstly, these guys will ALWAYS dressed in jeans and no others. Well, ya lah, jeans is the easiest bottom to match with any shirt. How convenient.

Secondly, these guys use vulgarities like it's nothing. Though the do not really sprout them so much but when they actually say it, it is not due to some big issue. But as one of their passing statement. So when the f*** word comes out, I have to pretend that it is nothing when I feel kind of weird as I am not used to such modes of conversing.

Finally, one really really sick thing that MOST of these guys do (I said most so it does not mean absolute) is to go on fb and look at their friends-friends, friends-friends-friends pictures especially girls and compare who is more "choi". After that they would see which universities they are in. So naturally these guys with a placing in one of the three Us will hope that those girls are actually studying in the school that they are going.

Well, that is my observation for those temps in our office...

Aside from work, of course I have some time for myself to wonder about life's mysteries.

I think that life is really cruel to some poor souls. Yes it is true the survival of the fittest applies to those in the wild and to us man. But by degrading oneself to the level where you start backstabbing people around you without them knowing is horrid. These people will soon get their retribution. We shall see. I look forward to this day.

It is not that I am being mean, but people without the qualities that are required for a certain task should not even take a chance to be with the class of people. That is my noble advice to those silly, gullible, dumb and delusionised folks out there.

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Scarlet night 2010

2010-04-14T08:31:00.002+08:00

Ms Buffa's back again. Ever since the last time I blogged, two significant things happened. One was the recent Scarlet Night in xenbar which was held to reunite the old xen peeps. In my opinion, it was not that successful as I didn't actually see more than half of the people back then. Take it with a pinch of salt, it is just an opinion. And of course we did our super girly hip-hop item that we did for the Sambawang countdown and Nanyang CC. But this time the costumes were slightly different than usual. It was cargo pants and random colours that we each agreed to wear. However, the overall effect was surprisingly nice.

The video of that night's performance has been uploaded on YouTube and you can find it at the left-hand side of this blog site. NOTE: Just ignore the DAMN SUPER DUPER LAME comment by MS DAWN who uploaded the video saying that Dionne just did a crab walk while dancing bottle-pop. _ _ "

The second event worth mentioning was "RELOADED" party in Union Square. I think last night was the official opening of the club though I have been to the new one twice which were weeks and months ago. So I don't know how reloaded this is.

We did our Beggin choreography that we did for the SBDC in Jurong Point. But this time the cool thing morphed into a line dance thing. Sadly, Ms buffa was not in the mood to do any cam-whoring so thou shall not be able to see those laughable costumes we were in.

During our dry-run which was on the same day as the performance, yq's foul mood plus our lack of standard in the dance made the whole rehearsing process a black event. We were undecided on our costumes and our moves were not as sharp as at our peak which was weeks ago only that we almost wanted to back out of the performance.

Nevertheless, the item was rather a success when the crowd cheered profusely after it ended. And people came up to us and congratulated us on the impressive display. Initially, I was apprehensive about us doing this different-from-the-rest routine. Others were doing their thing (SALSA) and were "WOW" be it the costumes or the choreography.

After the item, social danced abit before I managed to catch the last train home. At least the ride was not that boring since I was with Steven all the way to pioneer. Cool...someone who lived as far as me.

As of now, everything has sort of come to a rest. My next agendas lined up would be to quickly start and finish up my driving plus more friends-gathering in the coming weekend.

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Bachata video

2010-04-06T09:22:00.004+08:00

The bachata video is up on youtube and here it is:

2010-04-05T10:48:00.002+08:00

Woo...i slept my very first 9 hours since I don't know how long. Had a lazy evening yesterday after an early dinner and fell asleep on my brother's bed. The 9 hours were rather significant since I haven't been yawning this morning till now.

We the fact that I haven't been blogging for a rather long time was that I was busy preparing for the bachata competition which occurred last Saturday at Zouk. When I was there for the dry run in the afternoon, I got to see Zouk in its "daylight" form. To be honest, the place is horrendous. I wonder how clean it is if u put the tables or wall under the microscope. There were glass shards on the dance floor which were potential dangers to all the competitors who were gliding, sliding, rolling or any other moves that had to interact with the floor.

The competition starts about 8pm and proceeded on smoothly. This year's standard was really high, we were able to determine the champions during the dry run. And conclude that to win a BACHATA competition, one do not need to even do bachata. As long as one has enough cool lifts, tricks and dips that wow the audience, you will automatically be crowned the champions.

One interesting fact: There is a couple that did a lady gaga remixed into bachata song and surprisingly this couple are siblings. haha... I might consider asking my brother to partner me in a few years time if he successful grows taller.

Anyway, the video is uploaded on facebook and you can go view it there.

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Sublime

2010-03-22T13:07:00.005+08:00

Finally the whole SBDC thing has come to an end.Last night was the semi finals at Jurong Point.

For sublime, our theme this time was Tamil and the puppets. So the rest of us dressed like dolls with tutu dresses and had on this Gothic look. The teams who went into this round were really good. Some of them used the same music but improvised on the moves. Some of them came up with fresh ideas and even their costumes were really nice.

In my opinion, not trying to offend anyone, ours weren't as impactful. According to my parents, an audience point of view (ones that have no dance experience at all), felt that our item was way to monotonous. Plus, there were lots of crab-walks in our dance.

Our comments were rather neutral as a result. Cause our dance is pretty irrelevant. It has hip hop moves in it but somehow the outcome seemed bollywoodish and jazzy. The judges did not know how to comment due to the uniqueness of the dance. Thus, they end up talking about the UFO stunt and the prop (chair) which was flung to one side of the stage during the dance.

Oh well, this was an experience for me though. But next time if I were to join a competition again, I would think twice cause a competition is different from a performance. Especially in the genre or hip-hop, the audience do not look out for big moves. They look out for synchronisation and heavy-beat musics. Of course, big moves give us a plus point. But over-doing it is not the way to go.

Wee...bachata competition is the next obstacle

SBDC 2010 SUBLIME

2010-03-17T13:11:00.002+08:00

The video for our SBDC 2010 is up on Youtube already. Yeah...(though this one isn't from my camera)

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HECTIC

2010-03-16T09:07:00.002+08:00

These few weeks of March is gonna be one hell of a ride. There is the SBDC, Bachata competition and my quarter-month overtime work at MS. So many things to do, so little time. What is worst, my eyes are starting to get black...Ahh

Last Saturday almost the whole xen was at Jurong Point to dance or support the three teams that were participating in the Singapore Best Dance Crew competition. I must say that this is actually the biggest hip hop thing in Singapore as the champions will represent Singapore in the World Hip hop competition in Las Vegas.

Our team, comprising Dawn, Tamil, Leticia, Angela and me did a very bollywood piece in outfits that resemble MIB. We had on black pants, jackets, ties and shades. Furthermore, our faces were painted black too. So we looked uniform and sometimes I cannot even identify myself in the video. Tension was rising high especially when our team was the second segment of the programme and while waiting in the humid open area, our painted faces were kind of washed-out. Finally, after our item, some comments we received were that our routine was rather jazzy and that our sunglasses hid out expressions which the judges wanted to see. On the other hand, we were commended on our uniqueness.

Unexpectedly, we got into the semi-finals. But there are other nine teams competing against us, so the odds of getting into finals are slim. Anyway, I just know that I have less sleep till Sunday.

So if this SBDC thing ends on Sunday, I still having my bachata routine with Roland that is pending ever since I started practising for the hip hop competition. We only have two weeks to finish the remaining of the song and to polish up. So rush....

And there is this issue of my month-end overtime at work which may start the next day after the SBDC competition which further reduces the time for my bachata practice.

Something random, I've got an interview with ntu nbs this Thursday into accountancy. I guess my results were not as impressive to allow me to get into the course without one. So hopefully the upcoming written test and interview will go well :)

Life will be better when April comes...

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The unexpected

2010-03-09T08:56:00.005+08:00

I guess it is rather anti-climax having to blog about my A levels at this point of time (since the results were released last Friday).

The feeling that I had just before I received my result slip was rather numb. It could be that it was just two years ago that I had gone through the similar procedure. OF COURSE, I did not want history to repeat itself for the third time where I had a sucky overall grade.

After the irritating and long-winded stupid talks by the teachers, we collected our results. Mr Tan had our slips turned, so one has to have the courage to flip it over and face the music. I really could not flip it over after two terrible experiences. But when he said I did not bad, I took a leap of faith and peeped at the piece of paper.

Surprisingly, my grades were not bad. Slightly disappointed the wrong question I chose for Chemistry paper 3 cost me a B. However, the trade-off was that my GP had an A. That is really really amazing for a person like me who is really bad at spelling and language related stuff.

Anyway, I hope my score allows me to get into the faculty that I want. As what my mum said:
Hope a miracle will happen.

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Random

2010-03-01T13:04:00.003+08:00

Part 2 of my random post in Buffa's blog.

There is this guy friend whom I know off whose initials of his name is LSH. Ha... I wonder if he knows I am referring to him. Anyway, the first time I got to know him really well was when I graduated from Nan Hua. Ironically, for four years in the same school, I don't really bother to talk to him or anything.

Thus, in the short span of a few months due to dance, I knew him as a proper friend. I must say that this person is the weirdest one I know. He has this philosophical thing going around him and sometimes I find it hard to understand what point he is trying to put across.

Sadly, he disappeared in a few months time to some far away country...

Ha...so who is this person?

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The unexpected

2010-02-23T14:26:00.005+08:00

Just some random post of mine over here.

Life can sometimes be unexpected. When you pin hopes on something, whatever that you were anticipating does not actually turn out to be what you expect it to be.

A recent example was the recent Sunday's night out in Movida, St James. During the day I had a hell hectic day dancing and practicing. By the time night came I was rather reluctant to go down to Vivo area to salsa (though I must say that I am quite a social-dance fanatic). Thus, my intention was to just sit around, chill and enjoy each other's company. UNEXPECTEDLY, despite it being a Sunday when most clubs are closed and the crowd in Movida is really really small, I enjoyed myself. There were a handful of good dancers there and when I was thick-skinned enough to ask them to dance, the initial intention of just lazing around was casted behind my head. :)

Another one was on my birthday this year. I am really a low profile person so I had no plans to celebrate my nineteenth birthday. However, I just initiated a dinner gathering with my friends to catch up. The night turned out fun and amusing. There was the milk tea treat by the restaurant in a humongous glass as well as presents and a cake from my friends. After that I was at union where I was asked for a dance several times (without me needing to 'hunt' for my next prey after each song).

Well...life is just like that. The more you want out of it, somehow it you will not get what you want. So just let nature take its course...BUT I hope this does not apply to the coming release of the results.

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HK salsa festical 2010

2010-02-09T09:20:00.004+08:00

Phew...back from Hong Kong and I am feeling really really exhausted. I haven't been sleeping decently since thursday night.

This trip was rather abrupt and I only decided to go just one and a half days before I flew off. I have the thank Sham for this... :) I was there for the Hong Kong Salsa Festival.

Anyway, after that I had major packing to do before I flew off early the next morning. My flight to Hong Kong was one of the earliest flights there apart from the big shots who flew a few days earlier. Thus, I could tour around HK while we wait for the rest to arrive in the night.

Lucky there was Veron, the experienced tour guide, who knew the best places to go to or else the small group of us (Ronald, Pierre, Veron's friend) will be wondering around aimlessly.

Sadly I didn't get to shop on the first day since by the time the rest meet up with us, it was too late to go shopping along "nui ren" street. However, my stomach was damn bloated with food on that day. Those people kept eating non-stop:

We had noddles soup for lunch but carried on eating Portuguese egg tarts in some hotel just down the road. Subsequently we had alcoholic drinks with fried chicken wings and spring rolls. Terrible! I was too full for dinner.

Day 2 was when the workshops began. Luckily it was just across the road for the first few workshops so we didn't need to rush down too early in the morning. I must say that most of them were disappointing. I was expecting those all-whacked-out kind of sessions like during YQ's classes. But the classes were rather easy to catch. The only one I enjoyed was the dips and tricks class by the Russia couple and probably the On1 class by the French (but the class size was so large that it made dancing so irritating).

For the nights, the first night was performances by all the countries attending the event. Dawn and the rest performed the cabaret item but it was the breathtaking Russians that won the crowd's applause.

The second night was when the competitions began. Dawn and I pulled Leticia in so we were qualified for the group category since we cannot participate in the amateur's for both of us are girls. Towards the end of the whole thing, I really felt embarrassed and emoistic. Firstly, our item was not even pure salsa. Secondly it was so last minute (since I decided to go only at the eleventh hour) that our costumes sucked and dance moves looked less polished than the rest.

On the last night, it was the closure of the whole festival. The night ended on a very mild note. The size of the audience shrunk rather drastically from the difference between the competition night and the night itself. I guess most of them were catching a flight home for work on Monday.

The night party after the performances was at some club in another street. The ambiance there was nice. The club wasn't as small as I expected it to be and there were lovely couches and corners for us to sit and chill. Sadly the crowd was super small. Mostly of them didn't turn up for the after party event. I left earlier than Dawn since I had to fly off the next morning.

The trip to Hong Kong was pretty fun. But wished I had more time shopping and touring the bustling country. Wee...

PS: Pictures taken can be viewed on facebook.

Working life sucks

2010-01-28T16:39:00.004+08:00

It's been official a month since I started work and I firmly conclude that I do not like working life. I really cannot believe in about 4 to 5 years time, I will be back in this situation for good. Ahh...

Here are the cons about working:

First, unlike school which takes up only your mornings and abit of your afternoon, working like takes up practically your whole day. This means that there is less time for you to do your leisure activities (in this case for me is dancing).

Next, everyday, you go to work, you sit and get out of your seat during lunch and sit down again after your meal to work. I will not be surprised that more than half the working population have a flabby tummy.

Also, working life is so mundane. You just repeat everyday for who knows how many years as long as you stay in that firm. It really is much much much boring that going to school where you learn a variety of things and are much interesting.

Lastly, the office environment causes one to be more prone to illness. Since the area is permanently enclosed, the air is stale and dust flies everywhere. Once a person catches a flu, everyone will take turns falling sick. That sucks especially when I have to dance and have to keep sniffing to prevent those mucus from going all over the place.

Oh well...as of now I should be happy that I have not officially entered the horrendous and dreadful working society. Thus, I truly am looking forward to study again.

Wee...

ACEKI salsa Compeition 2010

2010-01-24T21:24:00.013+08:00

Phew! The dance marathon is kind of over for NOW. From what I can remember I had over 4 performance/competition spanning over a month. Thus the insane dance practice one after another. At least there is nothing ahead since the next event for xen will be the HongKong salsa congress which I am sadly not going. Almost the whole xen is going there. So I'll be emo-ing with Amanda in Singapore.

Today my feet was rather swollen as I by ballet shoes and usual dance shoes that I wore in xen to dance felt really tight. Ivy said it is due to too much dancing especially for the recent Friday's competition.

Let's back-track to Friday. It was one eventful day though. After work I went to xen to start preparing for the night's event. When Dawn told me to stretch before running though, I thought I could go down into a split easily. But instead of the usual crack that i will get while splitting, I felt my inner thigh muscle stretch. Must be that I overused it the night before during the rehearsal. There was major space constrain since all the mirrors were shifted to one side to make space for the venue.

As it got closer to the start of the competition, everyone was all dressed up looking so glamorous, glitzy, elegant... except Dawn and I who were in tank-tops and shorts. Such a sharp contrast. Since we were doing somewhat a reggae-salsa thing, we cannot afford to wear skirts. After that, I was busy cam-whoring away (says Dawn). But everyone was doing that too. And someone could not do it cause HER camera's memory was FULL. Hmmm... what does it mean. Am I more cam-whore than HER???

Anyway, I was expecting Baohui, her bf, Angela and Shuwen to come watch. Sadly Melissa could not come. Apparently even after I drew a map for them to follow, all of them went in the wrong direction. I think they walked from redhill to commonweath. But they did not missed the fun part of the competition though.

During the amateur round, Dawn and I totally screwed the item. haha... our split jumps were not in-sync and final pose sucked. Thus, it explained why we received second prize cause the champions who were supposedly dressed in some Tarzan theme had some big moves up their sleeves. But apart from that, there techniques were not clean enough and thee girl did not point her toes man!!! I wonder why they fared better.

Naturally in the open category where the competition ups another level, Dawn and I were determined not to win but to get a better video. And we managed to achieve that. We still got second (again) but won the jungle-themed couple and lost to Brenda and Libin who had a more kick-ass choreography.

Unfortunately the video ended just before we split since my camera when out of memory space. Hizz...

As for the prizes, Dawn and I each got 2 pairs of Titoban shoes (damn lousy) and $600 worth of clothes that could all be found in xen.

Well that's all for now. And I shall take the chance now to rest. I am having serious panda-rings round my eyes. Ah! I need sleep...

Wee...

My 19th Birthday

2010-01-21T07:44:00.008+08:00

Yesterday was unexpectedly really enjoyable. After the mundane work for 8 to 5, I meet up with my friends at Bugis. I went there with Sharry (rather coincidental) some of our classmates were going to celebrate her birthday too which is tomorrow. Thus, I managed to see some of the classmates.

Apart from the long half-an-hour wait at the control station, we were finally gathered in some restaurant. The food there was mediocre. The interesting part starts when Shuwen and angela noticed that I could order a free glass of iced milk tea. We were expecting just a one serving size. However... it came out to be this huge.

After wonderful Bao Hui filled all our nine glasses, there were still lots of leftovers. haha...

The next programme was Union. I managed to pull all of them to the place but in the end the guys didn't enter cause of the hefty $10 that they needed to pay. In the end, only the girls went in. I'm sure all of them got hooked to salsa especially Melissa. Angela and Mel managed to dance with a few guys. How about Shu?

I danced with quite a number of times which was rather surprising. haha..last time I had to be thick skin enough to ask. And yesterday I managed to be asked to dance. muhahaha...
Anyway, here are some pictures:

Wee... such a wonderful birthday!
PS: Thanks for all who wished me via sms, facebook or even in person (met quite a lot of people yesterday) and the for the presents too!

Birthday

2010-01-20T00:43:00.005+08:00

Yeah it is officially my nineteenth birthday and I am blogging at an absurd time of 1am in the morning. Yes! I feel that I'm ageing rapidly. Time passes sooo fast...

Just now at midnight my mum called from China to wish me happy birthday. Initially I thought it was irritating Potato calling be past twelve. Later on after I wake up from my sleep, it shall be an eventful and exciting day to look forward to.

After work, I will be having dinner with some friends at an Asian restaurant. After that it is partying time at Union. Dawn can finally go this time. :P

This cake is from my pre-birthday celebration with my family before mummy went to China.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME !!!
Wee...

Looking forward

2010-01-15T08:30:00.003+08:00

Finally it is the weekends are here again. At least I don't have to wake up at 6.30 in the morning.

I realised that each week passes at the speed of light. Probably because I have activities from day to night.

Anyway, this is not the point for this entry.

The point is... NEXT WEEK IS MISS BUFFA'S BIRTHDAY!!!

Yeah! And it falls on Wednesday which is also union night. So after work will be meeting those crazy girlfriends of mine for dinner near Bugis before heading to union. Anyone interested to tag along?

Also, next week will be the salsa competition itself. I realised that Dawn and I did not even have a single proper practice except that impromptu one just before tango on Tuesday. I have to settle the male lead with her and we are almost done. Just left with polishing and training (wonder how many more times).

Mummy is going China over the next week. Sadly she can't buy be any salsa shoes since only Shanghai and Beijing have them. I'm sure they will be much much much cheaper than in Singapore. I want to go too but there is work. If not, I'll get to enjoy the snow since this year's winter is especially cold. :(

Yeah so anyone wants to go to Union next week to celebrate moi birthday. sms me :)

Wee...

First week of 2010

2010-01-08T12:59:00.005+08:00

Today's a Friday and I am in the office slacking. Just came back from lunch and prior to that, I was surfing the Internet. To think I get paid while lazing away. Oh well.

Let me blog about the week:

Monday
First day of work but I wasn't that nervous. Just that I knew I was freezing away. The air-conditioner was sooo cold that day. The heavy rain was also the culprit. Did some lame self-study after the two-hour training session. Felt like I was mugging for some exams when I went through those sets of notes.
At night, I went to jacky's and danced to Get Sexy. Rather interesting choreo since we get to see him so his shake and body waves in such a girly way. haha... And yes, I got a wonderfully nice cool black shirt printed with gold words on it.

Tuesday
More studying since my boss was taking leave. But managed to clear most of my doubts about the millions of abbreviations like SMO, LO, GGWA etc. After that was xen. As usual I took isolations, tango and yq shine classes. tango was rather fun since we started to do close-contact where the couple have to lean against each other at the chest. It was much harder to follow since now you can't see but you have to feel. You know the FEEL-ING.

Wednesday
Nothing extraordinary happened at work, just that I did my first two agreements. So proud of myself. :) The highlight was at night! Union Square! Reached the place about nine plus with Rachel where it wasn't so crowded yet. As the night progressed, James was poking me to go ask some random guy whom he said was good. At first, I asked his girl friend beside so I had to wait for one song. And when it ended, I just threw my face away and asked him... Whoo, it was damn shiok. Of course there were the usual people like softie, bleach.

Thursday
Was at O school at night to take hh and lyrical hh. It was a killer. The teachers squeezed so many eights within an hour's of lesson. Gin's choreo was almost a minute plus and everyone could follow so closely. On the other hand, over at xen and Jacky's, the pace is much slower and students also don't get it as fast as in O school. Must really make a point to go there often to train my mind to react faster than the music. Stress!

In two weeks on the 22nd of this month, Dawn and I are partnering each other to compete in some in-house xen competition. Quite lame right, two girls dancing a couple dance with each other. Because xenbar lacks guys so greatly and most of them are still in their beginner levels. Keith! want to join?? haha If you are reading this. I'll know you'll say don't want lah. Going NS soon and you want to slack...

Wee...

Job

2010-01-06T08:21:00.004+08:00

I'm now in the office early in the morning when many others are still sleeping away. Well, maybe not, since now school has officially start most students should be studying now.

Today's only my third day working and I am still undergoing training. Actually the word training is rather understated. I was given a two hour plus talk via the PowerPoint and for the next day, I was kind of self-studying straight for the next nine hours. It really sucks. Was almost bored out too since I didn't bring my phone yesterday.

Hopefully today I'll get to try out some real stuff at least so I can apply what I've learnt. And of course I've something to look out for tonight...UNION! YEAH! Wish Dawn could come too so I have company.

Wee...

PS. Now life has kind of sizzled out, everyday is work, dance, sleep. There is no extra time to do other things such as watching taiwan drama and slacking.

Jacky's wedding party

2010-01-02T23:47:00.005+08:00

JACKY'S WEDDING PARTY

Today was such an eventful and tiring day right Dawn... :P Someone still say want to give up.

We crash course the two choreography and the battling thing within 2 hours man (just before the event commences). By the time the actual thing starts, I was really tired already. Luckily there were food and drinks so it at least helped replenish my energy a little bit.

First was the dance item and our costume was so obviously different from the rest. The others were just wearing pants and a t-shirt or tank top but we were wearing shorts, leg-warmers and gloves. It was sooo bitchy. ha...

Personally, I think the choreography wasn't impressive enough and there were hiccups here and there. But Dawn seemed satisfied with it saying she didn't care if we won cause she managed to get her wonderful video... (and I shall go DOTS...)

Anyway, the climax was the battling. We had to face off with 2 small girls. Literally small since one of them was like about 7 to 8 years old only. It's too embarrassing and bad to give them the attitude while dancing. So that round was rather mild. In fact, I felt like it was more of encouraging the 2 girls since we clapped for them in between.

Supposedly, the champion should be out but there was a tie which included us and another team with three people. This time we were more "diao" ha...was pretty fun especially the ahem part where both Dawn and I did those sexy, slutty moves right at the sole guy's face of the other team. ha...his facial expression was "why me??"

Yeah! We won the title "Jacky's best dance crew" or something like that. Pretty lame award and received a star shaped trophy.

Aww...stripey is sooo cute!

Wee...

Countdown to 2010

2010-01-01T12:02:00.007+08:00

Last week was practically an everyday-go-to-xen week. It was in preparation for yesterday's dance item at Sambawang Countdown Party.

Upon reaching the place, we were greeted by a white tent crowded with more kids that adults. Over that, I saw the spirit of kiasuism among both children and adults. During alternate periods, someone will come out with a bunch of balloons to give out. The children would "chiong" towards the person and start jumping to reach for one. Parents who were supposed to control their children's outrageous behaviours, instead came forth to join in the snatching too... Oh what a sight!

Anyway, after some fire-breathing performances by some "zi-high" guys, it was almost our turn to do our hip-hop routine. Overall, the whole thing was pretty sweeet except one or two mistakes that I made.

Also, another significant thing was that after it passes midnight, it's Amanda's birthday. Cool right like first of January when everyone is celebrating it for you. Anyway, let the pictures do the talking.

This was everyone when we were eating dinner. Look at Dawn, see her wonderful expression haha.. and we have Amanda and Sara together as well as Emma and I-don't-know-who. Xenbar was rather peaceful and slient last night. Lots of the old xen peeps came to do reuda and stayed on after that.

Derrick and Felix were doing performances too at other places. Look at their glitzy costumes and make-up.

Wee...

It Broke!

2009-12-23T19:22:00.002+08:00

Ha...Another post on the same day.

Can you believe it that Christmas Eve is tomorrow? NO...
Though this year's Christmas should be the most relaxed, in fact I don't even feel it coming. Everyday feels the same to me...

Yesterday was pretty much a xen day. I did my volunteer by giving out flyers near my grandmother's house. Thus, leaving me with more time to wonder around xen after that. During isolation, my 4-year-old heels finally gave way when the buckle broke. Thus now I have to just have to use the purple fluffy ones were sitting in my cupboard. Those are pretty but high (3-inches). Sadly with that on, I think I'll tower over most of the guys there. Or should I say Singaporean guys should buck up (in terms of the height)...

For the first time I danced with Donovan (if that's how I spell it) during tango. Surprisingly he's good. He's tension is right not as strong as LiBin's. So I considered that he must have danced in xen for a period of time. And that reminds me of how much I missed out in partner dancing and that people are improving and surpassing me... :(

QY's shine class was rather lax. I guess she focused half of the lesson on Afro which was much easier to grasp since it doesn't involve the technique of tightening and releasing your muscles when the usual lessons are like that.

Brenda's precious laptop fell a distance of 1.6 metres yesterday and she was kind of emo after that. Quite scary especially when it's an expensive thing and when she doesn't have any back-up for all her important documents in it.

Dawn's back tomorrow evening. Wonder if she got me gifts *hints* since its the festive period.

And yes...I finally found a job at my mum's office. Some programme processing job that is hectic during the month ends. But I think it is worth it since it is related to business and something which I will want to study and made my career in future.

Wee...

PS: I want to go union...Dawn pls talk to your mum.

JJ Prom

2009-12-23T18:55:00.003+08:00

This is such a belated post about prom. But I shall still blog it down.

JC's prom I must say was much more prepared than in secondary school. I dyed my hair to brown with wonderful highlights and I did my make-up by professionals. Well, I ended up looking like a Korean according to sh and reaffirmed by Dawn. I wonder why...

Anyway, I was like of the last in table to arrive but didn't miss out on anything spectacular. JJ's prom is glitzy compared to other school's. Both guys and girls were very dressed up than I felt slightly under dressed in some sense (totally different from sec sch).

Of course no one can miss the pageant. Our school's pageant finalist spent almost 2weeks from what I heard to prepare for the show. The was a Newurbanmale and formal wear catwalk. The finalist made their debut in outfits by Newurbanmale. It was quite obvious who was popular and who wasn't. After that, there was a Q&A session and there were some interesting questions:

1) What is the greatest problem faced by youths today (soo GPish)
ans: Casual sex (and after all the explanations, the emcee said, "This advertisement is brought to you by Durex.")

2)This was Cherri's question: Do you want people to consider you as sexy or clever?
ans: both but prefer clever. (Towards the end of prom when they were going to reveal the prom winners, the emcee asked her how she was feeling and she gave some one word reply and the emcee went, "Her answer is so like Ris Low...") oh....such an insult to her. ha

The end of prom was naturally taking photographs. In fact, before the expensive dinner ended most of them where out of their seats and not eating already. I still can't believe how Melissa and Agnes only ate the appetizer and dessert.

When prom was officially over, there were plans for after prom events. Judy disappeared almost immediately. hizz... in the end, I went with Mel, Agnes and Angela, intending to go to Supper Club.

After a stopover at Agnes's house for her to put her stuff down, we cabbed to Clarke Quay. Apparently, we were at the wrong place and was supposed to be at City Hall, opposite Raffles Hotel. Angela and I were kind of tired and so she left us at Clarke Quay. I hitched a ride with the other two since I was staying over night at Swisshotel. On the road those two kept pestering me to go too. But really, I was damn emoistic already and how was I to get high inside there.

Thus, after prom activity was kind of boring. Actually I wanted to go around town and take jump shots or dance videos with the mesmerising skylines.

And there was a weird encounter with Hui Ting (from NJ) when I walked from Raffles hotel to the one where I was staying. She was shocked upon seeing me and asked if I was from Hwa Chong. (Wonder why was there a shock factor)

That's it, I conclude that prom isn't that interesting on second attempt.

Wee...

Go Philippines

2009-12-19T18:42:00.003+08:00

Today I was doing volunteer at xen and helped out in the dance infinity hip hop competition that was to be held tonight.

Slowly, by 2pm various teams were streaming in. And of course, I saw orange. I always see her anywhere when there is hh related things. The first time I saw her was at jacky's. Next was at xen. I think she was doing some part-time teaching for awhile. And I saw her on and off at dancepointe, Groove in the West and now at xen for the compeition. Hmmm...

Anyway, that's not the point of my post today. My point was that I REALLY WANT TO GO PHILIPPINES and learn KRUMP and their hiphop there. There were 2 teams that were from The Philippins. Their style is totally like Philippines All Stars where you can never get them in Spore. And because of them, I think the other teams pale in comparison though the other teams (like the girly, the one which orange is in, and the malays and their house and breaking moves). Suddenly when all these come side by side, I find that I dont want to learn hiphop in spore anymore. Instead I want to go to Philippines.

The dry run was an eye opener for me since I was sitting at the judges seats while doing my volunteer while I get the best view of the dancers. Cool!

Dawn...let's get more people to go and persuade our parents.

D&D performance

2009-12-16T16:47:00.004+08:00

Initially I thought that with the exams over, I'll have much more free time on my hands. Instead, I seem to be busier. Oh well.

Last week was really hectic. Wake up, wash up and leave the house. By the time I reached home, it was really late at night most of the time. The latest was on Wed when Dawn and I had some short half an hr salsa as union. Of course, thanks to SOMEONE (I doubt he'll ever see this) that both of us felt guilty that it was midnight and had to rush home. However, he just disappeared into midair and couldn't find him any more.

Naturally there was a similar incident by the same SOMEONE. It was during last year's Christmas. He claimed that xen is gonna be sooo crowded and we could salsa crazily. To our disappointment, xen was practically sparse and I think i ended up playing majong while waiting for Dawn to arrive....SOMEONE has to pay for it.

Anyway, last week I managed to squeeze 2 dance items into my brain for a dinner & dance performance. The theme was Vietnam War. Bianca commented that the people lack creativity. With so many ideas why would one use Vietnam war. And so our trio performance revolved around women who offer service with themselves. Quite demeaning.

After that, there was a last minute performance for another D&D and Goodwood park hotel. So using the same dance, we were dressed differently. Their companies theme was some disney thingy. Ha....Bianca was marilyn monroe. I was Britney Spears and not sure who was rebecca. We had to wear wigs and I looked damn awful. Oh well, it was some last minute thing and we had to rush so no unglam pics taken haha...

The next event that is worth noting is jacky's marriage cum mini hip-hop competition at the start of next yr. This is such a lame thing. At least it's interesting. There is a dancing segment as well as a battle one. Sounds pretty challenging.

Shall stop here. Next time shall be about prom. Just realised I've missed out on that.

Wee...

PS: SH have i satisfy your hunger aft reading my post?

Back again

2009-12-01T12:45:00.004+08:00

Yay... the A levels is over. But there isnt this thrilling feeling that i have managed to survive somewhat the last horrendous exam that i will ever face in the course of education. And now, it feels slightly empty when i have nothing to do and just rotting at home.

At least i have wonderful programmes lined up for myself throughout this week except that today's was called off by the wonderful potato and so I'm here typing.

Anyway, the most looked forward event that is coming is prom...I really have no idea how am I supposed to get a nice dress that is affordable. I dont want it to be those wear-once-and-left-in-the-cupboard ones. Just like the ahem..raggedy dress that potato described as.

Tm is really funny. She suggested going to the Botanic gardens this coming Sat. But I dont see any appealing factor that makes me want to go there. The first thing that came to my mind was, "I'll get tan..." haha... I'm sure some of you will think. Hm...ms buffa likes to be pale. I suggested going to Chinatown but no one was interested. At least the stuff there isnt as expensive as in orchard.

Yesterday night, I had my first official dance lesson at jacky's. And we danced to Mad. It wasnt exactly that fun but at least I got to dance again and it's near my house (hahaha). Poor potato. However, having stopped dancing for almost more that a month, I suffered immediate effects of too much dancing. I kind of lost my balanced the whole night as I had to hold onto the wall, the door or whatsoever. My body was limped and I experience aching (when you usually get it only the nxt day). Hm...shows how much I deproved. Lucky I stretched when I was at home after that and fortunately I suffer no aches today. Ha.

Wee...

Talentime 2009

2009-05-25T21:21:00.007+08:00

Here i am blogging again after such a long period of time. This post shall be dedicated to last Saturday's Talentime.

To me: It was a wonderful experience being the choreographer and performer in Droplets. If given a chance to rechoreographed the dance, I wouldnt forcefully fit in some plot where one just beat about the bush about whether to accept a guy after the has betrayed you. I guess only some of the exceptionally LOUD audience seemed tickled by such scenes. Can't help it i guess. Different people have different taste.

Apart from being such a wet-blanket, I have learnt alot from that night. It has indeed rekindled my passion and love for dance. And I am quite determined to be an outstanding dancer after the "A" levels are over. I have to brush up on my flexibility, isolations, emotions and lots more...

Anyway, on Saturday, Anh did most of the hair-tying and I got to decide on what eye make-up we should put on. We had on glittery liner cum some Indian "putoo" from India near our eyes. Our costume was a controversial half-top and cargo pants paired with a baggy top that we painted ourselves and a cap.

Initially we thought that the principal was going to 'mark us down', figuratively, for our "scanty" attire. Cause from the moment we did the march-in to the time we performed, I always see him talking to the person beside him and pointing his finger at us. SURPRISINGLY, when we realised we only got second place in the dance category, and went up to him to get our trophies, he told Melissa, "By the way, I VOTED for your gp." Wow, that was a great encouragement to us.

Plus, Shuwen's chemisty teacher who was part of the organising committee for Talentime came up to me after the show ended and while I was in an emotional position, she said, "Your dance is great. You should know what kind of competition this is."

Not forgetting my beloved other 8 members of Droplets who were they to support and console me. I really appreciate it. :)

I havent got the chance to see our performance during that night since i havent gotten hold of any videos yet. But I think this was the best one so far where everyone was in top form. Thus, it ends our 2 years of together on the high note. Though this may be true, but I'm sure the droplets team is gonna stay strong for years to come.

To Droplets: I have limited knowledge about dance. But I am satisfied that I am able to achieve such a feat. You gave me the chance to lead everyone, to do the choreography and to perform on stage. Thank you. May I see you soon in dance classes out of JJ... haha

Wee...

Competition

2009-03-27T19:00:00.002+08:00

I haven't written a post yet since 2009.

Since school reopened, I am thrown with so many things to do. From tests after tests in JJ to lots of dance committment in and out of JJ, i havent got time to sit down to type a decent post.

Tomorrow Dawn and I are gonna try out for this West Coast Plaza aka the old Ginza Plaza Hip Hop Competition. It starts at 3pm. This Saturday will only be the heats. Our chances of getting into the semis should be less than 50% bah. haha....Anyway if any of you happened to read this post, do come down and support us. :)

Wee...

Movie Marathon

2008-12-27T22:43:00.002+08:00

Guess what miss buffa did today and yesterday...i'm sure no one will guess it right.

YES! I went to the movies on both days watching YES man and Twilight respectively.
I must say, YES man is really a must watch show for this season before the school starts. It's hilarious and light-hearted. I think it is one of the better shows i watched for a long time. Should go see it.

And of course there is the teenage girl flick, Twilight. The show is rather draggy at the front but towards the end, it was pretty interesting. Definitely there is the dating and the BGR thing since it's targeted at young teenage girls like us. ha...

Potato left me..sobs...for Germany :( Oh well

This hols is somewhat coming to an end. But it has been one of my most eventful one in my life. Let's recap:

Dancepointe performance
Genting trip representing JJC for an International Dance Competition
Impromptu belly-dancing performance at Gek Poh and Limbang Malls
Singapore Salsa Congress performance at xenbar for two nights
Wonderful social dancing on night 2 of the SSC
Three days of shopping with my mum and family
Watching two movies in two consecutive days

That should be it! What a ride. Next year is the most crucial one.

Wee...

PS: Today I was around Hereen and guess who i sawwww....
AMANDAAAA with a guyyyyy alone whom she claims is not her BF. Who knows *winks* haha...Hope she didn't see this...muhahaha

SSC 2008

2008-12-20T09:58:00.009+08:00

Yesterday was day 1 of the Singapore Salsa Congress. I wonder why it is called a congress which should mean there must be hundreds of people coming down to watch. The place ended up with 20 odd audiences and some of which might be the performers themselves.

Nevertheless, the show was on and our 4 girls hip-hop was the second item. On the whole, it was quite fine. I committed 2 large mistakes though. The develope in my solo was soooo out of balance. I was hopping around to gain my center of gravity. AND the high sch musical spilt jump. It SUCKED. I bent my knees. Never before it happened during practice.

Oh well...

Anyway, Angela and her sister, Melissa and her 2 other friends as well as long time no see yuzhu came down. haha... esp yz. Never see her for so long, I kind of miss her. Some of you reading this must be giving the face now. :P

Melissa and friends

Angela and her sister and I

Dawn and I

The video of our dance is uploaded on youtube already:

It shows a short excerpt of some of the items yesterday namely belly dancing and jazz. Ours is in the middle but it the whole dance.

Social was after that. But the crowd had slowly diminished. There weren't alot of nice people to dance with. So yz and I spent the time observing people dancing and came up with lots of conclusions.
Joyce was i think the best dancer that night. Of course she isn't as skillful and graceful as yq, but she danced all out and styled alot in each social. Never saw her dance like that before. As for the guys, it has to go to Albert. His face may look stoned. But don't be deceived. First he may go slow. Suddenly, he will go here, there and there. And slow down again. He's super cool.

Tonight's NITE 2. I'll be doing pirate and penguin shines. Till then.

Wee...

Back

2008-12-16T22:56:00.001+08:00

I'm back from my short 3-day stay in Fairmont. It was really sad to leave such a wonderful luxurious place.

Anyway, today I tried out the spa area with my mum. Inside were the uber icy cold pool and 2 quite warm jacuzzi, as well as the sauna and the steam room. WOW! The steam room is totally unlike the one in Genting. The moment mum and I enter it, it was already hot. I had to grope my way inside. Wondering if they have a thermostat, hot steam getting hotter just keeps emitting out. In Genting, the steam just comes out for a while and after that it stops. haha...for a moment I thought my life might just end there.

I left early for xen to practise our Friday's item. Going quite smoothly. So people, you must come see...

FRIDAY. 7.30PM. Bukit Merah Central. Singapore Salsa Congress. $15
per person Interested? Just tell me!!!

Anyway, let me update more on Jackie during the dancepointe performance day.

We had 2 shows right: Matinee and Gala. However, he proposed during the end of the gala. Being one of the directors of dancepointe, he had a chance to say a few words to the audience.

So he was like, "I would like to take this opportunity to thank my girlfriend (who is coincidentally Fiona, since he is Shek)."

Then, a ballerina came and gave his girlfriend a big teddy bear holding a bouquet of flowers which i think is chocolates instead. Ain't this SWEET.

The moment arrives, Jackie knelt down and pulled out a ring from his pocket. From the audience, I could see her crying. And so he proposed to her. Aww...

There is an unglam pic of Jackie and his "belly" as well as he(Shek) and girlfriend(Fiona).

Also, there are some pictures that were taken from both Limbang and Gek Poh Malls.

Lesson learnt from do belly-dancing in neighbood shopping malls. Cross-refencing to Dawn's blog where she posted the pic of the poster used to advertise, is meant to be some kids program. But why belly dance and not hip-hop, which is more farmiliar to young kids aged 7 to 9. Reason is to attract men with a mole slightly below their mouths, so more people can come watch the show. Really...

CHRISTMAS is round the corner peeps. Have you bought presents for Miss Buffa. If not, you better step up and get me one. muhahaha...Shall enjoy a nice log cake now!!!

Wee...

Dancepointe and belly dance

2008-12-13T20:38:00.000+08:00

2 significant events occurred since i last blogged: Dancepointe performance as well as today's exotic Belly Dancing.

DANCEPOINTE PERFORMANCE
The D-Day was the recent Wednesday. I had to pull myself up early in the morning around 7 just to wash up and meet the others to get on the chartered bus. Our hip hop group was really lame. haha...we entertained ourselves with hand and mouth games. At Victoria Theatre, the first rehearsal started, followed by a matinee and gala. Everything ended at 11pm. Though I did only 3 times of the dance item and practised our xen item a few times, I was shacked. I practically CRAWLED to bed.

Over the 2 days: rehearsal and D-Day, I feel the directors in Dancepointe are really bias. They favour ballet to hip-hop. Even their so-called jazz item somehow morphed into a ballet thing. During the rehearsal, time was tight and the management even suggested jackie to do away with the blocking for the hip-hoppers. Really, I feel it's unfair.

Anyway, I got a solo part which is girly hip-hop in the finale item to the song Move Shake Drop. Yay!! So let the pictures do the talking:

Snow White and the dwarfs

The mice helping Cinderella make her dress and the finale pose for that item. The array of costumes with Cinderella and the fairy godmother

These are The Little mermaid pictures. All the underwater creatures or rather 'darlings' since they are 5 to 6 yrs old kids. Octopus, sharks etc.

The wonderful effects of UV light on the costumes as well as a dance with Beauty and the Beast

(more pictures will be uploaded soon esp Jackie's proposallll hehe)

BELLY-DANCING EVENT
And so just now around evening time Dawn and I performed at Gek Poh Mall. Right from the start I knew this was not a good sign. A neighbourhood shopping mall especially in the west is filled with old people esp those cheeky old men and Bangalas. Just dont get why it has to be belly dancing.

We had a crash course the day before to learn this dance with a veil that is soooo irritating. Its thread were coming out and easily tangle with our costumes.

As we danced, I could hear comments from the audience. At the start, when we walked on stage, a could hear some kids saying EEEE..... and when we did the butt shimmy, the some went WA!! There were a couple of mistakes here and there. But most of them were committed by Dawn. hor hor....Dawn dawn ah, how can you forget your steps. :P

Overall, it was fine. And this malay girl came up to us and said, you all were pro. ha...oh well (in their eyes)

Wee...

1-5 Dec Genting Dance Exchange

2008-12-08T10:41:00.000+08:00

Came back from Genting on Friday afternoon. The trip was fine I must say as it was not as intensive as i expected it to be. There were only 2 workshops besides and competition and friendly dance concert. These 2 workshops are of a great difference: A wonderful contemporary lesson by Dance Horizon Singapore versus a dull one and a half hour of one of Malaysia's cultural dance. Time really passes slow though both were of equal duration.

Day 1:

Half of the day was to get to our destination. The trip was erm...stimulating. haha...cause the moment I reached Genting, I had to use the washroom. I shall not elaborate more...We had dinner after checking into our rooms. One word to describe the hotel is "spartan" minus the television which did not work that well. There were no brochures or toiletries provided.

Dinner and lunch were about the same I realise for over the 5 days. They were just rice, noodles, desserts etc. Breakfast was much better with crunchy CoCo Crunch and Honey Stars for me to eat. :P

Day 2 -Judging Day:
We got to rehearse for exactly 15 minutes on the stage that we will soon be competing in in the late afternoon. It was rather screwed. The girls were super tensed up and there were parts we were out of beat or not synchronised. Blah...3 hours were allocated for us to do our make-up and hair-do. Didnt like the whole look though with those uber pink cheeks, red lips and hair tied to the far left with a pink star pinned on.

I must say we were not in top form for the judging. Didnt know when or how did I become a nun, before we went on stage, I was chanting to the other girls to obey the 2 Ss: Slow and Smile.

Day 3:
A much light hearted day after for the stress gone from the previous day.
Morning started off with the gym followed by the sauna and steam room. It was my first time. haha..and i behaved like someone trapped in a fire. I wet a cloth provided and wrapped around my face. Like what one will do when you are trapped in such a blaze. haha...
Afterwards, there were workshops and friendly dance concert. Our make-up was pink and sliver AGAIN. This time we had on thick black eye liners instead of those irritating eye lashes that makes me tear.
After the concert, the girls were really high. I'm not sure why. We started taking pictures. If you look below, there is one really crazy shot. I really dont know what were they inspired by, they had on their hooded jackets and held one leg up. ha...

Day 4:
We will know our results at night so we had a fine time bowling, shopping, eating and walking. Bought several items at half price and nice anklets and earrings.
Finally, it was evening and got to know our results.

SILVER...
(I'm quite disappointed though... I think our dance practices are really too short and little. Shall have to work on this problem.)

Anyway, we got and ice-cream treat from our teacher. I got coffee and it was really bitter coffee. I guess I was feeling quite irritated by the results and had to get something to numb it.

Late at night was really happening though. Majority of us gathered in a room to watch ghost show on television. At the same time they played uno. I didnt join the game as i find the game boring. Oh well... Ha...but there were sure lots of screaming as the girls half covered their eyes and peeked to watch the grusome nurse popping here and there.

Day 5:
We had early breakfast and set for home....

It was an eye-opener for me as I got to see the different abilities of the other schools and they standards. Our school really have to buck up and learn to handle the stress at such times to attain higher results. I learnt quite abit, like the background of traditional and contemp dances.

Wee...

the good n bad

2008-11-30T20:44:00.000+08:00

Tomorrow i'll be leaving Singapore..yay...wonder if it's good or bad.

The good:
I get to enjoy the cool weather up in the mountain for a week. And good food too..ha...or rather a great variety of food since we will be having buffet everyday, thrice a week. One interesting thing is I can train my stamina. I didnt realise this until our dance teacher mentioned that it's hard to perform to the equal ability that we can in Genting as we are on higher altitude.

The bad:
I'll miss going to xen and therefore miss one to two practices to polish up the choreo that the four of us are doing. I will miss the shows on television. ahh...

Wee... See you soon on Friday :P

Wayang

2008-11-25T21:31:00.000+08:00

Dawn and Dionne have to go together or else we can not be at our peak...Oddly, I find this really true. Since most of the time or rather all the time I go out will be dance related, I have to be with Dawn or else I can't concentrate or perform my best in class. This dawns on me that with a good friend by your side, more importantly with an equal passion for something as you (though sometimes she pangsei me and keeps borrowing $$ from me), nothing can fear you. Being with her, I dare to make my moves go all out, leaving nothing behind. Also, I become really crazy...wild...always laughing and cracking jokes.

I bet people in school or elsewhere will never see me behaving like that. I mean imagine me dancing, jumping in front of you, you'll think "This girl is so show-off...so what if she can dance, must she do it here??" Therefore, I act with caution.

Anyway, today I was made the model for the teacher to put on the make-up which we are supposed to follow during our performance in Genting. I have to say, initially, it was looking good, with the foundation and the lovely thick and curly eye lashes. However, I didnt get to see how i looked like after that and got a shock of my life when the teacher was done.

How did I look??
Just like a chinese opera singer that you see at your house downstairs. Just a slightly milder version of it. Horrendous!!!

Thus, the make-up for the friendly dance shall be decided by me. I tried it on myself just now so I can do the same tomor to show the other girls. It's really COOL hehe...
1) Black liquid eye liner to draw thickly over your double eye lid
2) Black eye shadow apply above the liner
3) Greyish-silver to blend at the toppest
4) Sliver shadow to apply over the ends of the eyes
5) Sliver glitter splash liner to trace the ends
6) Finish off with lip gloss

There!

Love the outcome. Hizz...my poor face has been tortured. Have to put mask on later to pamper it. haha

Wee...

Hips dont lie

2008-11-24T23:36:00.000+08:00

Wade Robson dancing to Shakira's Hips Don't Lie.
The person who uploaded this video replaced some hiphop song to Shakira's song. Really funny WATCH!!

Ipod hooked

2008-11-24T19:14:00.000+08:00

Think I'm hooked...hooked to my ipod.

Yesterday I decided not to bring my ipod out since i wanted to lessen the load in my bag. In exchange I brought some notes to revise during the ride to dance class. Sadly, I felt wierd like something's seriously missing. I had to listen to music. Arhh...I'm morphing into those who plug in whenever and whereever they are. At least, i'm selective. I only listen to songs that I can dance to. So I will visualise the moves in my mind as i enjoy the music. After satisfying my need to listen (or rather dance), I can put it away and continue with my revision. ha...

Next week, I'll be "bussing" to Genting. The ride is really long and irritating. That is why I will always tell my mum never to go to Genting again. It's for an International Dance Competition and we will be representing JJ. Dont know if it's good or bad: We are the only junior college level student participating so naturally, others will asume that being the oldest, you will be the best. But I doubt we are at that standard yet. Nevertheless, there will be 3 dance workshops held on a single day. Heard that we get to choose the genre that they offer. So far, we do not know what will the genres be. Hopefully there's any of these: hip-hop, jazz (not contemp), lyrical hip-hop, salsa, girly hip-hop, rumba or tango. As you can see, I practically hope that this is a hip-hop workshop. Cant help it. I love this genre.

Today, we meant to have dance practise. The teacher FORGOT that there is lesson. Really, this is the first time I see a teacher who is late for all sessions and can even let a sch's dance prac slip off her mind. Such irresponsibility. Furthermore, her choreography is always the "I'm feeling so tired that my limbs are soft". At least, there should be moves that have been injected with life and energy. Wonder when we could get a change of teacher.

Wee...

Day 2 at greenridge

2008-11-15T09:59:00.000+08:00

DAY 2 at greenridge sec

Morning didn't start right. I was caught in the peak hour traffic jam the right from the bus-stop at my house. It took me more than 30 minutes just to get to boon lay station. And when i reached there, it was 15 minutes to the reporting time at the school. To think I still had to take the train to CCK followed by 6 stops of the LRT. Hmph...

Unfortunately, Dawn has to take the class herself since I was late. According to her, with her morning depression going on, the class was in the similar mood as well.

The 3 sessions we had were really random. In our first hour, we were supposed to teach hip-hop. In the end, we spent half the time for hh and the other for lyrical. Everyone was slightly bored. Cant be help though. They didn't want to learn new steps nor did they look forward to polishing the moves.

The second session, we did reggae and this time we both polish and teach new moves. One of the funniest part in reggae was the "step-hop to the front" move (yq specialty) where majority of them could not get it. It turned out to be a stampede. This stampede had scared many people. haha...the greenridge band members who had to enter the room to store their instruments and the cameraman during their finale performance.

After lunch we had our last session before the showcase. We ran through the 3 dances numerous times trying to get them to move neatly during the transitions to each song. With nothing else to do, we made everyone to get into a circle and pull them out to freestyle in groups or as an individual. Some of them we sporting though reluctant initially. There were a couple of entertaining ones and some super cool ones.

This Jurong sec senior pulled her juniors along and asked them to follow her steps. Ha...it made the crowd roar with laughter with all those super funny moves. There were 2 super cool ones: a malay girl just freestyle with superbly high energy. Dawn and I were like WA.. COOl MAN. And of course there was a breaker guy who in came up to do his moves. WOW... it was quite scary though. He seem to be challenging the Jurong sec guys. It was like some showdown session. Everything ended with Bianca doing her moves to the music LOW.

And it was SHOWCASE TIME. I'll try uploading the video again.

Everything ended with photo taking. So here's the pics:

This is with Assumption English Secondary

Together with Jurong Secondary

3 other schools which I can't identify. Chestnut Drive, Zhenghua and...

This is my first experience teaching such a big group for 2 days. Felt it was really enriching although it was quite irritating at times. Will miss the fun ha...

Wee...

Greenridge sec dance camp

2008-11-13T19:10:00.000+08:00

Today's DAY 1 of the dance class at Greenridge Sec.

It was hmm...throating-torturing. The school is cool. They have rooms that have ample space to twirl and dance. Sadly, only one studio has a mirror. Thus, Dawn and I decided to merge Hiphop class. The Lindy Hop and Belly Dance classes just have to do without the mirror. Though we had the advantage of the mirrors, our group size is up to 40 to 50. One has to know the basics of crowd control to tame the noise of the Sec 1 to 3 students.

We taught 3 dances: Hip hop -Goodfoot, Lyrical Hiphop -Can't help but wait and Raggae -Gasolina.

The first 2 dances were one after another and when I was teaching, I had to shout on top of the other vocies to be heard. I think after tomor, i might lose my voice.

One thing cool is that when i taught lyrical, I had a way of describing my moves. So here it is (see if you can imagine what are the moves as you read the words):

I see you
you and him
da-da vomit
da-da cho-cho-train
forgive
slow slow fast fast fast
with those tears running down your cheeks
what can i do
swim step step
cause deep down i'm still a G
right and right
Left and left
da da da zoom
one two
out in out in
zoom....

ha...this practicall spells out the whole of the choreo minus a little bit after that.

Finally, there was a break and we had cakes. By then I was hungry stiff. Having not eaten anything since morning untill like 4pm...My gastric was workin on me by then. We munched down pandan cakes, marble cakes, banana cakes, chocolate cakes... ha. Not that many lah.

And it was Dawn who taught most of the raggae. Though both of us consider raggae the least interesting genre, the students were especially hyped up. Everytime she finished teaching the shimmy, or the krump, or some body rotation, they will go hehehe-hahaha.

After that, we add on the face-to-face showdown where we had to pull them up to dance. In the end, everyone was cooperative and started dancing. By then, it was the end of the class, majority of them were screaming, yelling, etc...

We ran through the 3 dances again and called it a day.

Phew! DAY 1 is officially over. But we have tomor. The students will have to do a mini performances tomorrow. ha.. and we get to see the fruits of our labour.

Should take some pictures tomorrow and keep as memory. :)

Wee...

OP

2008-11-05T22:58:00.000+08:00

It's been a week since i tore my ligament on my inner right thigh. And it has improved but not fully. Now whenever i try to do a split with one leg in the air, i dare not push all the way lest it tears again.

Ironically, my left lef split is relatively better than my right. This sucks. Moral of the story is never ever tear ur muscle or else ur splits get worse.

Next week will be this eventful programme where dawn and i will be going down to some secondary sch to teach 2 hip hop choreos. It's this arts appreciation 2 day programme so we each will have to clock 8 hrs in 2 days. Imagine each of us has to teach a class of forty on our own. Sounds intimidating right? Nevertheless, there will be rewards, ha...cash OOOOO

Also, after like 3 yrs, we are finally taking our basic salsa exam. Though the sound of it seems as though it's an easy peasy task. But basic is really the ground fundamentals. Wonder what will scary yq test us. We have the 50 guidelines to help us but in times so stress, how can one recall each.

Hizzz...didnt get shortlisted for the audition thing that we did in xen. Dawn did. Sad. I guess it is because that day she did both jazz and hip hop, thus she edge over the rest. Goodbye $500-$600....

Today, my Oral Presentation has ended and by tomorrow after I have handed in my InR, it is officially the end of my Project Work. Our group meant to get our results slips immidiately after the OP. Sadly, only Jian Yun was able to get hers. The remanining 3 of us had some typo error in our report slips so we could not get it back. In the end, the admin guy just told us if we got promoted or not. I want to see the details of the slip. argh...

My reflections:
My OP performance today in my opinion was slightly better than expected. Esp the QnA, during the last aka second rehearsal, Mr tan asked some killer question which got me only a bare ME or even AE grade. Therefore, i wasn't confident if i can answer propoerly on the actual day. Also, during the presentation, my wireless thing didnt work and i had to stand by my laptop to press the button. So unlucky. And after me was jian yun who activated it again. hizzz. I think i was shivering as i was speaking.

Wee...

2008-10-16T16:38:00.000+08:00

COOL!!! Took this test from Dawn's blog and after Judy's recommendations. Anddd... here are the results. Seems to be I'm not s victim of the 7 deadly sins. yipee...my overall results are either medium or the low range.

Greed:	Low
Gluttony:	Medium
Wrath:	Very Low
Sloth:	Medium
Envy:	Very Low
Lust:	Very Low
Pride:	Medium

The Seven Deadly Sins Quiz on 4degreez.com

Relatively, sloth is my greatest weakness. Ha...which coincidentally matches judy too. We are lazy people. This explains why when people ask me out of movie or to go to the beach, I will give the face and kindly reject the offer.. muhahaha... Cant help it though.Next would be gluttony. Oh yes, I love eating the different kinds of food around. ha...and that shall be my second weakness.My pride isnt that great either when compared to potato. Cooll....potato,can u see that:P

Wee...

Dans Fest

2008-10-10T21:31:00.000+08:00

Last night was fun...though the start was such a rush. I was supposed to meet Dawn at 6.45 at je but somehow, the bus came only at 6.15 and by the time we reached, we were real late. Everyone had their make-up on. Moral of the lesson is to arrive super early with all your make-up.

Since I only had 3 performances, I took the chance to take pictures and videos. So let the pictures speak a thousand words...

Yay!!!An official pass. It's cool right, with my name on it. It permits you to enter the backstage area.

This is a scene the day before the performance. We were doing blocking.

Did you think you saw 2 crazy girls wearing their lingerie and taking pictures. No. In actual fact, this was the costume for the first item. The missing piece of costume is a coloured tail which completely transform them into those hookers or Las Vagas Bunny Girls. Depending on how you see it.

Before the show begun, we had to strut like that to the esplanade concourse for some social dancing between ourselves to gather the crowd. Following, we led them outside where the stage is. There was a life band that led the procession. Overthere, I stopping Angela. Yay...she came to support meee...

This is what it will look like from the back.

ooo...Libin is putting foundation.

Kim is always looking cool and sexy. Love her... This costume is for the quaduple tango girls shine including Kim Cat Bianca and YQ. The dance was to the song "Push". Nice Choreography. And yes, it's time for Dawn and I to start copying moves :P

Libin and I posting for the camera

2 dancers. Dont the one on the left look like a young girl? Well..she's actually older than me.

This is Brenda and she's only 14 and she's pro at belly-dancing. Ain't that cool. She's in the finals for some teenage mag. Do go support her.

This is how it will look like from the back for the ChaCha Shine.

This is the costume for Cat's and Libin's Bachata item. According to Angela, she said the Bachata she knew else where wasnt like that (so hot and u know steamy). I think she meant was that Bachata in the her hometown, Brazil, isnt like that.

Cat doesnt seem to look good in my pics. For this one and the previous one in her red costume. Ha...She's either stoning or moving too fast for the camera.

This is a piture of Brenda acting lost and Softie acting cute. I wonder why he decided to me some guppy of something with the puffy cheeks. haha

This is the classy buffa holding a fan to dry her wet hair. She's feeling refreshed after popping her head into the basin in one of the washrooms in the Esplanade to get rid of the hair spray.

This the potato also refreshed but refuses to pose for the camera so there u have it, a failed photo. :)

On the whole, the night was another experience to add to the collection of other memories that I have. I received a cool dains shirt too. I think the management has problem getting the right sizes. More than half the shirts are either XS or XXS. There were only 2 available M size shirts. I wonder how the guys could get one for themselves.

Also, I got so social. But only a tinny winny bit. When the school hols starts, I wanna go down to xen on Sundays to DANCE...
Say "YEAH" Dawn...

Wee...

Dans Festival :)

2008-10-06T21:28:00.000+08:00

This week will be the Dans Festival. The Latin Nite is on Thurs night from 7.45 to 10.30pm. So, peeps, be do at the Esplanade and join in the fun. There will be salsa, Afro Cuban Rumba, tango, bachata, reuda,BELLY-DANCING,shines AND *drumrolls* SOCIAL-DANCING TO LIVE MUSIC FROM THE LIVE BAND. Ain't that cool enough to come down...

Good buffa has taken wonderful pictures of people caught in the act. So Enjoy.

Bianca who doesnt seem to know she's been on candid camera

Yes, now she's knows a pic is being taken.

Poor softie who seems to be rotting the whole night...no wonders he's getting comfy with the tables and chairs around him.

Li Bin is putting some powder on him. Not sure what is it for. Maybe to get rid of the sweat smell.

oh look, cougar team with a yellow tail. HMMM...who could this be?? *guesses*

OOO...my lovely peacock feathers. They dont look as lively, do they?

Some random shot while we were doing a full dressed rehearsal. This is the one from salsa dulce.

This fest such a wonderful experience though the performances are mostly from the older items. The performers get to have some entrance to the backstage pass which is so cool.haha... And there's gonna be a shirt too.

happy***

Wee...

pracitce night

2008-09-28T11:49:00.000+08:00

Yesterday my efficient group met at je library to dicuss OP stuff. The place was super crowded. People line the walls. Since i havent been to the place for quite a while, i realised that majority of the plugs had their electric connections cut off. Ha... i guess the library is experiencing a surge of electric bills with people coming here to charge their phones and laptops.

After it was the much awaited xen night. Though it was rather sad that it didnt turn out to what i expected it to be, it was quite a fruitful night. Saturday nights at xen have become ballroom night. So there were no salsa peeps. However, yq was there in preparation for the upcoming das' festival. We recapped the horrible penguin shine which i didnt like. Maybe because i didnt remember the steps when we first learnt last yr. I think i learnt it like in one day. The whole dance was practically cramped up in my brain. Ha... i just follow the people around.

On top of that, we recalled the pirate shine which was dated 2 yrs back. Compared to penguin shine, this was much simpler.

The atmosphere was different n xen too with 2 kids running around the place. And i took some pictures so you can see what the place is like.

PS. The dans' fes is on the 9th OCT from 8 to 10.30 pm at the Esplanade. Do come down to support MEEE. ha...no lah. Come down to have fun. There are going to be a line of latin performances to watch. Keep looking forward to it. Though it's a thurs night and there is sch on Fri, the promos are over. So have fun :)

Teacher yq who was looking macho. ha. Her black shirt has a tie printed on it. Together with a cap and black pants. It looks so diff from her salsa mini skirts..

The 2 kids playing around.

Wai Huang and his gf... so sweet

The return

2008-09-26T21:53:00.000+08:00

This blog is soooo dead. Havent got the time to update it.

Many things happened since the last time i blogged.

Let's see:
1)Promos
2)Dance performance at Tamah Jurong
3)Sentosa outing with the class
4)Judy's birthday in school (she must be happy)
5)Outing with TM, potato, judy at Vivo
6)not sure what else??

The promotional exams are finally over today. Though it ends one day later than most people in other schools, there were a few days in between to study. Oh well. We will only get our results after our oral presentation. It is like some big event. We have to go to the General Office to obtain a slip. That will be about a month to getting back our results. That is so longg...

It was only last week that we performed for some Tamah Jurong CC opening. Guess who the emcee was? It is our JJ teacher. Also in charge of the Bannister house too. Ha. Forgot his name.

The sentosa outing was somewhat held when our promo exams were drawing near. The ambiance wasnt as nice as there was a construction going on. What i vividly remember was the terrible sunburnt i had the next few days. At least my skin didnt peel as badly as my classmates.

Judy had a surprise birthday bash from our class. Also, she received a nice Converse (her favourite brand) sling bag.

The outing at Vivo was after teacher's day celebration in school. Ahh...i remember that the hall was set up with tables and chairs with buffet stalls at the corners of the hall. After that the four of us met up and kept walking round and round vivo. The longest time we stayed was in the pet shop. The other 3 were looking at the hamsters and dogs for eternity. ha

Tomorrow is a filled day. yay. havent had such a busy sat for a long time. It's gonna be dancing dancing and more dancing apart from the PW meeting.

Wee...

Nostalgia

2008-08-10T22:29:00.000+08:00

Today, tan min showed me this video taken 2years back when i was like sec 2 during the december period. It really was nostalgic as i watched the video.

Though the routine wasnt impressive relative to now, it was a pleasure watching myself when i was just a noob. haha... One thing i realized too was that the who routine was hell slow. Then, i feel it was rather fast. haha... dont u agree dawn.

As i watched this clip, a relief just wash past me. As though it took away my stress that i have and brought me back to those memorable days. Really, I wished time just stopped then, where i have my Nan Hua friends like dawn, tan min, amanda, judy etc. as well as the uber cool used-to-be-so-homey xenbar. Now, I think i can never find this similar sensation.

Gone were those days. How leh...??? i really miss funky monkeys. ha.

oh well.

Wee...

Ballet Under the Rain

2008-07-29T19:17:00.000+08:00

Last Friday jj dance watched ballet under the stars at fort canning park. It was supposed to be a farewell party for our seniors too. Sadly, only 9 juniors turned up to "send off" the 10 seniors who came for the outing.

The evening started off unpleasant too with the sky grey as though it wanted to rain. Yes, it did rain but it was just heavy drizzle. It was irritating. As we turned up at the park early, with the drizzle continuing, we had pinic under the rain. I brought fried sausage, sotong balls, crabsticks etc., lovely ronald spread tuna bread for us. Aww..so sweet. And pearly got the utensils ready.

Thus, I took pictures as others were eating.

I rate the show okie. Since I dont really take interest in watching ballet recitals. I rather watch Hip hop com or maybe salsa shines etc.

Wee...

Trilympics

2008-07-21T19:04:00.001+08:00

Long time no see my dearest blog.

Let's see... these few weeks were packed with lots of test ranging from mini quizzes to serious commontests all else known as the mid years. Thus, my apologises for not blogging.

The recent Saturday that just passed was actually our JJ Trilympics in collaboration with SMU. So, Crank was down for performances. I was rather freaked out since our strength of 10 had shrunk to 6, with Arthur backing out the day before and Qian Yong and Isabella out for certain reasons and Benedict who had dragon-boating but arrived timely to see us dance. How nice...

We had to rush out and alter our choreography to fit to a 6 man product and we finally did it. Yippee... We had the edited Crank dance recorded down by our teachers too so i hope to get it soon and be able to see the wonderful work.

SMU supposed to bring in their Hip hop crew to perform for the occasion. However, I think they were replaced by their cheer-lead group. The girls in the group were superbly small-sized. Here's a picture while rehearsing where a guy does a 1-arm lift on the girl which is quite a feat since their counterparts were cheering when he managed to do that.

After that, my family went to Vivo City to have dinner and shop. There was some bag sales and my mum wanted us to choose any to buy, but we saw nothing nice. Dinner was at some expensive Japanese restaurant. I had a fried beef with onion set. It was Delicious. We strolled along the shops and I saw another restaurant, Carnivore. It's name is rather disgusting and so i took a photo of the menu of dishes it serves. Squint your eyes people.

To end off, here's a picture for entertainment sake.

Wee...

A chance

2008-07-08T22:53:00.001+08:00

I shall pronounce today a MIRACLE day. I am feeling really happy at the moment *over the moon*.

Dawn and I tried the hip hop 1 class today at dancepointe at tamah jurong by jacky who's sooo good. By the way, he leaves behind a trail of Mandy. Both ex-NUS dance blast dancers. And so the choreography was to a song which i had quite long ago. And of course there is some popping here and there, also, as requests by some of the students there.

I realised that students in his class like him as a teacher. Quoted by the receptionist,his classes are growing so they have expanded to Jurong too. And from Zhi Xin, who joined the class for the first time today on top of her jazz class, the students followed his style of dressing too. haha...

Anyway, back to the point to why i am so really overjoyed. We got offered to be trained under him with others and soon after to compete as a crew or somthing outside. And the location will be the danccepinte and jurong west which is at my house. Yippee... Oh well, Dawn has to travel further but I think she's fine with that for her chance of doing hip hop purely is drawing closer. Am I right Dawn??

This is a steeping stone to real proper dancing. The opportunity of a lifetime is hard to come by. I'm feeling rather touched. Ha..overwhelmed by feelings...

Wee...

Sex in the City

2008-07-06T21:38:00.000+08:00

In JJ, it is not homework that piles you up. Instead it is the myriad of tests that suffocates you. Luckily and fortunate we are that next week, there isn't a single test one. yippee...

However, we can't be too gleeful about it as the following week awaits with econs, chem, GP common and lecture tests. We, JJ,students can never get enough of these wonderful tests, can't we?!

Anyway, my mum came back from China a feel days ago and bought lots of CD especially hong Kong and Taiwan serials. An of course, my dearest Judy, you get to pick one or two to watch at a time. haha.. I watched Sex in the City which supposedly meant for someone else. still i just watched it since the Dvd is non-rivalry. ha. Wooaa...it's pretty loads with s** scenes here and there. It feels wierd. ha. No wonder it is m18 on the cinema.

Come to think of it, I just less than half a year to being 18. Still, if you were to ask me out to watch such shows when i am legal enough, I will feel a bit uncomfortable. ha... Poor Dawn got stopped by her Dad when she ATTEMPTED to watch the show.

Tomorrow, I will be going down to Judy's house. Yay.. it's really like an impromptu gathering at her house. Well, not really like a gathering since only Dawn, Amirah and I or maybe hanlyn will be there. We just wanted to use her space to dance that's all.

After that, Dawn and I shall proceed on to Dancepointe for a Hip hop level 2 class at tamah jurong by this dance instructor who was from NUS Danceblast team. Isnt it cool? Oh well, we'll soon see their standard there. Will it be like O school, the one Dawn went with amanda only last Monday?

After tomorrow, it's back to studying AGAIN and the next holidays to look forward to is the National Day which is still SO far away.

Till then.

Wee...

Cant help but wait

2008-06-28T19:29:00.002+08:00

It's been a long time since I blogged.

Yesterday we went back to xen to get something and I taught Dawno some new moves.Sadly she's always looking so depressed. I thought dancing makes one happy. Instead it made her looking ever more dumbfounded and tired. oh well...

Mummy's been away for almost a week already and she'll be back only on Thursday.

First week of school leaves me nothing much to comment on. It feels as though the one month holiday did not even happened. While majority of the schools have their commontests on the first week, JJ runned as per normal with their tests here and there and not concentrated in a week. Next week though, I will be having my physics commontest and an econs essay test. Lots of practise is needed tomorrow in order to survive next week.

After many weeks, my 2-weeks dance teacher, Winnie, finally sent me the video to the song Cant help but wait. OOO...look at kieth.

http://www.mediafire.com/?3vwwei0njdv
Wee...

Videos

2008-06-24T16:30:00.003+08:00

I know it's a bit too late but i found this on Qian Yong's blog. CRANK's final production. Yippe. The climax was on talenttime night. Enjoy Folks.

Xen Fri salsa party

2008-06-12T13:09:00.001+08:00

Found these pictures in my friend's blog and decided to post it.

These were taken from xenbar's salsa party about 2 fridays ago. It was also my first night social dancing at xen's new location.

Interested people in learning salsa can ask me and I can introduce you to this place :)

*See i'm JJ-pro. I'm even wearing their shirt when i'm outside.

Our dear Mandy and his er..girlfriend??

The Hereen Com

2008-06-12T12:38:00.006+08:00

This is the semi-finals video take at The Heeren last Saturday. It is the 4 minutes of fame competition where we pretend to be JT and Madonna. I guess the only thing the poeple like the character change in between the dance.

On the whole, I think there is loads of room for improvement in terms of delivering true hip hop style. Currently, our routines incorporate salsa or even a tinch of jazz in it. Quite sad to say. We have no pure hip hip style. Moreover, we dont even look as free-style as the rest.

And so, the champion who got to go to UK to watch Madonna live is this malay guy who became Madonna. He more of entertained the crowd with his sexual moves etc. It was rather entertaining. The crowd was cheering most of the time.

Nevertheless, there other contestants including us received 150 worth of hereen voucher. Since Dawn and I went in as a duo we shared the cash. I splurged on an 80 dollars sling bag. It was quite sinful since I never ever spent without thinking or rather weighing the advantages vs the disadvantages of buying something.

Dawn on the other hand had a great time picking nice clothes from CHAOS. She bough 3 fancyful tops as well as a CD from a music store.

It was a great experience especially dancing in a round stage.

Wee...

High tea

2008-06-09T19:33:00.000+08:00

Today I went to JJ for dance and we had such a "nice" training. Ha...there were lots of bar work, some of which we had to so splits in the air.

Anyway, the main thing is after dance. I went back to City Hall where I came from in the morning to meet my aunt and mum. We had High tea at on of the hotels in the vicinity. The layout of the spread was nice so I decided to take pictures.

REMEMBER: Close your mouths...

My first plate of the day. It is a fusion of Japanese, Western and French. :)

Look at these colourful and appetizing sandwiches.

Anyone wants pizza?

My favourite appetitzer...it's pasta mixed with a tinch of sour sauce.

Who wants jap food?

It's dessert TIME... waffles anyone?

Caleb's fav. Cheese cake

MY fav. This choc-filled cake is also the fav of the people in the house. The moment the staff came out to refill the cake, the cleared out soon after.

What toppings would you like on your ice-cream?? There are 12 to choose from

Such pleasant cups of dessert. One of those that gets taken away as soon as it was placed on the counter.

Another wonderful designed dessert.

What I like about the restaurant is that it is on the 70th storey. So we get the bird-eye's view. Here are some beautiful pics.

Signing off
Buffa

Dawn's bdae

2008-06-02T22:46:00.000+08:00

My head feels as though it is on the verge of bursting.

I just finished math functions supplementary exercise and it was hell mind-boggling. Oh well, I had to find questions to ask for tomorrow's math tutorial, might as well make full use of the lesson.

OOO...in an hour and 15 mins plus, it's gonna be my beloved potato's BIRTHDAY.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU DEAR :P

Also, i would like to make an announcement: This Saturday I will be competing in the Justin and Madonna impersonation dance segment. Do come down and support ME. hehe... at The Heeren about 4pm onwards.

Today we had our J1 dance camp. It was nothing spectacular since it was just foundational training where we did bar work and some across-the-floor exercise. I really hate the dance room's floor. It's kind of spoilt due to the exposure to the heat and moist from outside. As you know, wood has to be kept in cool conditions to last long.

Wee...shall go watch my taiwan show on Youtube

Dance

2008-05-24T15:11:00.003+08:00

Was surfing the net and came across this SUPERBLY COOL hip hop routine to Timbaland's indie hip hop music.

I like the costume. The match those sports bra with basketball pants. Normally we wouldnt think of using those pants that you see so often in school to dance right. Instead, I think the overall look is cool. Moreover, the girls extended all their hair to the same length which makes it more funky.

2008-05-23T19:08:00.000+08:00

Finally Term 2 comes to an end and here comes the long-awaited JUNE break.

Today was a scribbling day for me. I had 2 essay exams namely GP and Econs. Econs was the scary one. We had only 50 mins to rush out 2 essays. However, what made me nervous throughout the test was when Ms Wong keep informing us of the time. Ha I remember when she said u have 5mins for the first part and should be starting the next, I kind of freaked out cause i haven't written my conclusion. Subsequently, my left hand start rebelling. I felt weak and I cant seem to write fast. So I skipped the conclusion and embarked on the next part. It was easier to do part b since it tests us on theory of Demand and Supply (if i didn't interprete the question wrongly). Thus, I had about 10 minutes in the end to touch up my essays and finish up my conclusion.

ECONS ESSAY WRITING CAN KILL YOUR HANDS. MY POOR LEFT HAND.

Studies aside. Now what's some activities line up to pamper myself for I think this is the only long enjoyable hols I'm going to have. This Dec hols will be full of studying in preparation for the A Levels.

FIRSTLY, Potato and I are going to take part in the Justin Timberlake and Madonna impersonation competition held at The Heeren. There are going to be 2 segments: Acting or performing. Of course we are going to choose the latter. Do come down to support us (especially your screams haha). I think the prelims is on the 7th June a Saturday. I'm sure those out there will be going out with friends or their loved ones. So make a trip down to The Heeren too to see the competition.

NEXT, this June break is also the Singapore Arts Festival. Sadly, this year's fest isn't as interesting as last year's. Last year, I heard from Dawn that there were salsa, tango etc lessons held at the Esplanade. However, there is none this year. Such a spoiler. The only interesting one is a break-dancing workshop by some Korean b-boys.

FOLLOWING, it's also today's the opening of the GREAT SPORE SALES. Hope that I can buy some nice clothes.

Wee...

Singapore Flyer

2008-05-16T15:31:00.005+08:00

Found the video of our performance on Sat for Mother's Day. It really sucked. The video was cut off towards the end. haha and my solo was not recorded as a result. However, I wished the camera would stop recording earlier so my mistake towards the end will be earsed. hizz...

Link:
Singapore Flyer Performance on Mother's Day

Pictures reload

2008-05-14T16:11:00.002+08:00

Here are the pictures most of you are waiting for...
What's going on backstage?
Who's acting funny?
What's everyone doing?
Who did i perform with on Sun at the Sky Flyer?
Whose shoe flew?
etc.
Answers can be found in the pictures below.
ENJOY
:)

PS: I will only post some of the pictures taken on Sat as there are too many but I burnt a CD with all the photos taken in my camera and it is being passed around. I think it should be with Benedict. Chase him for it!!

Dawn(the shoe hates her foot :P) and I

The team performing that at the Sky Flyer. My teacher second from right.

A pic with my friends

Emo Shot. This photo is taken in the dark but my camera's flash function created such wonderful effect

Presenting the hairstylist of the day who did most of our hair. SALINA

I didnt slack as i helped out with make-up :)

Who says guys dont need make-up even if it's a Hip hop performance. LOOK. The guys have to put on opera make-up.

(what i feel) The best female dancer in the whole talent-time. Vanessa dances with style.

(what i feel) The girl with the aura...liked the way she walks and presents herself. Her dancing is cool too.

(what i think) The best guy hip hop dancer here. I like the way he moves so smoothly. However, he didnt want to teach. :(

Finally, a CUTE pic of me haha....
(WHAT I FEEL)THE BEST DANCER FOR THE NIGHT ...haha..no just kidding...

Everyone was great

Wee...

2008-05-11T08:08:00.000+08:00

The hectic days are over now.

Last night was one eventful Talentime. I was there later so I managed to sit in to watch part of ther rehearsal from an audience point of view. When our group came out to dance, all of them werent smiling. ha... esp Isabelle. She was the fiercest.hehe.

That was the one and only rehearsal and it was costume changing and making up time. YES...finally, qian yong was for once not a chinese-looking dancer. Moreover she looks cooler than ever.

Then of course there was this comical part where our dance teacher tried to draw all our eyebrows. Drawing them is fine. BUT imagine darking it till it's like those make-up for chinese dance, where the faces of the dancers look like dolls. YUKES. So, Buffa, I decided to play hide-and-seek with the teacher. And I was successful at avoiding her.

Things gets heated up when the concert starts. Everything fell into place after that. In the blink of an eye it was the results announcement.

Crank ended up with a SECOND, while our seniors received first with covered windows or the SC with third.

My feelings about the results:
OVERWHEMLING.SHOCKED.UNEXPECTED

Nevertheless, this is the first JJ memory for me. One that is unforgetable.

Random: Today is Mother's Day and I will be performing at Singapore Sky Flyer. Come support me if you can. ha... It's some carnival to celebrate mothers's day. Also, it's a wear purple and pink competition. So if you are coming down, get dressed in that colour.

All my pics are gonna be uploaded only after today.

Wee...

Talentime 08

2008-05-09T20:17:00.004+08:00

Another week has flew by. Andddd it's the JJ Talentime tomorrow!! Please catch the wonderful superb BUFFA then at NTU Auditorium, dancing with the cool undeafeatable dance crew, CRANK. Also, while enjoying our performances especially those who are going. Remember to vote for our team. OKIE...

Anyway, after this hectic weekend. I finally get to settle down and start my proper studying again. Well, I have to catch up on my tutorials and lectures. However, the frequent dance practises will be cut back to once a week. Which means I dont get to see my dance friends so often anymore. So sad.

Today and on Wednesday, we headed down to NTU for dance rehearsal. It was fun there. The floor was great. Neither slippery like in Xen nor rough in JJ's dance studio. What's more, the best thing is that the air-conditioner is so strong that I can dance forever and dont really sweat that much. The backstage is my favourite spot. The place is big and I have loads of room to spin. haha...Dawnn read that. Almost did a triple spin but stumbled on the third turn.

I'll be looking forward to tomrrow. And CRANK have to beat the rest and be the best. Sounds so tougue-twister.

Wee...

PS: This sunday i will be performing at the SINGAPORE SKY FLYER. Do support MEEEE and Dawn...

It's all new

2008-05-03T09:54:00.001+08:00

Looking at Tan min's blog, I feel soooo jealous. I wished I were there on Wed when they went to Sentosa. Although it's a 4/5 outing, i think it's a great time to catch up with my 2/9 friends IF i went. Hizz...

And of course, today i'm meeting up with my beloved potato to do HANDSTANDS. hahahaha... I can foresee myself giggling uncontrollably when i turn upside down. Well, I guess it's due to the rush of blood towards my head.

Our venue for the day would be at ACTFA's NEW DANCING SCHOOL in REDHILL. Yay!! I really want to see how big and magnificent the place is. They said the 2 dance floors are 10 times the size of the current one in Chinatown. We can start jumping around like fools then. ha

Next Sunday is Mother's Day. Children out there, have you pick a gift for your mum?? NO??!!! Then better be quick. It's a week's time away.

School passes fast these days. And I realize keeping awake in during lectures is becoming a tedious task to achieve. According to Dawn, she said Judy said she always saw me sleeping whenever she turns her head towards me. See....I'm such a sleepy head.

Dance in school is getting very sickening. Even so, I won't quit it as it will be my entry ticket to a dance cca in university esp NUS. Their dance groups are so cool. Be it the hip hop, ballet or the mixed-breed. All 3 forms are wonderful. Of course i prefer the hip hop and mixed-breed one. I certainty do not want to do ballet all the way.

Talking about that, sometimes, I realize when my ballet teacher teaches a new move and I try doing it. It looks so hip hopish. Ha... And very often teacher always say i'm all over the place. Looks like i'm not cut out to be a graceful swan but rather a rugged hip hopper.

Dawn and my next aim is come out with a PURE SALSA ROUTINE. The emphasized part here is PURE. Which means there will not be any tinch of hip hop style in it. Well, maybe a little, but not much.

Why?? That's because people who goes to XEN or should be now be known as ACTFA, think we are hip hoppers. However, we dont really want to be termed as that. We want to let them know that we do salsa too. hehe... So we have to come out with an exciting salsa routine.

YEAHHH!!!

With that.

Wee

The blast

2008-04-23T20:15:00.000+08:00

Finally, the blast is over for this week. Today, I had a chem class test, math lecture test as well as talentime semi-finals. Thursday and Friday should by pass with a breeze...

Today's spirit during the competition wasnt as high and strong as last week's. Actually, from the start of this week, I can feel the mood wasnt as high and and it's quite sad. Hope that tomorrow's results will be what we want :)

This Saturday...Yeah. What's gonna happen on that day?? Ask me? Ask Dawn? HoHoHo...

Anyway, besides that, one comment was yesterday's hip hop class. It really sucked. Trevel wasnt there. I think he has chickenpox (from his nick on msn). Shucks. 2 weeks of not attending his class. It's equivalent to not having proper hip hop dance for that period of time.

In about 3 weeks time, the school holidays will come. ha and it will also be the Singapore arts festival. Which means, there are quite a series of activities line up.

As of now, I'll just have to hand on and continue studying till the vacation begins.

Wee...

PS: wonder how sh's doing...hey sh...ur blog has no paragraphs on your life there.

Dance maddness

2008-04-12T16:49:00.000+08:00

Last week, I reached home about 7 plus excluding thursday. Looks like i'm spending half of my time in sch which is about 12hrs.

Mainly, the stay back was due to our dance practises for the up-coming talentime competition. We are having the suditions this coming Wednesday. Only on Friday other than mon and Wed when we had dance was the most fruitful one.

Friday's dance started off really miserbly as though I thought this new J1 batch is going to tear apart. Everyone was taking their own sweet time and the teacher was not even firm to discipline us all. However, I think she got enough of it and gave us a short lecture. Also, thank to the J2s for not bringing the CD where there supposed to be the Lovestone song that now we get to dance to the music Low. I much prefer the song from step up 2. Low is beaty and more hip hop. Ans because of this, it makes it easier for me to do those hips movement without feeling embarressed. (As you know, Hip hop is so much more than those sensual feminine moves so the strong base beat covers up those shortcomings.)

Now, I see a glimmer of hope in getting through the auditions. Partly because there is not much competiton from any other groups (i think it's just the dance CCA that sent in 3 gps. I guess no one else in JJ joined the dance segment. Majority rather sing in a group or solo. Also, I see progression in our dance rather than the stagnent few eights in the song.

Today, after ballet, I went to JP and rushed around. I went to the first This Fashion outlet to source for trackpants. I'm lacking in such pants cause I've been wearing the same thing for each tues hh classes. To no avail. After that, I went to popular to get my GP book that i wanted to get and walked briskly to the second This Fashion outlet. YES...i found my pants and I got myself 2 pairs - A white and golden colour. The golden is not the metallic type but more of the brownish-gold. It's nice. hehe...

With that, I shall end.

Hmm...when's the next time i'll blog??

Wee...

Disappointment

2008-04-04T16:30:00.000+08:00

She's such a disapoointment...

i shall not expect anything from her.

Wonders

2008-03-29T22:16:00.000+08:00

i realize that i love to ponder. This is especially strong when I meet someone unique or intriguing. I will try to observe the person's movements, character, and even to the extent of their backgrounds. Call me a stalker. But in fact i think it's pretty interesting to dig into a person's life. Of course the extent of my 'digging in others' privacy' is not to the serious extent that i affect their lifes. It's just that the facts, figures and information are there for me to source out and learn about the person.

However, I realize that everytime I find out more about the person's life, I get demoralized. The person is super accomplished. Well, maybe this person is accomplished in the area where i hope i can be accomplished in but WILL never have the chance to fulfill.

Thus i shall conclude that life is unfair.

Revival

2008-03-23T09:30:00.000+08:00

Long long ago that I blogged. Now i'm going to give it a little bit of revival.

First week of term 2 in jj passed by alright. The thing about the time-table is that we have lots of 1hr breaks in between. I have at least 2 1-hr breaks everyday. Thus apart from using an hr to eat lunch, judy and I decided to be hardworking students and studied. Besides, the environment there is pretty good. We can choose to go to the study corner near the general office or go to the library where there's air-con and a myriad of reference books. The week flew pass fast probably because of the Good friday holiday thus we needn't go to sch on that day.

Good Friday was a family outing to jurong point. Although JP is near my house, going there each time doesnt seem to be a bore as I seldom walk along the shops. There was a sale in one of the sports shop where Elle walking shoes were sold at half-price. Yay so i managed to get a pair for myself at 25 bucks. Mummy and caleb got themselves a pair too. There were slippers offered at 9 dollars too and I got a brown pair. It has the hawaii look. In JP, we watched Horton- the comical elephant show. The graphics of the show is relatively good and the content is different. It's about the elephant talking to a pollen on a flower. Dinner was at Sakae Sushi. Caleb and I ate wisely. haha...

Over to dance. Wednesday was my first session of dance in jjdance. The teacher wasnt there since she was overseas thus the seniors were given the task of teaching us the chereography to the song 'Whine up'. And of course, jj's dance lived up to its name of having mainly sensual dance in their routine. Each time when we bend down and get up, we have to touch our bodies and slide up it upwards. Oh.... that really sucks. It's fine if it's in xen. But to think, in a school, one doing such seductive moves. It aint very acceptable. They still have this cane dance from what I heard and saw. The senior to us that only 5 person were meant to do this routine. I think it would not be pleasant and comfortable to watch. On the whole, I could catch up with the dance thus no other complaints.

Yesterday, we had a partial SJ outing in Vivocity. Partial cause only a few came not the majority. There was the 'arguement' over the location for dinner - Sushi Te or Carls' Junior. Of course, the expectations of the great news that was supposed to be disclosed on the day itself but no one voiced out. As a result, some others were pissed and a few just brushed it pass them. Sushi Te was it and I ordered this rice set where it consists of baked salmon and a few slices of raw ones too. It was tasty. Really liked it. Following that, the remaining went to eat Ben & Jerry's ice-cream. 'Fats' and 'calories' piled on top of one another with about 3 scoops of ice-cream added on with rather large cube-sized browies and to top it off, super-fattening wipped cream. I feel the pain for them when those eating put mouths and mouths of those stuff into their mouths. Ahh.....

This morning, as I blogged, I'm home-alone. Such feeling is great. ha...some may think i'm weird but I like the way it is. So what!

Wee...

New blog skin

2008-03-13T23:24:00.000+08:00

In a blink of an eye, the march holiday week is over soon. This is the fastest holiday i've experienced, tomorrow is Friday and I cant even go xen for the last time.

Oh well...at least i am going to achieve 3 out of 4 of my goals for the holidays. Or perhaps i even achieved half of the last goal.

After this week, I can consider that the battle has started. It's now the time to stock up my ammunitions so that they can be of good use at the end of the second year.

Today I finally changed my blog skin of which I'm quite sick of. Actually I found 2 dance themed blogskins that i liked a lot but somehow their formatting cant work. Also, I've changed the music too and i bet dawn should be very grateful since I will no longer blast into her ears when she enters my site haha.

As of now, the dance deprived buffa shall treasure the hip-hop lessons every tuesday. Hizz...cause the buffa thinks that up till now, that mere one hour lesson seems to be the only one that can partially satisfyher hunger for dance.

Wee...

CCA carnival?!

2008-03-05T20:58:00.000+08:00

It's been almost a week studying in jj. As for now, it's rather slack since I get home round one plus everyday.

In school, I hang out mainly with 3 groups of friends. First is Judy, second is xiao wen and si hui and lastly is Xue Jie and my other 404 friends. So I can consider myself a migrant 'bird', flying to different places and adapting to my surroundings. ha...

One amusing thing in JJ was IDP, also known as interest development programme. This is a complusory thing for all JJcians in their 2 years stay in the college. Naturally, I will look for a program pertaining to dance. Of course they had one -- Lindy Hop. I bet most of you wouldn't have any clue what's linda hop right. Thus, you relate it to Hip Hop since Lindy hop has the word 'hop' in it too. Similarly, some of my friends in jj thought so too and they almost wanted to sign up for that. Little did they know that Lindy Hop is actually a pair dance. In fact this dance is more to the 70s near the disco and cha cha era.

Wonder how they would have reacted if they really signed up for the class if I hadn't told them about it. I bet the girls and guys will be shocked when the coach asks each of them to find a partner. haha...

Today, was some imprompt to CCA carnival. Well, we can't excatly consider it a carnival since the whole school wasn't prepared for it. The CCA booths were somewhat like last minute set-ups with just a table each for every CCA. Moreover, I guess majority of the J1s were clueless that the event is today until we saw those booths in the mist of being set-up.

I didn't stay for the event cause I'm quite sure what I want to join though that CCA may not be outstanding. Over at their booth, I met ros's sister who's in the CCA I want to join. Thus, I talked to her and aquired some infomation on the CCA I'm about to join. They do not have an audition and the vacancies are unlimited. It's quite wierd though cause all schools definitely have an audition to take in the better ones. The bad thing about not having an audition is that I won't have this sense of accomplishment. Cause if i auditioned and got in, means that I have what it takes. Well, that's my opinion though.

Dawn and Yu had their auditions today. Lucky for them both, from what i heard, they were the lucky 15 from J1s who got in. Yu, however, was given a 2 weeks probation since she wasn't technically strong. If she doesn't perform up to their standards, I guess she might as well go join band. Best of luck, Yu...

2 more days and it's going to be the March holidays. I'm looking forward to it. Despite so, at times I even forgot that next week is the hols. Some things to look forward to next week:
1) Step Up 2 (A MUST watch)
2) Tuesday's hip-hop class
3) Maybe to xen (twice)
4) A new laptop on Sunday

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JJ camp

2008-03-02T17:02:00.000+08:00

Last week was kind of an unfruitful week for me since mon and tue were trail lectures and the following 3 other weekdays were dedicated to the jj camp.

The teaching pace is slow thus it makes it so much more important for me to motivate myself to study. This shall start from next week. Besides dance and academics, I shall not commit into other stuff like being and OGL or in a class committee. Though these stuff make my testimonial look impressive after 2 years of accumulation, I could have used the time to study.

The camp was fine though. Nothing that really inspired me after attending it. One reason is that I'm immune to camps. I practically attended up to 3 camps annually for 4 years in Nan Hua. Furthermore, each camp can go up to 3 to 5 days. Therefore, another camp (one that is so slack with no physical training or footdrills) that is meant to be fun makes everything smooth sailing for me.

The only significant thing about jj's camp is their water games divided into 3 segments: one on Day1 and two on Day2 which are carried out at different timings of the day.

One thing I cant stand is the 'preaching' of self-motivation and character development. The camp should be geared solely towards bonding the campers to enable them to adapt to the new environment where there are new people and the unfarmiliar school compound.

However, in the end of the day, when I received the feedback form, what I see in the paper was:
- Did the camp change you as a person?
- Will you put others before yourself?
- Will you return back as an OGL next time?

I was expecting questions like:
- Did you like the food?
- Were the games fun? If not, suggest improvements to the games?
- Was the duration of the camp long or short?

So I shall conclude that this camp is not aimed at the students to learn more about their peers and surroundings. Instead, it is towards character development.

Nevertheless, I just dont get the cost of the orientation camp. It's 70 bucks, so expensive. I got a miserable black file, notebook and a lime green orientation shirt. As compared to my previous orientation in the other school, that only cost 23 bucks with a range of 'goodies' I get (read my past post of the items reveived), it's a world of difference.

Despite so, this camp allowed me to make new friends and even ones that I'm pretty close to already. Thus, I wont be so lonely when I'm in school.

JJ stuff aside.

YUP!!! Yesterday Dawn, Keith, Shi Han, Jun Long, Lei Hoi and I went to xen. I felt as though it was millions of years that I've been there. All of us except Junlong and Leihoi were there around 12 plus and I taught my chereography to the timbaland music. After that, we ventured into raggae and the lyrical hip-hop.

Only about 2pm did Leihoi and Junlong join us. I taught salsa. I was pretty hard though cause everyone was making noise and it's hard to speak above the noice. The outcome was partial success. I taught the basic steps or solo and pair but I didnt get to complete the simple turn and cross body leap turn (the important ones). Can't be help since it's their first and most likely the last lesson so it makes it harder to grasp the fundementals.

Taught hip-hop at 5pm. Surprisingly, there was a guy in our class. I taught the timbaland chereo. By then, I was feeling a little emo cause everyone left except dawn and the class was quiet. Now I understand how trevel,my tues dance class teacher, felt when he asked a question and no one replies. ha.

The mood lifted slightly when Dawn and I experimented with the CODA thingy and using a faster pace music, HIT THE FLOOR. haha...it was fun.

With that...

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Hip hop dance

2008-02-16T11:34:00.002+08:00

After watching these people strutting their stuff for the world to see and cliched something so prestigious, I sudden feel so small. Hip-hop is what I'm talking about. Their moves are so precise, fast and cool. How I wish I could be of the same calibre.

Although this is third place in the World Campionship, I think I like them best. Their costumes are attractive and flashy. Thus whenever they dance with coordination, we can see it quite obviously.

And there is the CODA competitions. CODA is where the dancers will move differently at the same point of time. It could be 5 people facing to the back and another 5 facing front but they are dancing the same thing. Or it could be a group of them starting 4-eights beforehand while at the next group of dancers shall do the similar routine after that 4-eights. For this second effect, I like it better. Dawn and I tried doing it but the effect only looks good with a larger group of people.

Appalling isn't it. They look so good. I want to be like that too ....

I miss dance

2008-02-15T22:23:00.000+08:00

Time flies.

It's almost half a month since I blogged.

Starting with Chinese New Year: This year was slightly more interesting than other years since I always relate CNY as a routine period of time where we go the same houses to do house-visiting. That's because there I have a new born girl cousin. ha.. spent most of the time playing with her. I like to swing her in the air and see her giggle. However, whenever my Dad sees it, he would stop me as he thinks I'm treating her like a doll, tossing her up and down.

Up next is Dawn's and my chereo: We are going to start from scratch again, abandoning the bout' it chereo and doing another one. This time round we will be focusing on pure hip-hop. Meaning we will not inject jazz or SALSA into the 3-min dance. And it's going to be pure MANLY hip-hop unlike the girl hip-hop with numerous bodywaves or suductive looks and stares. ha...
As for the teaching of hip-hop in xen, I think this plan has to be shelved aside for the time being till after A levels. But I have the urge to teach. Though I may not be professional, there is no harm in sharing the ideas you have to others, allowing others to learn your style of hip-hop. I think, for a person who don't even want to consider teaching in schools, but want to teach hip-hop so much is a miracle. ha...Cause everytime I think about me able to teach others, I tinkle inside.ha...IT'S THE PASSION I GUESS...

This coming Tuesday, the release of the JAE postings. My confirm JC school shall be out in a few days time. I hope I can get into AJ and with Dawn in there too. Then we need not crack our heads about meeting up in xen or some place with a big mirror to dance and share. PRAY HARD. Also, there will be yz there too. And I think she's going for dance auditions too. Though she may be one that is sometimes to irritating or proud but it's nice to have someone farmiliar there too.

Leio Hoi lent me over 7 dance movies over the weekends to watch like Take the Lead and Innocent Steps (korean). Most of them were Latin dance. After watching them, I think I'm beginning to fall in love with latin dance. The samba, rumba, cha-cha and paso doble are the 4 components.

According to her from her coach, Samba originated from street performances where the poeple will dance to the festive mood just like the Chingay parade.
As for Rumba, it's from the slaves where they dance while having something heavy on their heads. So in order to keep it from falling, they can only dance with their lower parts of their bodies so you will see that their moves revolves around their hips where it's flowy.
For Paso Doble, it's about the bull and the red cloak. The bull is the guy while the cloak is the girl. Thus the dance is one that is intense and majestic.
I'm not sure about cha-cha.

Wow, this short paragraph almost deplicts the background of latin dancing. ha. And I remembered Yan Qing asking Dawn and I to do one like this for hip-hop. Dots. I'm like doing a research on something not pertaining to my dance genre.

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Results

2008-01-30T23:39:00.000+08:00

Busy is the word to describe my current state. I haven't even got the time to use the computer. Oh how much I miss using it.

Well, one recent happening was the release of the 'O' level results. My results are not at all that good. In fact, it sucks. I scored a 12point. I can't stay in NJ anymore. I really love my class. It's a sad thing that I have to leave them. Another surpirsing result is my languages. For me, if I compare my english and chinese results, it's more logical than I scored better in eng since that's what I speak everyday. However, the world seemed to spin the other way round. My english got a B while my chi got an A. Thus is really werid. While everyone seems to be getting As for their English, my result wasnt the same.

My future jc in a few weeks time shall most probably be AJ. Something about the location of AJ. It was actually the place that we went to for my first hip-hop competition. ha. Such bad memories that place brings me since we didnt achieve anything in that competition.

Another much awaited festival coming soon is Chinese New Year. Yay I get to wear my new clothes that I bought. haha... I quite like the clothes that I chose. Furthermore, there are the new year goodies especially the pineapple tarts.

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Random

2008-01-22T23:23:00.000+08:00

Today is such an EMO day. Whether is it for contemp dance in sch or at the hip-hop class, the dance routines were total sadness.

To Dawn: the song for this time's dance is Apologise by timbaland.

Another 2 more days and the 'O' level results shall be released. Any last minute feelings for me? Well, not excatly. I think the stress will come down on me only on the day itself. I mean there is no point to feel are clogged up by what will my results be and if I can stay in NJ. I await for the big day.

Anyway, I would like to comment on Dawn's post about her knees blooming. Yes, we are embarking or rather have embarked on our latest project. Another choreography to the song 'bout it' from the movie Step Up. This time I shall incorporate more pair work and attitude. This dance is going to be filled with hatred.

The storyline is like this: Two person met on the streets and don't like the look of each other. So they began to dance-duel. There shall be parts where they try to accomodate each other but they can't click. And they end up fighting and challlenging one another. Of course, in the end, they get together and the dance ends.

Hopefully what I deplict over here, the audience will see through the dance. It is going to be a whole new level from the previous dance, with more kicks, spins etc.

Besides this, last sunday on the 20th jan was my birthday. And I would like to say a big THANK YOU to those who wished me happy birthday. There were numerous of them. The feeling's really nice. From friends in NJ to Xen to my other friends. haha... Also, yesterday, my class S12 bought sheng kang and I a chocolate slice of cake each (our birthday falls on the same day). It was great.

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Dance exchange

2008-01-16T23:50:00.001+08:00

Today, lessons started proper with pe, tutorial, lectures. Can't believe that the first day of PE is so intense. We ran 1.2km as well as doing sprints and jumps and steppings. Hizz... however, it was not as bad as it seems cause no calves are not aching. Shows that the intense dance practises during the hols helped. Tutorials were held in small classes around the school. It's pretty confusing searching for the classrooms after each hour.

At least today I need not stay back in school for CCA or other stuff. These few days I have been coming home late. Tomorrow there's hip-hop. Yae my forte...the one an only day that has hip-hop must absorb everything so that I have something to share during my exchange program on Saturday. So far, my partner is going to benefit a hip-hop routine as well as a contemp one on top of tomorrow's. wow!!!

Yesterday, we had contemp practise after that, I got my parents to fetch me back home to jurong complex for hip-hop. The lesson was taught by this super young and talented teacher. Really, he's good. Must learn from him as much as I can and broaden my hip-hop moves bank. After lessons I walked with sh and keith. Nice talks along the way. Somehow, when I see my secondary school friends especially in sj, I feel comforted and at home. haha... weird feeling right.

Can't wait for this Sat to come and I'll be meeting Dawn. Yipee!

It's been rumoured that the 'O' level results will be out next week. How I wished it was like today or earlier. I don't want the suspense anymore. I want to know where I will end up. Maybe I might enter a polytechic in the end. Then I'll have lots of time for dance. haha...But this mentality is bad. My parents will definitely disallow.

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Orientation the end

2008-01-12T10:11:00.000+08:00

Yesterday was the last that of the nj orientation 2008. It's pretty sad though cause the whole 8 days was really fun. haha...today I even had the urge to go to school when I woke up.

Last night we meant to have a fasincating campfire start-up but it was ruined due to the heavy rain.

Before that, in the morning, we had WAR GAMES!!! It was between 2 major alliances. In the end, ours won haha... We had to use plastic bags and tie them up before running to the safe zone of the other groups to make them wet. There were lots of rough play. Lots of people, especially our rival group, BLUE, went around pressing our plastci bags filled with water to burst them before we can send them flying into their territory.

And yes, I was wet by the person called TAN MIN. Each time, thrice. I was so happily being dried when she just poured water on me without catching my attention. Ha but I got my revenge when I went finding her with 2 water bombs in my hands. hahaha...I smashed them on her front and back. YAEE...

After that, we slacked, played games etc. Our class famous polar bear game. Next was mass dance again and we learnt another dance but it's rather ok. Not as interesting as till the dawn.

Gang bonding was up next and the first programme was our OGLs cross-dressing in their secondary school's. There was this OGL that dressed as a girl. It was super disguesting cause he added boobs to it too. haha

here's a pic:

We had dinner after a few rounds of captian ball against another class. It was pizza where it was buy one get one free. The thing about the pizza other than it's cheap is that when you dont pull carfully, the toppings with the cheese will be detacted from the pizza bread. disgusting.

And yes, campfire was cancelled due to the heavy rain. We ended up have 3 hours filled of dancing in the hall. It's atmosphere was totally different from other days. It was pitch dark and the only glowing thing was the disco ball at the corner of the hall. The coloured lights that it gives off were much brighter and greater than in xen. haha...It was amazing. However, it kind of got to hot inside with all cramping in the small area. Hei Hoi was mad, instane, crazy. She shaked like nobody's business and did a series of suductive moves.haha.. Even Jun Long said she is hot like that. haha...

Amist the other songs being played, there was the farmiliar mass dance songs being play to hype everyone up further was each of us grope for a partner in the dark to dance together. haha...nice.

By the time everything was over, I left school about 10.30pm. Our OGLs even gave we a nice gift with our photo in it. Cool...

On the whole, I think the whole orientation was wonderful. One thing is that it made me motivated to participate together with the class. Which is a good thing since I didnt really do that in my secondary school life. It's revolution time folks. I have to be more enthusiastic. ha...

One last concern is that I hope that I can get into Western dance. Dont know when the results are going to be out. It really keeps me in suspension.

To end it off, some pictures taken without anyone noticing:

The design of our black t-shirt for the orientation.

Us waiting at JE interchange for bus 170 to get back to NJ after THE QUEST.

Cecilia say cheese...

Veron

ZiYi - she cute right. Cuter than yu zhu haha

Lei Hoi - The shaky-your-botty gal.

Yi Ming - the bossy guy. As you can see our class had quite a number of nan huarians

Sheng Kang - Our class civis rep aka my partner(working together). Must get enthu with him like he said. ha

Cecilia and I

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Day 6 Orientation

2008-01-09T23:34:00.000+08:00

This is so DAMN. My hands just moved over the laptop and my whole webpage disappears and my long post that I took so long to type was wiped out like that. This is so stupid.

So I shall repeat again.

Today we had THE QUEST and I had to travel down to Bugis to meet with the others. It was our first check-point. There are in total 2 check-points for the day. The other one was at JE.

The most disgusting part for today was the circle walk. All of us had to tie our shoelaces to one another and form a circle. After that, We had to walk a certain distance across this field. Though the word field sounds harmless, what if you add in the rain which makes the place muddy and 'puddly'. YUCKS. My sportshoes were dirtied the instant the walk started.

Lunch was at some kopitiam in one of the higher levels in the Bugis shopping malls. Unsure of the name of the mall since I dont frequent the place often. But all I can say that the food prices aint any closer to those across my house. Moreover, the food didnt taste as good. The you4 mian4 that I ordered was not only ex but not delicious. I think it pales so greatly in comparsion to the one across my house.

The second half of the quest was at jurong east. The most memorable part was that we had to run across this field to get from a pit-stop to the next. It was not too bad since the grass was dry but it reminded me of one thing. I have to build up my stamina for the upcoming NAFA test. I havent been doing my weekly swimming and I wonder if i do how much I will pant.

Tomorrow will be war-games and mass dance competition.

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Day 5 Orientation

2008-01-08T21:31:00.000+08:00

I totally screwed hip-hop part today. I meant to concentrate in it rather than contemp. Despite so when I stood in front on the stage to perform today, I blanked out on the last 2 eights of the music. Surprising, I managed through when I was behind.

The western dance auditions started about 5pm today which was already quite late. To my dismay, we have to learn 4 eights for each dance when I thought it was only 2 eights. So from then till 7pm, I cramped in the hip-hop part cause I want to get into that. I think the contemp group is filled with girls who are so skilled in their techniques. Makes me feel kind of depressed though I want to focus more on hip-hop.

We were in groups of 8 people. 4 will stand at the front of the stage while the 4 are behind. So each dance is danced twice so we switch lines after each time. When I was front I screwed it. Damn. It wasnt the audience since xen was many opportunities to practise that but it was the time for me to absorb the dance. shucks. The music itself was a killer. The pace is fast and together with the newly learnt moves, you can blank-out anytime. haha

So after the 2 routines on stage, I was kind of crumbling since I was the last few groups which means i practised like hell and was too tired (but why couldnt i remember the steps). So when it was contemp I was like, aiya, just follow (for contemp there are people at the bottom of the stage to follow). And it was oddly fine. No hiccups only for the part where we need to kick the leg. Twice I didnt but the rest was fine.

Reached home at such an early time of 8.30pm.

Tomorrow is THE QUEST and I have to be at bugis at 8am. SO early loh. So lucky to those whose checkpoint is jurong east or boon lay.

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Day 4 orientation

2008-01-07T22:03:00.000+08:00

Today was much 'funner' than I expected. haha. At first I thought that it was going to be a sadistic day for me since I dread interacting. We were regrouped into our form classes which most probably is going to last us till after CNY when the O level results are out. It turned out fine. Surprisingly.

My class is 08S12. '08' for year2008, 'S' for Science and '12' for the class number.

Unfortunately, my class is going to be on the forth level which is so high up. Hizz. Tm's is just in one of those container classes on the ground level. Hmph. Speaking of container classes, I remember during my days in primary school when the school was undergoing renovations, our class was shifted to those kind of classrooms too. The bad thing was that despite having the air-con, the container was still stuffy and hot.

Then we had mass dance. We are still stuck at 'Till the Dawn'dance thus I was kind of bored during the session. However, to make full use of the time, I learnt the dance afresh as the OGLs were explaining so I can teach the dance in xen. haha... I think tomorrow they will enbark on the 'hairspray' one. Shucks. another dance to cramp into my head. But I heard JJC got 7 mass dances. I wonder how did they manage to remember them. Well, one thing for sure, was that there's this guy called rickey who is super duper enthusiatic. All the moves that he did were to the maximum. And he also helped the OGLs do the counting for the music. Such an enthu person. ha

The MOST interesting part of today was the informal walk-in by the 6 different groups. I am in Soterios.

The storyline is about the dance master who was dead. So these 6 groups gathered for a meeting and they decided to have a dance battle to see who succeeds the throne. Following that, our seniors who represent each group danced gp by gp. It was cool. Absolutely cool. Getting to see 6 generally hip-hop based dances in one go. haha. Though the steps may not be wow but it gives inspiration to my next dance. haha.

Tomorrow will be another new day and it will be station games around the school. Sounds okie to me. But school ends later at 4pm. Shucks. AND the western dance auditions. There is hip-hop and contemporary auditions. Think I am going for both and see which i can enter. Wish me luck :) If I really can't get in, I think I have to reconsider my standard in xen. haha...

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Dance

2008-01-06T00:29:00.000+08:00

Today I learnt a BIG lesson. And it is that I should not be too gullible and trusting in future. As the Chinese saying goes: ren1 bu4 ke3 mao4 xiang4, I think it is really true. And because of this, I almost lost a 4 year relationship. Thanks to that person. Wonder if the person will read this.

On a lighter note, today i went to xen (again). It's something significant cause my days there are numbered (maybe not as numbered as Dawn's but i bet she'll have her ways). Hip-hop was mandy's chero which I dont exactly favour much. I bet keith and sh would. They have been trying to copy the younger girls moves when they dance. At least now they have a chance to learn it proper. Too bad today only Ya Lun the only guy was there. I bet he was bored stiff.

Prior to that, I was teaching my sch's mass dance to the younger hip-hop girls. They were so early, earlier than me, practising one of mandy's new chero (hey dawn, i forgot to show you. shucks) It was to the song lovestone and i guess keith and sh should be elated if they can learn it. haha... And yes and through them i learnt the moves. Impressive right. haha

Salsa basic was just like any other day BUT it was without music cause i think there was problem with the player. And I danced mostly with this lady who is a hwa chong teacher... scary right. She said she used to be a teacher in some special program in the sch but now she's just a relief teacher. Nevertheless, she was friendly though i was intimidated by her a little. haha

YAEEEEE... i chero about 4 eights of dance moves today. It's going to be Dionne's dance since Dawn and I decided to chero an individual one each and exchange in the end of the year. Hopefully I have enough ideas to last me through the whole song of about 4 minutes long cause i intend to use the whole song. One that is untouched, 'unmixed'. Anyway, my song chosen is pretty varied cause there is a slow part in it. So I can incorporate jazz into. So watch out Dawn. Do more stretches and kicks. hahaha

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First day in nj

2008-01-03T18:56:00.000+08:00

Yesterday was first day of school in njc. I was not as nervous as the first day of school in nan hua. Maybe because I knew that I would be seeing some of my old primary school friends there. To top it off, I was lucky to have huiwen in the same group as me. yae...

This 3 days till tomorrow will be more of admin stuff than fun. Yesterday due to the fact that i slept late and that the talks were boring, I kind of slept through majority of the talks. Anyway, those words coming out of the teachers' mouth could all be found in the student handbook given to us.

The fun part of yesterday was only when we were given or more accurately purchased the oreintation package. It consisted of a big bag of goodies. There were 2 shirts black and white respectively, a towel, water-bottle, shoe bag, hole puncher, a file and a notepad.

Today was another fine day again. I slept through some talks but the PE talk was the most interesting one. The tamil head of PE department teacher was most entertaining. He injected lame and humorous jokes into his talk and only in his did i stay awake.

The next segment of the day was the mass dance. We are going to have 2 dances this oreintation. One is to the song 'till the dawn' from the movie Step Up and the other from the movie Hairspray. I like the former better cause the moves are pretty cool from the viewpoint that it's a mass dance. The hairspray dance was almost the same as the former dance cause there were some repetitions in the moves, mainly the couple moves (the mass dances have to be done in pairs: 1 gal and 1 guy).

Tomorrow is more mass dance sessions and the CCA Carnival. I'm looking forward to the cca carnival cause i really want to see how's the western dance in nj is like. I heard from my nhh friend who is already in chinese dance that the people in western dance had strong foundation in ballet at stuff. It's pretty intimidating. Firstly, I think I have rather tall as compared to most of the girls in the school. Secondly, despite my numerous dance practise to condition my body over the hols, I'm not sure if I am even up to the standard. hizz.. zhixin coming along with me too, so I will not be feeling so nervous after all. Hopefully there is no audittions or something. Today Jingan was like promoting choir to huiwen and I and said that if we were interested, we could stay back after everything to be auditioned. Shucks.

At least, at this point of time, the study workload have not piled on me yet.

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PICS

2007-12-29T00:20:00.000+08:00

Before i forgot our hip hop group pic:

Salsa Congress 2007 cum sj chalet

2007-12-29T00:07:00.000+08:00

Another year is going to pass soon in a matter of days. And again, this year is one enriching and memorable one. In this 365 days, I experienced a spade of events, some of which were recorded down in pictures as well as in my blog. The recent one was the salsa congress. It wasn't as nerve-wrecking as last year. I guess it's due to the numerous dance performances I did. The final day which was on boxing day seemed to be just another round of practise. haha...simultaneously, on that night i went for chalet too. But it was not as fun though. Partly because not everyone was there. There were only less than 10 sj people turning up.

Anyway,speaking of the salsa congress. We(sh,keith and I) turned up at Victoria Concert Hall around 1pm. Though we were early as the area was only opened to us at 2pm, we could have reached there earlier. However, the Lee shao4 ye1 was half and hour late, thus the Wong and Ng nu2 bi4 had to wait for him for half and hour. sheesh!! In the hall, we did one dry run with costumes and the rest of the time was for us to make-up and prepare for the night. Making use of the time, I took several pics.

Wanyi(left)and Ya Lun trying to avoid my camera. Unfortunately, while running off, they allowed me to capture an interesting shot. haha.

Dawn and I (the bottom of my eye sucks. the glitter on my eye reflected light causing those white lines)

The all gals pic.

Wanyi's girlfriend(don't know her name) and I. I was planning to take pics with everyone one. But my cam was running out of battery.

I guess i don't remember most of their names. hizz...

Our hip-hop teacher Bianca for our dance this year. She's one crazy person.

Dawn and I and the guys of our hip hop gp.

Keith and Shi han amazed by the Fullerton building with their backs faced me. nice pic.

Salsa congress was really memoreable. love it much.
Anyway, Dawn and I seem to have another project up next before sch starts in the matter of days. haha and i'm looking forward to it.

Now as for the sj chalet, it was pretty boring. Quite sad though. I went there with keith and sh. Not sure what we were feeling but i bet the 2 of them were still suffering from the salsa fever. I want to go to thumpers. The xen people were going there to party. I want to see the new place. Too bad we can't. Hizz...

I ended up teaching the 2 of them neck drop and death drop. (Dawn, did u jaws just dropped out??) Keith was mainly the guy while sh was the gal. hehe... So when sh cant bend low as he did the neck drop, I let keith try on me. Surprisingly, it was comfortable. Even though we went slow, I could rest nicely. haha...

After that, we spent the morning playing cards till about 4am did we sleep. The next day was just an afternoon in Escape. Following that, some of them left while amanda and nat decided to stay in escape to play further so i went off with the guys where they so wonderfully swam in the cool swimming pool. I was so tempted to swim too but didn't bring enough clothes. Can you imagine watching others swim and not feel hot while you just get stuck on land, all sticky and hot. hizz.

However, fatique was overcoming me. Anywhere I went, as long as i have peace, I would start dozing off to sleep.

Today, I went for life-guard duty and I think I got myself sun-burnt. The morning sun was hot and was never cool. Got to know some new people. Sometimes I feel it's hard to initiate a conversation. It's always the same few questions being asked. Furthermore, I'm pretty SHY like some others too. So it's hard.

2008 is coming soon peeps.

Wee...

eve

2007-12-25T00:21:00.000+08:00

This is Dawn's and my dance for this year (discounting tan min and amanda so sad). Hip Hop cum jazz cum salsa dance. Yes i know most people will think that the ending is at the part where i shoot Dawn down. In actual fact, there is still a salsa part. Too bad we cant take that part out since it's for a salsa congress so there have to be a salsa part in it. Aww... i'm such a good guy when I lead Dawn. haha....Dawn ah, you must buck up. I'm a better guy than you. haha

And this is the group performance of the year. Last year was some dumb name called 'funky monkey' but this year there's no name haha. Shall we call it the angels haha...

My spinning was way off at the end. Stupid. At least the previous dance performance, my spins were quite stable. But pian1 pian1 this time when it's on youtube, it's so ugly. hmm

Soon... on boxing day i'll be performing so any last call for TICKETS???? haha...i doubt anyone will buy it.

Talking about yesterday, the eve of christmas, i didn't excatly dance so vigorously. Met Dawn for like half an hour in xen and she rushed off for church performance. Then comes keith and sh. At least they were there to entertain me. They are quite lame actually cause they went to xen but didnt stayed of the hh practise. Thus they left with me at 5 plus. We had some nice chat in the studio. haha. was quite interesting.

Following that, I met up with another group of friends and we went to play pool for a short while followed by bowling. Talking about pool, it's my second time since like 3 years ago that i did that. On the overall, it can be quite addictive if i played longer. I still didn't get a grip of it at that single round. Bowling up next. As usual, on my second game i tire out. The damn 9 pound ball just weigh a ton when i hold it. Too bad the lighter ones just fit my thumbs nicely so i didn't take the risk of using them lest i get my thumb stuck in the ball. Had dinner at Pizza hut and all were treated. ha. thanks to DF for the bowling and BY for the nice dinner. hehe...

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MERRY CHRISTMAS :)

Life guard duty day 1

2007-12-22T01:37:00.000+08:00

This week is another packed one with activities from day to night (literally).

I also started my job as a lifeguard on tuesday. At first i was kind of nervous but not scared. However, it was really enjoyable in the end of the day. Christ was there to teach me. She, same age but more experience, taught me what i should keep watch for and etc. Larry orientated me with the compound as well as the first aid room where there is the blue bag. The other lifeguards were very friendly too and had a nice time chatting while working. haha...

Before I started this job, i thought that it was a slack job where you just sit there and shake your leg. In actual fact, we have to walk around as the bosses dislike us to sit on those high chairs and not move. I remember on Tuesday, though it was morning, the sun was really hot and i experienced sun-burn when i came home. Luckily the next day was rainy. It either rain or drizzle the whole of the morning. Thus, since I was in-charge of the lazy pool and since the lazy pool was closed due to the weather, I just sat on one of those benches and chat.

It's fun to know more about different people. Most of them aren't really good in their studies, unlike the circle of friends in xen or in sj etc. Thus you get to see the other side of life. Not everyone goes on the normal education route where you study jc and into uni. These poeple choose the stress-free option. They rather lead a simple, trouble-free life. It's a total different side.

And yes i think i am becoming like sh, all curious about analyzing everyone. haha...

Hopefully i can book myself in more life-guard duties. As the matter of fact, I am earning a good sum of money too.

Back to dance. Today I had a gp hip-hop and penguin performance. Xen was super crowded. I was literally shivering after the hh segment. Partly because my 12+ solo spins were over. Never before i felt such nervousness when i do hip-hop. This time round, i didn't enjoy the process of the dance. Instead, I worry about my ending spins. STUPID. Penguin was just penguin. I didnt feel i danced to my fullest. I mean the place is so squeezy and the moment you stetech your hands out, you'll hit someone. And i reached home the latest of all days, around 12+. I bet tomor will be later since we will be performing all the dances. It's pretty instane. Imagine all the dancers rushing around to change in the small area. It's sooo uncomfortable.

Shall end here...Wee...

hols ruined

2007-12-18T00:49:00.000+08:00

I haven't been touching the computer so often these days. Oh how much i miss it. I bet tm touches it at least thrice more times then me (haha something random). Anyway, holidays are suppose to allow me to blog more but it seems that i am blogging far lesser than during o levels haha.

The hols revolve around dancing. Not others. This year with have SHI HAN and KEITH to join in the fun of hip-hopping too. Before anything, I would like to make an announcement. PLEASE VISIT DAWN'S BLOG ESP SJ MEMBERS. WONDERFUL THING AWAITS U) Yesterday, bianca finished our group hip hop dance (somewhat) as well as i learnt the whole 3 min penguin dance (now i only have pieces of the dance moves in my mind and i cant piece them up. HELP)

The next problem now is the costumes. By tomorrow I have to get all my costumes and i can hear money rolling out of my pocket. :(

Something else not dance related.

Yaee!!! I am going njc. Though my yae accompanies the 3 exclamation marks, i don't feel as excited. If only dawn appeals in it'll be better and i might change my view on it. DAWN... GO APPEAL. Everyone's been saying that nj is a mugger school. I'm not sure about that. But i am going to experience it for the next 3 wks in 08 and hopefully i'll like it. Maybe in the end of the day, my o level results are screwed and i have to settle with jj.

It seems to be that my hols is filled up and i have no rest days. Even after the big day (26 dec, performance), there is another 1 or 2 more performances. Hizz... never go to the beach and get tanned. haha

Before i end this post,

ANYONE IS INTERESTED IN BUYING TICKETS AT $15 TO WATCH THE SINGAPORE SALSA CONGRESS PERFORMANCE ON BOXING DAY (26/12/07) DAWN AND I WILL BE DOING A DUO hiphop-jazz-salsa DANCE. COME WATCH. CALL ME OKIE :)

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China trip

2007-12-11T21:10:00.000+08:00

My blog is getting so dead. First is because of my laziness second is that our house computer is spoilt so i have to wait till my mum comes home so i can use her office laptop. This is such a trouble.

Anyway, I just came back from China last Friday and had a partial dance madness on Saturday.

Some memorable things worth remembering about China is that on the day before we came home, I saw snow for the first time. Though it maay not be as exciting to some since they have seen it many times, it's my first time. So i am happy.

Another was that i got to swim everyday. The pool in our hotel was an indoor one so Caleb and I made full use of their facilities.

Some points not worth remembering is that in China, people spit phlegm like no one's business. Every moment i can heard the sound of that urges the phlegm out of their throat. YUCKS!! If you look down on the road, you will see the numerous splats.

Another point is that the people there are not friendly at all. There was this China woman asking another China woman for directions and she just push her away without even listening to her. How irritating. Also, it's a norm to get pushed aside if you are in the way of someone, as well as being cut when queueing up.

Saturday, was a partial dance madness. Why i say partial? It's because i kind of stoned in xen from 2 to like 5 watching the semi-pro people practising. Luckily Dawn came like for a spilt moment and we did our dance for like thrice before she disappeared back to church.

At least i was not bored to death since one of my friend came for hiphop so i had a nice time introducing him about xen and the stuff. Basic salsa was super miserable at the start. There was only one Indian guy dancing. Looks like terrance was giving a private lesson. ha...

After that, it grew in number but in such a way that there were only 2 girls : me and another one. The situation was dumb but it was not as bad in intermediate. Terrance spent the next one hour in inter just to teach one variation of touch and go. The speed was slow but i got my share of practising my double spins. Argh... they are getting lousier. I realise that this year's dance isn't as intensive as last year's.

And finally, I get to have social madness. It's been a long time that i socialed continuously without stopping. I think it's the first in this year. Haha... though they made my legs ache, it feels fulfilling.

Yesterday I had a 6A gathering at jp after I when to city hall with my mum and brother. The ambience was strange and uncomfortable. I didn't feel like myself there. I guess it takes me time to get comfortable with people. Look's like i am a SHY person. haha..

Anyway, we spent and hour in the arcade followed by a moive(the golden compass). The show had a dumb ending. It doesn't conclude the movie.

Today, i stayed at home to sleep and watch my cd drama. I think i am falling sick. How nice. Blocknose, running nose, sore throat and cough. Maybe fever is up next. They always come at the wrong time.

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Dance dance dance

2007-11-25T20:33:00.000+08:00

In another 3 days i'll be in China enjoying the flurry snow whilst i get my hands frosted. However, i don't feel at all excited. I wanna stay in spore to dance despite it's the tiring routines again and again. Good news too, Dawn and I have completed about 2 thirds of our dance. The hip hop segment is done, leaving us with the jazz and salsa part left. Yipee!!!

Sometimes I feel it's very weird. Yesterday when I reached xen at 1430, there was this girl sitting there. So I initiated the chat. Then the was like asking , "Are you dawn or dionne?" Of course i answered her i was Dionne. It's pretty scary really when someone who is a total stranger to you knows you. It's lame. Now i believe brenda who said they often discuss about us during our absence.

Still, I feel there's no need to do so. We aren't some hip-hop pro or anything. If you go to other schools, there are definitely many much better dancers. I miss the old hip-hop group. Where have they gone to? Now is a total new gp besides dawn, brenda,xinyi. hmph...

YES!!! I have somewhat mastered Advance crossbody leap. At least I am BETTER than DAWN now. haha when that move was supposed to be her best. (I guess people reading my blog is gonna feel bored of me rumbling away about my dance happenings). Well...in fact my life now is revolving around dance. 4 out of 7 days which are all intense training.

Some non-dance activities up ahead will be bowling on Tuesday with tm and others, China trip,relative chalets as well as sj sec4 chalet.

And yes, I went for an interview on Friday after being DITCHED by DAWN. :( My very first experience of being inteviewed. There will be another one when i get selected for my lifeguard post. Just summitted the form today and waiting for the people to call me. Hopefully I can embark on my lifeguard duties soon cause i will most likely be doing at the jurong west swimming complex which is super near my house so i can have my daily morning walks to the pool and earn some cash too. Of course the pay is not bad. I think it's 8bucks per hr. Come to the pool more often and entertain me too :)

Shall end here. Wee...

Bored

2007-11-17T10:08:00.000+08:00

There is nothing to post about these days. I feel as though i'm rotting with nothing to do. Let's see. I spend most of my time sleeping. After that I would wake up and laze around.

Anyway, later i'm meeting up with dawn and we're gonna have a field time stretching ourselves to the limit and determine whose resistance is the best. ha...

And of couse did i mention? O levels are over. Well..long over. Nothing to be glad about. Yesterday the sec4 had to return to school to get our leaving cert as well as listen to the short briefing in the hall.

How i wished mummy is home so we can go out together. I guess we'll have to do late christmas shopping this year since she'll only be back around the tenth next month. However, I will be joining her and the best part is that I can select wonderful cheap music cds there. (if i can find)

Wee...

Finally

2007-11-05T22:35:00.000+08:00

Wow it's been like over one mth and a week since i last blogged. Amazing isn't it. Why i say so? Cause most of the time, when i come online i usually post something. Be it short or long just posting something gives great satisfaction. Thus, one mth not posting means i've not been online proper for quite a while. haha

Today is so called the last day for all written papers IF you exclude shading of ovals which will be next week so still got time. I shall say that the exam somewhat has ended in a very neutral note for me. Not feeling too elated or sad. haha maybe that's a good sign.

However something that is saddening is the my hip hop lessons in the CC had officially ended yesterday. It's a pity. I wished i can learn more from Chun. She's good. Too bad after the 8 lessons with her, can't. But i received a valuable and priceless CD packed with 16 new hip hop songs. haha.

I realized that i parted with 2 of my favourite people in the dance studio at my CC. Once is my ballet teacher as she had to do a leg operation and can't teach anymore. Now is my new but memorable hh teacher. Shucks.

Somethings for dionne to look out for this hol... Dance, dance, dance and more dance. Dawn and I are gonna cheor a dance. I'm SOO excited. On top of that is the upcoming xen performance. I'm really looking forward to the hip hop segment most. Cause it's all about personal expression and I would like to improve on that during this hol. Salsa is so-so, doesn't make me tingle as much as hip hop. But still lots of new things to learn like this shine also known as PENGUIN dance (shihan does it sound so farmiliar ,haha)And there's Jazz too, maybe try the lyrical jazz, more expression.

And of course there's the prom which is like next week. On second thought, I don't think it would be fun. ha. I mean it's like everyone is seated and eating. You can't excatly move around so much so it's kind of constricting. Maybe after that but there will only be little time left.

Vacation would be in China. It's been like 7 years since i sat the plane. hizzz...now i have the chance again. I'll be going to Da Lian where it's snowing. Yup and i shall take lots of pictures. I realized the importance of capturing moments in your life. When you look back at them, it's heart-warming. Really.

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