Uncategorized 4:55 pm
S: I wonder how it’s like if world matters were settled using dance battles… and all the ministers and prime ministers will be settling it out through dance…
… And at the end of it they’ll be too tired to even start a war.
…That would be fun, eh (: Politics would be interesting to watch.
K: Yea, I think so too (:
Uncategorized 9:07 pm
I’ve wiped the dust off the classical guitar which has been sitting lonely in the corner of my room.
Managed to learn the tabs for Adele’s ‘Crazy For You’.
Simply dig unassuming love songs.
P/s: I was moved to tears while watching Mari and Keone performed this piece live at Swagg Out workshop. Awesome choreo to an awesome song. Music moves people it really does.
Uncategorized 2:08 am
It has been quite awhile since I last blogged, hasn’t it.
I’m back to dancing… and I just want to give this shout out: I MISS YOU WEI NA!
Both CT and her are in Rock’s latest dance choreography! (Check out on his YouTube page, it’s uber cool!)
Been thinking a lot recently (hey what’s new?)… in fact it’s more of a reflection on what’s been happening so far in my life, as a dancer, as a person in general. I’ve set my heart to doing a couple of things and really just go for it. Just going to keep believing and keep practising till I perfect it (: Frankly speaking, I don’t find much courage in myself… so I get really motivated and inspired when I see fellow dancers working it and watching how their efforts paid off. Feel really happy for them all (:
There are only two kinds of emotion which can really make me cry – one is anger, the other is fear. Most of the times its the latter. Dealing with the injury was quite a rollercoaster ride. Mans, I will never forget how I felt that day outside the clinic waiting for Ah Huan to come. Listening to every song on the mp3player just makes my heart ache so badly. Of course I didn’t break down, how could I ever cry in public (haha ‘死爱面子’ for whose who know my childhood days…) And all these while, the kindness I’ve been receiving from family and friends I really can never thank enough of.
Thank you so much for making me feel better and taking my mind off the pain. To questions of my ankle’s condition, I have always answered ‘it’s getting better!’ or ‘oh, it’s really fine now’ despite knowing sometimes it isn’t. But positive words will translate into positive results. And somehow it miraculously did.
It has been a really emotional period this couple of months, apart from the injury. I don’t mean emotional as in cry-cry emotional, but just more of a state of confusion (Kristie would know best). And yea, I felt better after chatting up with Kristie that day. It wasn’t really a deep conversation, but at least I managed to open up a bit on that, knowing she would understand best. Kristie, you’re really like the sister I never had!
Being contemplative is both my strength and weakness. While it rationalizes my emotions, it also weighs me down with procrastination and unnecessary worry. So sometimes my mind’s full of threads of thoughts that it gets so messed up but it takes just one person to patiently hear them all out and say a single sentence which makes me go, ‘Oh ya hor.’
I’ve grown a lot especially this year. So much more stronger mentally and emotionally.
I’m not inclined to let out raw thoughts and emotions on the blog. But yea, the recent times have been rather soulful while musing about life in future and the people in it.
Uncategorized 1:57 pm
Now that I’m back, I try to take care when I’m dancing.
Well, can’t help it if I lose myself in the music :p
Okok, no more injuries (: Been wearing leg warmers to dance. Mom bought so many pairs back from her China trip. Quite coincidentally, my ankles became bonier after I started wearing them. *shifts eyebrow* Anyway, the leg warmers kinda give me a psychological assurance over my ankles. Bah, however true is that. Haha…
Now I’m paining from all the muscle aches. A whole body workout over the weekend classes and there’s RS later with Caleb’s hip hop workout. My oh my… how will I survive. I don’t think I can even get *cough* pass *cough cough* warm-*mumbles*ups.
It was Halloween yesterday, wasn’t it? I thought of attending the party at Danz People but I had to go for my uncle’s church anniversary dinner last evening. It was held at the newly built Safra at Boon Lay… not as impressive (the Safra) as the one at Mount Faber, nevertheless still extravagant in size.
It was a big event for the church with loads of people shuffling in and out the doors.. all that photo-taking, family crowds all smartly dressed. I thought to myself, ‘I won’t be surprised to see a familiar face here,’ and lo and behold, I met Melissa who was with my cousin and a group of friends!
To add on, I actually saw the director of NUS Centre For the Arts, Ms Christine Khor, at the event as well. Apparently, she’s one of the church leaders. Such a small small world, isn’t it.
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Puayson bought me a box of Hello Kitty dorayaki from Tokyo! I wished I could put up the picture I took of it here, unfortunately my Bluetooth isn’t working *shrugs* It tasted really goooooood (:
I find it very funny how Hello Kitty just simply reminds my friends of me. It’s like whenever they enter any Hello Kitty shop, they instantly see me on all the Hello Kitty faces. And I still remember Michelle sent me an e-mail with attachments of this Hello Kitty hostel in Japan? Haha the rooms were really pretty, you know.
And the most FAQ in response to my hello kitty fettish is ’so did you go and queue up for the Hello Kitty plushies at MacDonald’s?’.
Answer is ‘no’. I’m not that crazy lah. Haha! I’m not that fanatic to own a Hello Kitty vacuum cleaner, microwave oven, hair dryer, TV set, etc as well. In fact, 90% of my hello kitty stuffs are bought by my friends!
Anyway, I still love Hello Kitty. I just have an affinity with cats. I like Hello Kitty, Baby Phat, and yea, generally cats. They are so cuteeeee XD And I’m actually very fascinated with this anime (which is meant for toddlers) called ‘Chi’s Sweet Home’. You can search it up on YouTube and watch it. Cuteness to the max XD
This is Melson when he was 4+ years old? It’s one of the most adorable moments of him… the kind that melts your heart and makes you wanna go ‘aww…’. He hasn’t been eating well lately ): I no longer can reply ’still as fat as usual’ to friends who ask of him. But he still meows the same way whenever he wants the attention and occasional snacks.
Uncategorized 11:41 pm
もうすぐ帰る～嬉しい！
I’ll put on my dancing sneakers this Friday. I’m drop dead excited, happy whatever. There may have been emotional moments recently but they’re all over~ I’m back to dancing, the love of my lifeeeee.
Oh wait. I meant the second love of my lifeeeee. Music is my first love.
Life is perfect – So much so much to learn. The excitement just doesn’t stop, does it? Keep pushing and keep growing (:
p/s: I think my Platform will be held in mid December. Will confirm again 
Exciting ah, exciting~
Uncategorized 11:32 pm
This is the first time I come across a choreography with fusion of both Hip Hop and Contemporary, but greater inclination towards the Contemp style. That is truly one strong and gifted dancer!! AND HE IS JUST 22 THIS YEAR *gasp* I was just in awe at his technique level. And I believe if I ever am able to do that choreography, I would have understood his choreography better and the outlets of emotions for this song.
I like ‘Moving Mountains’ by Usher… haha that’s why I used it at Blast! camp last year. Check out Ellen Kim’s YouTube solo as well. Her interpretation, though not as contemp-ish, was still very well done up – catching all the right accents without overdoing emo-momoness.
Wee. Life has been perfect. I meant things are in their just right amounts… both good and bad things. I guess there comes a point in time we are all afraid of being stagnant with whatever we do. It just takes a bit more patience to wait till we get ‘enlightened’ and level up to the next learning curve in life. It probably take me my whole life to truly appreciate living.
“When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” – Tuesdays with Morrie
If God told you that you will be disappointed 2837495 times throughout your whole life, would you face disappointment in a totally different light? Each time your life crashes down, you strike off on the wall or hit the counter, thinking ‘alright, 1 down, there’s 283748 more. Let’s do it and get on with life’, and then you move on.
Food for thought.
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Perhaps out of tiredness or just a slip of tongue…
Kristie: Oh yah, I recently bought this book on ‘The History of Prostitution in Singapore’…
Karen: Wow, that’s good for what you’re gonna do in future, right?
Kristie: …
Because Kristie was interested in social work related to the prostitute industry in Singapore, so what I meant was that the book was useful in preparing her for that.
^_^” it was embarrassing but it totally cracked both of us up.
Uncategorized 1:39 am
Tadaa… My prettyyyy wall paper. So BOOMZ! (Pun intended).
Been downloading loads of nice songs these days. Can’t wait to be fully well to start on choreography! Yea… can’t wait for loads of things huh. I figured why I’m able to survive this long without dance it’s because dance to me has always been more mental than physical. So while I’m physically inactive, my mind still remains engaged in dance.
Been doing conditioning at night as well… I’m observing my injury recovery progress every day and things sure do look optimistic (: Was chatting with Jootz at Blast! today about his past bad ankle sprain and recovery phase… really thankful for my speedy recovery. My eyes are now glued to every step I take up and down stairs, buses, bus stops, platforms, etc. Whenever I think back at how I sprained my ankle, that flashback is really enough to make me shudder. Awful experience.
I can’t stop listening to ‘This Letter’ by VibeKingz ft. Maliq (: A really nice R&B piece which Ellen & Jun collab together to choreo to. The melody in the chorus stole my heart (: such a sucker for such tunes.
Uncategorized 3:32 am
Aargh. There goes my beauty sleep ): actually I haven’t been up doing work but more of backing up my data so that I can reformat the computer. I’m completely dead on MSN… Totally. I can’t even log in because it will hang the whole system, which means I can’t even appear offline to chat. Just very recently my mozfox (Mozilla FireFox) has been hanging at random times too… Having to painstakingly reboot the whole computer using the direct on-off button is quite tedious. I may be causing more damage to the system unintentionally.
I haven’t had much to blog about dance these days because I’ve not been dancing (duh obviously -_-). Have you seen Taufik’s Platform choreo though? It’s really awesome (: and he taught it at RS session last week. Amazing choreography… love the floorwork. I wished I was well to learn it. (A couple of floorwork did remind me of Xiaoke’s past choreography.)
Had caffeine just now. Which explains why I’m still up now. Anyway, I just wanted to give a shoutout to the world that my current mood is HAPPY. Night, folks (:
Throw yourself in unchartered waters where potential for growth dwells so deep like the ocean. Feel the waves crash from time to time. Fear drowning not from the physical drain, but the weakening of your willpower. They can take anything else but no one can ever rob you of that.
Uncategorized 10:05 pm
Sophia and I was insane over this at Burger King just now. Jaw dropped. No I’m not a fanatic FF gamer like she is (and will probably always be), but SHE is so gonna get the PSP so that we all can play this one I don’t care. Hahaha…
The following video is my favourite scene from FFVII: Advent Children. Actually I like it for its background music – FFVII Boss theme, piano version.
I found my FF Piano Pieces finally! It has been heaven listening to all of them recently. I’ve been wanting to get Final Fantasy VI: Piano collections (music scores) from Kinokuniya since don’t know how many years back. Better get to ordering them soon…
Nobuo Uematsu is genius. Well of course, nothing beats FFVII: Advent Children version of ‘One Winged Angel’ 
The instrumental layers are close to flawless. Really love how the rock guitar complements the orchestra… a very refreshing feel from the original. Great dynamics as well… argh! Can’t ask for more than that! It was an awesome composition. Totally lived up to the image of Sephiroth.
Yayyy Sophia is coming over tomorrow night to play FFVIII and FFX
"To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour."
William Blake's
'Auguries of Innocence'
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