more WOOD rehearsal pics

WOOD performance coming...

seriously i dun have the mood and also dun have the time to study for anatomy test, which is on the coming monday. so i think i will just give up and fail the test. hoho.

here are some pics taken by one of the dancer's photographer friend, and i must say that he take very nice pics of us in action.

so do we look cool in our logger costumes?

"retrospect"

"retrospect" is the theme for the most recent nus chi dance concert.

i was actually not involved in this concert. because in the email sent by the committee, it said, alumni who want to dance, inform us. and then because i am involved in WOOD already, i dun want to be hero and gay kiang and burn myself out by volunteering for another performance.

but, until like a few weeks before the performance, zm (the choreographer) said she need guys and one more girl, and so she asked me, hw and yt to help. then since we see her so chio, we agreed to help. ok nvm no link. and shortly later, sm (another choreographer) ask me to help out in her item as a carbaret guy, in laymen term a 舞男. since i see her so kawaii, i also agreed.

ok now is my thoughts abt the performance. i can only say that its quite ill-prepared. we simply dun have enough time. ok maybe not all the items are ill-prepared. but i myself noe that the item that i dancing in (and let's call this item BEYOND) is very messy. therefore i nv ask any of my friends or family members to come and watch. but, miraculously, the whole performance turned out to be quite a success, and i heard from others that they quite like BEYOND. ok that's good. haha.

i have no withdrawal symptoms after this performance. the withdrawal symptoms for psyche (last year's march perf) was so much stronger. i remembered i encountered a sense of loss and nearly wanted to cry after the finale of the final performance. this comes to only one conclusion. i nv put much effort in "retrospect", as compared to "psyche".


took very few pics, unsurprisingly. here's some of them:



i think still got more photos in zn and mummy's camera. once i got the pics from them will post them here. :)

oh yah still got photos from the pro photographers. :)

first aid course

went to attend a first aid course from monday to wednesday at jurong IMM. its a course compulsory for all pe teachers, and it was actually held last year december, but i din go, because i went to hong kong. so this course that i attended is a make-up course for those who missed the december one.

so basically, i learnt about basic first aid, cpr, wounds, bandages, and how we should react when we encounter casualties with seizures, snake bites, hornet stings, asthma attack and hyperventilation, and many many more.

the two instructors that taught us first aid are very knowledgeable, and they worked as paramedics before, so they have lots of experience on first aid. therefore they tell us alot of their own personal stories, what they had been through, and the most gruesome wounds or deaths they had seen.

first aid is very important in the sense that when someone suddenly go unconscious or got choked, we will immediately know wat to do and carry out measures to save his life. of course we are not gods or doctors, but if we are able to immediately identify life-threatening situations and able to react accordingly, there is a higher probability for that person to survive. but of course, if you are trained in first aid and want to render first aid to a casualty, you must be confident and know wat to do. like wat my fren said: "if you dunno first aid, a casualty faint in front of you, you nv do anything, and if he dies, is not ur fault. but if u are trained in first aid, you try to rescue the casualty, the casualty die, then its your fault." this may sound negative, but as trained first aiders, we of course got the obligation to try our best in rescuing the casualty, before the paramedics arrive.


some photos of the course:


we are supposed to have bleeding on the forehead, hip fracture and arm fracture. but my partner bandage me until machiam i went for plastic surgery on the face.

i want to continue blogging abt cpr, but i very shag after dance practise. so i shall blog abt cpr next time.

sunday post

i got more pics from saturday, thanks to hz and mummy (the chi dance mummy).

the delicious chocolate fondue

the trees + a logger

and the bird (the one in blue)

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today went to ymca for full dress rehearsal. the dance studio is super cramped. not conducive to dance, to change costumes, and also got no toilets, and the nearest toilet is on the 4th floor. btw the dance studio that we used is on the 9th floor. republic poly is so much better.

before going to ymca, me and darling had a light dinner at this sausage shop.

and then after dance, we went to xin wang to eat porridge. the porridge is super nice~

due to the numerous dance practises, nv have the chance to properly sit down with darling to enjoy a nice meal. but nevertheless i am thankful to see darling quite regularly because we are in the same dance items. one of the male dancers say i very blessed, still able to see my gf regularly, while he nv see his gf for a damn long time.

performance in 3 days! the item is still quite messy. sianz. :(

saturday post

went to the army market with darling, hw and hz to buy grey camouflage pants for the loggers. after searching for quite some time, we finally found the ideal pair. cost fifteen dollars per piece, and i 杀价 until fourteen dollars per piece. come to think of it shouldnt have done that, cos we are being sponsored, and should just let the old aunty earn more money.

we had dinner at the hawker centre below the army market. the food there is really damn upz. there are so many nice stalls. we ordered a royal chocolate fondue to share, which cost $14.80. i think if go haagen daz the same thing will cost twenty over bucks. and then we ordered char kway teow from this famous stall, which have two tvs, both showing different variety shows promoting their stall. and they got a very funny rule. they wun supply empty plates. they wun supply extra chopsticks and spoons. meaning that if got a family of four, four of them either share one plate with one pair of chopsticks and one spoon. or all four buy four plates, then have four pairs of chopsticks and four spoons. MATHEMATICS.

and then mr leow and mr mak come to lavendar to find me. haha. then i psycho-ed them to follow me to nus, and watch the WOOD full run, and they agreed. hahaha. but we reached there early, before the full run even started, they left already. mr mak say there are too many pretty girls, he cannot take it, so must leave early. haha lame lah. but luckily they left early, cos everyone was taking their own sweet time doing make up, and the full run actually started at TEN PM. -.-'''

ok here are the costumes of the different roles, with make-up:

tree:

logger (the guys din put make up, but on actual performance will put):

native:

no bird and no bird man. paiseh.

btw for the ticketing system, i will have two complimentary tickets for two performances. the sunday's show is given to my mum and sis. as for saturday's show i dunno who should i give. so if anybody want just tell me ok.

and here is the screw up part. seating capacity of the performance place is 100. everyone must sit on the floor. and then, tickets will only be distributed one hour before the show starts. so is first come first serve. so to avoid any disappointment, my choreographer suggest that each of the dancer get 5 pple to queue for tickets, so that everybody will get the tickets, and no one will go home feeling disappointed. and we will also have a full turn out for the audience.

this kind of ticketing system is seriously far from ideal.

siao liao la... :(

i am in deep shit.

next sat, 28 feb, i have a performance, which starts at 8 pm.

BUT THEN.

next sat, 28 feb, happens to be my reservist unit's MOBILISATION. although we are supposed to be on standby, but i heard from inside sources that there will be MOBILISATION. which means i have to change to uniform, take my army barang barang, and report to camp. it also doesnt help that i am csm.

so i am going to chum xiong with my OC. either i siam the MOB, or i just go there, sign my name, and F.O from the camp, and i will not be performing any csm duties.

if both also cannot, then i am contemplating to just go AWOL and get charged.

more pics from the handball competition

the girl on the left: singapore national team netball player. mai siao siao.

boy on the right: need me to introduce him? singapore national team water polo player. appeared on cleo magazine cover, and also cleo's most eligible bachelor. his muscles are damn solid and well-defined.

ok below is a series of pics showing my groin getting hit, cos i was wearing groin guard, and my classmate was hitting my groin to test how strong the groin guard is.

1. closing my eyes, praying for the best.

2. OUCHHHH!!! DAMN BLOODY PAIN!!!

3. (1 second later) ok not pain le. haha.

my class got 1st runner-up. and the guest-of-honour giving out the prizes is none other than my lecturer, Mr K. dun wanna put his full name cos his name is so popular, sekali he google his own name and found my blog, then ho sei liao. haha. btw he was an ex singapore national sprinter, his 100 m record was held for 33 years, until uk shyam broke it a few years ago. he is indeed a living legend. he now 60 plus years old, still can do countless of push ups and complete 2.4 km under 10 min. solid rite?

my performance is coming. that's why for this week, i have 5 days of dance practise. if include my dance module, i will be dancing for 6 days! haha.

v day 09

remember the collage competition? after consolidating all the votes from my dear readers, i hereby announce the winner:

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MY HEART WILL GO ON!

actually the competition is talk cock one lah. i intend to choose the nicest collage and make into a jigsaw puzzle for darling.

so i edited and improvised a bit, and here is the final collage that will be sent to make the jigsaw puzzle:

din really celebrate much of v day, because we have dance practise at night. i drove to darling's house to eat dinner with her, then we went to ucc for dance, and then after that back to darling's house again for the v day celebrations.

first, i took out some candles and make into a heart shape. but some of the stupid candles cannot be lit up. sianz.

darling made a cake for me! there is this shop at jurong point where you can design your own cake. i love the cake darling~ thank you~

next, i gave her the present. i deliberately divide the present into two portions to make it more secretive. i took the jigsaw puzzle out, put all the pieces into a heart-shaped bottle. then i wrap the photo frame separately.

very happy when i saw darling's happy expressions the moment she sees the present. and then we piece the puzzle together, and i present to you, the completed product:

nice a not? haha.

happy v day darling~ very happy to spend the 3rd v day with you, and i am sure there are many many more v days for us to celebrate together. :)

class lunch at new york new york~

today i screwed up my presentation. at the start i stammered a bit, but the more i talk, the more fluent i became. so that is not the screw up part. the screw up part is i missed saying an important component of the presentation! shitz. when i have finished, the lecturer even hinted me, asking me whether isit the end of my presentation. but i din get the hint. haiz stupid me. if its my own individual presentation i will just heck it, cos i am not concerned about grades. but its a group effort, and because of my mistake, i drag my group members down. so sorry gals... (i am the only guy in the 5-person group). thank goodness my group members are very forgiving and they assured me that it is ok.

after the lesson, we went for class lunch at new york new york. my class have 26 pple, and 21 pple turned up for the class lunch. wow this is so amazing. btw just a side note, out of the 26 pple, 13 of them have cars! so next time if we have any class outings, car pool is definitely not a problem.

photos:

the guys sit together at one long table


the girls sit together at one square table


big sausages wrapped with cheese. sinful~


spare ribs with bbq sauce. also very sinful~


cheesy roast chicken. sinful is an understatement.


we should have class outings more often. i am starting to love my class more and more. :)

thursday post

i am at home now. the reason why i am at home because i need to prepare darling's v day present. the present is 80 percent complete! i just need to put the finishing touch. hope that darling will love it. :)

uploaded a few photos, because my camera cable is at home, and for the past week most of my time was spent either in hall or in nus for dance practises. so let's have a bit of memory recap.

on sat night, after dance practise, went to have supper at this halal hk cafe at simpang bedok. thanks to chio outdoor enthusiast for driving us to the east all the way from nus, wasting your precious petrol.

we ordered lots of food, and the ones that stand out are:

look like a big piece of tow kua (豆干), but its actually french toast with peanut butter filling

小麦草汁. this is specially recommended by the towkay neo. taste very nice, especially with the coconut, but comes at $2.80 per cup. -.-'''

steamed xiao long bao with chilli crab fillings. taste a bit weird. the black pepper crap fillings taste better.

and yesterday, went to nus again for dance practise. hz just came back from hk, and bought the super famous 恒香老婆饼. yummy! thanks hz~

din get to buy this when i went to hk. so now got the chance to eat this super famous hk local product, really very happy. :)

ok i have to go prepare tomorrow's presentation. sianz. but the good news is that it will be my last presentation for this sem! yay!

weekend post

hello my dear readers~

sat afternoon went for a handball competition against the different pe classes. i played the position of the goalkeeper again~ relive my ihg handball goalkeeper memories. haha. i think ihg train me to become quite an above average keeper, no thanks to the extremely lousy defence of my hall's handball team. apologies to wuhong and teopeng, i am not trying to be 苛刻, but you yourself noe that there is still alot of room for improvement.

anyway my class got 1st runner up in the tournament. we only lost to our "sister" class. that class has a female national handball player, so having her in the team is like having a guy; a male national water polo player, who has damn big chest muscles, well-defined six pack, huge biceps, but he nv play against us cos he got ihg swimming competition. haha. and that class started training already last year. -.-'''

but my class also not bad! i have the twin towers, both at least 1.8 m tall, and both are ex sch-team bball players. i have two girls who have experience in playing handball for their halls in nus. as for the rest of my classmates, they have awesome fighting spirit and aggressive competitiveness. feel really proud to play together with them in any sport.

one of my classmates brought her cute daughter along! naturally she became the centre of attraction. haha.

and must also thank darling for coming all the way down to support me~ i love you darling. :)

so after the competition, i quickly washed up, and went for dance practise with darling. i couldnt do much, cos my whole body was full of bruises, with aching muscles.

on sunday, went for dance practise again. its really crazy that the number of hours that i spend at ucc is actually longer than my time spent at home. -.-'''

anyway, some of the costumes had arrived, and we tried them and took some photos.

but before i show you the photos, i will give a very rough introduction on the whole dance.

the theme of this dance is deforestation, and the duration of the dance is 25 min. this dance got 5 different segments.

in the first segment, the TREES will come out. there will be a BIRD flying around, then the BIRDMAN will come out and play with the BIRD. (this sounds so wrong)

in the second segment, the NATIVES will come out.

in the third segment, the LOGGERS will come out, and chop all the TREES.

in the forth segment, the LOGGERS will further torture the trees and throw them around.

in the fifth segment, which is also the final segment, the NATIVES will die, the TREES will die, the BIRD will die. only the LOGGERS will survive.

so wat is the morale of the story? those who come out first will die first. HAHA. ok nvm no link.

here are the pictures:

the TREES in segment 1

the BIRD and the BIRDMAN

the NATIVES

the LOGGERS

the LOGGER torturing the TREE

the LOGGER lifting the TREE

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the performance will be on two nights: 28th feb and 1st march, 8 pm.

ticketing details will be released on a later date. btw tickets are FREE. but limited.