nus chinese dance

dedicating this post solely to nus chinese dance, because merllie happened to read the blog post that i put up a few hours ago, and congratulated me on going to become a father at the NUSCD 老人 group chat, and made the group chat lively again. 

merllie, if you so happen to read this (which i know you will), thank you for being such a faithful and loyal reader of my blog, even though the updating of the blog has become less frequent. 

i first joined nus chinese dance in 2007, coming in with a reputation as a wushu exponent rather than a dancer. and the person who pulled me in is none other than xuehong. 

after Dance Reflections 2007, i continued dancing all the way until 2016, simply because of two reasons:
1) my passion in performing on stage
2) the strong friendship that was built with everybody

last sunday was the 庆功宴 for Space. Time. Mind, and it was held at UTown Dance Studio. to my amazement, i realised that i was actually the longest serving dancer. the other two surviving dancers from my era are bin gege and zhunian. 

and i also realise that i am not as attached to the troupe as before. there is nothing wrong with the current batch of undergraduate dancers. the main problem is with me, because i was not very sociable with the dancers. 

hence it is time for me to end this journey with nuscd. my close friends are no longer dancing. they are all busy with their careers and busy starting their own family. i myself is embarking on my next phase of life. there are no more reasons to motivate me to travel to nus for dance practises. so last sunday, i told DLS that Space. Time. Mind will be my last performance with nuscd. and she thanked me for all my contributions over the past few years. :)

i have no regrets joining nuscd, where i made many good friends. so by making use of this SPACE, let us embark on a time machine as we travel through TIME and refresh our MIND on the many wonderful memories that we had from 2007 until now. 

Psyche 2008 庆功宴. i think this was at michael's condo function room. the highlight of this 庆功宴 was a hilarious performance by xuehong, huizhi, zhunian and clarissa, and this performance was inspired by Sound Of The Music. 

invited by huishi to her 21st birthday party in 2008, and the theme was cartoon characters. huishi is now a happily married mother with a cute daughter. 

this was taken at DLS condominium, after the DR08 庆功宴. we went to leisure park to watch a late night movie 画皮 and also sing ktv after that. those were the crazy nights when we can party until so late and can survive with a few hours of sleep. 

if i am not wrong this was the EMCC 2009 庆功宴 and the theme was 'back to school'. 

EMCC 2010 庆功宴. the highlight was when we were watching the performance videos, and it came to fen's item when many red lanterns fly down the stage, and i shouted 'WELCOME TO GEYLANG' and everybody laughed. :D

and then we start to attend one another's wedding. this was hw's wedding in 2011, held at goodwood park hotel. i was the one who pulled hw into nuscd. hw, like me, was also a wushu exponent. his first performance for nuscd was during DR08, where he danced in michael's 出路 item, and forged a love-hate relationship with grace tiang. 

grace's birthday celebration in 2012. if i remember correctly it was a quarter century crisis birthday celebration organised by jingwen. why hw was not there? that's why they have a love-hate relationship. 

a very significant day for me and darling. 10.11.12, 10 November 2012. the day when i proposed to darling, and i activated grace, jingwen, hw, nzj and xuehong to help me. it was an epic proposal and i hope that everyone was happy and proud to be involved in it! of course darling said yes. :)

from birthdays and weddings to baby shower! this photo was taken at huizhi's daughter's one month baby shower in 2013. 

you may think that this was hw's birthday celebration, but it was actually jingwen's birthday celebration. grace booked a room at MBS to celebrate jingwen's birthday! 

xuehong's birthday celebration at fairmont. the room was booked by wilson and xiaoyun. xiaoyun and xuehong were very good friends during the NUSCD days, and they became colleagues at a dance company. xiaoyun looked after xuehong alot during that time, but unfortunately later on there were some misunderstandings that happened between both of them, and they are not on speaking terms now. as their friend, i do feel sad that things turned out this way, and i really hope that one day they will bury the hatchet. 

mirror moon 2013 庆功宴 held at nus utown. happy to be part of this production because alot of 老人 came back to dance, for example xuehong, jiepei, zhimin, jingwen, grace, xuefen, xinyi and peiyi. from this performance i also get to know silei better, and later on she became my choreographer for senses 2015 and i also invited her to my wedding. 

 my birthday celebration in 2014! 

finally it was grace turn to get married, at intercontinental hotel! this was in jan 2015. 

we gave nzj a surprise birthday celebration, after peiyi's wedding lunch. it was a baymax themed birthday celebration. 

to end off this post will be a photo with the nuscd dancers that was taken during our wedding. thank you so much for the great friendships on and off stage. 

looking forward to the next 老人 gathering!