celebrations

went back to my ex-workplace to meet up with my colleagues and kids. one of the kids cried when she saw me. a bit shocked and dunno how to react. =p

its nice to have the kids coming to me and shake my hand and wish me happy teachers' day. and i had a chocolate overdose, cos everyone was giving me chocolates and chocolate cakes. haha.

and then its photo taking time!

after that went to the coffee club for a nice lunch with my colleagues. do not order the miso soft shell crab pasta. name sounds nice, but the product is a failure. the garlic prawn pasta must order! very nice.

went back home, quickly bathe, pack my stuff, and rush to nus for dance practise. ate dinner with darling at engine, and during that time, she was already sick. ask her not to go for dance, and she insisted on going. she said its the first choreo session for k-idol fans, so definitely must go. and then its her first time dancing kan xi with costume, so must dance. haiz. respect her determination and commitment.

dance practise was damn shag. dancing 4 items, 2 items with crazy lifts, and changing costume like crazy, especially from qing nan to chu lu, is really very very happening. haha.

two more weeks to go! seriously i still dun feel very confident about the performance. still trying to remember steps, still trying to put in the right emotions, and still trying to achieve chemistry with my dance partners. hope all these can be settled just in time before the actual performance.

jia you everyone!

happy birthday papa!

happy 55th birthday to my papa!

a few days ago i went to jurong point with darling to shop for his present. we chose a nice black color renoma wallet for him.

my sister bought for him a few polo tees from BHG, cos she got vouchers.

we went to indulgez bistro for dinner. it is at bugis, very near to the DHL balloon. the restaurant is very nice, has a very warm and cosy ambience. the waitress that serve us is very cute and friendly. haha.

the food was good! but a bit too ex.

the food we ordered:

1) wild thyme and crabmeat soup

2) Deep-fried Camembert Cheese w Indulgz’s Mixed Berry Compote

3) Fresh Seafood Platter with White Pepper Sauce

4) Slipper Lobster & Wild Crabmeat Pasta

5) Triple Cheese Baked Rice

(no photo for this)

plus a oreo milkshake, and a cup of jelly for dessert, which the jelly taste like teh peng.

altogether the bill cost 136 bucks. very chor.

but still its a good dining experience. :)

and my papa told me i can stop paying him back the tuition fee loan, cos he got quite a big sum of money from CPF.

this means i can save more money for a rainy day.

and speaking of rainy day, these days the weather is simply atrocious! very good to sleep yes, but when it comes to physical outdoor activities very restricted.

on sunday i will be involved in a community project, and hope it will not rain, so that the project can be carried out successfully.

Dance Reflections 2008: Rhythm of Live IV《朔·溯·塑》

dance reflections photo shoot

saturday morning supposed to reach CFA at 830 am for a photo shoot session for the upcoming chi dance performance.

i reached yih at around 840, and then went to yih for breakfast with fen, thinking that the photo shoot only starts at 930, and we should be able to make it with our breakfast finished and make-up completed. so as i was eating halfway, the dear secretary called, asking us to quickly go to CFA for the photo shoot, and the next second my dance partner for "sexes in the city" also smsed me to hurry. so i quickly gobbled up my food and rushed to CFA, thinking that the whole world is waiting for the two of us, but actually majority of the girls are still putting on their make-up, and the photo shoot officially started at 10 am. -_-'''

this was my second time doing a photo-shoot for a major performance. the first time was back in hall, and i was the male lead for the chinese drama production. haha. that was 2 years ago if i am not wrong.

to think that 2 years ago, i still need someone to help me do make up. now dun need le! i can do make up on my own! not very pro like majority of the chi dance pple, but at least it is of passing standard.

and right now, it is most fitting to introduce again to all of you, my good friend from hall, mr ang hw. ever since i graduated from uni, and during my one year of contract teaching, i think the number of times we met each other or communicated by any means is less than 10 times.

so after convincing him to join chi dance, we see each other almost everyday in a week. haha. its nice to see him enjoying the practises, although the practises are quite tiring and siong, and its really great to see him mixing so well with quite a few pple within such a short period of time.

now let's show the pics of the whole photo shoot.

exclusive only to readers of my blog. haha.

first, pics from behind the scene.

the area for our photo shoot

me in my farmer costume, together with zn in her qi pao

my fellow dancers in 出路 item. on the left: partner (too), for tides of time. on the right: - partner one, for winter and 出路.

no need to mention who the girl beside me is rite? haha.

hw enjoying being the centre of attraction.

hz helping hw put make-up.

angry at my own "twin"

and the next two photos can be quite eerie:

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eerie a not? haha.

now for the actual photo shoot! (a few items only)

看戏

旗袍

我的家园

sexes in the city

modern

so let me publicise again.

舞韵风情之《朔。溯。塑》

Rhythm of Life IV: A Chasse Across Time

Presented by NUS Chinese Dance (a member of NUS Centre For the Arts)

13 September 2008, 2 pm & 8 pm

University Cultural Centre Hall, National University of Singapore

$12 (2 pm), $15 & $18 (8 pm)

those who want to purchase tickets let me noe ok! :)

performance @ nus museum

i was approached by my fav chairperson to help out in this performance, which i agreed. and i also dunno why i agreed. -_-'''

anyway nus museum had an open house on thursday evening, so nus chi dance was invited to perform inside the museum.

my partner was gorgeous grace, and the two of us learnt the whole dance in only 3 sessions? i am thankful that we din forget any actions, and all our lifts were done successfully. yay! 3 cheers for me and gorgeous grace! :)

photos!

our performance area. the giant piece of calligraphy is the stage backdrop.

look for my name!

the performers. i dunno why grace is touching her butt with her right hand.

me and my partner!

lastly, must also thank the pple who came down to support our performance.

from L to R: the ex chi dance manager, present costumes ic, ex exco member, my fav chairperson, and the current chi dance manager

after the perf cannot go home. still have to go to AS7 for dance practise. :(

long awaited pics

finally got the pictures of the camp that i went in july.

the pple in my OG

so this is day 1 of our camp. altogether 11 pple. wait until i show you the pic that we took on our last day. you see the casualty rate.

our group mascot. it is called gogai. supposed to be a chicken in thai. but we say it is a winged mythical demon.

in the gym.

the two handsome and cool OGLs. i love their "slacker" attitude and laid back style. haha.

in front of the lee kong chian LT.

the very important place: medical centre! if i want to take mc this is the place i must go to. we are supposed to look sick, i and the guy beside me spoil market, cos we look perfectly normal. or we look happy to be sick.

the guy in luminous green is also our OGL. he is a very scary person, not that he is fierce, but if he wants to be fierce he sure can, cos he is a muay thai fighter, and he recently went to thailand for muay thai tournament, and won the champion in the lightweight category. mai siao siao. he was also from the police force.

playing one of the bo liao telematches.

we have to eat a sandwich, which is tuna plus chilli padi. damn disgusting. 1, i hate tuna. 2, the chilli padi make the sandwich even worse, cos super spicy, very hard to force the sandwich down the throat. have to drink lots and lots of water.

another bo liao water telematch.

into the swimming pool!

this bo liao group pose behind us, without us knowing it. -_-'''

and finally the last group pic taken on the last day of the camp:

from 11 members to 7 members. wow. haha.

actually its good to join orientation camps. most important reason being that you get to noe pple. now i kinda regret that i din participate my hall orientation camp. until now, i only noe one person, who is my roommate. and i also cant join any single hall activity, or play ibg, cos of dance practises every night.

endure, endure. its just less than one month away.

sum up of saturday

so to sum up everything:

I AM VERY THANKFUL THAT TODAY I NV KENNA ACTIVATED!

:)

let's hope tomorrow will be a peaceful day.

after tomorrow, me and my brothers in arms will have smiling faces.

tmr have dance practise at night again, which cause me to miss out the table tennis women team final, sg vs china. sian ah!

busy sat

let me tell everyone my busy schedule today.

first, i have tuition from 12 pm to 130 pm. teaching a class of about 20 sec 3 students. standing in for my colleague, because he got a soccer match.

after that, i have a sec sch class gathering at bugis.

supposed to be going with hw to toa payoh sports hall to support the ke wushu pple taking part in the 全国赛. but i will be giving it a miss, because i got dance practise again at nus, from 7 to 10 pm.

AND, the finale.

this week, i am on standby.

which means once i receive a call from the green organisation, i have to put on my uniform, carry my field pack, sbo and helmet, and report to camp within two hours. the chances of being activated is fifty percent.

this thingy is supposed to test our operation readiness. for example if sg kenna attack, once we kenna activate, we have to report to camp in the shortest possible time, and be ready for war.

but i hope this will nv happen in my life, until i die, and also nv happen at all so long as earth still exists.

yes, i am proud to serve my nation.

but hor if really kenna activated, very the 不方便, and very the low morale.

imagine if i kenna activated at this time (its nine am), i have to report to camp within two hours, which means i cannot go teach tuition. but like that also buay gham, cos if i dun go teach, what will happen to the class?

and my colleague told me that normally kenna activated is at two pm.

so if that's the case, i finish tuition at one thirty, then happily make a trip down to bugis to see my old friends, then upon saying hello to them, i receive the dreaded phone call...

and its ho sei liao, have to rush back home, change into my uniform, and quickly take cab to my camp, which is freaking far, at yew tee, so cab fare will cost me about 20 bucks.

then at the camp, dilly dally here and there, take cab back home again, rush to nus for dance practise. and most prob i will be late.

wow. damn happening.

so pls, pray hard for me, and also for everyone in my unit: WE DUN WANT TO GET ACTIVATED!

singapore female table tennis women team in the final!

this afternoon, i watched a very exciting and entertaining table tennis match.

it is the semi final match between the singapore women team and korea women team.
it was a super nail-biting match, as we only won 3-2, which is a slight margin. china thrash hongkong 3-0 in the other semi-final match. so singapore will be meeting china in the final, and we are guaranteed at least a silver medal! :)

feng tianwei was the best performer, winning both her singles.

li jiawei lost again to kim kyung-ah. she lost to kim 4 years ago at athens 2004 in the bronze medal match.

but she made up for the loss by winning in the female doubles, pairing up with wang yue gu, and defeating korean duo kim yung-ah & park mi-young.

let's congratulate the singapore women table tennis team for their wondeful result! :)


from left to right: wang yue gu, feng tian wei, coach liu guo dong & li jiawei.

damn tired

on a serious note, if you ask me whether do i like chi dance, my ans still remains the same: i dun like to dance, but i enjoy the company of the pple.

i dun like the technical aspects of dance, as i am not flexible, my leg cannot go up very high, when i do split even a dog can go under my groin.

i still do not have the body language of a dancer. dancers can do dance movements gracefully, i do dance movements like riding a horse. some pple may laugh at my dance movements, on the outside i will laugh also and take it easy, but inside my heart is cursing and swearing: "wah lao, i only just started dancing, while the rest dance like dunno how many years, of course i look different from the rest lah. unless you ask me to practise the same moves for like 1000 times, but seriously i dun have the patience and the motivation to do it."

but on the other hand, its fun learning new things, esp for the pdd moves. when at first i no strength cannot lift, or no chemistry with my partner, then in the end can lift them, wah got a great sense of achievement.

i also will like to thank the pple who always teach me patiently on the dance steps, and give me precious advice on how i can improve my dance technique. you pple are really great. :)

this week, i have to go down to nus for almost every night. let me see, i have practises on mon night, wed night, thur night, fri night, sat night and also sunday night. only tue night is free.

i understand that the performance date is getting nearer and nearer, and our items are not up to perfection, and got one item still haven start choreo yet, that's why we need alot of practises.

but seriously speaking, going to nus six nights in a week is no freaking joke.

wat really hurts me is that both my weekends are burnt. i got no free time for myself, i cant spend time with my family, i cant spend time with my gf. and my gf is very understanding and dun blame me for that, which makes me even more guilty.

so at this point of time, i have to salute certain pple who have been making more sacrifices than me. they not only need to dance, they also need to worry about other miscellanous stuff, knowing that if one thing cock up, the whole perf will also cock up.

i seriously admire their passion and their responsibility.

but the passion in me is slowly diminishing. responsibility is still there, cos i always try my best to turn up and be punctual for every practise.

spring villa

this is a place in yilan that i plan to stay when i go for my taiwan trip in december. the place is so nice and so cool and the pictures that i am going to show will tell a thousand words.

first, is the attractive rooms. their rooms got different themes.

望月套房

蓝蓝海湾套房

梦幻爱丽丝套房

维多利亚套房

and they have even more attractive rooms, which can be found here:

http://www.springvilla.com.tw/room1.htm

the surroundings of the villa:

i dun mind staying there for the rest of my life. =p