《朔·溯·塑》diary part 1

now i am going to blog abt the happenings on the big day.

we are supposed to report at 9 am, but i only reach at 940. when i went down to my dressing room, i saw darling, and she told me now got chu lu practise on stage. i am stunned, and quickly change into my dancing attire and rush to the stage.

the practise was quite low morale because i flopped at doing the 天 lift with chio outdoor enthusiast. yesterday night's full dress rehearsal we also flopped at the 天 lift. si bei stressed leh, cos our performance is starting in about 4 hours!

if you are clueless about wat the 天 lift is:

so we keep practising and practising that particular lift, and we even do it once just right before the start of the performance, and i am glad that for both the afternoon and night performances, we din flop anymore. thanks partner for doing your part in gaining momentum and jumping up which makes my job easier. :)

we had our lunch, and seriously hor, the packed lunch and dinner that we have is seriously super jia lat and cmi. haha. for lunch, the chicken wing taste like plastic. for dinner we got tasteless fried rice, a chilli hard boiled egg, and a few pieces of fish cake. i think meals are very important. if we have a good lunch/dinner, it will boost our morale for the performance. but cannot eat too full lah, cos will have after lunch syndrome, which make us feel sleepy and then forget movements on stage. =p

after lunch, we quickly went to make-up and change into our costumes to get ready for our two pm performance. its good that i am becoming more 熟练 in doing make up for myself. just that i still dunno how to use eye-liner. haha! ding lao shi praised me that i look very good on stage, cos my make-up very nice. :)

the photos taken before the two pm performance:

dancers, TRANSFORM!

zhou laoshi, jianwu, nzj, and me

damon, jitterbugs dancer, roped in to perform for sexes. his make-up and style damn solid, look like those japan cosplay character.

DR07 vs DR08. haha.

mr tan and ms wong. should have ask all the teachers in nus chi dance to take picture together.

the 劳苦功高 president, aka my fav xinyi. :)

清女s, as in 清朝格格, not 清洁工人.

清男s, without mike and liangbin. 男生，男生~

after the 2 pm performance, went to the ucc lobby to meet my family and friends who came to support. :)

my kids from the sch that i taught.

keviians! wushu keviians to be exact. :)

terence chua. me and hw's good friend in hall.

my jc kakis!

yixiong and kelly, my course mates from tank commander course during my ns days.

and also a tribute to:

my mum and my younger sis, who went off early because i think my dad has already arrived at ucc to fetch them home before i came out to the lobby.

leow chee leong and mak hong sen, my army friends. they went off early because mak hongsen got to work night shift and want to go home rest.

huijia, who bought tickets to come but cant come because she was sick.

thanks everybody once again, for coming all the way to nus to watch the performance. i am really happy to hear positive feedback from all of you. :)

ok tired le, part 2 coming up soon. =p

rhythm of live iv: a chasse across time 《朔·溯·塑》

《朔·溯·塑》has successfully concluded yesterday night.

during the curtain call, as i was bowing to the audience, i was feeling super 激动 that i nearly want to cry. but i controlled my tears.

as i see the female dancers start coming out row by row, the 激动 became stronger and stronger, but i still controlled my tears.

this performance has really been an eye-opener for me. and a great experience. its really a joy dancing with all these pple on stage. seriously i nv regretted joining the dance troupe. if i din join, i wun noe so many great pple, my life wun be so fun and happening, and most importantly, i wun be able to enjoy performing on stage.

kudos to everyone for making the performance a success, especially to the exco. you pple can finally catch up on your sleep, your studies and your own personal life.

well done everyone. :)

2 more days...

today is already thursday. 2 more days to saturday, which is the performance. i dunno how everyone is feeling right now, but for me i am feeling excited, and at the same time a bit sad, cos once performance finish, no more dance practises, no more chit chatting sessions with the dancers, and no more fun supper sessions.

this week is a crazy week for me. not only do i have to travel to and fro between ntu and nus every night for dance rehearsals, i also have assignments to submit and tests to study. damn shag. remind me of my nus hall days, where i chiong hall activities at night, then study until 3 or 4 am. but now i dun have the energy to do such crazy stuff le.

until now, i have sold 22 tickets to my family and friends. thanks to all of you for coming down to support. and thanks to the rest who wanted to come but cannot make it due to other appointments. i really appreciate it. :)

so let me relive some happy memories of the supper sessions that i had with my fellow dancers.

roti prata shop at chomp chomp:

crab shack at upper thomson road. the baked crab meat cheese rice, crab pizza and crab gratin rocks man! the chocolate cake at chewy chocolate shop beside crab shack rocks too! the best chocolate cake i had ever tasted! thanks to chu lu dance ic for recommending both places. :)

now i must take good care of myself, drink lots of water, remember all my steps, be confident, and put up the best show for everyone to watch!

guang dong dance troupe

went to victoria theatre in the afternoon to watch a performance by the guang dong dance troupe from china. this dance troupe was invited to sg to perform, and my laoshis from chi dance are the main pple responsible in bringing them here. so naturally we were asked to go and support the event either by helping to sell tickets or buy tickets. of course we chose to buy tickets.

the front portion of the performance i slept a bit, cos was super shag as i slept very little the previous night and had a physically tiring dance practise in the morning. and it doesnt help that the first few items were quite boring. haha.

i like both the 群男 items, especially the 狼 item. i love the costumes and the choreography. its a pity i dun have any pictures for that item.

i think the 孔雀 girl is quite chio, the 自梳女 dancer is damn flexible, and out of the 群女 items i like the 采茶 best. sorry for those pple who din went to see the performance, cos i noe you totally dunno wat i am talking about. :p

《孔雀飞来》

《自梳女》

《呼唤绿荫》（采茶）



《鼓舞声声》



《当代节奏》

i think it is good to watch this performance just before our own concert, so that we can learn something from them, be it technique or expressions. afterall they are 专业的舞蹈演员, and we are just students, but i believe that although we are students, we also have 专业的态度.

anyway, thank you nzj for taking such a nice pic of me and darling. :)

the white shirt i am wearing belongs to darling's dad. haha.

出路

出路 is one of the items for the upcoming dance performance, and i am performing in this item. the choreographer got his ideas and inspiration from the mediacorp drama serials 雾锁南洋 and 出路.

we started practising this item very early, and the song that the choreographer chose is 我吃得起苦, sung by 动力火车. it is a very suitable song for this item, and it really brings out the best emotions and feelings from the dancers. but just that sway sway this song is too "流行歌曲" already, and stands out in a rather negative way from the rest of the songs used for the other items in this performance. so sway sway we have to change another piece of music, and also have to change some choreography, and also have to change dancer.

pls read this post written by one of our dancers, who is actually not the cast for 出路, but yet she amazingly noes every single detail:

回想本地旧电视剧《雾锁南洋》最震撼的那一场戏。

船板打开，困在船底的先辈们仰头瞻望，在阳光的照射下，他们来到了新加坡，开始了新的生活。。。

“走出去就有路？” 。。。

听一听动力火车的一曲《我吃得起苦》，道出了先辈们奋斗的精神。

《朔。溯。塑》的第二幕带大家走近我国先辈们的奋斗史。

“飘洋过海 我吃的起苦 相信天无绝人之路 ”。。。

“有缘同舟 风雨共渡”。。。

“日子多坎坷 命运有变数 只盼久旱逢甘露”。。。

齐心协力，步步耕耘。付出了多少的努力，就会有多少的收获。患难与共，寻找一条出路。说到《出路》这支舞蹈，还真是一路坎坷。

原本选用的是动力火车的曲目，词曲非常能够表达先辈们的心声，触动人心。

不过，为了迎合整场舞蹈晚会的连贯性和顺应故事的时代背景，编导在编排了整支舞蹈之后，又不得不更换音乐。舞蹈员们和编导必须一切从头再来，

不过，牺牲是值得的。经过一番搜寻之后，终于找出更加体现刻苦的音乐。舞蹈员们的齐心配合和连日的赶排，这支舞蹈比原先的创作更加精彩。

现在就靠舞蹈员们舞出《出路》的含义和先辈们的艰苦岁月。

let's give a round of applause to xiaoyun for writing such a beautiful post. 不愧是 good morning you good 的编导. haha.

right now let me do a short introduction on the choreographer and some of the dancers for 出路.

1) michael - choreographer

the man with a high level of patience and understanding. the man who treats dance seriously. the man who can execute pdd moves without any difficulty. the man who always choreo interesting dance items and these items always leave a great impact on the dancers and the audience.

2) grace tiang - dance ic

very bhb girl who always call herself gorgeous. but i must admit she is gorgeous to some extent, especially with her sparkling eyes (not evident in above pic). very committed dance ic. everybody listens to her. the most ke lian dancer, because she "enjoyed" a turbulent "relationship" with 3 different guys as her dance partner, finally settling for the 3rd and also the final guy, who is none other than hw.

3) jingwen - chio outdoor enthusiast

very strong girl, with a high level of perseverance. strong as in both physically and mentally strong. she can go for lessons in the day, go for dance practise at night, go eat supper after practise, then go help her parents to deliver newspapers at 3 am, then go for dance practise again the next morning. amazing. and she is my dance partner.

4) huishi - ex 主席

a girl who takes pride in her dance. loves her dance partner so much that whenever he is late or din come for practise, she will put on a black and moody face. when he comes, she is jubilant and over the moon. very passionate about the dance items she is in, especially when she is the dance ic for a particular item. gave a very 激动 speech to the dancers for that particular item when they did not perform up to expectations during full run.

5) foo shin - strong and macho guy

very strong. very macho. make use of his brute strength to the greatest advantage. can lift any girl in chi dance. ok maybe a small minority he cannot lift. very cheerful guy and easy-going. a member of the forget-dance-movements club, and the club consist of 2 more members, which i shall introduce later on. oh yah, he is huishi's dance partner.

6) hw - chi dance 的新宠

from dancing in one item, to two items, to three items, and finally become four items. giving him the title of 新宠 is definitely not over-rated. very thankful to him for agreeing to dance in 出路. the 3rd and final dance partner for grace tiang. his squabbles with her is always so entertaining and humourous, but i am sure all these squabbles will 渐渐 build up the 默契 between both of them. also a member of the forget-dance-movements club.

7) me

its kinda funny describing about myself in my own blog. but i want to say that i love dancing in this item, most important reason being the pple. the group dynamics is very strong, and everyone is so united, probably because of the difficulties that we went through together for this item. oh, i am the final member of the forget-dance-movements club.

ok, enough of descriptions. let me post some hilarious pictures on the stuff we did after practise in the ucc studio at 12 midnight. :)

these wonderful memories will definitely stay with me throughout my life.

overdue pics

remember the community project that i did last sunday?

the two guys in green and orange are our dragon boat instructors.

the one in green is very yandao. haha.

guess where's the place?

a picture tells a thousand words.

a picture can be deceptive.

the two pics above show the same place.

can guess wat place is that?

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clue 1: this place is in sg.

clue 2: this place is in the east.

k lah dun play le.

its BEDOK RESERVOIR!

amazing rite? how can it look so nice.

soccer transfers!

this morning after eating my breakfast, i switched on my laptop.

then i went to soccernet, and i saw two articles that left me staring at the screen in disbelief. ok lah one article make me jubilant and over the moon. the other article nearly made me fell off my chair.

the first article:

berbatov joins man utd for 30.75 million pounds!!! woo hoo!!!

imagine cristiano ronaldo, carlos tevez, wayne rooney and dimitar berbatov attacking the opposition's goal. wow. amazing.

and the second article, which made me fell off my chair:

robinho to man city for 32.5 million pounds!!! crazy man!!!

i mean for a player with such high calibre, blessed with skills and flair, why will he join man city instead of chelsea?! it must be man city offer a much higher pay to robinho, or robinho is definitely guaranteed first team football. this may not be the case at chelsea, cos chelsea have so many big name players like lampard, ballack and deco.

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speaking about soccer, here are some pictures from the soccer inter-class games held in my sch. we reached the quarter-finals. and i was the goalkeeper.

hope that next year we can reach the final and become the champion! :)