performance at corporate function

performed at this corporate function by a very famous and branded and atas company. this corporate function was held on thursday night and friday night. the theme is "shanghai jazz". the items that we performed are invisibility, beyond and winter. but because of the theme, all 3 items have a common name called "THE QIPAO DANCE", which was mentioned by the chio eloquent emcee who was also dressed in qi pao. 


the company paid us quite a bit of money for the items, hence very high standards are expected from us. so high the standard is that our costumes cannot even have a single wrinkle or uneven line. my winter shirt was the most crumpled, because i din iron it at home. ok lah that serves me right. so i spent lots of time doing last minute ironing in our waiting room, which made me quite fed up. and then sway sway my beyond costume also very crumpled, while fen's and nzj's costume were still ok. so i also ironed that.


i agree that professionalism is important for performers, be it our performance on stage, and the backstage preparations (eg costumes and make-up).


but this type of high standard is a bit too much for me to take. hence i will nv perform for corporate functions anymore.


if there is a takeaway from this performance, it is not the yummy fried rice and fried noodles by the restaurant chefs. it is not the pretty ladies wearing qi pao. it is not the irritating audience who keep laughing throughout our performance, when i was supposed to be angry and pms-ing during winter. it is not the nice audience who said "wah 很厉害很厉害" when i lifted chio outdoor enthusiast. the takeaway is THE IMMENSE IRONING that i did, which the time that i spent on ironing is definitely more than the time that i danced on stage. hence no more performing for corporate functions. unless they dun mind crumpled costumes. haha.


the stage that we danced at was very very small, so small that we could injure ourselves easily by the umbrellas, fans, flying arms and flying legs. we could also injure ourselves by hitting the piano and drum set and other props that are directly behind us. this was a very dangerous performance.

last min practising:

and the other random pics:

(eunuch fen busying sms-ing pizza order for crown prince yy.)

(hz looks traumatised. eunuch fen enjoys being hugged by crown prince yy.)


one statement before ending this post: I HATE IRONING!

national day celebrations and official sch opening

today we celebrated national day. everyone is encouraged to wear red! this year's national day theme is 'live our dreams, fly our flag". so my students have to illustrate their dreams on a namecard. let me show you some samples.

(yes i have a student who is called wen fang! but her surname is not 范. haha.)


anyway i wore a red color shirt that looks quite ah beng, white crocodile pants which i bought at parkway when i was shopping with darling, and the striking pink color nike shoes!


so i had 50 students coming to me saying they love my pink shoes, and 10 colleagues also coming to me to say the same thing. hahahaha. :p


after the national day celebrations is the official sch opening. my sch and my neighbour sch are called community school, because we are working with tampines west community centre to lease our facilities to the public. so today is our official sch opening as the community school. 


this is a very dua zhong event. got media. got MP as guest of honour, and many other invited guests, including Ps and VPs from other schools. so if got MP as guest of honour, definitely must have performance. 

so my wushu team is involved in the performance. the performance very simple one, only 30 seconds. and there are six students performing, 3 from my wushu team, and 3 pri 1 students from the neighbour sch. must have collaboration between two schools because it is our official sch opening as a community school.


so if u have realised, i am not involved in the performance. but then on tuesday, there was a full dress rehearsal. and my wushu star student who can do a back flip, could not attend the rehearsal because he was on mc. then my pe HOD a bit gan jiong and ask me to stand in for him so that batman and the neighbour sch's P can see how the feel is like with six pple. -.-'''


being such a nice person of course i agreed. so i quickly learnt the routine from my students. 30 seconds, very easy to learn. hahahaha. and the full dress rehearsal started. and then ended.


and next min, the science HOD and art & craft HOD walked towards me.


art HOD: "eh 你们今天表演得很好 leh. 发生什么事情啊?" (last week's rehearsal my students screwed up.)


science HOD: "yah lor, with you inside, the feel is really different. on that day can you perform a not?"


so yah, the outcome is clear, and the rest is history.


but it was fun performing! the primary 1 students are very very cute! my female students were totally obsessed with the two pri 1 boys.

the boy in red is my star student who can do a back flip. he is only sec 1! the boy in yellow beside him is the captain. and you see another boy standing in between me and the captain? batman called him a kung fu panda. hahahahahaha.


the pri sch chinese dancers were very cute too. they are now in primary 4.

the purple performers! haha. 4 of them are in my form class! the dancer on the extreme left is the very flexible dancer.


the GOH was supposed to arrive at 1030, but we have to standby at our respective positions at 930. so while waiting for the GOH, the pri sch dancers ask me 欠扁问答题. and then my colleague who is a chinese teacher also joined in the fun. 


let me share with you one of the questions:


白雪公主根包青天结婚，生出来的孩子叫什么名字?


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daughter: cinderella (灰姑娘)

son: michael jackson

teaching my colleagues the ACES Day workout

NUSCD dancers, see if you can discover any familiar dance steps. hahahaha.

hip hop dancer in green. malay dance dancer in black. she was from nus ilsa tari!

she is also a chinese dance dancer!

ballet dancer.

my colleagues rock! :)

other pics from gift carnival

teaching folk dance. tropanka! hahaha.

at the pri sch hall, where the mass yoyo was held. we broke the record with more than 1200 pple spinning the yoyo simultaneously for 3 min!

saturday post

went back to school for a event called Gift Carnival. i am in charge of holding a fusion dance clinic. business is quite poor, but i am more than happy with it. hahahaha. and i last min rope in my colleague to help me, and she is a hip hop dancer! i believe xuehong and nzj had seen her before. haha.

i also got my student to come and help me, and she is the best dancer in the sch right now. she is learning chinese dance in NAFA, and also learning ballet.

disgustingly flexible.


after that i cab to ke7 for dance practise. we have performance on 5th and 6th august! we putting up 3 items, and i am dancing in 2 items. these items we danced before, so can sense a bit of bo chup ness from us. but chio outdoor enthusiast is still very professional, keep looking at the video clip in her player to refresh her memory on the steps. xuehong and zhimin have to be professional too since they are the choreographers, so they a bit gan jiong. the most bo chup award goes to mr nzj. HAHA!


and then i went to darling's house for delicious home cooked dinner. tomorrow i watching inception with darling! :)

friday post

so if you have realised, updating of the blog is getting less frequent. i have been leaving sch at seven pm almost everyday. sometimes i will bring my marking back home, and i dun even want to on the computer. if someone thinks that being a teacher is easy, go have a taste of it. 


this whole week i am like a superman. i am in charge of teaching the whole school the ACES Day workout, which is actually the sexes item for DR08, which i got make some minor adjustments. its really not easy to teach 5 pe classes in the hall, especially when teaching dance. most of the students are still not comfortable with the body movements, especially the boys. actually i can sympathise with them because when i was their age i also ostracise dance because of my wushu background. so its really amazing that i am dancing so much right now. haha.


so anyway, some classes are receptive towards it and find it fun. of course there are other classes who totally detest dance and cant be bothered to do and they just play a fool while i am teaching. well, since i am the one who pushed for this ACES Day mass dance routine, then i must try all means and methods to interest all my students and get them to do. although it is really a tough job. 


establishing rapport is really very important. my chemistry classes and pe classes all learnt the dance willingly and attentively. thank goodness i have these classes. they make my day, and make me feel that my efforts are worthwhile. 


next monday i will be teaching the teachers! think it will be fun. hahahahaha.

pics of wushu performance

remember last wed i performed wushu with my students during assembly, and then after that i rush off for my nie investiture?


presenting you the pics! haha.

i can 下腰 leh! hahahahaha.

the final pose!

wonderful teacher and wonderful students


this may be a bit bhb, but i heard that i have my own fan club in the sch. two china students just joined wushu as a cca. they only came to the sch in march this year, and both of them were cca-less.


so they came for their first training on friday, and i asked them to introduce themselves to the other members. after their introduction, i asked them,"为什么你们要参加武术?"


one of them replied,"因为你." and her face turned red.

my face din turn red. i just smiled and nodded my head.  

saw the leopard!

today i went to suntec for a site tour with the handball yog volunteers. and i saw the leopard right in front of my eyes! of course i got very excited because i was a tankee during my ns days, but i only received training in the SM-1 tank. now SM-1 is being phased out and leopards are being used! i doubt i will have the chance to be trained in leopard. :(


of course must take photo! hahahaha.

after suntec we went to nie to check out the youth olympic village. omg how nie have changed! check them out:

ok i am going to sleep now cos tmr have to wake up early to play soccer! i want to get rid the fats on my tummy!

friday post

after work i rushed to raffles place to meet darling. we had dinner at one of the many seafood restaurants located along the bank of singapore river. the mango prawn salad which was our appetizer taste damn awesome. darling said next time we can make this on our own. haha.


and then we went to the art house to watch my a play titled 'Cabinet', which my little sis was involved. this time she is not acting. instead she is the STAGE MANAGER! wow. but she is not paid. stage manager is a sai gang job, and if you are not paid it is sai gang x 10. 


the stage is in the form of a parliament house, and we were sitting at the top, just like ministers listening to a parliament talk. anyway the art house was actually the old parliament house, hence we purposely took a pic of ourselves in black and white.


its already my 4th week in sch. time really flies fast. got lots of performances in aug and sept. 

5th and 6th aug i am involved in a company's dinner and dance event. dancing winter again. going to be angry again. anyway chio outdoor enthusiast happened to be working at that company! how coincidental is that. hahaha.


10th august i am performing shui xiu with some of the guys at nus. the purpose is to showcase chinese dance to nus students, and to attract more pple to join the troupe, ESPECIALLY GUYS. honestly the older i get, the lazier i become, and the more unwilling i am to go for practises and performances, unless its really desperate for me to dance. i am sure my other counterparts feel the same way too. 

6th sept is teachers' conference. and i am doing a contemporary dance item with 11 other teachers from different schools. i look at our practise videos and the way i dance is so different from the rest. the rest are really dancing, while i am like wushu-ing and dancing. yucks. i look ugly. :(

the mafia boss from indonesia

racial harmony day!

my first time wearing this batik shirt. bought it at surabaya two years ago.


anyway this two students are from my form class. 


some said i look like indonesian datuk. some said i look like mafia boss. hahahaha. 

i myself like the mafia boss better. :p

scorpio

traditional scorpio traits:
- determined and forceful
- emotional and intuitive
- powerful and passionate
- exciting and magnetic


on the dark side...
- jealous and resentful
- compulsive and obsessive
- secretive and obstinate


today, this scorpio teacher was teaching in class. acids and bases. very boring topic.


this student yawned loudly in class. 


the scorpio teacher flung his marker at the student. the marker hit the student's shirt. and a black line was drawn across the shirt. (forceful)


teacher told the whole class that he can't stand students yawning loudly in class.


but he allows students to yawn softly and cover the mouth with their hand if they yawn. (compassionate, but that's not one of the scorpio traits)


the student cried.


teacher talked to the student after the lesson, and apologised to the student for throwing the marker at him and dirtying his shirt. student dried his tears and told the teacher it's ok. 


i think the student will remember this teacher forever. and this teacher is me.

fullmetal alchemist brotherhood

i finally finished watching the anime! it is very very nice to watch!


"A lesson without pain is meaningless. That's because you cannot gain something without sacrificing something else in return. But, once you withstood the pain and overcome it, you will gain a heart that is stronger than everything else."
-Fullmetal Alchemist

rehearsal @ fort canning park

one year ago i was at this place, watching my fellow dancers perform 'shattered'. tomorrow, i will perform with my fellow dancers on this very stage, and the item that we will be performing is known as the 'IMMORTALISED DANCE STEPS'.

i will not do that for tmr's performance! and fen did that for today's rehearsal. hahahaha.


as a result, he was quite emo...

(i think he will laugh like mad when he sees this. hahahaha.)


anyway, this is something random, noticed by nzj:

PLEASE SWITCH OFF FANS WHEN NOT IN USE - A
PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE THIS NOTICE - B


since there is no notice below B saying not to remove notice B, therefore we can remove notice B. and once we remove notice B, and after that remove notice A, hence we can dun need to switch off fans when not in use. 


agree? hahahahahaha.


after the rehearsal we had a teabreak session at HANDBURGER!!! the burgers and fries were awesome!!!

these burgers were the small size version. their original size is enormous!!! next time i will order the original size! :)

nie convocation 2010!

874 teachers attended the convocation at nanyang auditorium. which means 874 pple went up to the stage, shake hands with the GOH, and went down the stage. which also means that it is a SUPER LONG WAIT. and it doesnt help that the pe graduands are the last group of people to go up. hahahaha.


but its definitely a wise choice for us to go up last. because we end the convocation with a bang. the academics teachers go up on stage, only can hear few pple clapping.

when its our turn, all of us clapped and cheered with our might. and then when we went back to our seats, we din sit down and remained standing, and clapped our hands in coordination, cheering loudly as each of our pe classmate goes up to the GOH to receive his/her scroll. and then when its my turn, my classmates purposely din cheer just to make fun of me. hahahaha thanks ah. 

i really love my batch of pe classmates. i am sure the rest of the nie cohort will be envious of our unity. but i heard from my colleague that some pple were quite turned off by our actions. but anyway, the director of nie love us, because at the end of the convo he walked past us and showed us a thumbs up sign. hahahaha.


photos for everyone! hahaha.

thank you dad and mum for coming! hope that both of you are proud of me. hahahaha. see the polo tee that my dad is wearing? i bought it for him at hong kong! haha.

thank you darling for taking half day leave! and your dress is very nice! :)

check out the "flasher"! hahahaha.

alex the basketballer, kang chien the basketballer, huifen the netballer, and myself the wushu-er!

king, the top student of the pe cohort!

with my colleagues! in this photo we have the HOD look. hahaha. joshua, the future science hod, myself the future pe hod, jenny the future maths hod, sheena the future english hod, sihua the future pupil development hod, and pervin the future humanities hod. hoho.


honestly i am happy being a HOT. HAPPY ORDINARY TEACHER. no need to be hod. hahahaha.