Tuesday, January 31, 2006
happy chinese new year everyone! i must say that this chinese new year was quite an enjoyable one for me, cos firstly, the holiday's longer than usual, and secondly, we got to skip quite a bit of the borring visits, heh :) if u're a chinese, u should know why. i won't be stating the reason here, cos it may not be auspicious to talk about such things during the new year?
better usher in all the luck u can get this new year! the cny holiday will be over by tmr, and there will be no more holidays until after our first block test :( boohoo. i was just checking my diary, and i realised that block test 1 is only about a month away...it will be held in early march. sigh.
let me talk about something less depressing! class tee design! yay! i came up with a design over the long cny holiday. really hope the class will like it. if you've any feedback, do tag. i'm praying hard that the class won't find it girly or cutesy. i didn't put up any slogan or anything, cos no one seemed to be able to think of something appropriate. i was thinking of a white or perhaps cream coloured class tee. oly problem is a cream-coloured one may not match very well with our school u. can't stand our school u colour! it can't seem to match other colours very well :x
this is supposed to be printed on the front of the tee, in the middle. the colour scheme is tentative, but i quite like these colours. the base colour is dark brown, and the flower is a pale orange.
okay. this is for the back of the shirt. it's supposed to be printed as a relatively small logo on the top, below the collar.
i hope everyone will like the design! if anyone has any strong objection, do voice it out! okay, i've got to go! there's school tmr, and i haven't completed my work!
oh yes, tmr's the day we're gonna meet our juniors for the first time for their very first cca meeting. yup. hope it'll be fun! :) bye~
Y8:52 PM
Sunday, January 22, 2006
well well, yesterday was a truly busy day for me! there was chi dance from like eight to three! o.O and then i went to toapayoh to borrow as well as return dance costumes and went for a haircut thereafter at kimage, toa payoh. the lady was quite pleasant and friendly, but she cut my hair really slowly. my mum said that's better then doing it hurriedly and sloppily. so well, i shan't complain. she helped me cut this slight side-parting fringe and also layered more. i requested to keep the length, so she helped me neaten up, and now there's a nice v-shape behind. :) but i haven't washed my hair yet since cutting (cos she helped me wash before that la), so i'm worried without the blowing my hair will get out of shape. my hair loves to curl this way and that, so it may get messy! :(
kimage was quite cool. there was this like oven-like compartment in front of my seat. and i was wondering what was inside. then i thought it was to store my bag and whatever valuables. luckily i didn't open it to put my bag inside! cos after shampooing my hair, the lady opened the compartment to reveal a rinsing basin with a shower, conditioner and some other hair treatment liquids all in place! then she swiveled my chair around, pressed a button, and i was being lowered into an inclined position automatically! quite high-tech, huh? hehe :)
i was visiting tiffy's brand new blog just now..it's simple, nice and girly, just like tiffy. but i thought she'll do something more chic; i mean she loves the chic and glam look. maybe next time huh, tiff? well, i was telling tiffy that day that there is one thing good about her quitting council - she now has much more time with her family and friends, in other words, we've had much more time together to chat and just joke arnd and be lame (and disgusting, esp if kkq is arnd, ha!) it's really been great knowing her better, and she's my new lab partner! to be honest, i thought last yr was a yr that i didn't noe anyone really well (in our class), but this year's a bit different! maybe the problem lies with me, i dunno, but i feel that last yr wasn't that great a year. but i feel more revitalised and charged this year! that's good isn't it? just in time for 'a's. and our class timetable this yr is super! i praying v hard that they won't make any more alterations to the timetable! now i've one 1330 day, three 1400 days and only one late day - fri, when we end at 1600. so please, please, don't ever change our timetable!
okay, moving on...i'm itching to shop! and catch a movie. haven't done both in one month plus alr. and now it's the time to shop, shop, shop, cos there are lots of chi new yr deals out there! i'm hoping my sis will be up for shopping today. she's feeling rather tired, cos she has been out everyday for a couple of weeks alr. she started work (training), jap classes and piano lessons arnd last wk and this wk.
okay, i'd better go do my work now so that later i may be able to go shop! bye :)
Y9:22 AM
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
i'm finally back! to blog that is. i returned from my japan trip ages ago, it's just that i didn't find time to blog. it's not my fault, really! after the trip, dance camp began immediately, and so i danced my days away till school reopened! yes, there was dance practice every single day at hokkien huay kuan (hkhk), and most of the time we ended really late, like eleven plus at night. looking back now, i don't regret it! performance held at the victoria theatre on the 7th and 8th of jan 06 is over now. sigh. when i went to school yesterday, i just had this empty feeling in me, and i was still in the performing mood. just two days, and in a snap, everything is over. all the hoo-ha over dance, complaining to my mum how it took up much of my time, how long the hours are, and now it's all over. and i want to relive those times again. especially because i've just began to warm up to the rest of the dancers of my class. because before the dance camp lessons were only once a wk (and i didn't attend every lesson), i didn't exactly get to mix around with them. the rigorous dance practices during the hols however, gave us plenty of time to socialize. and now, after the performance, many are leaving - for good. for example, yingqi and yingxian are leving. they are really funny and amusing, and extremely noisy. nevertheless, i'll miss them, and i'm sure the class will too. there will be much less chattering and bantering without them, and less fuming on the teacher's part.
i'm not sure when i'll be discontinuing dance lessons at hkhk, but i certainly will due to the 'a' levels this year. i'm not too sure yet, but the stop should be temporary; i should continue with lessons after my 'a's. i've heard that xiaoyu's reurning for lessons, and liying is considering rejoining the troupe. junying should also be rejoining! hmmm, with quite a number of people back, why shouldn't i rejoin too, right?
oh yes, my teacher has been discussing the possibility of sending our trio dance - "Red Ribbons"/《他们在无意中相遇》for a competition overseas! that sounds really exciting! i'm all for joining the competition if not for block tests and prelims, which will be around july - when the competition will be held. such opportunities don't come by too easily. i would love to grab this golden opportunity, but my studies may be at stake. i'm not very strong academically, so i'm in a dilemma. should i allow such an opportunity to slip by and concentrate on my studies, or forsake a little of my results for the competition? so last night, i was in deep thought over this issue. then i questioned my goal in life. do i want to do something related to dance in future or remain rooted to the usual academic-based subjects. i don't see myself majoring in any of the subjects i'm studying right now - biology, chemistry, math, economics. it doesn't seem right. my passion (or should i even call it passion?) for these subjects are most definitely not as strong as the love i have for dance. being a dance professional sounds good to me, but i don't know whether i've what it takes, and making a living as a dance professional isn't simple at all. such a job entails risk and income instability; it requires taking a big leap of faith and making a huge sacrifice for dance and my love for it. i don't think i'm prepared to do that. my mum had suggested an alternative of taking up business instead in university so that i can realise my dream of perhaps setting up a dance studio in future. i can take up dance as a hobby and go for dance exams to earn the necessary qualifications required to be a dance teacher even as i work in another line. the very last option that i can think of is following in the footsteps of the 'jie jie's at hkhk. they work and join the hkhk dance troupe, which provides them with performing opportunities. okay, i realised that i've coughed up a whole long paragraph on my ambition of pursuing dance. maybe for now i should just not worry or wonder too much about the future. when the time comes, i'll make a decision.
anyway, back to the performance at victoria! it was quite a success i guess! thank you for all the support u people have given me! a big thank you to...(take a deep breath)...tiffany, huixuan, pam (and her bf) for the support and the chocs, yanling, wanling, christine, yingying, shiyan, cherlyn, chienwei for being so supportive and for the lovely flowers, and also aijia (she bought the ticket but couldn't make it on that day), and siqi! thanks girl for your moral support, hope u're feeling much better now ya :)
and now, i shall be posting everything to do with the performance!
the 2 'jia jia's: jia ying and jia yin!
a group of us without the heavy make-up
say cheese! with jieying the goalkeeper :)
"Flow . Stay" / 《流. 留》dancers
me and yingxian in our 《乡情》costume!
xiang qing mei zi!
top: ziling and meizhen in shui xiu, bottom: yingxian, me, jingyi and yingqi in dai zu wu costume
jie mei hua :D
san ren wu: me, shu hua, shu ji and jenny :)
me and lois in our disco outfits!
wu ge mei nu! :D
chien, me and cher! boo..no sikhi :(
heyhey, me and rhino and a bunch of flowers sticking out :P
hc chinese dancers rock!
red power! liying, me and felicia. pity i didn't manage to catch xiaoyu and sheila..
programme booklet
our new dance tee, front...
..and back! i like the back! it looks cool :)
flowers i received! they wanted to but me a bouquet, but it didn't look v gd and was quite ex, so it was cher and chien's ingenious idea to buy a flower each for me! it's cheaper and it looks better :) (i'm giving credit to cher here, hehe)
..and finally, lots of chocs from tiff, hx, pam, and jackson
THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!:D:D:D
Y8:12 AM
