music:must have done something right-relient k
mood:sleepy

short update:-
learning fest was okayyyy. i learnt how to balloon sculpt though, a pretty mean feat considering...yeah. i managed to twist the balloons into puppies and flowers without once popping the balloons! hiphop was alright, guess i can now truly call myself the 15th member of keisha/vk's dance. hah. and eng wah cinematic experience was blah boring except for hairy potty.

speaking of which, freaking everyone's reading the deathly hallows. okay hah. im no exception. but seriously. harry potter practically screams from every single corner, books, posters, magazines. euugh. even music. its hilarious really: harry and the potters, the moaning myrtles, MC Dawlish, we-who-must-not-be-named...and the list of wizard rock bands simply goes on. soo this has been pretty much my major source of entertainment on the internet this whole week. good times fo' sho.

music:island-the starting line
mood:nostalgic

just a keep a hold on me don't let go
if you float away
if you float away
waiting too long for a ship to come
don't you float away
don't you float away


so. rapture'07:

it was a blast really.

XINYI! we managed to pull off our item! yay for us :)

and yet tears were still shed, not because we came to the end of the performance but because it seemed like the last time we would dance together. that realization really got my waterworks going as i thought about the countless afternoons and nights spent on the cc stage,in front of the GO,in the puny studio of ours. i thought of the long trips on the train/bus to performance venues, the hours spent backstage just fooling around.

it's kind of crazy just to think about all the (unlikely yet strong)
friendships formed in the course of one and a half years.

we might still go on dancing separately, elsewhere, but i'm really going to miss dancing with this special (some more than others! read:retarded) group of people :(

i ♥ the dancers!

on a sidenote, post-rapture=loads of work to be done. pooey.

i've got a new podster! like, finally.
haha and my brand new pablo is all white and nerdy.
but that'll soon change. i'm thinking: pretty in green?
anddddd i'm pretty much happy today.

music:shortly before the end-ok go
mood:exhausted

omg. im soo super exhausted, drained, dead. we had a full dress rehearsal today that didn't go down too well! :/ oh no. at least the second run saw an improvement! the quick changes were kinda nerve-wrecking, i swear i could feel adrenaline coursing through me as i tried to make it within the 5 mins. i really need to figure out how to feel! ugh. 6 more days! holy crapola.

after dance though, manda xinEEE! and me went down to chinatown to get sequins and ribbons. haha but we kinda ended up customizing prettiful necklaces in this really cool shop full of little (and some BUGE) gold and silver trinkets. it is definitely not for indecisive person! ahem manda.
HAPPY 18th BIRTHDAY TRUE FRIEND!
love you muchos <3

okay. now the dreaded SGC awaits me. bleh. as hard as it is to believe, i find it extremely difficult to package and market myself. i am so not a whore. heh. stupidstupidstupid. oh and i've got some serious hardcore sewing to do for cindy's costume! i can't believe i got an A for home ec before. the teacher was definitely blind to the horrible stitching.

music:anything is possible-this providence
mood:dead beat

holy shit. im sooo tired i can barely think. so point form's handy:
-tuesday signalled the end of bt2. finally, it was getting annoying.

-wednesday called for dance, and then some at mambo night. but not before transformers with keish,manda,mok and hannah. 10mins into the show,the skeptic in me became a total fan. then we trooped down to zouk where we met half of singapore. so much for memorising all those numbers! 15345,678267. haha. mambo was hilarious.

-stayed over at manda's and had subway breakfast before dance. YUM. i eat subway! and then met cindy after for veekay's birthday. HAHAH. it was kinda awkward initially considering we were kinda overdressed. oh wells. cindy would've won 'best dressed' for sure.

-dance again, before college day on friday.then rushed home, showered,changed and went down to orchard in a record time of 45mins. woah. had dinner with melissa and then met up with gabriel for drinks. i was kinda lost when they started on unis in america. which makes me wish i again that i could leave singapore. its only in bed that i realise alcohol and coffee isn't good for an early morning.

-had dance AGAIN today. 8-5 which makes up to a total of 9 hours. or something. i hate math. and i was pretty much dead beat. and still am. brought my lovely rotund brother out for dinner despite the urge to become a rip van winkle and not wake for another 100years. had kimchi soup which was YUM. andddddd i got a really good book--'the time traveller's wife'. it says on the blurb

'...an old-fashioned love story' and

'an elegy to love and loss'.

kinda easy to see how easily i was sold.
i wanna just read love and happyness.

--edit--
so much for point form.

music:let go(frou frou cover)-boys like girls
mood:relaxed

-its overrrrrrr.
-we've got plans. for sure yo'
-teachers are funny, but their blogs are hilarious. hoho
-rapture up next! an assload of work ahead :/ (im really scared.)

music:cathedrals-jump,little children
mood:satisfied

just ate yummy home-cooked pasta. yumm. so im pretty happy right now.
so. block test. i probably shouldn't make such a big deal about it, it's just a test right? right. probably should have studied a bit more. maybe?
taking a breather right now, before bio and math on tue. yippy. i can't wait for it to be overrrr.

in the cathedrals of New York and Rome
there is a feeling that you should just go home
and spend a lifetime finding out just where that is

prettiful song. i like jump, little children.

three words: i am fucked.

i probably shouldn't have spent all that time on dr.house,the cute brothers from supernatural and overall too much teevee. tv really is evil.

anddddddd. pablo my podster died on me again. i really should doubly underline it for emphasis.

pooey.

music:sewn-the feeling
mood:perky

give me the song &i'll sing it like i mean it
give me the words &i'll say them like i mean it
NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH
(the nahs were possibly the catchiest part of the song.haha)

-daddyo came back from japan on thurs with plenty of japanese goodies! they looked really prettiful, each of the boxes all nicely packaged and wrapped up. they remind me of christmas, and i can't wait. obviously i opened all of them.

-CIP at toa payoh polyclinic/daycare yesterday. we made a rather yummy-looking fruit salad! i love cold canned peaches :) total LOVE. i kinda made a friend, i know she liked me 'cos she wanted so badly to share her food with me. heh. but some of us left early :/ and stupid baowu beat my high score with powerpuff. growl.

-wisdom literally fell from above and struck me hard in the head last night. haha. i was shifting books around and the 'little book of simple wisdom' decidedly fell hard onto my head. i would quote something from the book, but i really don't understand those little nuggets of 'simple wisdom'. they could have made it plainer.

-do you ever feel so stifled some days, and are fighting to get out and see the world? while other days you just want to stay in your bed and in your head.

music:hate (i really don't like you)-plain white t's
mood:lethargic

dance was abruptly over on saturday night after the rj Sentio charity concert. as usual:mixed feelings bout it. in any case it's high time i start studying. pooey. so i guess a self-imposed hiatus is in order and blah blah blah.

and hahaha i LOVE this song. it's just so applicable/relatable.
hate is a strong word but
i really, really, really don't like you
heh. cue huge sing-along.

see how easily distracted i am? not good..

anberlin/copeland

music:everlong-the foo fighters

mood:happy

a heads up, this is gonna be mostly a photo (read:brainless) entry.

-as guest performers at tjc's reverie3. dancers at their most unglamorous moments. savour these. in our defence: oddly enough, there was only reception in the toilet of all places. hence the amount of time spent in the toilet. heh. (L-cindy(STD), R-yours truly)

-anberlin/copeland! it was pretty good. had my reservations but it turned out to be a great show. totally worth my 60bucks, 3 and 1/2 hours worth of music for that price is a pretty good deal, no?

peewee's eyes rimmed with eyeliner artfully applied by ME. of course, up close it was pretty bad/messy.

copeland's set. we were treated(endured) to 4 supporting local bands prior to them though. copeland's lead singer was pretty cute. heh. they played 'pin your wings' aka the amanda song! haha. i liked that.

anberlin's set. it was pretty obvious that most came for THEM. crowd went crazy, pretty scary moshing occurred. they played several of my favourite songs (day late friend!), ie ones i can actually sing to. they are amazing live!

i couldn't get to sleep last night despite feeling fatigue all over. i've concluded that i'm pretty stressed up, probably. i need to study. and think of better transitions into blocking. erps :/

blah.

music:brighter than sunshine-aqualung
mood:sleepy

EEE. i love this song. it's impossibly sweet.

let the rain fall i don't care
i'm yours and suddenly you're mine
love was brighter than sunshine

oh, i changed the layout! i think the new one's pretti-ful (: call me fickle or whatever, but the previous layout had to go. the pink flowery details were getting old. pooey. short update--

tjc reverie3 and we were guest performers. i thought we were pretty blah, but apparently we were pretty neat. so yay for us i guess. i thought tj's video was really cool especially when set to 'listen' by beyonce. i didn't study much unfortunately, but i've a new nickname for jun and i! LB1 and 2. haha.

slept over at cin's after it ended. scrubbed hard at my face and scalp to remove all the glitter and gel. yuck. slept without a pillow, but with a full stomach. heh. woke up early for a mac's breakfast. yum.

didn't have tuition today! hoho. buttttt i really need to get a move on with the homework and studying :/ ehh. maybe tomorrow. VETTING TOMORROW! holy geez.

anywhoo, this is a bit belated, but : sometimes i'm amazed at how similar we mother and daughter are. not just in temperament but also the relationships we have. maybe i should have told her this on mother's day.

golden(:

music:day late-anberlin
mood:hungry



HAHA met up with my BFF on tuesday right after dance (gruelling as usual). realised only then how much i missed her! haha just look at that picture, totally hamming it up for the camera. with both of us talking at a mile a minute, catching up was pretty fast! sleepover soon kay (: and please get a boyfriend soon. heh hehs.

finally got the anberlin/copeland tickets after making TWO trips down. oh wells. can't wait! and i wanna eat my tang yuan peewee! i should probably start learning the words to some of the songs. don't wanna get moshed out by hardcore fans..this is a start:

we are who
we are who we were when
we could've been more
but at least you're still my
day late friend

plans

music:hear me out-frou frou
mood:happy

so how do i do normal?
-----------------------
so listen up
this sun hasn't set
i refuse to believe that it's only me feeling

• school's over &the hols are here. this means work though! pooey :(
dance &the impending bt2. bleh.

• OCCIDENTAL orient viewing at republic poly. woah i totally fell in love with their ginormous (haha that word looks funny, but apparently is spelt correctly) dance studio. 3 full-length mirrors across the 3 walls! like cindy said, we could hold 3 dance item practices simultaneously there. &then there were --

jump

shots
we went to causeway point after that. i love pasar malams. there's always too much tantalising food and way too many things to see. and woah causeway point's damn happening siaz~ too many people around for my liking :/

• watched 3-iron today. korean dramas are way overrated and sappy, but korean arthouse flicks are a totally different matter. i didn't quite understand what the movie was actually about, but the guy was pretty cute and there was a semi-sweet ending, without the nauseating saccharine sweet aka predictable&boring conclusion nor the cliche cancer-stricken-death-that-turns-on-all-the-waterworks. OOH and i finally finished watching hollywood homicide. can i gush again about how adorable josh hart(hot)nett is?! he really is too cute.
• watched wildboyz and sweet sixteen on mtv as well. my two favourite shows :) there's something about stupid boys on tv acting real stupid &spoilt rich brats on tv being spoilt rotten that's so interesting. i believe that's called reality teevee.
• i've got a wonderful breakfast waiting for me tomorrow! baowu and i are gonna try subway's breakfast :) before the geepoo remedial and dance. yummy. i hope.
• &&! pirates tomorrow! whee.

(in point form 'cos i can't really think in full, propurrr sentences. also, notice how there's not a single mention of work/homework/study/revision? ahah)

earthquake on her mind

music:pretty handsome awkward-the used
mood:distracted

you look pretty low,
very handsome awkwarddddddddddddd

ive got a billion and one things running through my head at a mile per second. and we know lynette isn't really capable of such complexity. anywhoo. ticking things off:
-syfers! (: im glad the tears weren't for nothing!
-family dinners are never complete without bad karaoke family singers and public humiliation on the 'dancefloor' : OOH and my baby nephew is the cutest thing ever. i'm still amazed that that itsy one year old can say apple,blue,ball!
-rapture is too soon! we've in total approx 10hours worth of practice for each item before they go on stage. not good. im worried :(
-on the otherhand, me and xin finished the blocking complete with necessary sequentials today! looking good (:
-manda true friend! rest loads okay, take care. and things WILL work themselves out. they always do.
-BT2 in about 4 weeks! and not a single schedule or note in sight :/
-i absolutely cannot wait for the weekend, then holidays.

im so sleepy. but my brain is still buzzing.

scattered÷d

music:wherever you will go-the calling
mood:distracted

been really busy doing things other than what i should be doing. no good at all. i'm struck with the urgency (think BT2, rapture) but can't really shake off the complacency and overall laziness. bleh. i'm sooo disgusted with myself! and yet here i am, blogging and singing out of tune instead of writing my lit essay. pooey.

so dance yesterday. was actually looking forward to learning choreography for rapture, but zaki hit us with a surprise vetting session and xinyi wasn't there with me! :/ and there's gonna be another next week! haha how many more eights do we have left? A LOT.

hahaha. i was this close to getting a real pet this week ( i think it happened during this week, but i'm not so sure, my days just seem to meld together). and by real pet i mean bigger than a terrapin (a faux turtle in my opinion) or a fat balding hamster. but it's okay! i am getting me a puppy one day! although i'm not sure my irresponsibility counts for anything.

and then blahblahblah other things happened to other people. and i'm glad i just have school and dance to contend with. you know, i'm not too good with multi-tasking. maybe i was supposed to be a boy.

it's going down

music:mexico-jump,little children
mood:dazed

argh. my computer is frustratingly slow. anywhoo. i've got a major update. sorta.

phantom of the opera
but first, went to amanda's house ALL BY MYSELF! woahh. i took a bus there and everything. and had a minor unfortunate accident which left me embarrased more than a slight sprained ankle. then we went down to plaza sing and scurried round the whole building looking for something to help my minor wardrobe malfunction. good gawd. anywhoo then i left for new york new york to meet my BAOWU! her other homies were there too and thankfully it wasn't as awkward as i had expected. and i was so envious of their long tresses. anyway. phantom was real good! the effects and props and costumes were excellent! i swear i didn't jump at the gun shot. and i felt so sorry for the phantom at the end of the show, i almost teared unlike an unsympathetic someone! haha but the guy seated behind us had the most monstrous laugh ever. i have never heard anyone snort so loudly and clearly inbetween laughs before :/ we were supposed to go to dxo after that but that didn't happen in the end, but it's okay!

somebody's house party
i ended up joining manda,keisha,mau,xin,mock,jesse at the somebody's BUGE house. it's kinda funny how we had no idea who's house or party it was. oh wells. the dj didn't stay long! so we just played some drinking games and xinEEE! was pretty damn high. manda too! i just had a little buzz going on. but we eventually got our asses up and out. we took some pictures in the middle of the road! anywhoo. we didn't stay up to watch the sunrise in the end, but it was alright (: thanks true friend for the stay over!

and now, im busy fiddling with some mp3 mixer thingy. fingers crossed for this IT-illiterate!

short and bittersweet

music:dancing shoes-the arctic monkeys
mood:perky

-my podster dies on me again :/
+my podster lives again!
+the labour day holiday
+xinEEE! and me finishing 1 full combi (8eights peoples!)
-realising we have 32 more eights to go
-school after the labour day holiday
+pizza with cin today :D
-biology test on friday
+the BFF staying over friday
+phantom,dxo,sunrise on saturday :)

net result=a happy week.

nothing gold can stay?

music:say this sooner-the almost
mood:exhausted

syf
it's slightly scary and unnerving how 6 months of sweat, frustration, dead skin, tears, worry, blood...can all be compressed to a mere 7.03mins. i barely registered i had ran onstage from the wings before i was running out again. but we were all pretty happy it was all over. and zaki said he was pleased :)

results
we got gold. i won't lie, there was definitely disappointment and perhaps a bit of relief. well, it's forward and onward with rapture!

on the upside, we emerged a stronger and tighter team :)
SA DANCE;

2.4km
hahahha. i hit a personal best today! 12.37mins. go ahead and laugh, but it almost killed me to run in that sweltering heat. but i learnt that after the 3rd round, sheer human will takes over. pity i've got so little.

a line from 'the wind-up bird chronicle' by haruki murakami-
a person's destiny is something you look back at after it's past, not something you see in advance.
just a simple sentence that stuck i guess.

oddicity.

music:as you sleep-something corporate
mood:sleepy

singing my thoughts back to me
and watching heartache on tv

okayy this is a little long overdue, but here goes &thanks to shijie my dear funny friend:
This is what you are supposed to do. Cut and paste if you decide to participate in the tagging game. Each player of this game starts off by giving 6 weird things about themselves. People who get tagged need to write in a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state the rules clearly. At the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. After you do that, leave them each a comment letting them know you tagged them and to read your blog.

1.call me anal or whatever, but i can't stand my WHITE rice being TAINTED with sauce from other dishes. like, if its on a plate, the little mounds of vegetable/meat/rice have to be SEPARATE, with an invisible inch-thick wall between them.

2.i talk to myself on a pretty regular basis. hopefully the voice that answers is just my conscience. i don't have a problem, really.

3.i detest fish but to me, cod/salmon/tuna aren't fish.

4.is it weird how much my podster and itunes library are of a lifeline to me? maybe not if you're a music junkie too.

5.my unhealthy love for vinegar. apparently i can't say "auntie, add vinegar" enough. apparently the auntie can't add enough vingear into my noodles.

6.i'd choose discovery, travel and living over nickelodeon anytime. somehow david tutera the party planner (see: gay) and the mythbusters' crew are more entertaining than all the spongebob episodes combined.

people tagged:xinyi,jolene,chun lei,glory,pei hui,yuwen

&& my new word: ARRANT (adj/n/whatever)
1. _______'s face is ARRANTLY hideous.
2.You are ARRANTLY vile to me.

HAHAH. too cool.