No Boundaries

I recently found this song on Nik's blog and it got me really addicted to it. It's by Kris Allen, of American Idol's fame. I love the melody and the guitar, but above all, I love the lyrics. It motivates me to do my best in the things I do.

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Went to watch KO night finals on Friday night. Got a glimpse of what was coming on The Big Groove when Funky Ziggy had a showcase. Their showcase was amazing! I wish I could do whacking like they do. Hanged out with some of the SYDC ppl after the KO night finals. Got to know some really interesting ppl. Again, I learnt to not judge a book by its cover.

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Sunday was one of the coolest days of my life. Though it was one day before the start of block tests, I spent it doing..........anything but study.

Started the day by going for Ahmad's lesson. I really like his choreo to Mika's "Relax(Take It Easy)", though the song was kinda techno. Ahmad's choreo are seriously getting harder and harder. The steps, angles, sharpness and everything demanded for his choreo are getting more difficult. But I can't complain, coz that's the reason why I chose to attend his class. If not, how do I constantly improve myself? Though I feel kinda intimidated sometimes by the pro ppl in class, like Jimmy (the ex-captain of NUS Dance Blast), Bob (also from Blast), and Hazlina (hmm...also from Blast), but I really like dancing alongside them because I always pick up something new from them. If there's anything I learnt from that lesson, then it would be that hip hop can be danced to any type of music. Ahmad's recent song choices ain't always R&B and hip hop music.

Btw, I met another fellow Malaysian in his class. Apparently, his name was Dennis and he was the runner-up for So You Think You Can Dance Malaysia. No wonder I found his face familiar. But he was really good that was little difference in the level between him and Ahmad. And he apparently lives near my home in Malaysia. How cool is that? Hope to learn from him when I get back to Malaysia some time later.

So after Ahmad's class, I made my way to Singapore Expo Hall for THE BIG GROOVE!!!

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I can't even describe TBG in words. Is there a word for "BEYOND DOPE!"? There are so many talented dancers in Asia. Really enjoyed the whole 3 hour concert. It was already 10.30 pm when it ended. I love the performances by overseas crews like WCO, Cool Mint, Funky Ziggy, 5+5, Phillipines Allstars and etc. The poppers from 5+5 crew was totally sick. And Cool Mint gave a very nice opening for the concert, and this came a crew of Japanese girls, with the oldest being only 13 years old. Felt like I kena pawnedzzzz.....

I felt proud of the local crews too. O Crew outdid themselves at gave a 32 MINUTES PERFORMANCE!!! That was like 12 minuted more than their O School Recital last year! But Ryan didn't perform though. Probably too busy with his newborn baby.

The other local crews was also quite good -- Styles From Beyond, Danzpeople (which was Ahmad's item), Trademark etc. But it was clear that the overseas crew was at a higher level, though I would say that they are not too far behind the overseas crew. In fact, I was quite surprised by the small gap between the quality of local and overseas crew. Maybe Singapore is catching up fast.

I was really inspired by the performers at TBG. They have broaden my horizon, showed me a new limit. Maybe there really are no boundaries in dance...

In the end, I guess the long wait before the concert was worth it. I can't wait to watch next year's TBG!

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On a side note, I realized my old dance gang has come a long way from where we were during Daniel's Hip Hop course last year. Nik and Brian went to Ngee Ann Poly and join Huixian in NRA; Ie Ching quit dance totally to pursue her studies and career (not to mention, busy with her boyfriend); Diana has joined TPDE and well on her way to be a dope popper (hey, a top 8 in a popping competition is worth something). So I guess we have move on with our lives and found other circles of friends (or dancers, heh.). I realized this when we were waiting in queue for TBG. Huixian and Brian hanging out with the SYDC ppl; Diana is hanging out with TPDE; ; leaving me and Nik chatting for most times. But I'm glad we are all still friends and we still get together sometimes.

I wonder where I belong now? I guess I don't really have a distinct group that I belong to, like SYDC, NRA or TPDE. But I'm proud to say I have made quite a few good friends through Ahmad's classes and Ryan's course.

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School is...................dreadful.

Block tests are not going as well as I thought it would be, what's with me feeling unwell ever since after TBG. And before you ask, no, I don't have swine flu.

GP was....................kinda mediocre. Didn't really managed to finish my essay coz it lacked a proper conclusion, but I guess it's still passable. As for compre, let's just say the compre wasn't easy. Plus, I had to do it through a headache. Don't even wanna think how it will turn out.

Econs was even worse. I shall not elaborate. The headache was still there, and coupled with grogginess, you can imagine how my Econs paper will die.

At least Geog was still ok. Left a 9 mark question blank (out of 100 marks), but the rest was doable. Thank god the headache toned down during the test.

Seriously, I think I'm falling sick. My body temperature has been going up and I had persistent headache ever since GP paper. The best part is I have a mild nosebleed during Geog Paper, which come and go throughout the whole of today. But weirdly, I don't have fever or anything like that. I hope I won't die for the remaining 2 papers. Have to finish studying Math by Friday, which I barely started. And I haven't started on Chem. Ironically, my preparation for Econs whatsoever has been wrecked because of the stupid headache. Hopefully my block tests won't go down the drain. At least it must be better than the first one.

Time to go.

Nite guys.

Confession

This blog was dead.

I haven't blog at all since my last post, which was about 3 months ago. No, I'm not going to say "I didn't blog for a gazillion years because I was busy with blah blah blah...". I mean, I guess it's kinda true that I had alot of things to do and never enough time to do all of them, but deep down, I know the real reason why I dread to type a post on this blog -- I feel that I am trying to please the readers instead of writing what I really feel, and furthermore, there are ppl who read my blog whom I don't want them to read.

Now that I got that confession out, I guess I can move on with my post.

"So what if there's ppl you don't like reading your blog? If you're afraid of them so much then why don't you start a new blog?! Quit whining!"

It's quite likely some ppl might think like that. But I personally feel it's not worth it to start a new blog all over again just because of some assholes, since I also have many good friends and my family who faithfully read my blog when it was active.

So here I am. Typing.

3 months.

12 weeks.

That's how long since I last sat down and typed a blog post. So many things happened just within this quarter of the year that I could scarcely believed it had passed by. Ryan's Lyrical Hip Hop Course I&II ended. Made a few good friends along the way, ppl like Jan, Andy, Theresa. I also started going for Ahmad's classes, and got to know the instructor pretty well. He's a very nice guy and a very caring instructor. I'm proud to have him as a good instructor and an even better friend. Also got to know more ppl from the weekly Sunday class, like Chris Goh, Winnie (Ahmad's gf), Puay Son etc.

Had a couple of outings with the MAD seniors too. The first was to celebrate Wilson's birthday, and the latter was a small gathering before he leaves for NS and before I leave for Malaysia.

Went to watch K.O Night too. Always amazed by the dance talents in Singapore. Joey really imrpoved tons, along with her partner, Jeremy, of Flairnation fame. Luqman and Jean too!
Did I mention I had the chance to pair up with Hui Hua for K.O night too? I really learnt alot from him. Personally, I think our styles differ a little too much that the chemistry was never really there. But still, I was grateful to be given the chance to pair up with him for K.O night. If not, I wouldn't have learnt alot throughout the process itself.

Oh yeah, how could I forget the session at Diana's place! It was really fun! We should do it more often!

The list goes on really long, but I just want to say I went through alot of ups and downs within these few months. It's all just part of life, I guess.

Just came back from Malaysia a few days ago. Believe it or not, I actually finished studying Physical Geog while I was there, but................that means I didn't do much of anything else. I'm glad to be back home. Really loved my family and my friends there. The food was awesome, as usual. Couldn't stop eating when I was back at home. I think I gained like 3-4 kg over the course of 2 weeks.

Really didn't feel like coming back to HC. I dunno why, but I just feel that I don't really have anyone that really knows me very well in school. It's kinda weird. I think I'm closer to the ppl I see weekly or monthly rather than the ppl I see everyday. I guess when you put 2000 smart ppl in one place, all you get will be competition and politics.

In fact, I'm freaking sick of some ppl in school. You can kinda feel that they are judging you all the time, hence you can't really be your true self when you're around them. I'm also sick of the politics in school, especially when it involves the dancers. So what if I learn dance outside and I like to dance in the PE studio? So what if I'm not very good? I'm still learning as a dancer, and if you can't fucking accept that then you should just fuck off instead of spreading rumors behind my back. If you're going to bicker behind my back instead of improving dance together, then you are better off not being a dancer.

Sigh. Can someone tell me why relationships can be so complicated?.........

Not-So-Happily-Ever-After

It's close to 2am in the morning, but yet I feel the urge to blog at this "ungodly hour" (as my former GP teacher, Miss Ong, would put it). Just came back from watching Cinder Ella Revamped at Republic Poly Cultural Centre. Basically, it's a modernized Cinderella musical with a few twists -- including a Cinderella that can do hip-hop.

I'm apologize to the dance seniors who are involved in the production, but I'm gonna be honest and say--

It sucks. Period.

The reason I went to watch it was to support the dance seniors who were involved in the production (Nic.tay, Han Zhi, Bong, Casey, Terrance, Andrew). I went to watch with the other half of the (former?) dance gang, Wilson, Tack Kian, Sali and Su Hui. To be able to hang out with them again was the other major reason I took this opportunity to watch the musical, when block test is so near.

Met up with Wilson for dinner before we went to watch the musical. Vanessa suddenly popped out of nowhere during dinner and accompanied us to get flowers for the performers. Tack Kian met us later at the MRT.

When I set my eyes on TK, I knew he looked different. He wasn't the upbeat and happy-going senior that I'm used to. Rushing to finish scholarship applications might be the major reason why he was sian diao today, but then I realized later that the reason he has toned down was because of NS. Somehow, when I was talking to him about NS, I realized that he was rather unhappy/sian diao because of NS. I wonder whether maybe he was just tired from completing scholarship appilcations, or maybe he was really unhappu about NS. Hope the old and cheerful Tack Kian will be back soon.

We made our way to RP's Cultural Centre. We managed to get into hall right before the performance started. The opening contemporary item was rather good, but things just went downhill from there. The play was bogged with lousy acting, poor dancing, tuneless singing and horrendous stooryline progression. It was rather painful for someone that had theatre experience to endure the poor script delivery. I literally cringe when the actors stutter while Sali was laughing away.

The problem with the play is that the actors are amateurs, and they can't dance well. According to Nic.tay, who choreographed some of the dance items, most if not all of the actors had no dance background. This was probably because the actors were casted first before they auditioned the dancers. So you could imagine how bad the dancing was. SometimesMost of the time, I couldn't even make out their moves and most of them weren't even on beat, let alone being synchronized.

It was quite a waste really, because there are quite a few of MAD seniors in the musical, but most of them became choreographers or just calefares. I think the musical would have been better if the actors are more professional and if the MAD seniors are allowed to dance and act.
Heck, I don't even know why the lead male chracter was chosen!!! His acting was seriously fucking horrendous and he stutters ALOT! N-n-n-ow if y-you rea-rea-lly w-want a stu-stut-te-ring pr-pr-prin-ce, y-you co-uld al-al-ways g-go f-for a par-par-rot-rot. In fact, even parrots don't stutter that much.

Oh, I haven't even talk about the singing! Most of the singing were out-of-tunenot anywhere near on tune. I bet I bring my grandma to Kbox and she would stil sing better than the people in the musical. Urgh!!!

And the storyline progresses too fast at times, and too slow at other times. It was rather frustrating actually, because the storyline was actually quite good -- minus the lousy acting and dancing. Things were so bad that Sali, Su Hui, Wilson, Tack Kian and I were contemplating making our own musical halfway throughout the show.

That's not to say there's nothing good from the musical. For one, the music was composed by Daniel and his songs were dope! I really like his songs because they are very original. I also like the sets coz they looked quite good, though I think it could have been better. Though most of the actors can't act (what an oxymoron), there are a few outstanding actors among them. The fairy godmother, Big Mama and Stink deserve praises for their acting. Those 3 are probably the most entertaining and professional actors on stage. And some of the dance items were quite okay, though admittedly it's those that involve the dance seniors.

In the end, I felt that the musical didn't justify the ticket price. I wasn't getting what I paid for, so I felt kinda like I got cheated.

However, the real takeaway tonight was probably the time I spent hanging out with and catching up with the seniors. I really missed them alot since their graduation and funnily, I feel closer to them compared to some of the people in school. The last time I saw the dance gang was after the OSchool Recital, and 4 months had passed since then. Time sure flies. Some of the seniors have changed (some for the better, others for the worse), some still remained the same. Everytime I see the seniors, I feel like I'm JC1 again. Probably I'm still not used to being a senior.

Anyway, block test is coming in 2 more days and I haven't finished my revision. Been half-mugging and half-slacking these few days. Guess I'll have to go into full-mugger mode for the remaining days.

Till then, let fairy tales remain as fairy tales.

Of School & Block Tests....

Wow, it felt like ages since I actually visited my own blog, yet alone posting new content. But first, I want to say-----

Happy Birthday to my mum!

It was her birthday this past Wednesday, the first day of Block Test 1. I feel rather bad because I kinda forgotten about her birthday as I was busy preparing for Econs on Wednesday. It was till at night when my father called then I suddenly remembered it was my mum's birthday. But I swear I remember her birthday -- I even wrote it in my organizer!

Well, anyway, I think this blog WAS dead. My previous update was more than a month ago. I think JC2 life is rather demanding, in the sense that you need to manage your time properly if you want to have enough time to do everything you wanna do in a day. Sadly, my blog was cast aside as I struggle to complete my tutorials, study for block tests, dance, play games (hey, everyone needs some time off right?) and rest.

Maybe it's kinda hard for you guys to get a sense of my schedule by only reading this blog. Basically, I have something on almost every weekday after school, on top having to complete tutorials and study for tests. My schedule goes something like this:

Monday -- School ends at 3pm; Ryan's LA/Lyrical Hip Hop Course at 7pm
Tuesday -- School ends at 11.30am
Wednesday -- School ends at 2.00pm; Badminton Recreational session from 2.30-4.30pm
Thursday -- School ends at 2.00pm; Ryan's Lyrical Hip Hop open class at 8pm
Friday -- School ends at 2.30pm; Bad Rec session from 2.30-4.30pm

Basically, other than Tuesday, I would have something on after school. This can get kinda hectic, especially when tutorials are piling up at the speed of light. That's not to say I don't complete my tutorial -- in fact, I usually complete ALL of my tutorials on time. But the amount of work to be done is plain crazy. Furthermore, the teachers are spamming tests in the weeks leading up to Block Test 1 (BT1). I had 3 freaking Geog Tests, 1 Chem class test and 1 Econs lecture test in the 3 weeks before the start of BT1. What the fuck, teachers. Mercy.

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So far, BT1 has been something like this: O.o

BT1 started on Wednesday. GP was the first subject to be tested, and I can safely I fucking screwed up GP. Big time. For the first time, I couldn't finish my freaking GP essay!!! Like WTF right? I think my brain wasn't really in an optimized state to take a test, so I couldn't finish writing my essay consequently.

GP comprehension paper was.......interesting and intriguing. The passage given deals with a topic most teenagers (and maybe even adults) would be excited about: pornography and obscenity. There was this paragraph that went something like this: Viewing of pornography would induce "sexual regression", as individuals would try to achieve a sense of "self-gratification". My initial reaction when I understood the sentence was O.o. In other words, the author was implicitly stating that people who watches porn would masturbate, which would cause them to shy away from having sex since they can satisfy themselves. I totally wanted to burst out laughing.

Oh, and then there was the summary. Try to rephrase this point: "........is why people don't have sex in the public". One of my classmates (I won't say who) offered a direct answer: "......is the reason you won't find people fucking in the outdoors. I was laughing like crazy from that one.

But sadly, I didn't have time to finish the application question (which is something like an essay). The comprehension questions are also killer questions. Sigh. There goes my hope of getting C for GP.

On a lighter note, I did much better for Econs today. The essay questions are not particularly hard, especially when I have studied for Econs. I managed to finish writing 3 essays (or sub-parts), but I was writing my last essay halfway when the time was up. Even then, my essays are sufficiently long to get me what I hope to be a pass. I really hope I can get C or D for Econs this time round.

I have no paper tomorrow, so I think I'll spend the day mugging for the remaining 3 subjects, which are Chem, Math and Geog.

Actually, I have tons more to blog about, but I think I'll blog about them tomorrow after I finish revising. Danced for the whole afternoon and evening today. So come by tomorrow where I will be talking about more interesting stuff if my school life is not of your enjoyment.

Till then, I wish everyone good luck for Physics and Literature test tomorrow!

The Other Half

In my last post, I talked about school and how I spent my CNY. So it made sense that this update would be about my current status in dance and some other random stuff.

So what have I been doing in the world of dance?

As some of you know, I signed up for Ryan's LA/Lyrical Hip Hop I course, which actually commenced last Monday. I was just on time for the class and I went in to the studio. To my surprise, I find 5 other recital mates inside! Apparently, Felicia, Jia Xin, Kai Yin, Kelvin and Cherie also signed up for the same course! I thought I would only know Andrew in the whole class (Andrew is one of my graduated seniors, for the ppl who don't know), since he signed up with me.

Instead of "Hi!", the first thing I said to my recital mates was "Did you guys planned to come together or something?", to which they replied "No, it was all a coincidence". It was a pleasant coincidence, that's for sure. I haven't seen my recital mates in like ages, ever since the O School Recital last December. I learnt that there would be more recital mates in the class if the course have not been fully booked so fast; Farah and Helena wanted to join the course too!

Anyway, I think the course has helped me alot in improving my dancing. Unlike his open class, where he would be teaching the choreo very fast since he expects you to know the fundamentals, Ryan actually take alot of time to explain the details and mistakes in his course. In just 2 sessions, he already taught a handful of techniques and a choreo, and he wants us to practice for the next lesson. Guess I need to hit the PE studio tomorrow. Lol.

On top of the course, I still go for Ryan's Lyrical HH open class as usual. Last Thursday's choreo was probably THE hardest one I've learnt so far. He used the song "Angel" by Natasha Bedingfield. I tell you, even the pro ppl in the class have difficulties in learning the choreo, so you can infer that a noob like me totally died in that class. I forgot some steps here and there, and I couldn't catch the rhythm for some parts of the choreo. Just wait till he uploads the video on Youtube.

As promised, here's Ryan's choreo to Britney Spears' "Circus"--



Can't wait for his next open class!

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Oh, I have a Sec 4 junior who's actually interested in Hip Hop! He actually asked me to teach him! LOL. My initial reaction was O_O because I think maybe I shouldn't be teaching him because I'm unsure of some of the fundamentals and I'm afraid I'll teach him the wrong stuff. But after some thinking, I guess maybe there's no harm in exposing him to Hip Hop. Plus, he's interested in Popping too! And he actually wanna go to O School and learn.

It's hard to find a junior from the High School Section who's actually really interested in Hip Hop. Most juniors are interested in BBoy, because they wanna learn all the power moves and show off, but they have no idea what Bboy actually is. For retards ppl like these, who doesn't boter to find out what bboy really is about, I happily defer them to the MAD Bboys coz I'm quite sure the bboys would have a "good" time giving them a crash course.

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I found out yesterday what a small country Singapore really is.

Last Thursday, after Ryan's open class, I found out Cherie actually knows Hiroshi, which is my Geog Tutorial classmate.

I was studying with Ie Ching at KAP when I found out my OGL's ex-boyfriend knows Ie Ching and they were from the same class! I totally went O_o'''.

Then today Jin Xiang told me Heng Yang, who's one of my Malaysian Scholar junior, and also happens to be in my junior class, is actually his cousin. That one I said "WTF?!" in the middle of a lecture. Thank god Miss Lim didn't catch it.

The connectivity between ppl in the modern age is quite extraodinary. Ppl that you thought have no connection whatsoever between them actually turned out to be friends or relatives.

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Let me introduce a new game to play on your PSP, if you have one. It's called "Dissidia Final Fantasy". It's a new game from the geniuses which brought Kingdom Hearts series and the Final Fantasy series, SquareEnix.

This is really a dope game! The game features an all-star cast like Cloud & Sephiroth from FFVII and Tidus & Jecht from FFX. What's cooler is it's battle system. Check out the gameplay video--



During my free time, in-between lectures and tutorials (and sometimes even durng tutorials!), I would even play this game. It's freaking addictive coz it's damn fun. Mum, Dad, relax, I still got finish my tutorials before I start playing. Haha.

Anyway, I guess that's all for today.

It's another day of school.......

Heartbeat

Wow, I haven't been to my own blog in like...........ages! In case you're wondering--

NO, THIS BLOG NOT DEAD!

Lol. Though there are quite a few things going on in my life, but it's not like I don't have the time to blog, but I think maybe it's because I have gotten used to not blogging for some time already. So after realizing this, I decided I would update as often as possible.

With the renewing of my commitment to this blog, I decided it's time for me to change the blog title. Readers of this blog would remember the old title -- "Don't sweat the technique!" -- which means not to focus too much on the technicalities of life and just live it! Interestingly, since the starting of this blog, I've had quite a number of people asking me what that phrase meant. Lol. There you have it. Haha.

"The Dancer's Rhythmic Heartbeat"

It took me a while to think of that title. I wanted this change of title to signify my journey and growth thru dance. When I just started dancing about one year ago, I am always told by Daniel, my hip hop instructor who's now in LA, that I shouldn't think too much of the technique and just...you know...dance. Fast forward one year later, I have understood what he meant.

Dancing is not about impressing others. Yes, impressing and entertaining people comes with the package, that's the role of a performing art. But as I continued dancing, I realized dancing is about materializing the music using one's body. To feel the music, dance, and touch others -- that is the true purpose of dancing. It's music made visible.

Now, whenever I listen to songs, I would subconsciously move my body to the music. On the MRT; on the bus; in my room; it doesn't matter where, but I couldn't really stop myself. When the music comes on, and the rhythm kicks in and resonates with my heartbeat, then I would start to move my body. I bet there are many dancers out there that share the same "problem" too.

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CNY was quite a blast this time round.

Drank some booze, visited lots of relatives, and gambled a little here and there. It's part and parcel of the joy of CNY. Contrary to the popular belief, no, I don't feel more relaxed and recharged even though I had a few more extra days. In fact, I think it's even more hectic than the previous year's. The amount of travelling was insane and my legs were going numb with inactivity. I think I almost fell sick actually, but thank god I didn't.

The food and snacks were delicious as usual. (What do you expect? It's Malaysian food. Lol.)

But the biggest surprise actually comes from my grandfather. My grandfather (my mum's father) was quite sick when I last saw him. But now, he actually out on quite some weight and is active again. I guess miracles do happen. I was quite relieved to see him well and active when I went back to my mum's hometown.

One of the interesting thing that happened during CNY was I finally got to learn the truth about my extended family. It was really a very long story, and I would like to typed it out on this blog, but maybe some time later. My dad broke the story down to a few parts and told me and my bro. Suddenly, everything makes alot of sense.

Last but not least, I got to celebrate CNY with my close Malaysian friends this time round. I guess I won't be seeing them till the June holidays.

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School is a peaceful affair. Somewhat.

I think this year I get along with the guys in my class better, though sometimes the CT rep tend to target his insults at me for no reason at all. The amount of tutorials given (especially from the geog teachers) are more, and the pace of the lectures are getting faster, coz this IS the last year of JC afterall. Surprisingly, the stress is not as heavy as I thought it would be. It's inevitable that JC2 students will experience a certain stress level, but it's not as high as I expected to be, at least for now.

I seriously think I am becoming some kind of a mugger. Lol.

School would have been peaceful............without the massive influx of JC1s, that is. Their orientation has started the past Monday. Hardly a day goes by without their cheers and screams disrupting tutorials. I bet that's how our seniors felt too. It's commonly agreed that many of the high school guys in the new batch of JC1s are posers. Most guys also find, the pretty girls can be very pretty and the ugly ones are on the fugly end of the spectrum. Lol.

Watching the soon-to-be JC1s going through orientation is kinda nostalgic. Makes me wanna go through the whole orientation again and play the awesome OG games like slippery slope and dodgeball. Funnily, looking at the juniors, I don't really feel like a senior -- yet. Probably the realization that it's our final year haven't really sunk in yet.

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I actually have lots more to blog about, but I guess this is enough for today. If you managed to finish reading my wordy post, then kudos to you. Not many people can do that, you know. Haha.

Till then, may you find your own rhythm in life.

A Long Update

OMG! I haven't blogged for so long that I have even kinda forgotten what it feels like to blog regularly! And since I haven't blog for like 3 weeks or so, I have tons to update on. So this is probably going to be a very, very long post. I will split this post into different sections so you guys can skip to the ones that interests/concerns you the most.

Before I get to them, I wanna say--

Happy belated birthday to Bing Yeow, Jia Yun, Wang Yi, and Nik!

And--

Happy birthday to my dance buddy, Diana!

Also--

Happy Chinese "Moo" Year to you guys too!

Lol, these birthday wishes have been accumulating since I haven't been blogging for such a LONG time. I've really wanted to wish them on my blog on their respective birthdays but I couldn't since I didn't really have the time and the access too.

Anyway, I've gotten back my laptop! Full repaired! So my comp is not the freaking lagging laptop that took like an eternity to start up and another eternity to sign in to MSN. Whoo!

BUT---

My hard drive has been replaced too. All my songs, videos, and photos are all gone!!! See, the person who said there's two sides of a coin is a genius. So now I have only what was in my PSP! Guess I just need to spend my free time downloading all the lost stuff. What a good way to spend the new year, don't you agree?

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School has been okay up till now, though there's a hint of the hecticness of the future. I really like my timetable! My latest day ends at 2.30pm, which leaves alot of time for everything else. I have a new Chem teacher, which is also my new form teacher, a new GP teacher, and also 2 new Geog teachers (one for Human and Physical Geog). Along with the change in teachers, Geog went from the slackest subject to the most intensive. The amount of tutorials is kinda crazy.

Oh yeah, I've decided to get myself a CCA, which is---

Wait for it--

Recreational badminton! I bet there are ppl who are reading this expected it to be MAD. My form teacher and GP teacher has been bugging me to get a CCA, so I thought maybe I should join just to avoid questions.

"Why not MAD then?", some of you might wonder. The answer is this -- apparently the MAD Exco decided they won't accept J2s. It was decided by the head of each divisions, and each of them had their own reasons. But for Hip Hop, it was more or less because "the standard is rather low" so they feel they want to "focus on the current members".

But after talking to some of the Exco members, I realized that that wasn't the real reason. The real reason was because they want to keep ppl out of the Hip Hop division. I know there are a few ppl that they don't want them to be in, but what I don't know is whether I'm on the list. But whatever it is, I'm still subjected to the same political barrier anyway.

Actually, I thought a CCA was supposed to be in a club where members gather because they share the same passion. I guess I'm wrong. Nic. Tay told me "MAD is not a crew; it's a CCA". I guess she's right. Actually, I wouldn't have asked to join if my teachers weren't bugging me about it. At least I tried. I'm quite sure I'll be asked questions by MAD members and classmates alike after I post this up, but seriously, I don't really give a fuck care about it.

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CNY celebration in school was quite......err.....interesting. The performances were rather dull IMO, but my class stall was interesting. Since we've so lazy to think of things to sell, we have decided to have a garage sale, so everyone brought their unwanted stuff and jus try to sell. And Yu Wei was going around and "fortune telling" but he managed to earn some cash. In the end, we ended up earing more cash than last year's street market stall. Btw, did I mentioned how privileged I feel to be the only batch of students to do 2 street market stalls throughout JC? Wow, I feel honoured man.

Oh yeah, did I mentioned we sold hugs and kisses too? Augustine and Bing Yeow managed to earn some cash out of it too (I mean hugging). But the whole thing led to a very funny situation when the bboys dragged Si Quan to our stall and dared him to kiss Ningxin. I was laughing like crazy from that one.

But I was very happy to see Casey, Nic. Tay and Sali on that day! I haven't seen them since the MAD senior chalet, and I definitely didn't expect them to be there. Nic. Tay was squealing when she saw me. I really missed their company in the PE studio. Too bad Tack Kian and Wilson weren't there.

After the celebration ended, I went to RUA to learn the Athena'09 fac dance from Karlton. finished learning within a few hours! Phew! I like this year's one better, and it's nicer and simpler from the previous one! You guys will just have to see for yourself.

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Talking bout dance, I can't wait for Ryan's LA/Lyrical Hip Hop course to start! It starts on 2nd Feb, and I am excited to learn the basics from Ryan, the dope "old man" himself.

Meanwhile, I went for his open classes as usual. Check out his choreo to "Eat You Up" by BOA--



He also used Britney Spear's Circus in his latest class, but he haven't uploaded the video yet. His choreo to that is equally dope! Props to "Oldman"Ryan!

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Thanks Diana for inviting me to watch the popping battle last Tuesday! It was really damn dope, even considering that you guys are just in the Popping I. Michael is dope, that is a given! I wish I could learn popping from him after watching you guys battle it out. Now, if only the fee is not exortbitant...

Anyway, enjoy the Chinese New Year!