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Hello!!Oh yes Dajie i finally checked my email n saw e invite..haha..so here's my first post=)

Everyone's grumbling bout J1 dance..lol..or shud i say Ms Chen's dance..now we've gotta go early in e mornin to practise at e PE block too..*rolls on the floor* Some kind soul pls help drop me a reminder..heh..thanks^-^ 6.50am!!so early..at this time im usually still hving breakfast on the bus 151..with Nick snoring away somewhere in the back seat..lol..

Our big performance gonna be in less than a month's time..so exciting!but with all the fantastic moves in our hiphop dances..it's really tough on the bones too..ouch!!
Namely:
1) Butt bone (from rocking back and forth on the floor too much..)
2) Knee bone (omg..we turned like nearly a total of 3600 degrees in total and still countin..my right knee is protruding..)
3) Collar bone (gosh..is the wooden fan too hard or izzit just my delicate bone?)
4) Funny bone (too much laughing at lameness..retarded MrBean-like moves..Kel's incredibly flexible Eh-hm..Butt..lol)

Anyway so far dance night includes how many dances?There's J1 hiphop (intro item i heard..aah..the pressure's on..) , FAN dance, chair dance, latin, lyrical jazz, care-brr-ray (dunno how to spell) , ballet, hiphop battle, break..break battle..n more break..is there anything missing from e list? Must promote and advertise more..I think im gonna ask my whole family to go..HaHa XD Cant imagine my ahGong ahMa rocking and grooving to the music..

OH and helpin Nick remind u guys..we each fork out abit for Keagan's bdae cake ya?bring next week.. Yup.. and so have a Happy Labour Day holiday!! Woohoo..

yeaa about the 5 of us getting out of the dance, don't get too upset la. as it it might be for the better. ms chen didn't do it out of a fit of anger or anything, it's just the practical decision to make at this point.

ya, as liewqi pointed out, so far we haven't been missing that many practs, and there've been others who've also been absent many times. but precisely because there're already enough people missing practs without the latin people around, we can't afford to risk having even more people being absent.

it's kinda cruel to do this when it's so near to dance night, but this is one of those better-late-than-never things. we could continue to press on like that trying to pia everything, but it might turn out that we have 2 low-quality dances. so take us out now, make sure from now onwards everyone works supersuper hard, and we'll have 2 gooooood dances. so hey, it could be for the better!

i guess the deciding factor was that on Mondays we have latin pract, and now we're adding on Thursdays too, which is the day that ms chen wants full attendance. and as we all know at this stage you can't do without full attendance already. cuz we're doign blocking and fine-tuning. so ya if one of the practs had been on another day we prob still can do la. but weeeelllllll. looks like neither one of the instructors wanna change date. so this is the only thing we can do to ensure good performances lor.

duno abt the rest, but for me, better dance with everyone else for these few mths and get kicked out later than not be in the dance at all. at least we had that period of time to interact and stuff. now we just have to get more focused and rmb that whatever happens, it's all for dance night la.

1 mth left. 4 weeks, prob around 6 practs (must rmb we still have to do fulldressrehearsals).

sooo JIAYOU!

we can do it =)

WHAT?!? the latin ppl are no longer in the j1 dance?!?
oh man am i like the last to know?
gosh i feel everything falling apart suddenly..
it feels so empty without them!! no longer complete!
i mean it's J1 dance n it turns out to be..
how many are left in the dance?
but the show must go on.
can't imagine pracs without u guys.. ='(

perhaps sometimes things just can't turn out the way we want them to..
but still i find it hard to acknowledge that..

sometimes i just feel like i'm a total failure..
i noe i'm not tt great in dancing so i practise at home..
but nothing seems to go right anyway..
but i'll con't doing tt.. hopefully it'll work someday..

=== a completely screwed week ===

Hiya, maiden post here! =) just finished updating my own blog so might as wellpost here too.

Hmmms, dun dwell too much on the fact tht the 5 of us are booted lahz. Tried our best to fight the case but some complications are beyond our control. Esp if you have an overcomitted teacher in charge. Nevertheless, what's done is done and the sooner the matter is put to rest the better it is for all of us so tht we can all focus and put our attention where it should be instead of bickering xP

Jia yous J1s! No attendance taking also must go ok! =D tht was absolutely redundant cos I trust you guys to noe how impt tht is more than anything else.

Take comfort in the fact tht you guys have had a few months to prepare for your maiden performance!

If there is anything i can advise on, it's to enjoy dance and your time on stage =)

Practise hard! Got time do basics at home, keep drilling routine per se won't get you very far.

I can't believe Ms Chen cut the latin people for J1 dance!!! It's not like they're missing most of the practices, if anything, some people who don't even have latin are not even turning up as often as those who do!! And by cutting them out of the dance, it's like wasting their time --"

I'm still worried for J1 dance. We haven't finished learning the dance, and we don't have enough time to practice... I swear after my soccer matches end I will stay back in school every day to practice. Who's with me?

Anyway, I want my MAD shirt!!! I've seen the other people have gotten it already! Where do you guys get your shirts from anyway?

SICK.
ARGHH. wanna practise dance but my health isn't doing me any good.
muz be tt i've tired myself out.

dunno why.. i'm feeling dis sudden surge of sadness..

guess it's almost the same for everyone..
tests are stressing us up..
workload is getting real heavy..
i'm finding it difficult to balance my work n play..
sometimes i juz need to find some breathing space..

but there's always dance.
tink it's where i'm most relaxed (mentally)..
though sometimes it gets a bit physically straining..
it's still where i enjoy myself the most..
chatting a.k.a gossiping with the gals..
it's juz these small n tiny things tt fill my empty life.

jiayou everyone!!
dance night's coming real soon..
see how costumes are getting ready.. =)
looks like we can't afford to slack anymore in pracs..
we muz aim to achieve 100% turn-up rate for all pracs!!
we muz persevere!

Hey how come nobody posted about the outing? Waiting for me ah? Oh well...

IT RAINED VERY HEAVILY.
Liu Qian, Michelle, Nicholas and I had to share ONE umbrella, so Nicholas ferried us back and forth, then he also went to ferry Serene who came from Orchard MRT.

Take the Lead was excellent. The dance choreography was really good! My favourite dancer is Sasha, although the stuck up Morgan was also damn good. =)=) Antonio Bandaras plays up to his role veeeery well.

After the movie we went to Kino for Liu Qian to get her KI books (in the end she couldn't find them), then we went to Marina Square for dinner.

We had dinner at Pizza Hut! I was really hungry by then, so I got the Family meal with Kegan, Nicholas and Hui Yan plus added drumlets. Had a great time chitchatting during dinner. By the time dinner ended it was almost time for me to go, so Serene, Alicia and I went down to Secret Recipe for dessert (welllll actually Alicia and I had dessert; Serene had other things to do, like taking a TABLOID photo from the second floor of someone)

If I'm not wrong, Kegan, Hui Yan, Nicholas and Kelvin only started bowling when I reached home o.O

we were talking about this today-

since our announcement didn't go that well, how abt another publicity stint? dance something we're gonna perform - not the whole thing, just a teaser. it'll be better since we've practised for longer. like just move some good speakers to the central plaza, play music, dance a bit before/after school or something. can do it la a few times over the week, diff types of dances, or if that's too big then just do it one day or smth lor

possible? =\ just think that announcement didn't really do us/dance night justice

Hey! I was thinking tomorrow since Ms Chen says she will start late, maybe we order pizza or something... I'm damn sian of Serene (Centre, not Serene herself haha) What do you guys think?

Today Cheryl and I taught Gaby the J1 dance, then later I had to go for soccer training. Today soccer was a bit scary cause I kept getting yelled at T_T They made me play midfield first, then striker, then defender, then back to striker and midfield. Very confusing. Almost 4 hours of training, damn tired. Matches coming in late April... and then I don't even know whether I want to play lah.

Ahhh why am I talking about soccer in the MAD blog? Okay okay don't worry guys, no matter what MAD will always come first (much to the dismay of my soccer seniors)

The morning announcement today was... sudden? The people at the right wing were momentarily stunned when the music played, hahaha then the music was a bit soft, but I think we did alright =) I'm like trying to get all my friends to come for Dance Night =) =)

I just got home from Parents' Night. I had to force my parents to go lah, since they always don't understand my subject combination stuff. After Parents' Night I asked my dad what he thought about it, and you know what he said?? He was like, HEY your GP teacher looks like YODA!

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today was announcement dance..
b4 assembly.. haha.. dno why juz got nervous for some reason..
most of us actually.. haha..
so nervous tt little things 'shocked' us so much..
e.g. liuqian runnin to the toilet a min b4 the dance.
all of us screamed n tried to get her back!!
(she was juz gg to the toilet for a second.) =P

den the music played! (out of nowhere)
ppl on my wing cld not catch it..
until "warning warning.. warning.."
we started panicking n pushing each other out n getting into formation.
den the dance. as i anticipated, it was OVER. juz like that.
we walked out.. dno how to feel.. relieved?
den vincent went: "shit. i saw the other wing.. they were like so messy.. esp tt part.. it looked lyk chicken wings!..."

we began to doubt ourselves.

den came ms chen saying "good job!"
was she juz trying to encourage us or it was truly ok?

till we met the ppl on the other side of the wing..
they said that the ppl on my wing lagged too..
perhaps it's a good thing tt not many ppl realised tt there were ppl standing above the wings..
guess most of them were looking at the bridge..
*spared me frm some teasing frm my classmates.. but somehow some still spotted me! oh so paiseh..*

during dance prac.. heard some comments..
perhaps u ppl got some disappointing comments frm ur frens or sth..
but dun be discouraged my frens!!
considering it's our 1st time.. not bad alr!!
i'm sure we can do much better.. and WE WILL!
so continue to jiayou!! =)

yo yoz! wow.. cool.. nice blog! thanks so much to kelvin n liew qi for putting the effort to make this blog.. finally got a dance blog of our own.. well, my fellow dance mates!!! n juniors!! this is the chance to let everyone know more abt each other! haha as well as know more abt wats going on for dance night. surely u all wanna hav a better idea of wat we gonna do for dance night right? we will start posting like the script, wat we gonna do, updates n etc etc.. so pls visit the blog more often ya? lets jia you for the upcoming concert n hope it will be a great success!! rmb to publicise it to all ur frens!!!! :)

oh yeaaah we've got a blog. how abt a list of links smwhere? i only know these adds:

liewqi - http://www.sixseven.org / LJ?
meiling - http://esh-ana.livejournal.com/
liuqian - http://_alegria.livejournal.com/
ainan - http://insouciant-me.livejournal.com/
kelvin - http://azurefroz.livejournal.com/
nicholas - http://melancholictang.livejournal.com/
vincent - http://users.livejournal.com/vicente__/
kegan - http://kegano.blogspot.com/
birong - http://double-5double-6.blogspot.com/

Yay I finished the template for this blog! ^^"
I'm getting faster. 3 hours was spent on this.

As you can see now, the content area is short cause there are not a lot of posts as of yet...

I hope you guys like brown. Today is a brown day for me. Imagine if it were a purple day. Then this whole layout would be purple!

I have no idea what to add on the sidebar, shall wait for Kelvin to give me more details... I totally redid his layout. Kel! I hope you don't mind cause I'm too lazy to go through your HTML.

Oh yes. Comment on the layout! Hate it? Like it? If not you guys will have to live with it.