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heyy! today's dance prac was rather fruitful ya!
haha had a great time learning new choreo! haha!
have to keep practising to get the moves!
heh spent our time laughing at the 3guys choreo too!

dumb, dumber and dumbest
= shiuyuen, vincent and nicholas!

then the 5 of us went to black canyon for lunch..
after which we went to catch a movie at plaza sing..
hehheh.. guess what?
2guys: nicholas & shiuyuen
+3girls: lim mian, cheryl & i
went to catch the movie.........
OVER THE HEDGE!!
haha the audience was made up of mostly young adults surprisingly!
so we're not odd ppl watching some cartoon or wad! haha!
the movie was damn NICE!! had a great time laughing!
the soundtracks are nice too! now i onli rmb "lost in a supermarket"!
oh no.. hmm nicholas u rmb or not?
haha great we stayed to catch the funny part at the VERY END!
haha nicholas is pro la.. know tt got such funny things at the end one.. i nv knew! haha..
then 5 broke hc students went food junction for dinner, having nicholas finishing up lim mian and my noodles! oh man we were all in AWE. stunned. metabolism rate he says. ha. and when nicholas says broke, he means really BROKE, with NO MONEY left! i tink not even 10cents ah! haha.. guys seriously spend a lot on food hor!

on my way back home, i was looking into the sky and guess what! the moon was so 'incomplete'! which means RJ has lots of time to collect food for vincent(not the m.a.d one.. it's a BIG BROWN BEAR)! haha lame. =P

then i was munching on some potato chips when i reached home! all the scenes of the movie juz surfaced! haha damn funny!

feeling rather bad now.. we're having so much fun here while liewqi n kelvin suffer at their hiong camp, gg to bed onli at 1.30am! ah tink they're having fun too la! hope to see u guys back soon thurs! =)

yep tt's all la! haha! had a great day today tho i was sick but still prac until i broke out into cold sweat den still went out havoc! heehee! naughty n MAD girl. looking forward to the upcoming movie marathon when meiling returns frm OCIP! =)

heyy J1s! for the 10june performance, we're starting dance prac tmr!
30May 10am rua
just in case u guys haven seen the tagboard..
mayb i'll state it clearer..
we're doing KC dance (mostly 2nd song part)
+new choreo by the 8 of us..
to the song: i like that you can't take that away from me (by jae millz, june christy, eric b and mashonda) frm Take The Lead.

the new choreo goes like this:
0.01-0.19[CLARICE]
0.20-0.35[SHIUYUEN]
0.36-0.50[LIUQIAN]
0.51-1.08[SERENE]
1.09-1.24[LIEWQI]
1.25-1.42[ALICIA]
1.43-1.58[LIM MIAN]
1.59-2.14[KELVIN]
have fun choreographing!! i shall start right after posting this.. haha.

thanks to clarice for doing the distribution! yep we'll see how it goes tmr! hope everything will turn out fine n NICE! =)
so tt's all.. see u guys tmr!

heyy ppl! the performance on 10june is on k!! so..
after much discussion with clarice.. we've decided:
J1 meeting, 29 May 10am RUA
will discuss abt music, parts of dances to incorporate, costume etc.
no worries for apollo fac ppl.. liewqi n i will keep them informed of wad is discussed.

as for music, 2 choices:
(1) use a totally different music but use our dance steps
(2) try mixing the current dance music n make them NOT sound weird tgt
pls think abt it and we'll poll on 29th..

btw clarice and i found out tt 30MAY & 3JUNE are the onli 2days where there are NO faculty camps.. not a very good news but.. we just got to adjust..
pls keep these 2 days free as they will be "everyone-prac-day"..
as for the rest of the days.. onli those who have fac camps n OFFICIAL reasons (eg Centad, TAG, overseas) will be excused.. if not every1 MUST come down for prac k!!
we have to work hard to make this, our FIRST performance GOOD!!

btw i've sent all j1s the MAD J1s telephone relay system with all the tel numbers alr.. more convenient for u guys la.. go check ur emails for it k!

JIAYOU EVERYONE! see u guys soon! =)

heyy! kelvin n i decided to come up with a j1 telephone relay system so passing msg wld be an easier thing n to ensure tt everyone receives the msg.. so it goes like this:

Grp 1: Serene - Alicia - Pamela - Charmaine - Clarice - Samantha Tay
Grp 2: Kelvin - Jolene - Shiuyuen - Vincent - Ainan
Grp 3: Nicholas - Meiling - Liuqian - Qingyan - Lim Mian - Melissa
Grp 4: Liewqi - Cheryl - Michelle - Gaby - Liulu - Yubai

eh no offence or anythg cuz i tink kelvin nicholas liewqi n i have been msging ard so yup.. okok? this tel network is i random one.. if any1 objects to it then tell me la i can make changes. =) if not, pls try to stick to this tel relay so passing msg wld be more efficient! so if any of u has any msg to pass ard.. juz pass it to kelvin nicholas liewqi n i and we'll just follow the tel network k! thanks!
(if u guys need the hp/home no of the person down the list, refer to the mad contact list i've sent u guys!)
p.s.: if the immediate person is uncontactable, pass the msg to the next and get back to him/her.. do not break the chain! thanks! =)

hey guys i heard the chalet's cancelled coz most j1s prefer it to be at the end of the year (a.k.a. after alvls)...and they have camp 1st wksden last 2 wks j2s have to pia for blocks also...

so i'm thinking if u guys wanna have BBQ at my place (hume avenue, upper bkt timah) on the11th?? i've booked the bbq pits and multipurpose hall but i have to confirm them like in these two days...so quick gather replies!!

eh but if the chalet's STILL ON den of course chalet lar!

(ps: prepare bbq must prepare tgt hor, not just me lor haha)

love, hui yan

eeyer!! i'm still blasting the diff dance music on my com!
everytime the finale song plays, i'll imagine myself in the spotlight n how we hop on stage!
arh then hearing the lyrical jazz music.. i'll tink of myself backstage getting ready for j1 dance.
den the fandance music.. i'll feel lyk lifing my butt n doing the dance!
lastly the ppt song.. i'll be missing you.. real saddening.. i'll view all my photos taken on dance night along with it n i'll feel lyk crying.. =(

i just can't put it behind me! luckily this wk's sabbaticals or else i'll juz fail all my tests horribly.. i'm lyk tinking of Dance Night day n night la! lyk some kind of obssession.. is sth wrong with me?

this morning met huiyan kegan germaine birong n michelle.. tho din really tok but seeing them was an extremely happy thing for me.. den sat at my class bench toking to david vinci alice n a bit to kelvin.. chatting so happily.. hugged amanda n sadness suddenly surged.. felt even sadder that seniors leaving soon.. haiz.

then met nicholas n ainan at my class bench b4 i left for sabbaticals.. i screamed n proclaimed how VERY MUCH i MISS THEM!! arh! n it's lyk only 2DAYS but it seemed SO LONG!! well it's not lyk they're leaving or sth but.. it's juz some kind of "everything has ended" mentality.. arh.. i tink it'll take me ages to get over this..

tink all of us wanna take turns opening rua n practise dances for the fun of it la.. seriously felt funny not having any dance pracs! tink it has become lyk our daily routine or sth.. really looking forward to resume dance pracs!

for everything else.. juz wanna say tt i'm really glad to have known u guys n worked hard for dance night with u guys! my life couldn't have been this complete without u guys! serious! a big thank you to seniors for guiding me all along.. huiyan esp for showering praises n encouragement every now n then.. n all the other seniors.. it was really happy working with u all! =)

DANCE NIGHT 2006 will forever be in my memories!

As Sam said, last night was totally MAGICAL.

I'm sure words can't describe what we all feel.

I'm so glad that we had a Dance Night to bring us all together as one driving force to accomplish something.

I'm sure we will all miss the seniors, so we should grab as many opportunities as we can to have outings together before the seniors get bogged down by the tests and prelims.

I miss everybody! I love everybody! I'm so happy!

Oh yes, Serene is making a contact list, so pass all your contact details to her ya? And I'm compiling photo album links so that we can put a little section in our blog sidebar and we can go view photos and laugh at ourselves.

I have a few photos here -> http://www.flickr.com/photos/65365711@N00/sets/72057594135574213/

I'm not really a camwhore, so I don't take a lot of pictures, but I'm sure some of you are! So show me your links!

(edit) A day has passed and I can't get Touch out of my mind. I've been looping the lyrical jazz song and our finale song again and again and again and again... (/edit)

And aren't we all excited!!!

... Actually I'm not feeling anything just yet. Maybe cause I slink around backstage a lot. Haha.

I don't really know what to post here, so I shall go on randomly.

CLOSE the backstage door after you go through it!
Shhhh when you're on stage.
Go back down immediately after your dance!

Doing stage managing brings back the days when I was in secondary school and I was somehow or another involved in drama productions under the consultation of Mr Tang. Karen and I were backstage most of the time, and we were talking about how Mr Tang will flip because he was really picky about stage transitions.

Stage managing aside, I think I've gotten to know the MAD people much better over the course of full rehearsals and whatnot! That's great!

Serene and I have started some Snack club! We're going to take turns bringing in snacks for practices in the future! Levina's mum makes us good food too.

My orange sweatshirt for J1 dance is super huuuuge. I can swim in it, do chinese dance with the long sleeves and jump off the staircase and probably not get hurt. Alicia and I choped the smiley face ones when we were carrying the stuff from PE dept.

Liu Qian tried teaching me the proper method to a body roll and I failed miserably. I tried practicing just now and I look jerky, my butt goes out at the wrong time and my arms now ache.

Ever since Pamela introduced the 151-53/81 route home I now have 11 ways to get home, and the 151 route is really fast! Even so I haven't been home before 9 all week... Except for today. When I called my mum to tell her that I was coming home she was like SO EARLY?! o.O
The 151-53/81 bus stop has this really cute cat that is forever there or something.

Okay I'm really talking a lot of nonsense now, shall go off to sleep soon. I like sleeping. I used to sleep at 10pm all the time whether I finished my homework or not. But lately I've been putting off the 10pm bedtime because usually at 10 I'm still on the way home from school.

HEYY! ytd was prac n fullrun rehearsal..
early in the morning we pia down to the hall..
only to realise tt the fan switches were in a switch box tt was LOCKED.
so the 6 of us.. gaby michelle cheryl liewqi qingyan n i practised in the hall without any fans.. *perspire perspire perspire*
then the fandance fans came to the rescue!!
hehe.. good news tt i had with me 5fans.. repaired 3 new fans n brought alicia n my paper fans.. haha so our little break was rather cooling..

at 10am i went to rua hoping to do fandance..
only to realise tt there's no fandance prac! cuz huiyan is busy with chair dance n battle was urgent.. so we practised on our own.. with lots of ppl in the rm.. +breakdancers..
then there was koon yu charmaine's classmate who sprained his ankle during prac.. n alicia was down with rashes. ppl muz really take care k!

then some of us j1s went out for lunch tho some of them juz ordered macs for breakfast.. we walked to serene's centre..
thanks to nicholas cuz he walked with me who isn't sensitive to traffic at all.. den nicholas complained of a stomachache.. thot it was nth serious but tink it got worse a while later.. but anyway he was ok by the time rehearsal started.
decided to eat at macs cuz we had very little time left (since most of them had bio lessons). they decided to take a bus back to be in time for lessons.. only kelvin RAN all the way back.. then ainan n i, the only 2 without bio, went to buy chicken rice for sylvester.. met charmaine n pamela outside 7-11 n we 4 walked back to sch tgt..

back in rua.. every1 was still busy with dance prac.. so pamela charmaine n i took a nap tho the music was very loud.. managed to have a good 15mins rest b4 the rehearsal started.. =P

lots of lighting n positioning stuff had to be done so.. it was rather sian n a lot of us joined the Club of Sleepiness. haha. not till we went to rua to practise item by item.. we began waking up. hehe. i suppose most of the ppl in the j1 dance r feeling qte bad cuz we tink tt our dance is not up to standard as compared to the rest of the beautiful dances.. however when nicholas kelvin charmaine n pamela told us tt the dance looked not bad.. we felt consoled. sadly for fandance, qingyan liuqian n i couldn't reach our positions on time.. the stage is too huge! haiz. gotta practise tt.

halfway there was this quarrel between a breakdance senior n a latin dance instructor.. cuz the girls were sitting in the middle n it started out lyk they were about to fight.. the girls were all so scared! or mayb it's just me.. heh. after the quarrel was over.. they sort of cooled down n talked things out.. with the help of the chao zai breakdance instructor.. then things were fine. i suppose.

cuz there were only 20packets of fried rice.. most of the j1s went to serene's centre again! haha had black canyon for dinner.. my table comprising of nicholas shiuyuen charmaine pamela n liewqi had so much fun! heehee.. toked abt how we sleep during lessons.. even came up with a very INGENIOUS excuse for dozing off.. [there's a mosquito on the table n i was trying to kill it with my head] -cuz my head is flatter than my palm- haha i laughed till i almost cried! haha.. crapped so much.. den toked abt more serious stuff.. i suddenly rmbed tt there was racial harmony performance n so we discussed wad we wanted to perform.. latin? battle? tink we settled on either chair dance or battle.. aft coming up with funny ideas lyk guys doing fandance or CABARET! haha! den shiuyuen was saying the guys' costume for cabaret wld be swimming trunks n goggles! can you imagine! haha! i certainly had a great time at dinner!

after dinner.. we split up to the different bus stops.. liewqi pamela nicholas n i walked to the bus stop tgt toking random stuff lyk rebonding hair n stuff. juz when we were a distance away frm the bus stop.. bus66 zoomed past n nicholas went screeching! haha. anyway all of us waited super long for our respective buses. mine came 1st! yay! haha reached home qte late.. ard 10 n surprising my mum was not angry! phew.
----------------------------------WHAT A DAY!!--------------------------------------

today i woke up realising tt i dreamt of M.A.D ppl! haha! muz be cuz i spent my whole of ytd with them.. vaguely rmb in my dreams, we were on a bus.. there was charmaine nicholas n kelvin .. crap la basically lyk most dreams r.. haha.. but thot it was qte amusing! haha! went for a slack session of fandance prac but we sure polished our moves.. juz realised dance night is a week away. so..
JIAYOU PEOPLE! WE CAN DO IT!

PLS READ.

some things do not have basis for comparison; some things do.
you can't compare the number, you can't compare the culture, you can't compare the history.
because history is what brews culture and number is the fruits of culture.

i can't remeber who but i think a few asked me why rj has so many dance talents. i said it's their culture. not seeing the link, they asked again, but why all of them are so impressive? well, i said, it's the culture which attracts the talents there. in other words, what builds up culture? talent and passion. what cultivates talents? culture and passion.
it's like the chicken and egg question. it's hard to tell which one comes first, but there's no doubt they belong together.

6 years ago i watched rj dance night for the first time (yes i was p6). compared to what rj dance has evolved to today, i'd say they've made big improvement, in terms of prestige and almost everything else. how many years have they taken? i've no idea.
In 2006, hwachong m.a.d. society organizes its inaugural dance night. first ever. it took much courage and determination to decide on it, and work towards it. it marks a new beginning.

we are the head, not the body. it's always more fatal to injure the head.

what i'm trying to say is, there's no point getting all worried and despondent about it. we are different in dance genres and styles, even with the same item concept we've come up with something that belongs more to us than theirs belong to them, and it is, too, presented in a different style altogether. i think that rj dance is very zai, especially chinese dance. the zaiest break guy was my pri sch classmate for 6 years and i know he's super-duper.
but these aren't my concern. my concern is, how much have they put into their preparation work; how many hours have they spent thinking about their performance and practising out of usual trainings; how much confidence they exude on stage, awing the audience with their energy and intensity.

if one is to just talk and do nothing, he/she is nothing. we often make the mistake of marvelling at others, forgetting to evaluate ourselves and hence remedy the situation.

we have a week left. all i am asking is for all of you to take this dance night more seriously then ever. no more excuses will be entertained. i would not allow people to leave early. tuitions/appointments etc, postpone it, skip it for once in your life. you won't die. it's just one week, one short week. i've made sacrifices myself, and i wouldn't say they are all wise, but i'm not the only one in control right now.

"practise at home" i always say, because i do it myself, and i trust you guys to do it. i can see who has done it and who hasn't, and sometimes i can't help but be very disappointed. i can be practising till 1am in the morning even though i have school the next day; i can be choreographing till 5am and go for dance practice early in the morning. some things don't come naturally many of us have to admit. things are not always as easy as it seems. no one EVER said it was easy. i'm not asking you to do the same, i'm just saying, passion and interest is nothing if you don't put in enough effort; you can find time if you want to.

i hope all of you can understand that being in the dance night exco we j2s have a much heavier workload than most of you, taking care of funds, audio, technical effects, choreography, props, admin work, the script, programme booklet, planning, etcetcetc. we have tutorials and tests, it's all the same.

So for these couple of days before our big day, i Urge all of you to give your ALL, and not hold back. Because if you do, not only do you not do justice to yourself, you are not doing justice to everyone else.

after dance night, let's all go out n havoc.

<3, hui yan
ps: drink more plain water and vit C so you won't get sick so easily.

<2 weeks left.

mon tues weds (4-8pm full run) thurs (1pm onwards full run) fri sat sun
mon tues weds (4pm onwards fulldress rehearsal) thurs fri sat

jiayou people!



a few things..

1. please do not fall sick. I fell sick a day before my previous dance night in NY and couldn't perform altho i also pia-ed like shit. =( don't let it happen! restrestrest when you can

2. must attend all practs esp the full runs/full dress rehearsals! when we go for those rmb things like where to enter/exit the stage, where to stand on stage, when you have to wait backstage, when you're gonna change costumes, how you can help other people change their costumes etc. imagine it's the real thing so when it really is the real thing you'll feel more familiar and confident.

3. most importantly. be excited, not nervous. and stay earnest and diligent, but please be confident and optimistic too!

confidence gives you that kind of x-factor and turns 'good' into 'great'. optimism drives us all the way ahead.. no point being dejected and not doing anything about it right? just do the best you can. =)

addoiladdoil. we can do it!

My thighs ache a lot.

But! The J1 dance seems to be shaping up! At least it looks like it has some sort of order... I hope. Although I still can't bring myself to do the dying cockroach... It's really weird =S

Tuesday practice was quite fun! Jolene brought honey stars and we were all trying to throw them in the air and catch them in our mouths! I succeeded after failing a lot of times XD

Thursday was the best practice cause everybody turned up! =) Which is always good, haha.

How was the RJC dance night? (for those who watched) Harmoc concert was okayyyy.