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DISCLAIMER: what is written here does NOT represent the views of Hwa Chong.

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I shall begin with a public service announcement.

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If you didn't know already, our hiphop IC of 06-07, Alicia has been nominated for the inter-JC pageant. You can click on the above link, go register for an account, and then vote for her. Voting is free and you can vote multiple times, which is such a lousy system because it means the person may get the most votes because someone can devote so much time to click for him/her. Or someone could hack easily and submit multiple votes to their databases. Whatever. Okay anyway just vote ya? It seems more fair that more people vote instead of a few just clicking away...

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Now I will move on to MAD as a whole. HELLO JUNIORS it has been great knowing all of you and you guys and girls have been wonderful in helping our CCA elevate in status. As a senior who managed to roughly survive her last year of JC, I shall attempt to give you advice on how to spend your J2 year. It's all simple advice really, I bet all of you will stone me for giving you stupid obvious advice but here goes...

1) PLEASE ATTEND YOUR DANCE TRAINING.
I was at the hiphop workshop last Sat and I'm sorry to say that attendance was pathetic. I ALWAYS see the same people about (which is good for them, I must say the lot of you have IMPROVED. VASTLY.) Don't be an irritating black sheep that people wanna slap cause you don't turn up for practices and then cause a lot of problems with integration into the item or not knowing your steps. I'm sorry to put the pressure on you all, but I think the audience for Dance Night will have higher expectations this year, and you need to keep up to your reputation.

Hiphoppers, please. When you all get a hiphop instructor next year, (eh eh who is it going to be ah? Personally I still like An An but if she's expensive then...) YOU HAVE TO BE MORE DISCIPLINED. Turn up, for starters. Don't give the instructor a bad impression that MAD dancers are lazy or whatever. Listen to your instructor, and when you have problems with choreography make sure you ASK. I've seen both Shar and An An, and I think both of them are a bit fast (for me at least). They seem the kind who will go on and on unless you stop them and clarify.

The only valid reasons for you not to attend training is if you are sick, have family problems, or have lessons (which I uh often ponned last time but please don't follow my footsteps unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it and can catch up). No such thing as my good friend birthday today, although if your family has a lot of events which your father might kill you for not going for then maybe yea you can miss training.

2) Practice. Again and again and again.
This goes especially for dancers with less confidence, like me, who is often falling behind for dance steps. If you have to stay back an extra hour to practice a body roll like me please do it. There's no shame and you have friends to help you. You are all great dancers. So take it a bit further from great dancing for items to superb coordination and overall feel. Even simple stuff like formation change should be practiced more often for better flow. If you have props for your dance, make sure you get the props as early as possible (not like our hats and sticks which we got rather late and hence were not used to) When you're done practicing until you can remember everything by reflex, work on expressions! It's something we seniors never really did so well but I'm sure you guys can do better. Expressions are important, looking at the audience is also important.

3) Enjoy yourself.
I'm stating the obvious. But there will be times at 9pm after hours of lessons you have hours of dance practice and this has been going on probably for weeks. There will almost definitely be times you feel like breaking down, and for the seniors, I think most of us were totally behind schoolwork and were worried about our A levels. But trust me. When you get down to studying for the A levels (usually after dance night the proper mugging begins), you will wish for the late night tiring dance sessions once more. So please please please ENJOY DANCING. Tell yourself you're exercising your body so that it'll become stronger. Also - drink lots of water. Stay healthy. Sleep during lectures if you are tired (ok maybe not that, but do get sleep where possible) If you worry about schoolwork, get MAD help sessions, like share resources/notes/homework so that everybody can get through the dance night season together.

Eh I sound like some old lady... It's so late now and I'm sleeeeeepy... almost midnight. WAIT IT IS MIDNIGHT. My pretty phone is displaying fireworks. HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE.

i dont know how to break this news, but yupps. we are having only shar tmr for our hiphop workshop. the studiowu instructors have been cancelled last minute.

so that makes 10am-12pm. meet at 9.45am as stated earlier. really really sorry for any inconvenience caused. please try to come still, especially those who havent met shar from the hiphop sabbats.

PASS THE MSG AROUND OK! sorry for the very last-minute change in programme.

hope to cya there. :0)

heyy guys finally the all-anticipated scrumptious yummylicious hiphop workshop!

HIPHOP WORKSHOP
29th december, saturday

10am-12pm: shar
1-3pm: andy (studiowu)
3-5pm: -somebody- (studiowu, unconfirmed)

studiowu will get back to us regarding the 2 slots, but for now we are 100% confirmed having shar. we cant get oschool for this workshop cos their schedules are too tight, so theyre unavailable.

if u're going please be there by 9.45am cos it wouldnt be very nice for the instructor to be on time and us to be late. hiphop people please try to come, we are choosing our own instructor and it'll be good if all of us know at least what is happening. it's rather ridiculous if we're having to select but we dont know who there is in the first place, so come if you want to have any say in who is going to teach us for most of next year. it's really your standard - and hiphop's standard as a whole - at stake, and if we want to make it we have to put in some effort to make up for whatever little we have done this year. ok? let's all buck up. :0)

everyone is invited! so please come even if you just wanna cou re nao :D seniors OF COURSE you guys can come. and help us comment on the instructors and stuff. looking forward to see everyone there.

til then, MERRY BELATED XMAS and an early HAPPY NEW YEAR :0)

p.s. if anything please call my home phone (its on the contact list), i've lost my handphone so wont be able to get me there.

yoyo. haha. guess what i found in shibuya, tokyo.



heheh. they also have cool hiphop clothing shops in harajuku as well as shibuya. plus. they have hiphop music shops!

we should have a MAD fieldtrip to japan lol.
gg super expensive. -,-

hello pp!!

these are the details for modern chalet. pls meet at pasir ris mrt at 3pm on 27 dec. don't be late cos we need to take the shuttle bus service which is at 315 pm! if you are late you have to go yourself!

if you are not mtg the rest at 3pm on thur, pls inform jiayee. check out the shuttle bus service below!
CLICK ME
(ehh the original link was too wide and messing up with the borders so I put the link in a cut -liewqi)
or you can go straight to chalet Yacht CLub Bungalow B =)

we will be starting bbq at 6! All snrs are welcomed!
my batch de, pls bring 10 bucks just in case!

see you guys there!

merry xmas from all of us! =DD

hello. sorry for spamming.
hmm for the different committees here's a brief outline of the workscope.

ticketing
Take charge of printing and selling the tickets

Fundraising
Come up with fundraising events S
ource for sponsorships

Publicity
Come up with design for banner, ticket and poster
Raise awareness of the Dance night with publicity stints

Logistics
Oversee all props and costumes
Take charge of food

Programme
Come up with programme booklet
Oversee running of rehearsals, getting backstage helpers and emcees

yup sth liddat. the I/Cs may add on more stuff to the workscope so things will only confirm after our mtg with the chin dancers to work out stuff.

hello dancers!
my apologies if you guys are confused over what's gg on for the hiphop workshop! it was supp to be held on 20 but there were some last minute changes. trying to arrange one session with sha and studio wu yutaki on the 29 dec, sat. hope you guys can keep that day free. will update all of you asap once i get the exact details.

next up. there's modern chalet which is held on 27 dec, 3 pm to 28 dec 10 am the next day. CLick https://www.aloharesorts.com.sg/booking/chalet/chaletDetails.asp?lid=28 for more details on the place.chalet Yacht CLub Bungalow B
moderners pls inform jiayee/ helen whether you will be gg if you have not done so! will be having bbq. rest of mad are welcomed but may have to pay. pls inform jiayee too.

then dance night! wohoo our big event next year! so sorry that this came so last minute! but basically we have 5 working comm, ticketing, fundraising, publicity, logistics, programme. Due to time constraints, we will be allocating I/Cs for the comm. the I/Cs will be a mix of madders n chin dancers. help to get to understand both ccas better n to promote better communication.
For each comm, i will write the no. of madders we need. pp who are interested to be part of the working com n are able to commit, pls call me or drop me a sms at 9819 6629

ticketing: 2 madders
fundraising: 4 madders
Publicity: 2 madders
logistics: 8 madders
programme: 3 madders

i know we are all passionate about dance night, but if there is overwhelming response, we may have to allocate pp whom we feel can best commit to the workscope.
like what jiayi mentioned previously, each div will have 2 items. one choreoed by instructor n one by your div head n coordinator. then we will have a batch item n alumni item. j1 may have one item, but we put that on hold first k.
and for performances next year, we may need auditioning. i know it may sound scary to some of us, but it's for the better of mad. sometimes we really need pp to judge the way we dance in order to improve. but erm.. of cos this will be confirmed at a later date. =)

yup so pls sms me or call me regarding the dance night committee allocation. thank you!
sharon me! =D

JUNIORS, SERIOUSLY NOW.

WHERE ARE THE DANCE NIGHT DVDS.

WHERE, WHERE, WHEREEEEEEE

one person cannot burn then hurry pass to someone who can! don't drag alr v irritating ugh!!

dvdssssssssssssss!!!!!!!

HELLO MADDERS.

i've just created a poll on yahoo meant for 1st and 2nd division Hip Hoppers.
non hip hop MADders are welcome to respond as well, but it's not
compulsory. :)

this poll is regarding our Hip Hop workshop that was supposed to be
scheduled on the 20th of December, Thursday.

we're afraid that this day sueh sueh is a public holiday. so the
instructors will not be free to come down to teach us cuz they
probably want to go and play or nua at home. =/ so. we're trying to
find another day when most of you can make it. we understand that it's
really close to Christmas, and you'll all probably be stuffing
yourselves with goodies or buying presents or opening presents, so if
you're not free on the day most people can make it, we're really sorry
about that. ><

btw, non-hip hoppers are most welcome to join in the workshop as
well. :D

so please indicate ALL the days that you guys are free in the
following week, and we'll find a suitable date and let you all know
asap. :) thanks for your time! ^-^ enjoy what little is left of our
once abundant holidays! *sobs*

love, nic.t

juniorss! do you all know this exists?? videos of your inspire performance!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O37rTUIyS94
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMwB_SW6EwU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMwB_SW6EwU

for some reason my youtube has gone mute on me i can't hear anth! watch later.

anw, i did like this playlist of all our MAD videos!
my years' videos (dance night, tapestry, open house, syf etc) - http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=4178F29AD0F6AD6D
your years' videos (i think it's incomplete) - http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=157B539B34DB394E

so yaaay all-in-one-collection :D

-meiling


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OMG BLOODY HELL I JUST WTACHED THE INSPIRE ITEM ITS DAMN GOOD LAH!!!!!! OMG SERIOUSLY = MADE ME CRYCRYCRY LIKE SHIT WTH. ZAI
ZAI
ZAI
ZAI
MR DAN! a genius omg! AHH damn proud of you all! waaaaaaaah lao and the guys were damn manly omg everyth was just WOW.
wowowowowowowoww. WAHHHHHHHH ZAI.

hello pp,
here's the link to the details of genting trip if you have not recorded down the website. http://madaboutdance.pbwiki.com/Genting%20Trip
anw make up shld be complusory. we try to have a full dress this sun k? details will be confirmed soon. like time n venue. most likely osch cos sch is closed on sun.
and try to bring longs, recommended by kelvin. =) cos it's gna be very cold at night. we need to try out the apollo n ares dance thing with your partners too. hmm if we don't perform ares would you guys mind? tt means some pp won't get to perform. tell me how you feel abt the idea of taking ares item out tmr k? then we would need to do positioning too.
i will come up with a rough one tmr.
and for those who haven't pass me the 20 bucks. pls bring on sun n pass to jiayi or me.
for the 1st two days at genting, i need everyone to be focused n serious cos we still need to work on the item.
the rooming list i think you guys can switch around. but pls sleep early on the first night n not run ard k?
jiayou! we can do this! =)