Friday, September 30, 2005
1 wk to being 16 :)
hello! it's exactly ONE WK before my bday! hahah hint hint ;) anw yupp i din even realize it until today.. woahh. time flies yupp.. it's october alrdy!
hmmm okie, since my bday's e only time i can be thick skinned, i shall be as thick skinned as i can kae :) haha bday wishh list.. actually if u guys hav been checking out my blog regularly i guess u'd hav noticed my wishlist on e left column.. hmmm but i can always reiterate, my big pleasure :D haha okay la here goes:
1) actually wat i really had wanted was e center stage DVD.. but my dear fren deb in e states hav helped me order it.. so yupp it'll b soon here :)i wont mind e soundtrack though :P
but e next thing on the list now wld be to meet these dancers: ethan stiefel, gillian murphy, amanda schull, sascha radetsky. it doesnt matter if i cant see them, i don mind jus being in contact wif them, as in they know who i am and can get to know them on a personal basis :)
2) hmmm it's a book called thursday's children by rumer godden.. it rawks, though alot of words then sometimes i v lazy to go read from e start
3) ipod mini.. hmmm ex la but well.. :P
4) ballet dvd? as in e kind wif compilations of really nice pas de deux, otherwise known as partner work..
then e others in no particular order ba:
- a bouquet of flowers :)
- digi cam
- dance related accessories lyk t-shirts, etc
- wallet
- feminine watch
- pair of strappy sandals, as in e kind tt's alittle more formal than the usual flip flops
ehhh.. wat else ahh.. e rest cannot b given ba.. lyk straight As, restoration of relationship between a schmate n i, closer relationship wif God, salvation of friends.. ya..
ohh welll.. haha i can always add on to my list yupp, mental block now.. did philo essay frm 7 30am to 6 30pm today :/ though got half an hr lunch break and chatted wif senior in e morn for a while la.. yupp but it's done! yay :) haha then i was stoning during prayer meeting :P sorrie..
ya okay la, tml got geog essay to complete, see you all soon :)
xiao jo
@ 11:17 PM
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Saturday, September 24, 2005
center stage dvd :)
haha nth much la.. i jus wanna say i've gotten my center stage DVD! i mailed my friend in US who looked for it.. then she said she's gotten it! gg to pass to me soon :) yupp yay tt's one off e list.. focus on e rest guys :)
xiao jo
@ 10:00 AM
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005
all i want is dance
hello. havent blogged since aft e hols.. hav been busy.. but i jus want to blog now, coz i jus want to say smth..
wat do u do when all u want to do is to dance? even worse, if ur parents think it is of no future and useless taking it? they pointed out tt the entertainment world (which includes dance) is not-so-clean, and wld put me in a dangerous situation.
okay wat happened was coz there was this mini "universities talk" featuring 4 liberal arts universities from US, and three out of four of them offer dance as a course. so i was thinking of taking genetics or stuff for my major, and dance as my minor.. i would rather take both as major but i bet my parents wont allow.. so there i was stating nicely tt i hope to be able to do dance as a minor, and my parents told me straight out, NO.
"oh mayb u can pick it up aft u graduate, when u've started working, or aft u get married?" no wayy. by then i'll be too stiff. it'll b too late. my present age, until abt 20, is e best time to polish up my technique and stuff. in fact i think 16's alrdy alittle late.
"we're not unreasonable. if wat u loved and want to do is good, beneficial to the society, and u can use it to serve in e christian ministry, by all means we'd support you! like if u say u suddenly reaquire e love for piano, we'd definitely support you!" but i dont want to play the piano! i want to dance! (i sound like amanda schull in center stage, when she said 'i dont want to go to college. i want to dance!')
i donno. does anyone understand my agony? i jus want to keep dancing, at least polish up my technique first.. sure i'm interested in human genomes, biochem stuff, but i want to dance as well! i don mind taking it as a minor, i jus want to still be doing it! it doesnt matter if i really am gg to join a company.. i don think my parents will allow me to anw. i wont, i dont think i am gd enuff to make it into any company, but i jus want to love dance and enjoy, express myself with dance. why?
why cant i do dance? i'm not gg to go into the entertainment world. i'll most prob jus do dance in university and acquire new knowledge plus better technique. i've more or less known wat i wanna do as a career.. biotech stuff, researching human genomes, creating better tasting medicine.. ya. i dont think i'll ever be a professional dancer. not lyk my parents will allow me. but why cant i jus indulge in dance until it's finally time to say goodbye and concentrate on my field of study?
it's lyk a knife u noe. when ppl tell u tt no way u cant do wat u want to do. it has no future and useless and bad. it's lyk a big blunt knife, cutting right thru u, and being blunt it hurts u so so much.
bleahh i'm sorry if this post has made my blog sound so desolate depressed cold.. ya actually i rarely write such stuff here, but i wanna show tt my life's not jus bliss.. it's a real struggle!
hmmm okie la gotta stop wallowing.. hav to study again! haha if don study can forget abt gg overseas to study.. yupp.. so everyone jia you and press on!
and to me too, as i cont to pursue dance :)
xiao jo
@ 6:15 PM
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Thursday, September 08, 2005
cookies + center stage :)
hello :) actually i was too lazy to blog today but coz i was checking my blog and realized i made an error in one of e posts.. it's sunday's post.. abt amanda schull. yupp she's actually in e corps of San Francisco Ballet, not American Ballet Theatre.. yupp ethan's in ABT tho :) haha yupp hmm nth much today ba, i baked.. cookies again la, too lazy to experiment.. haha. ya well kept playing 5 songs frm center stage! 'if i was e one', 'i wanna be wif you', 'the way you make me feel', 'don't get lost in e crowd', and 'we're dancing'.. ahhh so nice! haha kept replaying e steps of 'if i was e one' and 'just dance'.. well i din download 'just dance' yet la.. but ya haha niceee! well tried to recall e sequence of scenes in e second disc.. coz e entire film's split into two discs.. e second disc i felt was more interesting ba.. ya haha :) i noe e scenes but jus cant rber e sequence.. ahhhaha. well u noe wat, now e top three items on my bday wishlist wld be 1)center stage dvd 2)thursday's children (book by rumer godden) 3)ipod mini! haha then can play all e center stage mp3s.. :)
bleahh haha gotta snap out of e center stage craze le.. it's alrdy THURSDAY! prob i'll allow myself to indulge in center stage again aft my hcl 'o's.. haha will try.. this whole day i din research on anyth related to center stage! *applause applause* haha. well but it reallie is nice la.. one day movie marathon muz watch! haha wish channel 5 will broadcast it as one of e 'mega movies' or sat/sun night movies or wat.. jus broadcast it! and advertise it too.. haha many times things they show on tv not advertised then e public donno.. yupp :)
hmmm kae la i'll go amend e post on sunday, or rather i'll link it here.. yupp tc ppl.. sch's reopening soon! :)
xiao jo
@ 10:49 PM
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005
taking center stage :)
heyy this really isnt gdd.. i'm lyk really stuck onto center stage.. i donno wat's e matter wif me.. i'v nv felt so attached to a film, or actually anyth, before. tho there really are many reasons y i love e film la :) let me list them kae..
1) this i think is e main reason.. it's super tie qie.. means super close to ur heart, or rather, my heart.. haha.. lyk v similar and u can feel e same way.. ya bleahh haha i donno how to translate it well.. whoever got better suggestions tell me kae :) hmmm ya, in e sense tt it's abt a girl who loves dance to e max yet she was almost given up on by the academy coz she doesnt hav great technique.. she's not exactly stick thin but tt's not included in e 'reason for e academy to give up on her'.. mainly coz of her technique la. ya it's linked to me, really.. i don hav e ideal bod type for a dancer (too horizontally expanded, really), and my technique seriously is NOT GOOD. i mean, i noe myself la. it's lyk woahh mirror when i watched e film. ya, and u cry, u laugh wif amanda schull as she plays jody.. ya..
2) v touching.. esp e 'if i was e one' part.. tt song rawks bigg time.. it's lyk in my top 5 list ba.. yupp.. tt part got cooper (ethan stiefel) and charlie (sascha radatsky) dancing to show themselves worthy of jody.. tt part got really nice pas de deux! ya.. really v touching.. haha okie i'm being emotional :P
3) v real.. as mentioned la, it doesnt sweep all e ugly sides of ballet under e mat.. it includes bulimia, blisters, backstabbing.. ohh haha jus realized wat's wif 'b's.. (Bulimia, Blisters, Backstabbing :) )
4) great techniques! reallieee. u hav ethan stiefel, whom upon more research i realized he's actually rather gd looking.. haha. and his technique's breathtaking.. watch his grand jetes! sascha has great technique as well.. haha i forgot wat's tt step called.. or rather i forgot wat steps he did :P
5) motivational.. songs like 'don't get lost in e crowd', 'we're dancing'; then statements like 'dance for myself, not the school', etc.. reminds us tt we dance for ourselves/myself, not others, not the school, not anyth else.. :)
it's a super dang qi hui chang film.. haha sorrie i'v been studying chinese lyk siao this hols, so lyk every chinese word also can use.. :) haha..
well was playing e pas de deux of jody's part ystday.. e 'if i was e one' part.. ya and when ethan stiefel came out my sis was lyk 'i don lyk him'.. ouchhhh! i was lyk no e character he has to play in this film is no gd, but he's a nice person.. haha i do think so :) really i think he's a nice person, and a great dancer! as in, he wldnt hav stuck wif his gf for 7 yrs (this is e 7th yr le) if he's lyk e character in center stage.. haha..
bleahh well i really think it's v cool to be dancing partners and be real life partners as well.. :) can lyk express better i think.. haha.
hmmm well okie back to studying chinese.. love center stage.. it rawks! :)
xiao jo
@ 1:24 PM
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Monday, September 05, 2005
cause of infection: center stage ;)
ahhhhhhhhhh! okay i believe i'm infected wif e center stage bug. really.. haha. i love e soundtrack :) e songs are really nice, go check them out as well.. okie let me list them out kae :)
- i wanna be with you mandy moore
- the way u make me feel michael jackson
- if i was the one ruff endz
- don't get lost in the crowd asley ballad
- we're dancing PYT
ahhah we're dancing's my all time fav.. then i managed to pull out these as well :) ahhh these are all v nice.. e way u make me feel is v gd to dance to :) haha to b honest i lyk ballads so well 3 out of e above 5 songs are ballads.. v nice :) haha.. seriously they'r nice la.. bleahh hehe..
hmmm i also went to look up ethan stiefel and haha okie call me a mountain tortoise but i jus knew tt he has a gf for 7 yrs alrdy, and it's none other than his fellow principal dancer, gillian murphy! ohh man they'r lyk e dance circle's 'jing tong yu nu', or golden guy jade girl.. haha both are really gd la.. actually i din noe much abt ms murphy, but read quite a number of her reviews (they were v abundant u see) and wow.. haha. she's lyk e ultimate pirouetter, can do triple fouettes! waaaa i want too :) hmmm well heard she's pretty, prob she's jus not photogenic la..
well okie i shall hav to pull myself out frm e center stage craze kae.. coz i hav to study! really.. hmmm but seriously i love center stage and e two main characters.. esp ethan stiefel whose technique's so so gddd.. haha felt quite awkward dancing our modern dance n doing single pirouettes/ fouettes aft watching their both ballet and non-ballet moves.. haha :)
yaa okie okie shall hav to go soon.. will post more pics or wat abt center stage when i'm more subdued.. haha cannot keep getting hyped up abt it now.. it's still in e middle of e sch yr.. prob aft my hcl 'o's ba.. or else cant study.. haha okie.. ohhh yaaaa i got my phone today! samsung x640c.. yupp yay :) hmmm okie okie i hav to go alrdy cannot keep staying at e comp.. tc ppl and check out center stage! :)
xiao jo
@ 9:50 PM
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Sunday, September 04, 2005
center stage~!! :)
ello! haha i donno wat came over me, but i'm totally nuts over center stage! haha. borrowed e vcd frm my senior, and watched it a few times in two wks :) bleahh. but SERIOUSLY. tt show rawks. i mean, e technique of those dancers was superb. i mean, ya, wat wif ethan stiefel and sascha radatsky.. ethan stiefel's seriously FABULOUS. he's lyk.. ohhh mann so good!! really, go check out his photos, i can add some in.. has full side split in e air, and wow.. haha i kinda found him more interesting than sascha. hehe no offence la.. well amanda schull's quite pretty as well! and she's quite gd too.. corps in american ballet theatre (ehh sorrie there's a mistake here.. look at 8th sept's post).. ethan's e principal dancer in abt! wow :) aahhhh sorrie i think i'm jus gushing on and on abt it, tho this film was out lyk 5 yrs ago.. still.. it rawks!! hahaha.. and e saddest thing is tt i cant find it in vcd shops anymore.. they don sell :( hehe can tt be on my birthday present wish list :) well.. haha those who havent watched it MUST go watch.. it did cover aspects of a dancer's life.. as amanda said, this film din attempt to cover up e ugly side of a dancer's life, it din jus portray e 'oh-so-pretty tutu and smiles' side of ballet, but also abt e blisters, blood, bulimia, r/ship problems etc.. plot actually quite cliche, two guys fighting for amanda, etc.. but e dancing's really fab :) hehe well I LOVE CENTER STAGE :) bleahh i'm sorrie i'm lyk nuts :P
okie hmmm i'm lyk gg to post some photos here, ethan rawks :) ahhh like his technique so much :)
go grab center stage! ;)
*hmmm i cant find much of amanda schull's photos.. as in really her face and she dancing ones, but i'll jus put a photo of her yupp :)
ethan in side split.. ahhhh! :)
amanda schull.. pretty :)
ethan again :)
ahhh one of e famous poses in center stage :) go jody (amanda)!
jody (amanda) and cooper (ethan)
cooper (ethan), jody (amanda) and charlie (sascha).. they all don look gd but it's e pic tt showed e three main dancers and sascha too.. cant really find much of sascha's photos..
e 'ad'.. but sums up e main characters of center stage :)
xiao jo
@ 10:49 PM
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