Wednesday, March 29, 2006
i am Yours. :)
it's enrichment wk. hahaha compared to the activities i signed up for last yr, this yr's selection of activities ARE nerdier. molecular modelling for org chem, dna profiling, dna fingerprinting, bioinformatics; haha. but i signed up for video shows, like goodbye lenin and luther.
watched luther today. and well, some pts hit me.
as u all know, luther refers to martin luther. the video showed his struggle against the roman catholic church. the whole room was filled with tension esp e part when he was supposed to ans to the pope whether he was gg to 'take back' the books he'd written pointing out the flaws of the roman catholic church.
he said no la.
but as mentioned, some pts struck me.
1) he was struggling to decide whether he shld take back the books. given a day to decide, and his decision will decide his fate- freedom or execution. but he fell to e grd n said,
"I am Yours. Save me."
Lord, i am YOURS. help me to recognize this and surrender.
2) dad was telling him not to stir up trouble, even told him wat to and not to say. but he grabbed his dad's hands and said,
'when you sent me [to study theology], did you expect that there would be no cost?'
how many times have i forgotten that when i carry the cross i have to be prepared to face troubles, struggles? have we taken God as a token to our lives being a bed of roses?
Lord i am willing to carry Your cross, and i pray for strength to stand up for You.yar, pretty gd show, although subtitles were in german and i cldnt really hear the conversation.
ooh, and we went for sdt's special short perf for the king of cambodia. 5 items, only 1 ballet, e rest were abstract.
ya saw ms pang! yay.
okie nth much le. but can someone help me by telling me how to make my 'scrolling effect' stop once i click on either 'me', 'blog', 'tag', or links? thanks! haha.
take care guys :)
xiao jo
@ 7:42 PM
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Saturday, March 18, 2006
apologies to my left foot.
i want to apologize to my left foot.
first, while climbing e overhead bridge to coro on fri, i lost balance and used my left foot to stop myself frm falling. i succeeded, but looking dwn at my toe, it was bleeding. like a horizontal cut at the tip of ur toe. pretty deep. can see flesh.
oww. give thanks today don have ballet. i'll DIE if there was pointe work.
in e aftnn (on fri) i had mr gn's prac. there were parts where i had to degage derriere with my right leg en fondu [in other words my weight was on e tip of my left foot] and i was like ouch and gritting my teeth. ohh well.
and today? i went jogging in e evening. haha i know i'm insane to still jog with my toe like tt, but it wasnt it tt made me stop aft abt 15 mins. it was a new and huge blister [skin rubbed off] on the right side of my left foot :S
sorry left foot *apologetic smile*
yar okie, i gotta go mug PnC! i don understand :S
see you all ard! term 2 :P
oh n ya, i bought new earrings! one W and one D. WD! yay Western Dance :)
xiao jo
@ 9:08 PM
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Saturday, March 04, 2006
DANCE as a course.
went with jing to the career fair @ suntec today.
haha we were taking e escalators up, and on the 3rd floor we saw 'career fair 06' and a listing of seminars. so we thought there were only seminars and talks. disappointed, we sat thru a talk on how to choose e right course but we were both dozing off :S and finally at the end of the talk the speaker mentioned 'you can get more information from our booth on the 6th floor' :S wahhh we chionged out of the seminar room to take e escalator up to e 6th floor :)
walked ard, and i realized i took 6kgs worth of prospectus *sheepish grin*
got home, studied abit of chem, then decided to browse thru e goods i've brought back :) i thought the diversity and spectrum of biomed and biotech stuff of e university of northumbria pretty interesting, and a prof actually intro-ed us briefly to the biomed + tech courses offered, so it kinda gave me a deeper impression. i pulled out the undergrad prospectus and lo and behold, under subjects, i saw 5 letters.
D A N C E
gosh.
it just reminded me how much more i'd prefer to study dance than all those bio stuff. i do like biomed and stuff, in terms of degree of love (phrasing here abit weird), give me dance anytime.
i know ppl think me as dumb and silly and that 'i dont have my priorities right' to choose dance over the sciences. but that's wat i genuinely love! are sciences really 'superior' to dance? are sciences THE only thing that's worth studying?
i try, to compromise, to study bio, chem, etc, but it doesnt show what i actually want and love to do. biomed just seems to be a cover, a wat ppl call 'decent job compared to dance'.
but it's only when you attempt to study and make urself like smth you dont really love from e bottom of ur heart, that you can see what is it that you actually want to do.
i've always wanted my classroom: not to be filled with tables and chairs, but empty; not white/black board, but full length mirrors; not simply flat walls, but lined with smooth light brown logs known as barre; not concrete, but parque; not dust at the corners, but golden rocks known as rosin; not projectors, but pianos/ stereo systems. a place where i leave not aching primarily in my arms and fingers, but the entire body; a place i sweat, bleed (toes), spin, fly, vent, and express my emotions.
where else can you do all these besides the dance studio?
I WANT TO STUDY DANCE.
okay, shall go check out the other unis' prospectus. hopefully dance appears again and again.
*haha sorry guys this post still seems dismal. :)
xiao jo
@ 10:33 PM
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