Saturday, April 22, 2006
aristaL 06 :)
someone please tell me ystday was just the full dress rehearsal with full house audience?
it's over. so soon.
heh i donno how i shld be feeling.
exuberant because everyth went fine, exuberant because of the love of dance came through freely in last night's perf.
yet i guess a huge-r part of me is feeling very nostalgic.
aft the curtain call it finally came t hrough to me that it's over.
there was a frenzy of hugs and tears on stage all around me. i rbered hugging all the juniors, plus nia, tracy, yeong chyn, zhu, sok. when my kor came on stage to find e dancers i got a hug from him too.
i thought i'd cry in front of my kor, but i didnt. i'm stronger :) bet he's proud of me.
but yar. it was like the end of the horrendous dance schedule. ballet and mr gn's on alt days.
hah i dont feel so attached to the ballet item actually. we started choreography in feb, and well, it was like deja vu (college day 04). no offence to mr chong, but glad as i was doing ballet, if ballet was all i did this dance night, i prob wont be feeling this way.
it's mr gn's item.
have known him since 2004 since he choreographed 6pm.urbanstyle for vive 2004. he knew me as e 'girl with superb memory', so when i got through auditions initially for the SEAMEO perf in march, was really glad to work with him again.
we learnt (5 of us) the entire dance in 2 sessions.
but MOE trimmed 3/4 of it, and it really lost its flavour. thus we decided to do e entire item with more ppl (+4) for aristaL.
ccab dance studio had been like my second home.
honestly, i had dreaded walking up the hill to the studio. but on tues (last mr gn's prac) i really didnt feel like leaving. coz i didnt know when will be e nxt time i can step in again.
it was the place i had spent half the yr at, where i had panted, perspired, let my body and emotions take over.
i really REALLY miss the studio, the dance, mr gn himself. oh, and dan. mr gn's assistant and teacher at sba :)
i've grown so attached to that dance. it seemed as if i had known it since birth.
so when ystday on stage we were doing this item i felt a pang, like, this is the last time i'm gg to do this. but it's because of this i forced myself to do my best, by letting all my love and emotions for this dance flow out through my movements.
i want to go back to the studio. i want to hear the music blasted in the room, giving each dancer extra energy.
i need to dance.
okay okay, enough of nostalgia, let me relate ystday's incidences. i went to sch in the morn to hand in my pi. through shannon lar. then went to far east flora to buy roses. bleahh it was freezing and since i had 60 ppl to buy for, prices were, although compared to florists they are cheap, higher than when i came to look on tues. there werent much variety too -_- but i was rushing for time, so just bought them and guess wat, i forgot roses had thorns. used to getting roses w/o thorns. ohh my gosh i had no time to go remove the thorns, so i didnt care and chionged dwn to ucc. mr gn's girls had to come earlier to mark spaces. since i spent so much time at far east flora, i didnt have lunch, so asked kor help me buy. yar kor came when everyone had arrived and were getting ready for tech run at 3. he gave me bread la. chocolate :) and a pink rose. yay.
ohh yar, during marking of stage with mr gn he was rehearsing my grand jete (added on thurs) and pencil turn (added AT THAT TIME, 1pm 21st apr), he said it's scary to see me losing weight and asked me to eat more. upon knowing i hadnt taken lunch (once reached UCC we immediately marked stage) he went to tracy and told her to give me more of the cookies he bought for us. he told her to make me eat. yar. but i dont think it's visible tt i lost weight lehh. :S
hmmm well tech run went fine. nth much happened in e dressing rooms. jus gave out my thorny roses lor :)
debrief for tech run, test of lightings for some groups (ballet supposed to try, but no time). while waiting for our turn i was practising my grand jete and pencil turn. bleahh was quite stressed coz i cldnt do e turn right aft the jete.
aft tech run, make up, then dinner, where mr ho gave us notebooks with our names. yar then warmup, change into costume. abt 7:10 my kor came dwnstairs to say a few words of encouragement to all the wd-ers. then he came over and i was like i'm very nervous. i donno why lei. i was just jittery and scared. then he held my shoulders and said don't worry, just do your best and i'll be watching you. yupp thanks kor :)
then the concert kicked off. ballet went okay. though my first penchee i cldnt stay en pointe and went demi pointe at the last beat. like instead of holding 4 counts i went demi on e 3 1/2 count. not too obvious lar. pirouettes and everyth was fine.
rushed dwn to dressing room aft ballet, then started getting ready for mr gn's item. ya aft i'm done (didnt trust my own makeup skills, so zhu helped me) i went along the corridors to prac my grand jete and pencil turn. haii.
okay mr gn's item. i guess i didnt want it to end. but nontheless, i did it with all my heart and have no regrets abt my performance :) the grand jete and pencil turn were straight as well. double YAY :)
nth much aft tt. talked to jess and anchi awhile before slacking in the dressing room. finally they called us up for finale.
gosh there was the surge of joy and triumph.
aft curtains went dwn, as mentioned hugs and tears everywhere. took group pics and with mr gn, kor. helped ppl take too :)
aft tt gathered my stuff from e dressing room and went out coz ppl were waiting. outside, immediately saw chin, yuenyi prong, shannon charissa. haha flowers lar, as i walked saw alot more ppl, and was swamped with flowers :) gosh haha.
today i sorted my gifts properly. for flowers, i have 1 reddish-orange rose, 1 orange rose, 1 beige rose, 6 pink roses, 1 pink rose bud, 1 large purple rose, 1 red rose, 3 pink gerberas, 1 beige gerbera, 1 hotpink gerbera, and 3 orchids (purple, magenta and yellow). so in all 11 roses 4 gerberas 3 orchids :)took pics! (ehh there's some prob wif uploading e pics. will upload asap okay? alternatively can click here)
oh ya, sharon's special flower:
cauliflower! :)
then plus dan gave e 5 SEAMEO girls a shirt he designed himself:
nice right :)
and jing gave a star:
yay :)
hmmm okay i spent alot of time writing this, have to mug le.
i'm gg to miss MR GN, CCAB STUDIO, MY KOR.
i'll see e studio everytime i flick open my phone. it is my display pic
ahhhhhh.
aristaL 06
xiao jo
@ 12:28 PM
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Thursday, April 20, 2006
kor's bday :)
heh, it's past midnight so e date is 20th apr, but 19th apr just passed, and it was my dear kor's bday :)
19th apr 06 was council's speech day, where we listened to council candidates tell us why we should vote for them. aft tt we had civics to discuss for funtasia. i'm gg to bake :)
we ended civics at ard 2 50, and i CHIONG-ed to buy a slice of cake to finish my gift package. i didnt know 'totally chocs' sold only whole cakes, but i thought a slice wld be enough. so went to black canyon coffee (since i was at serene centre), bought a slice of oreo cheesecake. mann, their packaging's horrible lar. i can do better :S
CHIONG-ed back for dance (was late alr). my kor came when adi was briefing and settling admin stuff. then we ran thru juniors' hip hop, latin, eastern sunrise, and danceworks, with breaks in between each item for comments. yay heard my grand jete's 180deg, but it's not horizontal, more like diagonal :) haha.
then chong came at ard 6 (we started at 4), and we ran thru ballet, though my dear last toe was in pain due to something (i think my nail) jabbing at it when i went on pointe. bleahhh. prac-ed with the costume lar.
then went dwn to gym aft ballet (which was in e hall) to watch e juniors and wait for my kor. wahh they really working v hard lei. kor was quite hard on them as in they kept doing e full run. yar then debrief, and off we went :)
walked out frm main gate since it was ard 9 :S blame it on kor coz he talked so long. met alethea and zhangyun on e way. then met stanley and chuyun at the bus stop. ya took 171 to nydc outside heeren. had dinner there! :) haha. evil kor wanted to get smth alcoholic, but decided against it. i had this two scooped sundae with brownie chunks while he had some ham and egg sandwich, an iced cappuccino and a tiramisu mudcake, which had abit of liquor. heh the fries tt came with the sandwiches were nice :) kopped alot. then his cappuccino was nice too! though he kept adding e sugar syrup coz he felt it was still too bitter. his mudcake was quite okay lar, coz the middle was vanilla ice cream, and i alrdy had ice cream. didnt taste e liquor though. heh. and i presented my present to him! though forgot to take pic of it lar. so proud of my impromptu gift, and of course THANKS JING for her brilliant idea :) yar then he paid using visa i think. his signature nv change de. heh. but since it's his bday, i paid my share lar. he gave me the $5 voucher given to him though. so technically i paid only $5. haha. and he mentioned he seldom come nydc coz no money. yay but we went today! :) asked e waitress to take a pic of us, but since i look gross and he looks kinda like a bobdog, heh suan le la. yupp we took train back, instead of me gg with him to airport and then taking bus home, he dropped at tanah merah while i alighted at pasir ris.
reached home at 11 30. heh.
yay great day. tml's full dress, and fri's e day! mixed feelings abt it though.
but oh wells. i'm jus gg to dance and dance and dance now. dance like no one's watching, dance like there'll be no other opportunity.
jo's a happy girl.
xiao jo
@ 12:19 AM
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Saturday, April 15, 2006
homework overload :S
hello guys! haha i know i havent updated for a loooong time and ppl are asking me to update alrdy :P but sorry la have been real busy e past 2 wks, dance was like mon tues wed thurs sat, and e past wk had been especially stressful with tests and essays and dance pracs until almost 10. phew. well tt wk's over, this wk hopefully will be less stressful coz no tests, and wed is council speaches. thurs n fri the dancers are excused from sch, so ya :)
well honestly it's kinda freaky tt dance night [aristaL] is here in less than a wk. i dont know, but it just doesnt feel e same as vive2004. e previous dance night la. i kinda feel we're not exactly prepared. i hav a bad feeling abt it :S
but now all i'm gg to do is to dance and make sure i dont injure myself before or on e 21st apr.
oh mayb tt's not all i'm gg to do. i hav to mug too. REALLY. jing so nicely compiled a to-do list and ohh my. let me list them out. i've cancelled those i completed ystday:
- PW PI final
- GP readprefixes thing
- BIOwebsitews
- BIOdnatutorial
- BIOviewanimation
- BIOreadings
- CHEMtutorial
- CHEMprac
- ECONSessayB
- ECONSdataresponse
- ECONScasestudy
- MATHprobtutorial
- MATHprob takeawaytasks
- MATHquiz: Functions
- MATHquiz: Trigonometry, Systems of Linear Eqn.
haii. such a sad life huh :P and today i'm dancing from 8 30am to ard 4. tell me how to study?!
hmmm. oh yar sharon's okay alrdy :) i visited her on tues (4th apr) and she was discharged on the 9th. will be back in school on e 17th. yay :)
let's see wat else i hav to say. haha v random la but i forgot to bring, of all things, my POINTE SHOES during full dress. :S so malu lar. so i did on soft pointe.
okiee. don think there's anyth else i want to say. i wanted to make easter eggs though. ya so tc guys, and aristaL here i come :)
xiao jo
@ 6:06 AM
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Sunday, April 02, 2006
:(
goshh.
i just want to say that i'm really worried and concerned about sharon.
during cheerleading (enrichment activity), she was being tossed, but the person who was supposed to catch her arms didnt catch properly, and thus head fell backwards and hit the floor.
i wasnt there, but she was rushed to the hospital.
was told tt if the blood clot in her brain didnt get larger within 24hrs, she can be discharged.
unfortunately, it did and she just had an op to remove it. cannot dance or canoe for 3 to 6 mths.
i'll just die if tt's me coz i cant dance :S
zhu was still so optimistic this morn tt she'd be okay.
goshh.
i know i may not be as close to her as zhu, but i want to say tt i still care alot abt her. prob it's a ip3 wd thing. endured chong together, etc.
love you girl. and i really really hope u'll be okay :(
xiao jo
@ 12:04 AM
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