Sunday, January 14, 2007
odyssey 07 :)
FINALLY i cld get into my account. for e past few days i'd tried to, but it didnt load properly after reaaaally long. and i was too tired to wait for more than 15mins. so yupp.
christmas, new year, came and passed. i got a new phone on e 1st jan 07! but some stuff happened and affected me ALOT. shall not talk abt it here, but let's just say it made me even more weary abt ppl in general.
1st 3 days of sch was basically for admin stuff. my fellow ogls were alvin, andric and wei yi. i'm e only girl :S we took og 7, and hey although only 3 days i can rber quite abit of names! :)
then orientation 07 properly started on mon, 8th jan 07
ODYSSEY
i love alvarez! whee. mon basically we had walk in, which we totally messed up cos we werent prepared. music started before we were ready to begin. but ohh well. it was over :) aft tt we had mass dance. we had 7 mass dance com couples on stage, to show e whole cohort what this yr's mass dance is like. we had a mass dance com cheer! it's just e whoosh cheer, but when we do the whoosh, we do a body wave startg frm e fingers. :) yupp then we split into 3 venues, shackleton and alvarez (solaris and aerius) at the parade sq, lopez azara and torres (lignum aqua terra) in hall, ingstad (ignis) in the linkway. keith and i taught at the parade sq, stan and jia yi taught in the hall, and wenhao and huiting taught in the linkway. go western dancers! with the exception of keith. yupp managed to finish teaching high sch musical, which is part 1 of this yr's mass dance. e rest of the day was clan bonding. and oh ya, chii tarng came! haha.
tues.
station games. og3! which is s01. haha was cheering and shouting at the top of my voice cos everyone was so high and i cldnt be heard if i dont. besides, andric and weiyi were station masters, only left alvin and me. and alvin was holding his video cam so i was e only one to rar-rar e grp. but station games were qt fun :) then clan bonding again i think b4 mass dance session. this time i taught in the hall, teaching alvarez shackleton and lopez. aft debrief some ogls came up to me and askd a qn. i think alot of ppl know abt this issue alrdy. ask stan or any aerius ogls. they shld know. :P
oh, fishball lynn and adeline stayed over at my place on tues night, cos wed's external hunt, and our first zone was pasir ris. haha. finally, some gd in staying in pasir ris :)
yupp external hunt was quite okay. tiring, but fine. went dwn to ccab aft tt, stan and ryan helped to carry the fushcia poms i borrowed frm ccab. thank you guys, esp stan for carrying it alone from ccab on fri.
thurs.
tdy basically was mass dance and bonding sessions. 2 mass dance sessions. both in hall for keith and i. finished teachg summernights tdy. finishd public affair on tues. yupp. oh, and western dance auditions! whee.
fri.
raind! so we moved mass dance competition forward. judges were.. the mass dance lao-shis! in other words, stan and jiayi, keith and i, wenhao and huiting. plus mr teo, miss stacy tan, miss chua. yupp but even aft e comp it was raining so we operated on wet weather plan for war games - in the linkway. i lost my voice early this morning, and mild nose congestion. was feelg rather horrible. sighh. well aftnn was just og bonding and stuff. at ard 3 i did eastern sunrise, dedicated to the aerius ogls. because the caption was
'this dance is a tribute to those who see the brilliance, opportunity, and above all, hope, in every adversity in life'.
some actually teared.
BE STRONG MY DEAR AERIULITE OGLS.
then we started preparg for dance party. it was raining real heavily, and so it was shifted to the hall. nonetheless we had great fun. did mass dance 4 times! last time on the platform! whee. it has been so long since i'd danced and danced and danced.
but by then i was really ill. still ill now. never felt so wasted before. arghhhh.
and e only other regret i hav is tt i didnt bring my camera!!
okay tt's all for e narrative part of my post.
let's move on to the non narrative part.
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i'v always felt tt e narrative part don require much thinkg. as in, it's jus regurgitation of the day/wk's events. it's this part tt i kind of dread writing, nt because i don hav anyth to write, but more like my thoughts tend to link here and there and go on and on. and i dread writing them all dwn. i need to organize them or else no one except me wil understand them, so u see the amt of work i hav to put in. and i don hav that much time.
i am in deep trouble. i have loads of work to catch up. but i'm also ill. it's horrible. usually i wont b ill for more than 2 days, but this time i'm really ill. like i'm not getting any better. and i'm feelg lethargic. made worse by e fact tt i'v missed lessons for 1 1/2 wks.
i dread tml. i dread returning back to sch. to study i mean.
does anyone know tt i'm happiest when i dance? be it teaching, or learning, or just dancing, tt that is when i genuinely laugh and smile?
i want to study dance. but am i gd enough?
i'm startg to dread ballet. i used to love it. but gradually, i realize that i'm not technically strong or gd enough. i cant do it properly.
modern/contemp maybe?
or am i just giving myself excuses to be lazy and less disciplined, since ballet requires loads of discipline?
ppl say tt a great dancer isnt made of her technique, but her passion. tt technique doesnt make you a great dancer, but ur presentation and emotions.
how true is it?
take margot fonteyn. not v strong technically, but great presenter. and she's 'one of the greatest ballerinas in the 20th century'.
but stil strong. and why is she one of the rare examples?
i'm more of an expressive dancer, presentation, but not that strong technically.
can i still study dance?
shld i?
i hav ppl telling me to be less involved in dance, study more, bt what they dont get is dancing motivates, encourages me; it makes me happy. it allows me to be me, not someone trying to be someone else.
why cant ppl see that i'm the happiest when i dance?
okay i hav to mugg. not a choice. think i'l stay back everyday in the library to study. take care everyone, and sorry for the horribly long post.
i stil hav no voice. :S
xiao jo
@ 6:14 PM
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