dance dance

This week has been a Dance Week.

2 sets of auditions this week. @____@ Eusoff Dance Corps and NUS Dance Blast! auditions. this is kinda how the week went:

Monday.

Blast Open Class: Adv. Beginner.

i love Karen's style, so gangsta and LA Hip Hop-ish. i had a lot of fun doing this choreo.

Tuesday.

Blast Open Class x 2

Eusoff Dance Corps Auditions.

Open class was really fun but sorta tiring too. first one was taught by Claudine whose style i also really like! the choreo was really fast too, since it was to Just Dance ala Lady Gaga. but weiting and i both agreed that being able to catch the steps to the music gives us a Really Awesome Sense Of Satisfaction. and also, an involuntary adrenaline RUSH.

Karen's girls' hiphop class was a lot easier to catch, and just as fun. :D but with all the head flicking, i foresaw myself as unable to move my head properly for the next few days. :/

Eusoff Dance Corps audition Day 2 also took place this tuesday night.

weijie and i were persuaded to come on Tuesday night because there were supposedly ALOTALOTALOT of people auditioning on Monday night. in Eusoff's very nice but also rather small studio. in order to avoid the crowd, we were urged to go on Tuesday instead.

so we did.

but there were still alot. alot. A LOT of people. x___x

omg i totally got hit by someone's butt 2-3 times. (and she didn't even turn around to see if my traumatized face was alright T____T)

the last part of the contemp choreo involved a roll to the floor. people like me and weijie totally didn't have space to even get our butts on the floor, so we just stood there and watched everyone else roll and bump into about 4 people around them.

thank God this was only the practice round.

the auditions went fine. especially liked doing the hiphop choreo. because there were 2 and a half eighths of freestyle, and it was GROOVE FREESTYLE. YIPEEE i just went full out.

apparently wj also went full out with his popping (cuz everyone was urging him to) and totally intimidated the other 2 girls with us. oops.

on a side note, auditions ended around 12 midnight. @_____@

Wednesday.

Dance Blast! Auditions.

yes the bigbig day i had been worried about for months finally came.

i just really want to thank God for our good timing. because Debbie and Sali came a little later than 12noon, we registered for the last group, group E for the first time slot of auditions.

this meant we had more time to practise the moves than the other groups. :)

no doubt the judges would definitely take this point into consideration when judging our dancing, but i'd rather they do that than us having much less time to put up a substandard performance. :[

Claudine taught the choreo pretty fast. so the extra time with a senior called Kelvin was really very important for us to clarify moves and timing. i was nervous, but when i entered the studio, Patrick (the instructor) was surprisingly friendly.

he totally had a chat with us about joining the committee. which threw me off guard.

all i want is just to get into Blast! x(

haha he also told us we need to undergo very intensive and rigorous training. which i will, no doubt, grow to dislike muchly, but am willing to undergo if it'll help me improve.

so that's the end of auditions. they went ok for me, not fantastically well, but i think i did my best. really praying that my best will be good enough for Pat. :/

Other Things to note for the week.

I got into Eusoff Drama what the poo. xD

I made it into Dance Corps.

I bought colourful rainbow AA shoelaces. HURRAY.

I need to go shopping soon. Next week sounds great.

here's a list of what i need to get:

=new high tops

=new baggy cloth hiphop pants

=new shirts for dance

=colourful caps

=3 quarters

=pencil case

oh well. i shall have to wait patiently for Blast! results to be out. hopefully i don't die of anxiety before then. :x

*needs to choreograph a K Pop routine by this week omg*

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Japanese Studies Lecture : Random Trivia

there was a point in time when evangelists came to Japan to spread Christianity to Japanese folk. this was when the Western nations began to interact more with Japan, under the approval of a political leader Oda Nobunaga who saw Buddhism as antagonistic to his rule.

as a result, many Japanese converted and became Christians.

however, after other dominant powers took over Nobunaga's reign/rule, they began to slowly wipe out Christians in Japan. thousands, even those who went into hiding, were rooted out and eexcuted. a later ruler even forced Christians to become apostates by torturing them.

those who refused to apostatize concealed their faith and became "hidden Christians".

...this little bit of information made me feel...sad. :(

the only part of Japanese Studies lecture that i could actually feel that i could relate to.

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Random News Article : Muslims banned from Black Eyed Peas concert in Malaysia

...because the concert is organised by Guiness, an Irish beer giant.

what drew my attention to this article wasn't the fact that Muslims were banned, because that's an understandable point.

what DID draw my attention to this piece of news was that under normal circumstances, the government would have banned concerts organised by beer companies to even be held in Malaysia.

yet, they made an exception this time, in an attempt to boost tourism in their country.

(something i've never really seen happen before)

shows how important tourists are to the economy, eh? ;)