Thursday

The moment I was about to ascend the steps to the studio, my slipper snapped.
Guess enough was enough, and I was straining my poor slipper till the strap was literally dangling by the other side.
Anyways.

We did Fouette & Rotations after not doing it for quite some time.. And Gino made us do it about 3 times. *flails*
One of those times where we actually did the entire barre work today.
Normally we'd do just a bit of barre work and proceed to centre work.

Oh, and Misaki is adorable.
I know, I've mentioned it about a 101 times now, but yeah, she really is.


Bi Ying (in pink) & Misaki. Jasmine is in the far left corner, and makes an occasional appearance. ;D

Ouch.

Nothing much happened today, really.
That is, of course, if you count Lika making animal sounds (mating animal sounds would be more appropriate, actually) anywhere near normal.
But of course, it never fails to make me (and the entire class) double up with laughter after I pointed out that she sounded like a mating monkey.

Yeah.
Only in Kuantan will you ever find ballerinas talking about animals doing the giggity giggity.
In class.
*facepalms*

And Lika made up a song about our dear ol' 'best friend' too.
And it goes to the tune 'I'm A Little Teapot'.

Oh, and my toe hurts.
No idea why, we didn't exactly do a lot of work.
Maybe it was because we did a whole lotta turning (pirouettes and, in my case, many pose turns).
I swore the room was spinning when Gino finally let me stop.

Then after I got home, during dinner, my maid made this sound that sounded.. well, wrong.
A little random there, but yeah.

Must be mating season.

To end this entry, I'll leave you with a random video of Tze Ping playing Cannon in D (I think). Btw, it was the first time she saw that piece.

Tender.. Not What You'd Think, Though. ;D

Did I mention how much I dread to go for classes in the mornings?
At 9.30am?
Especially if the weather is all windy and cloudy?
Oh wait, I have.

This morning we learned Pirouettes Finishing In Attitude.
It involved a lot of turning and balance, a combination which, unfortunately, my brain refuses to comprehend.
We had to do double pirouettes and finish in an attitude without the working leg touching the floor.
And we all know how bad I am at pirouettes alone.
So Gino sugested that we do single pirouettes first, to get the hang of it. And it was much better, though there were still a lot of hopping involved. =3
That (the hopping) was NOT in the syllabus, in case you were wondering.

I didn't really feel it when I got home at around 11 something, sitting on my bed and checking my emails on my laptop.
But after sometime when I got up, I felt some muscles in my legs cringing at my action.
Anyways, after I took a bath and managed to squeeze in whatever sleep I could get, it was off to ballet again at 3.30pm.

There, we did Pirouettes again after our barre warm-up, and this time Gino asked us to keep practising in front of the mirror until we got the hang of it.
We eventually did, but that was just single pirouettes.

And then he had us do Fouette Ronds De Jambe En Tournant again, and I managed about 4 fouettes in a row before coming down. I still had about 3-4 more fouettes to go. >___>

Anyways, I stayed until Grade 4 was over, and by then, as I put it, my thigh muscles were tender.
I was glad to be home.
And I was tired.
Thursdays mean Tiring Day for me.

Oh, and I've yet to finish my report, dammit. >__<

Finally, Dancing Again.

Well, here I am.
At home, lying on my bed, laptop propped up in front of me.
And I can still feel the muscles in my thighs aching.

I guess that's what you get when you're stripped off of one month's worth of dance.
Gino wasn't here for two weeks in December, then there was the two-week school holiday.


I know, my fault for being my ol' lazy self not practising at home.

Lika and I told Gino about that Fouette dance we saw on YouTube, and he told us to try it.
It was like pivot and poses all over again.
I managed to do the fouettes after about 3 tries, but I just can't stay on one spot.
The same can be said for Lika.

When the Intermediate girls arrived, Lika wasted no time in going to Full-Frontal Booby-Grabbing Mode.
I think she's missed it. xD

Random Post, But..

Ok, I know.. This has nothing to do with dancing, but just humour me for a second, 'kay?

Spare me a moment of spazzing-ness to say that I finally finished reading Twilight!
*spazzy spazzy*
And I share the same birthday as Bella, September 13th! Fated or what people. xD
I managed to finish the book by nighttime yesterday after my finals, since I thought I deserved a break from doing my report for my presentation, so I hadn't touched my report yesterday.

Wait.
I haven't touched it for almost 3 days now.
*smacks forehead* Someone's asking for trouble. Honestly. *Dies*

But erm.. Yeah, I'll do it tonight ne? *^^*

Just Some Pondering..

I dunno, maybe it's due to the after effects of seeing the video below that made me wonder.


The two loves of my life: DBSK and Ballet, in one video.
(This is their newest song, Bolero. It's also the theme song for the upcoming Japanese movie Subaru, taken from a Manga of the same name.)

And well.. It got me thinking.
I'll be finished with college this month.
Then I'll be doing my practical for about 2-3 months, and it'll all be over.

Wow, how time flies.

I want to go to KL to persue/further my studies, no doubt about that, but at the same time, I want to continue dancing.
Not necessarily Ballet, but dancing. Period.
Trouble is, I dunno if I can continue dancing if I go to KL.
At least, not in the beginning.
I'll have to work to earn a living, and God knows how busy I'll be with my studies and such.

But let me make one thing clear: I cannot, I repeat, I cannot live without dancing. It's like my drug.
Or 'my personal brand of heroin', if you will.
I've literally grown up on dancing, and although I never realised my passion until later on, it's something that I can't let go now.

I don't want to let it go. T___T
Just practising by yourself everyday isn't quite the same as going to the studio to learn.

Also, I've been dying to try out different types of dances. I don't want to limit myself to just Ballet; never have.
But the question is: How To?

And today..

I'll be honest, nothing much happened today.
Just the usual jokings and whatnot.

But I came today to see Lika's friend, TimTam-Something (it's a Thailannese name, I can't remember!) playing the piano while Misaki danced. And she played for Jovian, Crystal (yes, I've misspelled her name all this while. Don't expect me to go back all the entries and correct it though. I'm too lazy to) and Sayaka's class too.

Oh, and turns out Lydia knows Burney too.
Wait..
*Smacks forehead* How could she not? Her cousin is Melody after all..
*facepalms*

Anyways, on to the videos..


Pivot Turns. Oh how I used to suck at it.. *shudders*
On the other hand, Jovian's "Eurgh!" at the end was just.. xDD!!


Sorry it's to the side.. Uh.. My bad. =p


I like Grade 4's Reverance. ^^

Because of The Last Post..

Because the last post made me think back and reminisce about the past, when me and my girls had to go to Taipan, KL, for Grade 8.
That was probably my first and last exam I'll take it in KL. *sniff*
I've just been taking classes since my group all left for their studies.

So I decided to make a tribute post of the videos I had taken during that time.
And also throw in whatever ballet videos that have impressed me.
So yeah, I guess you could say that this is a video post.

I'll explain about the videos as I go along.
Oh, and forgive the bad quality of the video, I recorded it on some cheap 'Bonuslink exchanged' camcorder..

1. The first one is before the exam, there was another class (can't remember what grade) that were having their exam before us (which would explain the out-of-place looking girl in red leotard and character skirt somewhere along the video), and after that would be the luch break. So this was what we did.



2. My parents were there with me for the exam. And due to anxiety, none of us had eaten/wanted to eat before our exam for fear that we couldn't dance properly. My mother though, would have none of that, saying that we'd better at least have something light before dancing. So she had my dad go down to buy a bun and a bottle of juice for everyone.
(The studio was upstairs, and downstairs of the studio was Taipan, and it had all kinds of foodstores and whatnot.)



3. Then just before their exam, Alithea decided to do a (really) short 'interview' of Terina.


In case you couldn't catch what she was saying, here's the caption:
Alithea: Ok Terina, how are you feeling right now?
Terina: I'm feeling very fine.. *bursts out laughing*
Alithea: Oh really?

4. And the last one: During the exam, Alithea was dancing in the exam room, Terina & Naomi were talking to each other, and Brenda was fumbling in her bag before fishing out her digital cam and doing something to it. Oh, and Gino makes an appearance. ^^



And then there was a video tribute that I made, consisting of all the videos you saw, plus some pictures I took that day.
In case you don't want to see a repeat of the videos (and to save space), I'll post the link to the video instead, so you can go see it only if you want to. =3

Ballet Memories

And then there's this video, also a flashback one, that I find carries somewhat the same message that I was trying to convey in my tribute (if not better):


*sighs*
It's so nice to travel with your friends ne?

Watch the video below and tell me what you think.


That girl is in Grade 5.
And look at her developpe and technique! O.O
She's GOOD. Sort of embarassing really, for someone like me.. T__T

You know what? I think I'll stop here.. Before I eat everyone's bandwidth.. =3

Gino Is Not Here This Week And..

Hmm.. Let's see.. Apart from Lika's usual boob-grabbing on everyone (and a close attempt on me, wtf),  yesterday was.. slightly boring.

Lika also showed me Fouettes Ronds De Jambe En Tournant, which she learnt from Youtube. And well, let's just say that at least we didn't have to do triple pirouettes in one go.
I haven't exactly tried it out yet, partly because practially the entire Intermediate class were watching as Lika gave me a short demo on how it was.

That, and at home, I would've swept a lot of things off tables and such if I were to try that in my room.

But I think Lika was talking about this video though:


P/S: LOL at the girl in the back, waving and all. xDD!

If she was, then.. Well.. I guess I have to work hard. Very hard.
*sighs*
Wai does my work have to be so weak? T___T (Especially pirouettes & pointe work??)

And while I was browsing Youtube for RAD videos, Guess what I found?


F.A.B! Intermediate girls and Lixian, you should know this! ^^

Ah.. I still remember this post on F.A.B.. ^^

Anyways, back to yesterday's events.

We were both looking at the syllabus book after finding out about the Fouette, and there was an exercise called Chaines (sha-nay), but we didn't know how to do that.
So Lika made up her own syllabus.
And it involved swinging invisible 'chains' first from your right hand, then left, then both, and continued by swinging 'chains' from other parts of your body.
Of course, we (I) didn't act out the 'other parts'.
I'll leave that for you to imagine.

We even put on the music, got ready our invisible chains, and began 'swinging' them in time to the music.
By the time we finished swinging the two 'chains' at once, we were too doubled up laughing to continue.
Too bad we didn't get a video of that. Or not.

I didn't get to take much videos & pics, and even those I took were mostly everyone fooling around.
And attempting to do pointe work. xD

Don't ask. I dunno what she was trying to imply either. xD

Tze Ping modelling Lika's bag.

Um.. Couru anyone? =p

Chia Hern mimicking Seow Hui's Couru. xD

Hah! Didn't think I'd leave this out didja? xD

Apparently, Jermaine found Lika hilarious. xD

Jocelyn & Jermaine. Loving sisters y/y? xD

And now to the videos! ^^


Now how can I get an arch like Tze Ping's? *___*


P/S: No idea why Chia Hern was smilling throughout the entire video. xD

Aaaannndddd... Lika makes an appearence!


And of course, the goofy-ness that is our senior students. xD

Just A Short Post..

To say that Gino will not be here this week! ^^

Which also means that I would not have to worry about going to KL and having to miss classes on Thursday. xD

I know, I know.. I'm evil. But I don't mind dancing on Wenesday, it's just the morning class on Thursdays that are a bummer.

Especially if it happens to be a monsoon weather.
*flails*
I wanna sleeeppppp.. ZZZzzzzzz