queen.

Black Swan starring Natalie Portman.

This movie combined the two things I love watching.

Dance? Check.

Psychological twists? Check.

Definitely recommend watching it.

Though after watching it, you'd wonder how much is perfection worth?

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itaewon.

Saw this at KL Pac last night. Apparently GIS is putting up a play.

A murderer?? Kills you I suppose =/.

Hahahahaha!! I fully agree =P.

Anyways, the main reason I was at KL Pac was to watch Men in Tutus.

Must say it was quite good. I liked that I could appreciate the difficulty of them dancing en pointe while not being distracted from the funny antics they would pull.

Would I watch it again?

Honestly, nope. I still like ballet in the more classical sense. I suppose it's like how I'd pick a romantic movie over a comedy any day.

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lovely.

First day back at college.

Nothing significant happened.

There were SO MANY people. Pfft. So now college isn't even cold =(.

I also don't like it that we are constantly changing classrooms. It's so mafan.

College is off to a mundane and less comfortable start. Whoopee.

However, I'm going to watch Men in Tutus later with Amanda!! =D. Guys who do ballet in full female ballet dancer's costume. Entertainment here I come.

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got it.

So here's a more detailed account of promtay 2009.

Definitely fun. Though the music got repetitive after a while. Food was pretty good I must say. Entertainment was good too. Though the Latin dance was a tad.....for want of a better word, revealing. 

Other than that it was good. The place looks much bigger in the photographs. But it is quite a classy place. Good place to have parties. 

Was it worth RM80??

I would say not. But seeing as it's all going to charity it's okay.

This photo is uploaded due to the fact that SOMEONE does not have facebook. =P

Then Sunday was my brother's birthday. 8 years old and still not showing any signs of maturing. Oh well, guys are always slower than girls. Went for the buffet dinner at PJ Hilton. Where most of the food was Malaysia styles which meant it included a lot of curry. The dessert was good =D. I ate like so much longan. Yummy.

And then today went for a photoshoot organized by Jasmin! for the ballet people. Mainly for the seniors as it was our last ever concert. Quite fun! =D.

Will definitely post the pics when I get them. 

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i'm not a princess.

So last night was my last ever ballet concert.

Did not go as I hoped it would seeing as somewhere in the first dance, I dislocated my fourth toe. Yup, you read that right. The joint decided it would be fun to dislocate itself on the night of my last concert. So thus there's a huge bruise due to internal bleeding around that toe now. And it hurts to put weight on it.

Other than that, the concert was pretty fun. Still hasn't hit me that I don't have ballet anymore. Time to find another dance =D. Ballroom anyone?

Went out to eat at Hartamas Square after that as we(Aleena, Melissa, Pui Yi and I) were all hungry. We ordered so many things and yet still managed to finish it. Satay, Char Kuey Teow, Pizza, Rosti, Tauhu Bakar. Yummy. =)

Aleena dropped me home after that.

I also went to the hospital this morning to get my toe checked. Just in case. But everything's alright cause I pushed the toe back in place yesterday. However the doctor said it'll take a week or two for the bleeding to stop and get better. Boo.

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lemon tree.

Ballet exam went okay today I suppose. You can't really tell your own mistakes when you have to focus on the dance and there is no one else in the room but the examiner and the pianist to watch you.

After some relatively messy planning, ended up at Curve with Amanda, Caroline, Lucas, Faiz and Daniel.

Dinner over at Ikea where Caroline had her first ever taste of Swedish meatballs. Haha. Lots of super lame and sick jokes.

Went over to Cineleisure to watch Righteous Kill after that. Not bad, but did not live up to expectations. However, with the right people, this movie can be pretty entertaining. And you know something's wrong when you laugh at something slightly twisted and noone else laughs with you.

Nice break from work. But it's back to auditing tomorrow.

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cracked egg.

Ballet exam tomorrow.

Everything is a solo.

Hope everything goes well.

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tell me i'm special.

A moment in ballet class with the Grade 7's.

Ms. Leong: Why are you so sleepy Audrey?

Audrey: I had pineapples last night.

Random no?

Later we find out that the pineapple was only cut at 12 thus making Audrey sleep late as she wanted to eat it.

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loose ends.

Another exam to add on to the list of exams I'm taking next year.

Grade 8 ballet.

Usually people would have more time after SPM ends but I find that I have less time.

Sigh.

Anyway, to occupy my time I've been organising my album covers in iTunes.

So that means for all my songs I label it correctly and find the right cover to use. It's quite tiresome but I don't really like seeing empty covers on my iPod.

So yeah, I'm up to the letter 'K'. On artists.

Halfway done!!

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just one chance.

For as long as I can remember I've always had to sacrifice something for all my classes. Especially my ballet class. Countless times I've had to say no to parties, dinners and shows just because I'd rather go for ballet. Well, the day has come that I'm going to sacrifice ballet for something else.

I mean, the only reason I still take ballet is because I like it. Not because I'm good at it. In fact, I'm VERY bad at it. I'm suppose to take the Grade 8 exam next year, but at the rate I'm going I think the chances of it happening is zero. So I figured, if I don't take the exam next year and postphone it a year later, I'll have more time on my hands. And I'll be able to make it for the workshops on Tuesday nights.

What workshop am I talking about?

Well, next year my church is combining the second traditional service and the praise & worship service to form the contemporary worship service. And I've been asked to be a worship enabler for the service as a keyboardist. The thing is that they're having a sort of training workshop thing every Tuesday at 8.15p.m. And my ballet only ends at 8.45p.m. So I must make a choice. I guess the choice wasn't very difficult to make but I do wish there was another way around it.

Guess I've picked

this.

over this.

And here,

Intro video to the contemporary worship service.

How am I going to tell Ms. Leong(my ballet teacher) this.

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if all else were to perish.

Haha. Let me tell you something funny that happened to day. My brother right, only comes back from school around 6.40 cause he's in the afternoon session. Supposedly my mum usually sends me to ballet and siblings for music. But today, we had to do a detour back to my brother's school.

Reason why?

Around 7.00 my sister(Weng Mun) was like "Yan Hin!! Where's your bag?". So obviously you can guess what my brother did. He came home with the wrong school bag. Hahahahahahahaha. Damn funny I tell you. And the thing is, my mum didn't even realize EVENTHOUGH she carried the bag into the car for him. So we went back to the school to get my brother's bag and got the boy whose bag was taken by my brother left the dad's number for us to call. So in the end my mum got their address and managed to drop the bag off. I swear, my brother is one of the blurest people in the world.

Got to ballet quite late cause of that and the HORRIBLE jam(no idea why there even was a jam to begin with). Despite being like 15 minutes late, class had not started cause no one was there. Apparently everyone else was in the jam too. So in the end class today only had 4 people. Which is relatively small considering the usual class has 10 people.



Ooooh, and here's a video to watch. Parody of Miley Cyrus's 7 things I hate about you. It's quite funny.



7 things guys don't have to do.

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ave maria.

Just a couple of pics from ballet concert.

Us in our 'monster' costumes. So colourful!!! (Sarah seems to missing for some reason.)
After the show. In Boho costume. There were too many cameras so you'll realize that not all are looking at the same one. (Jasmine's missing)
Another one. Jasmine has decided to grace us with her presence.

Today was the second day of our Career 'Week'. I only signed up for the Journalism talk as wasn't very interested in Animation. Most people I knew either went for the Cardiologist or Money Matters talk. The talk was much more interesting that I expected it to be. Learned a fair bit more about the job as a journalist. Speaker was Niki Cheong who's a writer for the Star newspaper with a column out every forthnight titled "The Bangsar Boy". Journalism does seem like an interesting career choice but I probably wouldn't pick it as my first choice. Maybe I'll try freelancing sometime next time.

For tomorrow, skipping the first session as neither Film Direction, Architecture, Taking Chances nor being a Pilot piqued my interests. Am going for Food Buisness (Speaker is the guy who owns Delicious group of restaurants), Advertising (Speaker is Yasmin Ahmad, the person who directed Sepet) and Marketing (No idea who the speaker is). Should be an interesting series of talks tomorrow.

Also met our new Physics teacher today. He is............nice. He's also very soft spoken. He also looks WAY too young. Haha. Someone even said he looks younger than Head Prefect. Understanding his speech is going to prove a small obstacle as some of his pronounciation isn't very good. At one point me and Amanda were wondering why he kept saying fox and foxes all the time. Later realised that he meant force and forces. Oh well, maybe it's just first day nerves. Please get better with time!!! Physics is a subject where I do need to listen to teacher cause the textbook and notes don't really make sense all the time.

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drink up baby.

It was a busy weekend.

Had ballet concert on Saturday. Woke up early seeing as had rehearsals at 9. I totally prefer KL Pac compared to Security Commisions. Backstage is so much nicer. Rest of the day was spent in the car with my mum taking my sisters to and back form their rehearsals as all three of us had different times. Got back home around 4 and took a shower and went to do hair. Left soon after that and reached KL Pac around 6.45. Spent sometime changing into costume as I couldn't very well wear a tutu into the car. Did makeup then put on my pointe shoes as had to warm up. In a short time it was our item. 'Thriller' by Michael Jackson. Can you imagine doing ballet on pointe for that song?? My toes were dying at the end of it. After that changed costume and hairstyle for the next dance. 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen. Basically that was our finale dance.

Every year Ms. Leong includes a small audience participation thing in between the show. Usually the audience has to stand up and do a dance. I remember one year where a father came on stage and had to do the 5 positions for ballet. Damn funny!! Anyway, this year's one was SUPER funny. She made them do the YMCA and Soulja Boy. I swear when I was watching from backstage, everyone looked hilarious doing the dance. Some of us backstage did the dance too. Overall, this year's concert was one of the most fun ones.

Pictures up some other time.

Sunday woke up early as usual for church. After that went to Mid Valley for breakfast and then I met up with Amanda as it was her birthday. Bought tickets for 'Made of Honour'. Then Jia Lik came and we lepaked around till Trixie came and then we went for lunch. Went to 'Sushi Zanmai'. Not as good as I thought it should be. Definitely ranked below Sushi Groove and Sakae Sushi. Movie was at 3. The movie was not bad. Trixie rated it the best romantic movie this year so far but I definitely prefered 27 dresses.

Jia Lik, Trixie & I got Amanda a necklace and matching earrings which were pink and sparkly. That was the actual present. Why I say actual? Cause a few of us actaully shared another present which we only gave to her today.

You should have seen her face cause she didn't want to open it. Placed it in the Pet's Wonderland plastice bag so she was so afraid we got her a frog seeing as frogs are her bigget fear. In the end when she opened it, it was something not alive. A collar. A dog collar to be exact. Hahahahahaha. Those in my class should know why.

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jaws dropping everywhere.

Yesterday we had the Paramount Championship for upper secondary. For those not in KDU, this is kinda like a interclass competition. The variety is very wide with stuff like culinary, debate, skit, singing, speech, band and dance.

Basically we had our preliminary rounds earlier this year and yesterday was the finals. Our class was lazy this year so joined very few events compared to last year. This year's finals was supposed to be more 'bergaya' cause we had an opening number where the solo singing finalists joined all their songs together. Then before intermission there was a dance performance. Also, we had external judges come in. Unfortunately, there were like 8 female judges and 2 male judges. May not sound like a big deal but this is something significant.

Everything went pretty well despite the fact that the emcee's weren't as good as they should be. For modern dance, 5A did really well. Their dance was very amusing. They had 3 blind mice and the chicken dance in it. Quite entertaining to watch. Singing events were okay, most people could roughly guess the results so no surprises there. Just before intermission, 5E did their winning skit. It was HILARIOUS. If I find a video of it I'll upload it for every to watch. Cause it's seriously funny. I've watched it four times already and I still laugh at it.

Band was after intermission so we band members were super nervous. Second band to go up. Played the song. Which I think we did pretty okay. I mean, we sounded not bad. Amanda even did her movements and Ch'n Wen & Anne did their movements also. Out of all the bands, I think only our singers had some dance-ish moves planned out. So when the results came out, we were to say the least dissapointed. I can honestly say we weren't that great but we definitely did not deserve the placing we got. Last if you must know. As Tricia later pointed out, she thinks that the judges were biased towards guys. And if you see the band events, the more girls a band had, the lower their ranking. We had 6 girls and got last. 5A had 2 girls and got 5th. 4G had 1 girl and got fourth. So the top three were all guy bands. To a certain extent this is all a coincidence but still don't think we deserved to be ranked as the worse. At least let us tie with another band. Not being sour grapes or anything here.

Kinda proud of the band as this is the first time we've ever been in a band. Much less the only all girl band in the history of Sri KDU. With a guitarist and bassist who don't really know what they're doing and a not very experienced drummer I think we did pretty well and had enough guts to do it in front of the whole school. Will post the video up so that you can be the judge of it.

Today was the lower sec's turn. They didn't have external judges and had 4 male judges and 3 female judges. I think the points were given out quite fairly. But there was at least two incidences where you could see a little unfairness in how some of the participants were treated. Something happened in duet singing and also mandarin solo singing.

Oohhh....forgot to mention an incident yesterday. For solo instrument piano, there was a contestant who did a difficult song technically. The song had absolutely no expression whatsoever. Halfway through the song the contestant stops. Not cause there was a mistake or anything. But the contestant stopped to BLINDFOLD himself/herself. Mistakes ensued and many students thought that the contestant so such a showoff. So you can obviously tell that this did not go well the judges and the marks were less than satisfying. Just so you know, the person's not from my class.

So for yesterday, my class managed to nab a bronze in group singing, english solo singing, duet singing and gold in solo instrument piano. So only BM solo singing and band didn't get anything.

Ballet concert in 2 days time!!!

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miss invisible.

So yesterday was supposed to be a Galileo reunion thing. But seeing as Nabil is such a bad planner, only a handful of us turned up. 7 to be exact. Went to Pavilion quite late as dad had to pick car up from the workshop. Met up with the rest at the cinema then went down to Carl's Jr. to eat. Didn't order a burger but I had their AWESOME Beef Chili Cheese fries. Seriously, you should try it. I love these more than I love Mcd's fries. So we sat, ate and talked for quite a while as the movie only started at 4. Talked about a couple of funny memories from when we were in lower sec.

The movie we watched was Superhero movie. Which is a sort of parody of Spiderman. It was short but funny. Thank goodness it wasn't as stupid as Epic movie or Meet the Spartans. After that didn't do much but walk around and window shop for a while before getting back.

Can't believe the holidays are almost over. Seems like the holidays went by so quickly.

Everything is coming closer. Ballet concert is only a few weeks away. Thriller and Bohemian Rhapsody!!! This is has a nice choice of songs as we're using famous songs from yesteryear. Theme this year is also a tad different. Using Calvin & Hobbes. SPM is less than half a year away. That means, in 6 months time, we'll all be in college. Talk about feeling old.

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good friday.

Something weird happened at ballet just now. While me & Sher wen were going up, the lift suddenly stopped on the 2nd floor. The thing is that my class is on the floor 3A. So I thought okay, maybe someone pressed the lift but decided to walk instead. But the thing is that the lift door wouldn't open. And it wouldn't go up. It wouldn't go back down to the 1st floor. It was just stuck. After sometime it finally opened and me & Sher wen decided to just walk up to class. The same thing happened on the way down where it got stuck on the 2nd floor. Apparently something similar happened when Louise used the lift too. Creepy....

Anyway, stayed back at school today to watch duet & group singing.

My class got in for group singing.

Congrats to Nat, Ch'n Wen, Anne, Richard & Ian!!!

I just finished watching a movie.

Love this movie!!!!

Okay, so I'm a sucker for romance but this is really a good movie. Must watch.
It's because of movies like this that girls like me expect to find their right guy in a fairytale way.

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Another.

Just a couple of pics from church camps and ballet.

A few ballet memories.

Quite sometime ago. (Moulin Rouge.)

Just 2 years ago. (Buffalo stampede.)

Just this year. (White witches.)
Farewell for Adranne at Souled Out.

Church
MYF camp last year.

MYF camp this year.

Apartment mates.
Luckily there were no cars.
Pretty sand.

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Of cheerleading, ballet and Australia

Sorry for not updating for such a long time but everytime I wanted to upload pics, my sister hogs the camera. So for the weekend, there was ballet rehearsals, the concert itself, crashing alia's party, cheer 07' and finally Adranne's 2 farewell parties.



Our finale dance. All in all did 3 dances. 1 was about bullying, the 2nd was the white witch from Narnia and above is our finale. I need a hero. Yes, the one from Shrek. If you want to know, this year's concert theme was 'World of Villains' so at the end we showed how we need a hero to make the right decision.


The Grade 7's and 8's. The 'pirate' in the middle is Captain Hook. Aka my ballet teacher. Ms Leong. Funny looking no?

After the concert, we, as in Melissa, Aleena, Trixie, Pui Yi and me walked to Bukit Kiara. Why you ask? For Alia's party. Me and Trixie we gate crashing. And NOONE told me we were going so I went looking like an idiot as still had make up on and my ballet bun. It was interesting. This is because not once has anyone had an actual disco-ish party. Slept over at Melissa's.

Me and Trixie woke up at 5.30 to follow Emily to school as we were following the very 'full' bus to cheer. Melissa went later as she had already went on Sat. And Aleena went somewhere else.

The stadium in the morning. Quite empty. Stunners and Strikers were last so not many KDU-ians yeat. The CBN, BU4 and DJ supporters took up a whole section. Maybe around 400 people?


Stadium later. Very full. As you all may have seen in the newspapers, Dynamitez won. Shirtliff 2nd. Vulcanz All Boys, All Girls 3rd and 4th respectively. Stunners didn't get top 5 but Strikers won bet dress. Stunners got 12 and Strikers 13.

Rushed home after that and took a shower as had to go to Adranne's 'surprise' party. She's leaving tonight for Australia...But when me and my sis got there, found out that Jasmine accidentally let it slip that there was going to be a party. It was okay la. Adranne's was like a water tap. And none of the ballet girls came, but at least Lucas was there. He's seriously entertaining I tell you. His family and Adranne's family along with 2 other families went to Korea last year together so they are pretty close.
Me, Adranne and Weng Yan.

As none of the other ballet girls went for the farewell thing on Sunday, all of us met up at Souled Out Tuesday night. Ate, talked, gossiped, looked at concert pictures till 10. Then everyone went home as it's a school night. Gonna miss Adranne!! Why does everyone leave for Australia? First it was Vicky from ballet, Li Ying and Hooi Shan from school and now Adranne. Is Malaysia that bad? Oh wel...we're all bound to leave sooner or later.
From the left: Farah, Sarah, Yen Ping, Tiffany, Jasmine, Me, Adranne, Sher Wen, Ms. Leong, Chrislynn and finally Stephanie(If she looks familiar it's because you saw her on th front page of the Star on Monday-Dynamitez).

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