December 29, 2008.
> 2:56 AM.
tag replies!
weewee: glad you like it! :D:D see you soon, ayy!
rayne: haha take care ok! Jayden loves you too :b
chansee: hahah yay! i love my shoes :D cheer up ok!
vicky: haha it's okay!!! i loveee the card :D
deborah: had fun with you today! hope your dinner went okay :x
May: haha may you're so cute! i'll link you and send you photos soon okay! sorry!
---received another christmas card in the mail on the 26th. Lovely
Davina didn't forget me either! It really really is heartwarming to receive these. I can't explain it.
26th Dec 08Went to the shop to accompany Shuting abit before helping to close at 8pm and leaving with Colin and Faith for our
LOFT Post-Xmas Dinner :D Headed to Dempsey.
faith with her Tokyo Travel Guide (She was flying to Japan the next day)
Shuting and her pocket mirror
juu and her clutch/purse
Those are what Boss gave us for Christmas! :D There's another girl Vanessa (whom we all three only heard about but don't know her) too bad she couldn't come ):
We ate alot for dinner. Nachos as starters.
my smoked salmon sandwich
spaghetti with bacon & mushrooms
on top of each of our mains, we also had a pizza to share :O
camwhored a little with Shuting then we started getting ready for dessert, hohoho.
Colin and Faith looking through the icecream menu
what we ordered in the end. Phish Food, Strawberry Shortcake and Chunky Monkey :D
New friend for the day -- Faith. Am really glad that i'm part of Loft and i really really enjoy working there! (I think friends around me should know that) It's totally an environment that i can't have complaints about (okay, the occasional rain leakage and boredom :b) and my boss is so nice. hahahhahaa. do visit me/the shop at the
new location from 1st Jan 2009 onwards yes?
LOFT
a boutique by Fabrix
16A Haji Lane (Level 2)photos on facebook @
Loft Post-Xmas Dinner!---
27th Dec 08I've been waking up at only about 12nn~1pm daily nowadays so it's a huge surprise i managed to get up at 8am to get ready. Went to a really interesting place to take photos. Will post them up... soon.
Mad rush. Ate lunch at home before heading out to Botanic Gardens. Sarah's Birthday Picnic!
Huishan preparing the cake
i brought a small pack of brownies (ahh, sorry, really pathetic) and Sarah and Filz had some fun with them :b
smexy sarah -- always seems to be smokin' something.
oh, oh, oh! And guess who else were there!!!my adorable Ziggy!! so cute right!
and Reiko! Cary & Jon's dog!
our picnic is the true blue sit-down-on-grass(plastic sheet)-and-share-food type :D
after finding his way from the other side of botanics, wern appeared! :D
the two boyfriends and the two dogs.
hahha that's jon carrying Reiko like a baby :3
much thanks to
Viki -- for making/bringing so much food, and for snapping away at almost everything :D I had to take care of ziggy and make sure he didnt eat anything and that kept me occupied almost the whole time -.-
Birthday Girl! :D 18 yo'wl! I still remember you as the cream of the crop from our DPA batch. I remember how my initial impression of you was just how you were the smartest and know-it-all. Honestly, I would have just believed you if you told me during that time that you know how to speak 10 languages -.- Glad we all bonded and i got to know you better, the silly and busy sarah :D
some shots from Viki~
yay! the dogs love me
we also walked to Tanglin Mall for Starbucks after the picnic and Ziggy got so lazy he refused to walk but its pretty tiring to carry him the normal way because of his extremely long body so i just propped him over my shoulder. hhehehe
photos on Facebook @
Sarah's Birthday Picnicp/s: okay am gg to sleep now, its 4am
p/p/s: ouch, ulcer
Labels: birthday, jayden, juu, reiko, wern, work, ziggy
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December 26, 2008.
> 1:43 PM.
tag replies!
CHRIS: haha i have your photos dear! yet to send you! D: i've prepared it already(:
alene: will link you! was surprised you had Multiply ;D
Zhiyang: thankyou! will link you back :D:D
Lav: haha who else but the sassy host i was referring to in my previous entry! will link you!
weewee: awww :3 Happy Boxing Day now... Glad you like your present!!:D
candy: okay i just melted omgg i'm not forgotten! Seeyou on the 30th! :D
deborah: yeh yeh yeh (: hope you find that photo ok! :b
rayne: haha rayne don't love me! glad you like the photos
trecia: woohoo trecia! the one who took about 200 photos. HAHAHA
ben: linked!! :D:D
Alexis: OOOOPS. edited :b
yijie: I'm SORRY!!! T____T thanks for doing the trsfer<3>
alvin: hahha one of the few guys with a camera -.-
cheetah: spam?
---haha most of the tags are from my fellow NRA mates this time. This entry is about Christmas though! I received my first Christmas present before the 25th..
initially i couldn't decide on whether i wanted an ipod touch or a nano more. but after finally making up my mind, i only loved the red one so i couldnt get it myself because it could only be bought online... but then i had like an array of other wonderful colours to choose from.
but...
photo credits to AppleBOYF still got me the red one!! WOOHOOO it's mine it's mine it's mine -__-
that's about the only present i've received this year but i'm pretty glad already. and candy got me something from Japan so that's two. i suddenly feel so easily contented. Oh yes, and not to forget -- another thing striked off my wishlist. I got
highcuts! :D
photo credits to Ma-mart.comi know how the looks of this shoe doesn't appeal to everyone because wenmei and boyf both don't like it too much, but i really really love it <3
> wheee. changed the skinny black laces to fat bright bright pink too(: tada! my second asic shoe for the year.
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Christmas Eve 07 happened to be the day i first met wern physically (lol at that) so its like 365th Day i really really know him. Met up at where we met last year and decided on Astons. Exchanged Christmas presents and it's so funny how we both already knew right from the start what we were getting one another.
wern's present - Oakley Ducati Monster Dog
us with our presents :D
yaaaa~ :3
both rushed back for dinner after which. It's been a tradition for my whole extended family on my maternal side to gather on the 24th to celebrate my grandma's birthday, and somewhat with the christmas mood. even though i went out before that, i was the first to reach my grandma's place -.-
took photo of my cousin Lionel, who kept trying to grab Jayden :O
okay, quite photogenic but he kept posing -.-
food was set up soon after when the adults started arriving... pretty weird variety of typical beehoon, fishballs, currypuffs, cuttlefish, satay etc and suddenly there was sushi o__o (bought by my dad hehehee)
haven't seen this cousin of mine for the longest time. clarissa & juu
both cousins
we also had a cake. i wanted a log cake but apparently nobody there that day liked cream at all ):
went home soon after to find that i received a christmas card!!!!
yaaaa~:3 i felt super fuzzy wuzzy because it's so sweet and so nice to feel that i'm not forgotten even though i'm "separated" from my MG friends for about a year already.
Vicky still wrote a longlonglong message in the card! i almost cried o__o
Glitter is evil though ... as pretty and cute as the card may be i had glitterized Macbook, Jayden, jeans and fingers after taking like 2 photos -.-
Sidenote: Christmas Party with Colin and Loft-ers tonight! Eggggcited. Will blog again!
P/S: DAY ONE DANZATION PHOTOS FULL UPLOAD *HEREEEE!!*
DAY TWO DANZATION PHOTOS FULL UPLOAD *THEREEE!!*
p/p/s: after looking at my photos for the 24th, i got kinda disgusted at myself how my eyes are too big o__o honestly! think i shall ditch the green contacts soon although it kinda has been a part of me already.... comments!!!
Labels: jayden, juu, nra, wern, work
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December 22, 2008.
> 3:52 AM.
okay! everyone has somehow or rather blogged about
Danzation and I guess its time i do so too! A huge thank you to everyone who came to watch this production, I'm really tempted to think that if i were an audience i would enjoy it so much i hope everyone who watched it feels the same way.
This statement although cliche, really is true. Sweat, blood and tears is what goes into the preparation of this concert. Being backstage most of the time, i literally saw that all happen. Bringing to you, the behind-the-scenes :b
Photos by Jayden (really snapped my time away these two days. 400+ photos for both Day 1 and 2)
oh, but first things first. Thank you for all the encouragement from my fellow NRA mates!
Spread the love! Yes, this might make me sound highly retarded but i resisted eating any of the lil items that everyone gave me so that i could got home and snap a photo of it first. Thinking back that's what i did for every gift that i received in MG during valentines day and teachers day and ..... yeh the list goes on.
i remember exactly who gave what, but here's a general list anyway :D Christine, May, Orange + Becca, Gina, Ellia, Kathleen, Stacey, Mianbao, Xiaoqiang, Summer, Jaei, Karen.
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first day. 19.12.08almighty kitkat doing alexis' hair.
debra doing makeup
i guess being in NRA, performing and all not only teaches us dance. And there's this crazy frenzy going around, people helping others.
backstage before the show. Alene, Lav (SASSY HOST), juu and wenmei
also snapped a shot with Ann before going on stage :D:D
photo of evidence, xiaoqiang (plus alot of sweat)
managed to catch this shot when Trecia and I were roaming around hand in hand backstage looking for people to camwhore with. This crazy guy here isn't even sweating so much cause he just ran 10 miles but because he was doing quickchange (yes?)
my camwhore partner for the two days. we were pretty free after our first freshie items and had time backstage until our next items so we just camwhored and roamed around :b
NRA also lets you meet people from all over. It's a crazily embarrassing yet amusing story -- how i met Catrina, NRA alumni. That aside, it's awesome to be able to meet her again :D:D It's been a year!
super thanks to kitkat for doing my hair (and wenmei's and alexis' and many others) on the first day!
juu & kf! the senior that makes me feel superrrrrr at ease when we first started Bleeding Love practices. Thank you!!! :3
then we saw becca :D one of the 2 choreographers for the freshie girls' item.
she didn't seem to like trecia as much ): hahahha just kidding. fierce siol.
after taking alotttt of photos with seniors we ventured outside to the holding area and saw...
super sweet and cute! it's the matching coloured costumes and all but awww :3
allegra and ivan posed for a photo too~ yellow!
then xiangtian~~ and JJ in green :D
after they went to standby, i noticed Ronnie....
in the two days i realised that he is somehow or rather usually sitting alone in a very photo-friendly pose :b more in Day 2. I thought it wouldn't be nice to just secretly snap shots so i showed him the photo and he tried to delete it so Trecia and I escaped back into the sink area.
We saw Ore doing his hair.
ehehe, yeh this is when he was preparing for Dance Dynamics. & He's also the very dope father in the Family Segment :D
the sink seems to be a very popular place. we also saw joel.
tell me i'm not the only one who thinks he has total ability to be a Cosplayer!
~ after the show on the first day..
debrief on stage after all the audience left.
joanna's pretty flowers.
ahha so cute right this photo. it's like they're both in a beauty pageant or smth.
after debrief we continued camwhoring on stage :D these two nuts kept calling out for me to take photos of them. they even had a story behind it. They were to pretend to be stoning, then i had to call out their name and they would look up oh-so-innocently and i would snap their photo like a paparazzi.
XIAO QIANG~~~
BRO~
i also helped Karen take photos with Jon and i thought this was really cute so here it is up on my blog! :D
oh yes and another person i was brought back with via NRA is May! It's crazy, we knew each other since 2004 (i think) through a SDT production -- Cinderella. We hung around in the same group in the backstage of Esplanade for a couple of weeks but lost contact after the show. Ahh! So now we kinda call each other the long lost ballerina friends :b
so more and more photos when suddenly .. we rushed Alexis to the sink, backstage.
here comes the blood part. she suddenly had a nosebleed for no apparent reason -__- heard that jaei had nosebleed backstage during Day 2 too. after that was settled, we were on our way out again when...
O____O sijia looks super fierce. trecia = drama momma, hahahha.
maybe its because of her hurt thumb ): it was bleeding and all after her bboy(?) item. More blood for Sijia on Day 2 too when she crashed onto someone on stage and her gum bled : O : O please tc and get well soon!!!
ehehe, took another photo with Ann before my mom came to pick me up and home :D:D
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Danzation Day 2Reporting time was 12nn, reached slightly late to find everyone sitting outside... eating :b Thank you Wenmei for buying Onigiri for me! and to Kitkat who brought his ahma's Tang Yuan.
Ben was already in the midst of tattooing his entire body while Seng Kiat was writing on people's arms.
there you go, May the tattooist, and Ben the Tattoo kia.
alexis' karen's work on wenmei's hand
DANZATION! :D my arm, lol.
xqiang also got a new watch :D
managed to spot a VIP and asked him to pose for a photo. Oh yes, he's a VIP alright, V.Prez of NRA '09 :D
walked into the convention centre only to find right smack in the middle of the stage....
RONNIE AND HIS PHOTO WORTHY MOMENT. *snap* MUAHAHAHHA.
we were about to start the dry run for the day when word spread around that it was weiying's birthday! :O all the freshies broke out in a birthday song and the birthday girl was so touched she cried ): awwwww
*shrug* but we found the time to take photos with... Here's wenmei with PSP:D'
here's one part of NRA all lying on stage -__-
the dry run for that day was super hilarious. there's this natural sitcom-humour in so many of our dancers, its crazy. fast forward to the actual show. I loved the crowd. i think we all did :D
pretty balloons backstage!
cash and i-dont-know-what-he's-doing
Ann, Farid, Trecia, Limin, Juu, Alene, Sijia, Christine
Jamie (my mirror for Bleeding Love! :b), Sin Yang and Juu
okay we look super distressed. My costume was the odd one out also -o-
finally had someone who came specially to watch me on Day 2... :D sad that wern had to leave right after that ):
my family came too :D:D
yay hello jiejie
They too, left soon after so i went back into the convention center and just sat at the stage and look at everyone entertain their friends when i saw two people stand and wave from the seats.
o____o
took me about 10 seconds to register who they were.
nestie
hy
they didn't come specially for me but to have them linger and just talk to them all about the concert and catching up here and there felt good. Ah henry was there too :D after talking to them and all i decided it was too sad to just sit and wait for debrief to happen so i went around to take more photos!! :D:D
sofan Sophan & juu
other times he always looks so strict but in this photo he's damn cute with his an pan man cheeks! o^^o
we also took a DPA-NRA photo. Ziqe, Aneza, Euminl and myself :D
glenn suddenly asked to take a photo with me... with my camera. HAHAHAH
freshies! :D
wah okay looking at this photo makes me feel special :b
with ann again:D
super super cute! Ann & Wenmei
xiangtian~~~ juu~~~
after debrief, touching testimonies, announcements and phototaking (and getting chased out by security) a whole group of freshies headed down to KAP for celebration supper :D (i've been having macs almost everyday hahaha)
looked for a bigger table and sat beside Fuyo. Wenmei took photos with all of them hahahaha
then alexis insisted she had to take a Alexis, Alex photo :b
part of the freshie guys who were there.
some of the freshie girls + shufang
tanglin sec was there too :D
SIM :D
Kitkat and gang
Cabbed home with JiaJie after that. Since the first night I've been editing photos and I didn't finish until the 21st afternoon. I totally can relate to how everyone says they miss the feeling of having rehearsals, going to school for dance and all and i can't deny that i feel that way too. Am feeling so ... moved. NRA = Family :D
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p/s: Shall start uploading/sending out photos to all.
p/p/s: I took 2 hours to blog this.
p/p/p/s: in the process of blogging this i was damn tempted x1000 to just put alllllll the photos here :b
now everyone shall tag! :D:D
tataaaa! am going to get busy with my uploading now. *yawn*
Labels: jayden, juu, nra, wern
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