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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Late post....

Penang trip has been great! It was nice to be able to hang around happy, crazy dancers!

The competition was really fun too though it was a bit rushed right before the competition started. Started our journey from kl at about 10.30am and reached penang at 2+pm. I was soo excited to try penang food!!

We had asam laksa, curry mee, fried kuey teow, prawn mee and abc. And the food was.....horrible!!! I was sooo disappointed. For the 1st time in my life, I had vegetarian asam laksa. Why? It's because there's nothing inside except a little bit of noodles and a whole lot of veges, plus the soup didn't taste nice! Curry mee was weird because it was white and tasted sweet. Oh and have you seen white fried kuey teow? It come in this slightly whitish colour if you request for a non-chilli one. The one I tried was with chilli but it still tasted bland. The most normal one was the prawn mee. SAD~~~ that I didn't get ot try nice penang food!!!!!!!

Yea, ok back to competition...as I said it was kind of rushed because we quickly changed and applied our make up as soon as we arrive at the hotel and then rushed over to the venue. The stage was cute, with a lot of christmas deco, but there were a lot of other thing on the stage too......

After registration, we went backstage to change into out heels and we asked to go on stage to be the 1st performers when 2 members had not even worn their shoes yet! The ppl were like rushing us..."Faster! Faster"....... "Wait, we haven't wore out shoes yet!"...... "Ok, 1 minute! Faster!" .....and ta-da! we went on stage just like that! hahaa......haven't really warmed up yet.

Ya, then right after everything, I had gastric problem~ which might be caused by my nervous attack!! What luck man! So I only managed to watch a few teams perform before I went backstage and sat there like a sick person!

I was hoping that all 3 teams from my dance studio would make it to the top 5 and my wish came true!!! This was definitely something worth celebrating!

The top 5 teams had to perform their competition peice again and this time we were the last group.....really "bao tau bao mei"- in cantonese.....

hehe...it feels great to have the audience cheering along when you dance. :D it makes you feel more energetic and therefore you tend to put in more energy!!

Thank God for the safe journey to and from penang, and for protecting us from any injury while performing. Thanks to my instructors who have given me the chance to perform the competition piece with them and also for all the drilling sessions. All credit goes to them, their hardwork and creativeness, to be able to choreograph such a CRAZY piece of dance. Yup, plus huge hanks to Dad and Jas (the mutated sheep) who came all the way to support us.

Labels: dance, pics

- ❤~~~Mel ;

Friday, December 11, 2009

*sleepy n tired again* hehe....I've now got bruises on my right elbow, back and both knees....

today is rest day for me......*happy*...so I hope that by tomorrow I'll be fully charged!

The competition's tomorrow......I'm really excited. I want to do my best tomorrow because I don't want to regret anything! Especially after all those night where I sacificed my sleeping hours to do drillings and for practice!

Winning is not everything. It's a bit too much to ask for esp. it's my first dance competition of this standard. My group mates were all superb...so I'm just hoping that I'm not too far behind them and won't look too different in terms of movements and power.

:D hehee.....wish me luck!

I'll be heading off to Penang for the competition tomorrow and Dad will be there to watch!

Dad have always been supportive. He's always there with his camera..... :) ever since my primary school days. He has not seen the choreo or costume yet but I did tell him to look out for a bunch of oddly dressed gals....lol, as we might be the only onces not in hiphop wear that day......who knows!

keke.............

Labels: dance

- ❤~~~Mel ;

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

I'm happy....

All these while, we've been practicing the choreo section by section and last night we finally did a run through of the whole thing~3mins plus! hehe.....there's still lots of room for improvement! So ganbatte Mel~

I'm recently really into ss501. I've always thought that Hyun Joong's really handsome....love Young Saeng's voice and there's just something about ~~Kyu Jong~~ *hearts*. hehe.....

I'm currently in love with their song "Love like this"

I love the chorus part.

Chorus:
(Korean)
Love, naege wa. neon, like this.
So Love, gidarin neoran girl
True love, dagawa neon like this.
One Love, neon naege neon naegero

(English)
Love, come to me. You, like this
So Love, waiting for you girl
True Love, approach (me). You, like this
One Love, you, me, you come to me.

Labels: DSP, MV

- ❤~~~Mel ;

Monday, December 7, 2009

I've been so busy these few days that I don't even have time to blog about anything......busy with work and dance.

I've just finished learning the choreo for the dance competition and the competition is this coming Saturday!! OMG~!!! I'm stressed out because there are parts where I keep forgetting steps and then there are also parts which I remember the steps but couldn't excecute them well.....oh, and there are parts where I'm either too early or too late!! I want to be able to do all the steps correctly, at the right timing so that everything can look synchronised.

My work....is grrrrr......and grrrrr........*sigh*

Goodness~~ the lack of sleep is also killing me. Plus there are horrible painful blisters on my feet.....4 on the left and 2 on the right!!! I'm both physically and mentally worn out~

I need a good night's rest and some fere time for myself to think about what I really want to do for my future~!

- ❤~~~Mel ;

Monday, November 30, 2009

I’ve been quite busy recently… hehe…but happy.

My uncle and family have finally moved back here last week. I miss them loads, especially my little cousins who are not sooo little anymore now. Last Friday was my cousin, Melanie’s 12th Bday. I initially promised her that I would bring her go ice-skating after her UPSR but I didn’t because I really didn’t have the energy, Instead I took her for 2 makan sesisions. One on Bday eve for pizzas and another on her Bday for cheesy baked rice……ending with desserts on both days. Kids nowadays are hard to pleased. I had to make sure it was food that she liked…..and it has to be at a restaurant she never tried before…..and the food must have lots of cheese!!! Then after everything she’ll ask you….."Why aren’t we going for ice-skating?” I felt so bad!~~ I guess I’ll have to bring her on her next visit to kl. Kids will always remember it, if you promised them something and never realize it for them!

I went for McD lunch last week because I was craving for twister fries~ hehe…. And I saw a colleague of mine having the cornetto sundae, which I’ve never tasted before. To be honest, I was never really a fan of McD’s ice cream because I didn’t like ice creams that were…..purely white! I only take McFlurry~ Somehow, last Friday I decided to try the Cornetto Sundae…..and it was so good that I had it again on Saturday and again~ on Sunday!!!.....Hoo boy, I’m gonna gain weight!

I recently started learning the choreo for next month’s competition. I know it’s late to be starting only now but we were all really busy and stuffs. This choreo is really very new to me but I’m excited and happy to be able to learn it! I can’t wait to learn the whole thing~!!

Work has been…..*sigh*……complicated~

I had the chance to perform in Genting last weekend and it was such a great experience for me!!! :) Hehe……a totally new experience for me! A bit kelam-kabut up there but it was fun~ I feel that I didn’t practice enough and due to my bad musicality …..I was off beat, forgot steps and didn’t complete my movements…….a couple of times! I feel bad for ruining the performance that way. Hahaa….but at least I’m learning something new…..and hopefully, it’ll be better next time if I have the opportunity to do it again~

- ❤~~~Mel ;

Monday, November 23, 2009

Lunch with family at Daorae...

muahaha......pork belly~ yum yum!

As usual there were a lot of side dishes but I like this plain salad the most because of the corn salad dressing and I kept asking for more!

I've always wondered what's this jelly like thing and I finally found out from the staff- Korean tofu!

Bibimbap! Looks nice like this right?

After you've mixed everything, it looks like this......not very presentable, but it tastes great with the red pepper paste.

Steamed egg.......hmm, super 'rough' steamed egg!! haaha....

Chicken marinated in sesame oil~

This is actuallly grillled pork ribs....no bones, only meat! Super convenient! I like it as it's less fatty compared to the pork belly but mummy n daddy prefers the pork belly as it's jucier.

The free korean pancake! I think my dad is the only person who wraps this with a lettuce together a piece of meat.....he said it tastes nice when eaten that way.

Yummy~ I just love korean bbq!

Labels: food

- ❤~~~Mel ;

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Was really tired this morning….but I felt really happy when I opened my post box this morning before leaving for office~ I saw 3 lovely letters from 3 very important people!!! Thank you guys for the lovely cards! Love them~

I’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t got time to post any pictures or do any proper blogging.

I went to KLCC for conference and exhibition yesterday with my colleagues. It was a nice day trip. At least, we don’t have to be stuck in office every single day. But thanks to the all that walking in my heels, I now have 3 blisters on my left leg…………. which is bad because I had dance prac last night.

At the exhibition there was a game counter by this very well known company. All of us got excited and decided to participate too!

It was a pipetting game! Well…there were 2 different plates: a 24-well plate and a 96-well plate. There were 3 different pipettes of various volumes for us to choose from including a multi-channel pipette. We were supposed to fill the well plates with different volume of solutions of different colours. We even have to follow their specified “design” for the 96-well plate which forms the word “plus”. And at the end of the game we need to yell “plus” for them to stop the time. The fastest pipetter is the winner!

The purpose of the game was to introduce their new pipette which is absolutely lovely…and I want the whole set!!! The fell of it and the light-weightness…..~

I’m like sakai over there at the game counter because I thought that the pipette was like all ordinary pipettes. I kept banging the pipette onto the tips and the lady was like….”you don’t have to do bang it because there is this new spring loaded tip thing in their new pipette which ensures that tips will fit in properly without affecting the pipetted volume”. I’m like “ohhh…..~” and few seconds later, I start banging on the tips again! Hahaa…..

I was really nervous right before the game because I haven’t touched a micropipette for like almost 2 months. I got soo confused with the multi-channel pipette because this one only has 4 or was it 5 tips. So I nearly missed the wells the first few times. Then stupid ppl like me never tried out the pipette first before starting the game so I didn’t know how soft the plunger was ( the force required is smaller than the force required for a normal ball point pen)…..I pressed really hard on the plunger and pipetted too much !

The results???

Ta-da!!!

Well…..that was before our Japanese scientist tried the game. Even the Doctor from Germany at the counter was impressed! He said, “Japanese ppl are really fast!”

I also met a few lecturers from uni at the conference.

I got so shocked when the MC announced my viro lecturer’s name during the lucky draw QnA session.

Both him and my R.O won a ticket for a hot air balloon ride!!!

The jap. Scientist won one too but since he won’t be here during that time, he has decided to give me his tix.

So that means, my R.O, lect and I will be in a hot air balloon together??? Aaaaa……..

- ❤~~~Mel ;