Wednesday, June 18, 2008

13-15 june~~

Had a great time at my dance camp at SFA..

It had been such a long while ever since i went on a camp, kinda sian-ed cos have to pack and bring lots of stuff to camp. Lugging 2 big bags to board the mrt train, attracting many curious stares while trying to navigate my way through the crowd and trying my best to avoid hitting anyone with my bulky bags. Hehe.. I stress on the word 'TRY'..


1st day (fri nite) didnt do much.. Sat in a circle to play games.. Funny & interesting game of Truth or Dare we've had. Herman showed his maturity in thinking by posing several thought-provoking questions that left us with 'Woah.. never once in our lives had we thought of it.' For eg. What u would like to be said in the eulogy at your funeral *touch wood*... In other words, what u want to be remembered as when u leave this world.. HMM..

And Sophie's the 'evil brain' giving ideas for truth questions and dare 'stunts'.. Lol..
But too bad all the other details are 商业秘密--无可奉告.. aha..


Sat's the tiring day with PT in the morning.. Joggging followed by exercises..

After that it's salsa taught by Herman & Wilson.. it's quite fun learning the basic steps and when it comes to coupling up time, i volunteered to be one of the guys cos there isnt enough guys and i am the tallest girl there. But being the 'guy' is tiring cos we've to support the girl's arm and position it nicely in a nice curve (after sometime my arm will 'nua' downwards oops!).

Then laoshi thought us a retro dance.. Dancing to the same track as 袁帅did in the finals. But our choreography is of course, more difficult haha..

Next up is the makeup class by guest instructor Adam.. I have problems putting makeup as i can hardly see my face in the mirror after removing my spectacles. Put 3 shades of foundation though i dunno what i am doing and i didnt put enough to cover blemishes on my face. It's as though i havent put on makeup haha. Don't care la.. When it comes to eyeshadow (my fav!) cos i thought it's the easiest to put. Just dab on 2 shades.. I chose pink to go on the eyelid, picked up purple one when i saw no one using it and dabbed in on the eye area below the eyebrow. Both happened to be in metallic hues^^ and when Yun yun jie asked me to ask instructor for comments (jialat.. i thot sure fail one) he took me by surprise by saying there's good blending and interesting choice of colours that give the Orchid look. Haha^o^

As for the 3rd eyeshadow colour to be added at the corner of the eye, i dunno how it works.. So i didnt try. It's supposed to add more definition to the eye, just like how the 3-4 shades of foundation works to make the face more 3D.


Bollywood dancing time!~ Also taught by Adam who's so good at shaking and shaking. That's the essence of Bollywood dancing anyway. No one, or perhaps maybe several of the pros can catch up him. During the warm up exercise, he told us to shrug and bring our shoulders up then down. Up and down double.. then triple.. then he will go 'vroom' super quick. Eye movement is important too, but given my small eyes, eye movement arent that obvious lor =x

First time trying out Bollywood style dance, it's real fun!!

In the evening, we went swimming in the nearby swimming complex. Swarm several laps and went for shower. Hehe.. my main objective of going to the swimming complex is not to swim, but use the shower facilities as there arent any shower rooms available in SFA. They used pails and scoops to shower earlier in the day.


Night's for playing games.. i was in a half-dazed state of mind already, lacking in sleep from the prev night. So suay-suay got forfeit twice, go out in the centre of the circle to do stupid things.. Whatever..
In another game where all of us were split into 2 groups, i think i dozed off briefly, only to be woken by teammates calling my name. I was 'HUR??!!! WHAT thing?' Don't even know what game i was being chosen to represent the team for. Turned out that it's a scissors-paper-stone game, 2 players start by putting their feet together, the loser will have to take a step forward (the step gets bigger as the game goes on) while the winner takes a step backwards. And the loser will have to make sure his/her toes can touch the winner's toes.

See who has got the longest legs and who can do the split better. Haha.. Now then i know why they chose me to be the first aka strongest player, laoshi always say i'm very tall and have long legs (like real la, haha maybe only in the troupe cos the guys there arent tall)

Beat the 2 guys YW and XL.. When they lost, they received taunts like ooh, 脚短!脚短! as they collapsed on the floor in frustration while trying to do the split (the guys cant do the split la, ok.. neither can i..)
But i lost to ZS, cos i lost the last determining round of scissors-paper-stone. It's ok to lose consecutively at first, just win the last round and the opponent will have to 're-trace' the steps taken by you previously. In other words, do a split and try to reach the furthest distance. I missed by an inch i think... can't help it.. unlike the other girls with dance or gymnastics or taekwondo background, i can't do splits properly.


The next day begins with PT too.. Zzzzz...
Had a short technique brushup class by Xiao yun jie & we proceeded to Talentime.. A display of dances that we'd learnt in the camp to our laoshi. There's supposedly rehearsal time & the actual Talentime's scheduled in the afternoon, but due to the change in plans --laoshi and 4 of the guys have to be at the finals of 'U are the One'. So we ended the camp early, but not before clearing up & 顺便do some spring cleaning to make our dance studio look gleaming clean!~

Though i havent slept much over those few days, i wasn't that tired when i reached home (surprise!) and even managed to finish watching 唯我独尊to see袁帅being crownedU频道代言人. Hehe.. laoshi's right in guessing the winner^^
And i watched how the 4 sleep-deprived, previously stricken with cold or diarrhoea or vomiting guys perform alongside Yuan shuai. Pro sia~~ But i doubt many viewers have noticed them, they are just being the 'extras' to make the main character shine better. Hehe..


[Cloud loves dancing!~]

yunn. at 10:35 PM