Tuesday, 31 December 2013

Miracles in December | 12월의 기적 | 12月的奇迹

It's December, the end of another year is coming soon........

2013 has been a really great year for me because I feel that I've really gained a lot, especially in NRA.
So I'm back to my usual what-have-I-done-for-the-whole-year monthly recap thing again!

January

January........... Nothing interesting happened.

February

The only thing I remembered was going to Mel's house during CNY for dinner. And I won $50 from mahjong. :D For the first time ever I won money from gambling whoohoo! #yehet
Went to JCube with my best friend to celebrate our anniversary hahahahaha #yaabdbap #bfff
We went to eat dinner at Eat @ Taipei, I told her I brought $50 out and in the end I realised I didn't bring my wallet out. Trolololol!!!!!
Oh yes! And class chalet which was more of a drinking session. And yes Jägerbomb is my favourite bomb shot now HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. It was a much better drinking session because Jeremy got his bartender friends to come over and made the drinks for us HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA and yes as usual I didn't sleep at all. (who sleeps during chalets anyway. xD)

March

Celebrated my 19th birthday with my best friend!
We went to eat Swensens at Marina Square as I won a $20 voucher long time ago and we wanted the complimentary firehouse for the birthday me hehehe. One table away from us there was a boy celebrating his birthday too ehehehe. Went to K box after that and sang for many hours. Walked to MBS to eat Cold Rock. Chose Strawberry and Cheesecake for the ice cream flavours because we were thinking of strawberry cheesecake. I wanted peppermint though but too bad my best friend doesn't appreciate mint. HAHAHA. Went outside to take polaroids and yay. It was a nice birthday celebration.
At Helix Bridge!

Took my Grade 8 theory exam on 23 March. I think I did pretty well though because I managed to compose some shit out for one of the questions.

April

Started my second year at Poly!! Met up with my clique on the 12th (Sehun's birthday #yehet) for dinner at Bugis! It was a great catch up session with my dearest girls. Celebrated Shiyong's belated birthday as well!!
L-R: Bernice, Shiyong, Gee Fang, Rachel (Me!), Cheakmin, Xiaowei, Beryl.

Went out with my best friend the next day to town hahaha and then a few days later we went out to Bugis again. Helped out for NRA freshies audition too!!

May

Yesung's enlistment on the 6th made me really moody because I know I'm going to miss him a lotttttt. And it coincides with Baekhyun's birthday which I was like SO AM I SUPPOSED TO CELEBRATE BECAUSE OF BAEKHYUN OR SHOULD I BE CRYING BECAUSE OF YESUNG??????
And NRA Freshmen Bonding Camp!! Helped out as a station master and it was a really fun experience of not sleeping to practise choreo, meeting for the station games and everything else. Thankful to have my #teamS&M with me throughout Freshie Camp! Stuck with them throughout camp and yay love you guys. Especially Claudia and Brandon who fell asleep on my thighs for 1 whole hour without realising, and when Claudia woke up she apologised because my thighs were so comfy she fell asleep with knowing. And Brandon who said my thighs were so comfy he wanted to sleep more. EXCUSE ME MISTER???? Hahahahahahaha.

The best thing that ever happened during May was definitely PCS Hong Kong Trip. 
Glad to have my whole class with me throughout this trip (except Mingyi who was overseas for if not without her we would have full force for our class. :() Formed our shopping groups which were the 7 guys on our class and Mel and I because I was the only one familiar with HK, and I was the oldest. (Stupid guys and their age issues with me. -.-) Thanks for following me around and not pissing me off and thanks for trusting me to bring you all around! And yes, the night sessions we had together talking were really precious. Really loved them. :) Love you childish bunch of people. 
Really learnt a lot from the NGOs there! And walking through the streets of HK made me feel like I was in a drama. And yes I miss my purple hat guy from HK already.......
Sunrise from the plane!

Another shot.

Randon lift shot with 1/3 of my class! 

Shopping clique! L-R: Wen Kai, Jeremy, Boon Seek, Benedict (who got covered), Chong Yong, Dominic, Me, Melissa, Brandon!

With Key 

With Minho 


With one of the volunteer working at the Youth Outreach Centre! And I forgot his name. :X
3rd Row (L-R): Yan Leng, Faith, Me, Aishwarya, Wei Xin
2nd Row (L-R): Benedict, Boon Seek, Dominic, Wen Kai

Presenting to you, PCS 2T01! 


June

Went to eat pancakes with my BFF at BFF!
It was really good and the price was reasonable.
I ate Mixed Mary's Berries and my BFF had Breakfast Mambo Combo, and we bought truffle fries as well.
It was so gooooooooooooooooooooooooooddddddddddddd!!!!!!!!!
I was so full and satisfied after my meal because there were so many berries in my meal (did I mention how much I love berries?????????)
We said we would return there every 1st Sunday of the month (but in the end we didn't).
Camwhore on the bus! #typicalsingaporean

Started my daily practices for Super 24!! It was a really fun training experience with this bunch of dancers because I find that our personalities really live up to our group name, Sassy BOTS. Although I was really sick of the daily PT sessions I'm glad I didn't try to skip it. Heh.
And on June 14, the most historic moment for EXO and us for it was their first win. ♥ 
And I swear, Suho's crying speech was really the funniest thing ever. Sorry leader but your speech was really funny. (It's so funny even to the members that they made fun of Suho. xD)


Went for Asia Style Collection with Siewfang on the 22nd!!
We were seated among the Zoe Tay fans, and behind us were Jeanette Aw's fans.
So happy to have seen 2NE1 and SNSD live!!!!!! I even brought my SM Town light stick to the event hehehe. It was a pity that the mics weren't working properly for both 2NE1 and SNSD. When 2NE1 were singing I can hardly hear CL and Bom's mic was weird sounding. :( I was so excited for Tokyo Girls Collection and the Korean fashion collection also and yay Siewfang and I spotted hot and cute angmoh models. :D
When the Singapore artistes came out for the runway, Siewfang and I were mainly spotting for our favourite people hehe fangirls with Siewfang is so easy because we have the same taste in men (Jonghyun, Ryeowook, Leejoon, Luhan, Edwin Goh HAHAHAHAHA).
Zoe Tay was really pretty though! And she stepped on the edge of her dress (because it was so freaking long) but the was still damn calm and composed. Really the Ah Jie of Singapore. Like seriously when Fann Wong stands beside Zoe Tay she just somehow gets dimished under Zoe Tay's presence. HAHAHAHA. And when the Singapore bloggers came out I was only excited to see Naomi Neo hahahahahahaha.
And when SNSD came out. The whole crowd was screaming like crazy and yeah.
Their mics had some problem also. Couldn't hear them singing properly for Gee. :( My favourite song some more..... And Tiffany danced wrong a few times for I Got A Boy. GUUUUUUUUUURRRRRLLLLLL hahahahaha. Siewfang wanted to see her wife but sadly she's busy filming so she was screaming for her second wife. HAHAHA. It was a great night of fangirling!



July

July was my most memorable month because of two different occasions!!
Firstly was being selected to join Super 24 with my #NRASassyBOTS!!!!!!!!


It was a really memorable 2 months of training for that 90s choreo with all of the 23 dancers.
Being able to learn from Farid, Alif, Benzo and Lester was really a great experience as well!!!!!! *wink bite lips*  Grimey tsunami "can one lah, bro" saatki tornado!
Love how our group cheer evolved from "Sassy BOTS! meowwww" to "SASSY BOTS! KIIIIIIILLLLLL!" and our inside jokes about Alwin's desire to beat Legacy HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
I really felt all of us during competition day especially when Alif's part started our grimey tsunami was so fucking clean I cannot *_______*
We got 4th place which we never expected, and we were 1 point behind O School's crew!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm really sorry that I have been missing pracs because of NDP and I believed that it also caused me to feel less bonded to you guys and resulted in some negative impressions but nevertheless thank you all for being understanding towards me and glad that we cleared up those misunderstandings during the htht session. :-)

Secondly was SS5SG!!!!
I can't even use words to describe how happy I was because it was my first time in mosh and the amount of eye contact I got from my biases were mind blowing. I remember how Geanna and I were queueing for mosh and then this girl came to ask us if this was the right queue for Pen D and blahblah and then we became friends after that and later when her friend came to join us we became a 4-person gang whoop whoop! And the funny thing is that all 4 of us are born in different years. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
And I remember how Xinwei and Geanna were staying upstairs guarding our bags when Bernice and I went down to collect the free fan goods and then we went over to Kallang Leisure Park to buy food and then halfway Geanna called me and told me they were shifting our bags so Bernice and I ran all the way back to SIS and then after lingering awhile this group of ELF were screaming and we realised..............















SUPER JUNIOR WAS HERE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.
Everyone was just screaming and running to crowd at the entrance and I was trying to catch a glimpse of my biases but I couldn't (Stupid short height urgh). And then my mango melona ice cream became mango milkshake because we were under the sun for sooooooooo long and the banana and strawberry milk we bought became warm instead HAHAHA.
And also Bernice and I we were trying to find the Eunhae I Wanna Dance fan project and then we found them and joined in the photo taking xD
With-eunhae I Wanna Dance fan project! ^_^

Blah blah we went in, waited for concert to start and yes the start of my awesome mosh pit experience begins!

Geanna and I guessed that Donghae will be coming to Pen D more often and Eunhyuk will be running to Pen C more often because according to their formations Donghae is on stage right and Eunhyuk is on stage left. But, it turned out that Eunhyuk kept coming over to Pen D and Donghae was at Pen C ♥ 

During the ballad stage!!!! Sungmin was standing in front of me singing my favourite song from their 5th album, Memories. And I don't know is it because of the song or what but Sungmin's eyes were red and teary????????? And I got eye contact from Sungmin again when I was screaming "OPPA SARANG HAE!!!!" with the heart on my head during one of the stages and then Sungmin gave me a small heart back 

And Eunhyuk noticed me too during one of the songs that I can't remember because I was too happy. And when they were in their super hero costumes Sungmin and Kangin were playing across the stage *___________*

And I swear to god Siwon is really fucking good looking in real life. LIKE LEGIT GOOD LOOKING TO EARN HIM THE CRAZY AMOUNT OF FANGIRLS HE HAS.
Zhoumi was so damn fucking good looking too oh my god screw the fans that went to toilet while Zhoumi was performing :(

And yes the highlight was during the ments where Eunhyuk was addressing us, saying how they were hoping that they could have a 2-day show instead of just 1, and the most heart breaking thing he said was "It seems like not many of you are left......" and "I wonder if we are going to have SS6SG............" T__________T
Of course when we were in a state of depression because of what Eunhyuk said, Kyuhyun continued and said "Those people who did not come today are going to regret because they are going to miss out an awesome night" and of course we screamed and because more high than ever and also Donghae and Sungmin did Kwiyomi Player and Henry ripped his pants while back flipping and Rockstar being played for four times because Eunhyuk and Siwon were so happy stripping and pouring water all over themselves and teasing all of us asking us if we want more.

But the most heart breaking shit was Eunhyuk addressing the Only 13 petition going on and I swear it was a really depressing way to end a concert. Some people commanded Eunhyuk for his bravery to address this issue and taking the responsibilities as current leader of Super Junior because Teuk is in the army. Others said that his speech wasn't even needed and it only made the situation worse. I was half-processing his speech while I was videoing it down but when I went home to re-watch it I cried because I can really hear the pain in Hyuk's voice while speaking about the petition. And yes, SS5SG was probably the saddest concert that ever happened to SJ and ELF.
내 흑기사들, 영원히 너를 지켜싶어. 사랑해. 


August

Highlight of August was NDP 2013! Thankful to have my friends, Geanna, Angel and Sipei, in the same block as me, and making so many new friends, especially Pearlina and Annabelle!! We were the ones making the most noise during trainings and pissing Ying Xin off and after Ying Xin scolds us we'll be bitching about her HAHAHAHAHA and us calling Xiao Jun Lao Bu/Mother and sometimes bullying her and always asking Ying Lin to talk louder because we always cannot hear her.
Love you girls! 

And of course to Shirui, the bravest person I knew.
Despite her sickness, she showed no signs of giving up and her willpower to fight on her sickness was really admirable. After watching our NDP performance on 9 August, she passed away peacefully 3 days after. She is someone whom I will really call as a 'Fighter' because she does not concede to her sickness and showed no signs of giving up despite her adversities. Members all around Singapore (and probably across the world) who heard about her situation prayed for her recovery but in the end she still lost the fight. I still remember going to her funeral procession with Sipei and the amount of people there was just............. scary.

I may have not known you personally, but you are someone who can really inspire others and yes, you are probably the bravest and strongest person I ever knew. May you carry on this fighting spirit and continue living as a fighter in your next life.

Went for Staycation with my best friend and her parents at a new boutique hotel her cousin is currently working for and we got invited for a trial stay. It was a nice place though the rooms looked kinda small. And the bed was so comfortableeeeeeeee!!!!! They had KBS world and I was watching Dream Team and fangirling.

Also, August marks the start of my Danzation trainings! I remembered my first training for J&K item was on 10 August which was the day after NDP. I was so fucking tired and I really felt like skipping prac but I told myself "NO YOU GET TO SEE YOUR EYE CANDY JUST GO FOR PRAC" and yes that was how I willed myself to go for pracs no matter how unwilling I was because I get to see my eye candy. YES JUST BECAUSE I GET TO SEE MY EYE CANDY. 

And of course, #Growl1stWin. 

September

Went for my best friend's birthday BBQ! It was a nice catch up session with my clique.

"We look like a group of maids in this photo" HAHAHAHA

Went back to my secondary school with Beryl And Xiaowei and we gossiped quite a lot with our ex teachers.
My schedule was mostly filled with dance practices and flying home after Junior/Senior prac on Saturday to watch Dancing 9's live broadcast. I was supporting Blue Eyes though, sad that they didn't win.

October

Started my Sem 2.2 and I swear this terms sucks because we have a law module. Despite that I was happy because I had the chance to dance with my #teampusspuss again since Danzation 2012!!!!!! We were asked to perform a flashmob to promote Danzation 2013. With #teampusspuss I can laugh my hearts out and we can make as many dirty horny jokes as we want and no one is there to judge us. Our waacking item was quite viral among the NRA people because of our butt shake and a certain man slut /cough Kelvin cough/ and I was really happy that I was able to dance this item again. #teampusspuss was really the best thing that happened to me in 2012 and although most of us are in different segments for Danzation, the moment we meet up for pracs it was as though we were back in 2012 where all of us were together. ♥ 

And also!! It was the month where YG's new boy band will make their debut. I supported Team A and YAY THEY WON!!!!!! But my heart goes out to B.I from Team B. ♥ 

November

November was really my favourite month in 2013 because Danzation 2013 was the best thing that ever happened to me after Super 24. November was also a month that I can never forget because it was the month where I spend almost every single day of my week in school till 11pm dancing. It was also the month where I really pushed myself over my limits and injuring myself more than ever. As the saying goes, "no pain, no gain". Though I really should've known my limits, the amount of experience I gained was really uncomparable to the pain I experienced. Dancing with my fellow dancers in Love Segment and being a part in the super-duper-mind-fucking-blowing-dope-swag Junior/Senior item was an experience so precious that I would give up everything (except fangirling) to relieve those memories again.

Orange's Just a Fool item emotional-training-turned-crying-session practise was really unforgettable. As the freshies we not here yet, us juniors and seniors were thinking of how we are going to make our emotions for this item really be portrayed out and in the end we did emotions all out in the dark non-stop. I kind of lost myself in one of the rounds that I started crying really badly and then more and more people started to be more into the zone. And we tried to help those who were weaker with emotions by getting 3 people to watch the rest emote and then we rotate and take turns. I remember how we had to tell the Action people near us to lower their volumes because they were affecting us LOL!
Slowly more of the weaker ones were able to show some signs on emotions and I remember the final round before we did a full out of the whole item, all of us were crying in the end and we were crying so badly we can't even speak properly. But I felt that that day was really the day we broke through.

Orange's I Will Survive item was the complete emotional opposite of Just a Fool because for I Will Survive we were supposed to be as happy as shit because it's a happy ending. But we can never get the happiness out properly because Orange said our happiness was too fake. But during one of the pracs at CC, we ran over the 10pm time limit and they shut down all the lights inside while we were still having out run. But is was during that black out that we became really happy and excited and hyper that we were cheering and yelling and that day was when I Will Survive really felt the happiness we need to portray.

Originally, the emotion we need to portray for Jason&Krisha item was sad and loneliness but in the end we had to show acceptance instead. And we were like WHAAAAAAAT?! because our item's song was as emo as hell and we have to show acceptance for an emo song?!?!?!
I remember it took us quite a while to portray the emotions and then we finally did it during our first full force prac. I remember how Jason made us scream "FUCK THIS SHIT I'M DONE WITH IT!" before we started emotions training. And I don't know why but I just felt like crying and I was crying quite badly despite not knowing the reason why. #womenproblems.
But when the next prac came, all of us suddenly declined and hit rock bottom. Krisha was really on the verge of tears and I felt that we really disappointed her that day. Although it took us some time to climb up, I'm glad we did and now the whole Danzation'13 dancers know how to dance out 'Impossibleeeeeeee' part. ♥ 
And yes I feel that we are really the 'Battle scars' item of Danzation'13.

Us crying on stage during our last performance day was really memorable because our emotions were really at the peak and we were all just into the zone and we just started crying while performing. All of our faces were so unglam that we keep posting them in the Love chat. I still remember crying with Geraldine while watching Mia item on Day 1 despite there was nothing to be sad about, and I cried watching Fantasy Yellow on the Day 2 backstage. :')

And most importantly, Junior/Senior item.
I can't describe how much I loved our item.
I was so excited for Junior/Senior item since the day we had the meeting with Sophan Desiree and Summer.
Although pracs were 4 hours on Saturday and self prac was 4 hours every Sunday, it was a tough but memorable journey. And being in Desiree's segment as well meant that I started self prac earlier so on Sundays I will be in school from 11am to 7pm.... ON A SUNDAY. No doubt the cleaning sessions were really boring and I really felt like skipping it but I'm glad I didnt because LOOK AT OUR ITEM ON THE DAY 2. IT WAS SO FUCKING IN SYNC AND CLEAN THAT THERE WAS NOTHING BAD TO PICK ON. Our Junior/Senior item was the favourite item among quite a lot of people and yes. I'm proud to be a part of this fantastic item. We are the best batch of Juniors and Seniors ever. 

Danzation 2013; Love Segment 

Danzation 2013 was really a great experience and I never regretted joining it.
Even if it was my last Danzation as a current batch, I have absolutely no regrets.
And I had a v-v-v-v-v-i-p experience with my other eye candy 

December

My December was rather fun-filled as well because I was spending time with my NRA people!
Went for post Danzation workshops and yes, I really learnt a lot. Especially from my idols like Tina and Vicks. 
Had Tina and Fredy's class on Monday aka Street Jazz cum spazzing day because I get to see my idols.
Originally I couldn't get s slot for Fredy's class but someone pulled out and I got replaced. Thanks whoever that pulled out so I had that chance :'D
On Tuesday was Summer and JJ's class!
As usual, I had fun during Summer's class and his choreo was as usual, crazy mind-blowing shit.
JJ's class was great as well! Did Jazz tech and a really emotional piece. Thanks for the great lesson JJ!
Xiang Tian's workshop on Wednesday, and I think I died because it was so hard ;~~~~~~~;
All of us were lost from all those basics XT was teaching us HAHAHAHA and we spent so much time on the basics we only learnt 3 eights of choreo HAHAHAHA.
Had Alex's class on Thursday, it was a fun and light-hearted class because Alex said his piece was choreographed with a Christmas-like mood so it was really fun!!
Ann's class on Friday was probably the most physically tired one because we did some core (or tummy stability and hip flexibility as according to her) exercises and did lunges and squats and rolls and I feel like dying.
Learnt choreo and it was a really emotionally touching piece because we are supposed to tell our own story with a memory from the past.
We all held an item in our hand and we had to treat that item with importance and link it to an important memory.
I think I did a good job despite not thinking of any specific heartbreaking memory but just dancing out a story.
Went for Melise's popping class on Saturday. Although her class as the smallest in size but it was my most enjoyed workshop because I had so much fun. After Melisa taught us the choreo she placed us in formation and we were joking that we were filming a concept video, forming a new popping crew, sending our team to SDD this year and this will be an item for Danzation 2014. 
It was a really enjoyable session because I can finally learn Popping and Lester said I did quite well for someone who has no Popping foundation. :'D
Went for Vicks class after Melise's and I swear I was the most excited for that because Vicks was my biggest idol among all the NRA alumni choreographers.
Her choreo was really tough and mind-blowing, a hint of sexiness and character within a very strong piece. Really enjoyed myself a lot!!!!
And to conclude I went for Orange's class the next Monday. Her class was as small as Melise's because hers was planned kinda last minute. And the funniest thing was that Orange and Vicks used the same song, started their choreo at the same part and ending at the same part as well. The only thing that was different was the genre. I was really happy too because Orange taught Girls Hip Hop and it has been really long since I danced that!! Stayed in the studio with Fyyy Fellix Jiayi and Lucas after that to lepak and reminisce about Danzation 2012.

Went for a picnic session with 3/7 of my clique to Marina Barrage for a picnic and kite flying!
Cheakmin and I told Shiyong and Bernice that one of us can sense rain very fast and one can smell the rain so if we feel anything we will pack and shift indoors immediately. And then when we finished saying that, Cheakmin and I felt a raindrop so we hurried up and packed. The people who were still having their picnic were still enjoying themselves. And lo behold, once we reached the shelter, the heavy rain come. Everyone who were outside were drenched and we were dry. Hehehe!
Enjoyed kite flying with them too!
Had a nice dinner session and we ate root beer ice kacang which was so weird.
Played with fireworks as well!

Went out with my best friend Lau Cheak Min again on the 30th!
Went to eat Spruce and it was so expensive sigh.
Wanted to sing at Teo Heng but the rooms were fully booked until 11pm. So in the end we went to K box at CCK.
It was $22++ for one person and after adding KOD and all those things we had to pay $71.80 for 2. We asked about the Kala card and it was $16 but there were no more rooms available for student price. So in the end we went with the $22++ thingy. Spammed a few pages a songs because we only had 4+ hours to sing.
Ate dinner after that and we went to lepak at Lot 1 Roof Garden after that.

2013 has been a really great year for me and I hope that 2014 will be better!!
xoxo

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