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| Hey you guys, it's been a while again hasn't it?
All I can remember and think about is the Lowell Spring Dance Concert: Soul Meets Body
which took place this weekend! A lot of sweat, brain power, time, life,
laughs, and pain was put into this show, and it was all worth it. It's
hard to believe and almost ridiculous when you think about it, that you
spend months [pretty much a whole semester] going over one dance that
lasts all of three minutes, to perform once on the night of the awaited
concert. I mean, when you're in class and just running it over as many
times as you can and making adjustments, that one dance seems to last
longer than you'd like, but once you're on stage with the lights and
crackling atmosphere, you're left wondering how the hell it ended
before it even seemed to begin. Anyway, I was a part of the 9-10
beginning class and we danced to Madonna's "Hung Up," and I think I'll
even dare to say that it was awesome! We were pretty lucky in
that the crowd was very generous in applause and cheers for us both
nights, and part of that was probably due to the fact that we had a disco ball.
Oh yeah, no one can beat the disco ball! Saturday's performance was
probably the most touching because Ms. Jones came to watch the show
after her long family related absence and surprised most of us who
weren't counting on her appearance. People laughed, cheered, and cried,
and I hope that we were able to make her proud, and that she's able to
come back soon with only good news. Also on saturday the seniors in
dance were recognized and awarded for their continued support and thank
you awards were handed out too. It's sad to come to realize that in two
short years I'll be participating in my last spring dance concert due
to the fact that I'll be graduating not long after. Even though I was
in only one dance this year, the experience has meant a lot to me and
has made me love dance even more. Just because I was in dance I was
given the opportunity to meet a variety of new people who ranged from
rocking my socks to giving me the urge to socking them in the face. I'd
like to give a warm thanks to all of you who were in my dance group
[Amanda, Cheryl, Julie, Linda, Maebo, and William] for this
concert because you were able to bring my vision to life. Out of the
concert my favorite dance was without a doubt Sick.
On another note, hopefully Urban Step will rise up from the ashes that
it crashed and burned into this year and regain its position among the
dance teams. It was a pretty disappointing year because we only took
part in two major activities this year, one being the homecoming rally
which was full of technical difficulties, winter fair which went really
well, and we just faded away for the rest. Oh well, watch out people
because we are coming back, and we're planning on coming back so
strong you won't know what hit you 'til you're up on your feet and
cheering your head off!
Most people know of this goal already or can guess because it's
pretty obvious, and to keep from looking like a real loser when my
current prediction comes true, I'll leave it nameless. So I'm aspiring
to make it onto something, but in my current position I know that I
lack the techniques to be chosen for such an honor and realistically
will not make it this time around. Knowing this is quite a downer,
because my time is running out and if it isn't this year or the next,
then I will have failed in regards to this goal. It's something that a
lot of people reach for and the competition will be really tough, so
who's to say that even when I achieve the techniques that I'll be good
enough compared to those competing against me? Ms. Louie is really
supportive and says that she believes I can make it, I just need to
"practice, practice, practice," and that's what I plan on doing.
Definitely. No more hiding behind the rows and off to the side for me,
next year I plan to show my full potential, and hopefully it'll be good
enough and impressive enough. I'll get tutors if I have to, and I know
that I already have friends who will help me out =]. Thanks to you
guys, if I make it I'll know it's because of you, and if I don't, I'm
sorry for letting you down.
Next year is just going to be a stressful year, so many classes
and tests, and second to last pick. Not to mention all the extra
activities. Yippee. Oh well, I just have to put one foot in front of
the other and keep striving for my goals.
♥
(Also, if you didn't notice, new layout [Dance, let It move you
<3]! I swear I change layouts more often than I update, haha.)
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| Gasp, second entry in less than a week! Haha, well here's a little
survey that I filled out because I thought it was more original than
most of the ones I've seen.
Pick any artist on your last.fm list & answer using their song titles.
(Ok, so we were supposed to pick ONE artist, but...I didn't have enough
songs from one artist to answer all the questions, so here's a bunch of
song titles from various artists)
[1] Are you male or female? Because I'm A Girl (Kiss)
[2] Describe yourself? Breathing (Yellowcard)
[3] How do you feel about yourself? Imaginary (Evanescence)
[4] Describe what you are thinking about right now: Where'd You Go [and/where are you]? (Fort Minor)
[5] Describe your current significant other? Me, Myself, and I (Beyonce)
[6] Describe the place you currently live: Simple and Clean (Utada Hikaru)
[7] If you could go anywhere, where would you go? Dreaming In Azure (Dan Gibson) or Escape to Paradise (Dj Quicksilver)
[8] Describe your best friends? Crazy (KC & Jojo) or Dum Diddly
(Black Eyed Peas) or First of the Gang To Die (Morrissey) OR Dreams Come True (Valen Hsu) haha ;D
[9] What would you ask for if you had just one wish? A Love Before Time (Coco Lee) or You and Me (Lifehouse)
[10] You know that you've: Recycled Air (The Postal Service)
[11] What's the weather like? Sakura Drops (Utada Hikaru)
[12] If your life was a television show, what would it be called? Seasons (Ayumi Hamasaki) or Secret (Maroon 5)
[13] What is life to you? Smiling Faces (M2M) or Sleeping In (The Postal Service)
[14] What is the best advice you have to give? Die Another Day (Madonna) or Easier To Run (Linkin Park)
[15] If you could change your name, what would you change it to? Adia (Sarah McLachlan)
Fill this out for yourself and post it onto your journal of sorts or leave it as a comment so I can see your answers =D.
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| Ok, well hello xanga, I'm back! And to you faithful
readers or accidental stumblers, thanks for taking the time to check
this entry out, though there are no promises on more updates soon or
not. So where to start?
Well with whatever my brain's memory banks can pull
up, let's start with talking about my new affiliation with Triple A
[none other than Adopt An Alleyway,
and not the automobile one, sorry to disappoint ya folks]! So how'd
this come about you might ask? Well thanks to Connie's recommendation
and the group's consent, I was asked to choreograph a dance for their
15th anniversary dinner and after meeting them, how could I not join?
Days before and of the dinner:
Wow so those first couple of days of teaching /making up the dance/
choosing the music/ and mixing the music were hectic! I'm really proud
of you guys for learning the dance and having the guts to perform it in
only a matter of three days! We worked hard pulling those, I don't
know, five+ hour days with hardly any food to survive on, and rocked
out on that miniature stage. It was loads of fun and we shouldn't have
to wait for the next dinner to do something like that again. Maybe
summer get tgoethers to raid dance clubs ;]? Haha.
Singing my unofficial "theme song" Only Hope by
Mandy Moore at the dinner with the first half being mostly Mandy since
I choke up when it actually counts and can't sing loudly even if my
life depended on it.
The first triple A meeting:
Had a lot of fun at my first official triple A meeting, I mean, who
wouldn't have fun describing their "dream lover" and then drawing
him/her? Of course, the food was a plus too.
Spring Break:
Monday:
My first alleyway clean up. My god, some of the alleyway were really
quite bad, and I couldn't resist the urge to dispose of every piece of
trash I saw, and was disappointed at the junk that wouldn't come off
the floor. Then Connie, Szeto, Jeffrey Z. and I went to Denise's house
for the "eat off" which didn't happen because if we had actually let
competetors Spenser and Adrian chow down, the rest of us would've gone
hungry. After lunch and the various video game playing/ ping pong-ing
we traveled to the park and the beach. I now know that I can carry
Samantha and Wilson L. good distances and everyone else I asked either
declined or I didn't ask because I judged I would probably fail at
lifting them.
Tuesday: The treasure hunt in Chinatown. I was somehow chosen to be a group leader and was assigned a group of six sweet, stupendous, scrumptious, sedulous students!
Ok, so most of that was a lie, lol. Let's examine the truth shall we?
Six students? Yes. Sweet? Hells no. Stupendous? Eh. Scrumptious? Well I
wouldn't know, cannibalism goes against my beliefs. Sedulous? Hardly.
They weren't really all that bad, but they caused me quite a bit of
trouble. Point one: While waiting outside the telegraph house stop a
couple of the boys splooshed open their umbrellas which had been
collecting rain and splaterring the other kids, myself included. On our
way to another stop after that one of the girls commented "This field
trip would be more fun if it wasn't raining." Since no one else
replied, I decided to extend a friendly gesture and say "Yeah, that's
true." Her response? "I wasn't talking to you."
At the Women's House one of the boys hid another kid's jacket and this
feat wasn't discovered until we reached the next destination. This
required us to run back to the place after getting back to Gordon J.
Lau while forgetting our umbrellas, resulting in getting more soaked.
Guess what? We still couldn't find it. It was pretty bad at the end
because the kids got tired and kept saying the wanted to quit, and
since time was almost up anyway, we quit. Reading Connie's xanga, I
guess "the other devil groups" must include mine. All in all, they were
adorable little children with limits, it was a good experience,
and I don't regret a minute of it.
Wednesday: Sister get together day. Watching Love Actually while
turning away at those "improper" scenes, cursing that home-wrecker, and
rooting for Hugh Grant, the writer dude, and Sammy. Baking neat shaped
cookies in the beginning by using a melon baller, and then going crazy
by stabbed semi-sweet chocolate chips into them and forming odd shapes
and letters near the end. Playing jenga and in Miss Dissociative and
Miss Nonconformist's case, losing at jenga. Yes, WatermelonGirl
and "the Queen of Jenga" managed to survive.
Thursday:
The triple A hot pot. So yeah, that was my first hot pot ever and it
was pretty interesting. I'm not really sure if I cooked everything well
enough but hey, I'm still here so things must be all right. Some people
took mky food too...;-; Note to
readers: never take me to an all you can eat buffet unless you tell me
that's your plan so I don't eat breakfast, or else it will not be
worth the money. Trust me. Playing a group activity after being forced
to stop cleaning up the mess that was still there after cleaning
efforts...hey, when I see something that needs to be cleaned and I'm
not feeling too lazy I can't resist the urge to clean it up. The
activity was to form four squares out of the pieces you're given.
Unfortunately I had to leave to help out my sister with something, so I
missed the part of the day where things started getting hot. No, I do
not mean the boilers were turned back on for more hot pot, or the
glorious sun that was out that day shining its rays even brighter, but
the next avtivity. From what I heard, people got pretty close to each other with that activity.
Friday: Went
to chinatown with my mom. Got some pasteries and just spent some
quality time with my mom that I haven't been able to do in a long time.
Weekend:
What can I say? It was truly a homework cram weekend with feelings of
regret at not starting all the work earlier, and not getting sleep.
Hoo-ray.
First week back to school:
It actually felt as if there hadn't been a break, and it was rather sad
because this week the weather was beautiful--the exact opposite of
spring break weather. On wednesday I had to run to
Albetson's and back to get the "spring" themed gift for this month's
gift giving. The most surprising thing about it was that I actually did
it and I hadn't run in months. Yay for me! Gorging on all the lovely
chocolate and candy that was given, and still working on it thank you
very much =D. I left a flower for Mrs. Li on her desk with a note,
except I forgot to secure the note to the flower so it actually
could've flown away with a gust of wind, leaving her to wonder who the
hell was stalking her and leaving her flowers. It was signed by "yi ge
xue sheng" anyway, but there was an explanation so it wouldn't made a
difference. Actually, I'm not really sure if it was Mrs.
Li's desk, haha. She hasn't said anything, so I guess I'll be left
wondering if she ever got it. I hope she did because she really
deserves a nice surprise now and then, and especially the respect she
lacks from those goddamned unappreciative students. *Cough* I don't
like it when nice/good teachers are taken advantage of by demon seed
children who deserve to be in a crappy teacher's class....
Ok, well it it's getting kind of long so I'll stop
for now and update you guys again later. Woot, I'm having cheescake
while watching The Corpse Bride tonight! Muahaha, be jealous of my cheesecake! XD.
The spring dance concert is coming up soon: May 26th and 27th,
so tell me if you want to come and watch. When I get the tickets, I'll
let you guys know and hopefully if you're coming, you'll buy a ticket
from me ;].
Damn that is going to be one busy week though, because the post-poned
Color Wars Rally will also be the 26th. Come check Urban Step out =D.
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| Wow, it's been a while...
I'd be really happy if you guys would fill this out [click this out actually] http://kevan.org/johari?name=Keyohful with about five-six words. Read the instructions, you'll get it =]. Then, make one for yourself and send me the link!
Will make a better entry another...less lazier time...thank you!
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| Thank you to everyone who either wished and or even gave me a present even though you guys didn't need to!My greatest thanks to [in order of who I remember said it first]: (Of course my family <3)
Jason L [the glass flower+bird are so pretty!]
Victoria L
Jeffrey L [lol, "Wow, are you going somewhere later?..."
Denise L [Wows super shiny/sparkly, just how I like it!]
Shelby L
Jennifer M
Jess W
Aaron L [Thank you to you and Alice for your very..."interesting" wishes to me, hehe] Alice L [Once again, thank you for a very original birthday wishing]
Wilson L [Your card is extra funny, I love it to pieces]
Connie Z [I <3 being your "Pringles trash can!" and you have such exquisite/creative wrapping abilities]
Carmen Y[The earrings you got me are beautiful and blue! I definitely need to find something to wear them with =D]
Wilson Y
Chris C
Phoebe T
*cough cough* Er, Sean L ["Wait, it's your birthday today?" <- after a whole chorus of "Happy Birthday!"s]
*cough* Erm, Lincoln L ["Go find some other guy to give you a hug." yeah...thanks?]
Sam E [*lethargic* "Happy Birthday..." hehe..]
Tony D
Sherwin L
Geoffrey W [Thank you to you three guys who uh...gave me birthday "high fives"...]
Michelle W
Wendy L
Henry T
Jeffrey Z [I love the earrings you gave me too =) And the box is expertly crushed haha]
Kevin X [I didn't think you would remember ~]
Linda L
Spenser C [Will I be able to expect the anime in...a week or so? hehe]
Belle Y
Cally W
Wilson L [Aptos man!]
Evan K
Jessie W
Justin C [Thank you for coming all the way to Lowell to wish me a happy birthday in person =D]
A very happy birthday to Dennis H and Nikki A tomorrow 2/3!
Oh my god, I have to get a presentation for health ready! Aiyah! Does anyone happen to have "rain forest" sounds or know anything about rain forest medicines? Hehe...Ouchers, well I'm absolutely looking forward to saturday, more on that later.
Toodles, and once again, thank you everyone!
:: I think I will relive the past, if you let me <3 :: | | |
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