yay! the flyer is out! :)
if you wanna know what yours truly been up to lately, this is what i've been keeping myself occupied with.
all the practices have been tiring and painful, but fun and fruitful at the same time! to date, i think this is the production that is taking the most time to prepare. even esther said this is yet to become the best production among all that we've done! because this time there are lots of prior preperations, bigger budget, and also a lot of dancing involved.
so if you're a dancer, or if you like to watch people dance, or if you're a helpless romantic, or if you're just simply interested in stage performances, u mustn't miss this one!
everyone including the casts, props crew, sound and lighting crew, tv crew, pastor and esther, and everyone involved in making this production a success is really putting a lot of thoughts, planning, effort, and creativity into everything.
and the reason we're doing this is not for ourselves to syok sendiri, or for ourselves to watch. but for you, and your gf or your bf, and your friends and family, and your neighbours, and your classmates, and also your rivals to watch!
there are only 3 performances this time. once on each day as stated in the flyer.
Friday (10/10)- 8pm
Sat (11/10)- 5.30pm
Sun (12/10)- 10am
:)
we just finished the 3-day training with oschool. it was a really good experience! thanks to pastor and esther for bringing them here to train and teach us. they've definitely made our choreos tighter and nicer.
and though this training is a short and intensive one, through that we learnt how to catch instructions and choreos faster, and also to be more alert and attentive. thanks a million! :)
also lotsa thanks to Gin and Alex for making it all the way here to teach and guide us. you have inspired us to be more creative and experimental, as well as to be more disciplined dancers. i'll not forget what you guys taughts us in those 3 days. *hugs!*
all these preps would be in vain if you don't come and watch. afterall, this is for you. and yes, you who are reading this now ;)
hope you guys can make it.
continuing to work hard and hoping you guys will not ffk me,
careen.
:)
we often hear that life is fragile, life is fleeting. i recently have been experiencing and seeing it firsthand.
first it was mr. guna, a MUET teacher in my school who fell from his ceiling while checking on the plumbers' pipeworks, fell and crashed his bones, and died.
and now, it is my very own relative, my mum's aunt who is also my grandaunt. as old as it my sound, she is only in her mid/late forties, has a husband, and two lovely daughters of 16 and 14 yrs of age.
it happened so simply, casually and quickly. it all started with a knock on the top of her head while she got out of her car one month ago. perhaps it was a pretty hard knock, which caused her internal bleeding and blood started to clot in her brain.
since, she has been complaining of constant headaches and even migraine to her family members. but all including herself thought that it was just one of those days where u get bad headaches. but soon, it got worse and more severe, that she went and see the docs. they prescribed pills for her, probably painkillers, but they didn't help much.
one day, one of her daughters persuaded her to go jogging and play sports with her, so she went. afterwhich, when she arrived home, she started complaining of very serious headache, and everything went on from there.
it was so severe that she lost control over her actions. her neighbours told her family members that she had been talking to herself outside her house, and acting strange. perhaps, her already didn't know what she was doing. later on, she even couldn't recognise her family members.
she stays in mentakap, but she was sent to GH to do an operation on removing the blood clot. it was quite a successful operation. the docs managed to remove the blood clot of approximately 10cm, but also said that even if she were to gain consciousness, she might have been paralysed, and just not back to how she was anymore.
so since the op, she had not been able to move. but whenever my gramma speaks to her, she would react in either little movements of her body parts such as a small move of the eyes, or in tears. i guess she was able to hear and think, and feel her family members around her..but she just couldn't move and awake. that was in the day.
at night, the hospital called her daughters and asked them to hurry to the hospital, and that was all they said, they refused to break any news. while her husband who hurried back to mentakap to sell a car to the client, heard the news soon after the hospital called the daughters.
before the hosp called him, he just got back to his house in mentakap, and was resting on the couch after the whole day..but heard footsteps upstairs of the house. and then he remembered that he was alone in the house. then, he could sense that something bad had happened, because according to some, the spirit of the deceased usually goes home before they go to heaven. i'm not sure about that but, yea.
right after he had that bad feeling, he received a call from the hospital that his wife had died. hurried back to GH, and met up with his bereaved family members.
this grandaunty of mine is a very pleasant, hardworking, sacrificial, generous and kind soul. she is so motherly. back then, each time when we returned to pahang every half of the year, we would sleep over in her house which is just beside my gramma's house. and she would kill kampung chicken for us, cook this and that, bring us to the library and to the park nearby, and we would watch cartoons and Sclub7 in her living room, play kitchen-kitchen in her daughters room, and many more.
she is also an excellent (and i mean very excellent) wife and mother. she has been a teacher all her life, and all her life revolves around her family's wellbeing and income. you know they always say, good people die earlier than the bad ones. sometimes, we can't help but to agree, isn't it?
dear aunty poh sim,
i wish you well. your good deeds and kind acts will always remain as beautiful memories in my heart. though i'm not very close to you and i barely see you nowadays, you have given me a very good impression, and you have inspired me to work hard, and love my own family in the future, just like you. you are truly sacrificial, and i praise and thank God to have created such a wonderful person, and to give me a chance to come into your life, although we were only close for a brief period. i will try my best to be there for angie and annie. all of us will miss you dearly. you were one of the few kind souls left on the face of this earth, and God will bless you tremendously as you deserve it.
for those of you who have read this, do pray for her family members whom she has left behind. they really need all the love and prayers that they can get. thanks people, you're the best.
boon just left for work offshore. praise the Lord he told me he might be able to send me emails every now and then, which he initially said he couldn't but only to give me a short call of 5-10mins once a day. he'll be there for about 12days if no miracle decides to happen.
oschool's representatives Yong Zhi & Gin will be coming tomorrow till sunday to give us some intensive training for the upcoming dance production, Dance, My Love.
i'm hoping for the best, but i could somehow sense that it'll be a tough 3days ahead of me..which includes lots of training, practices, and maybe scoldings. heheh.
well, it was quite a comfort to me when boon commented that my ballet looks somehow identical to that of the other real ballet dancers. i'd always been pretty self-conscious about my ballet cos i've never ever done ballet in the entire 19 course of my life! not too long but, yea.
plus, the dance style that i've been accustomed to is freestyle or better known as hiphop. as some of you would know, freestyle is well, free style..meaning, anything goes, as long as it looks nice. usually freestyle dancing knows no rules, no proper posture, no proper syllabus, and it's just, free and fun!
but ballet on the other hand is very much the total opposite. i think u'd know ballet too. so it got me quite a while to get used to it..which i'm pretty happy to say, i'm slightly better right now. heheh.
don't get me wrong, ballet is a really beautiful and tough dance to learn. through all these lessons and practices, i really do respect ballet dancers and their determinations. wish i'd learned ballet when i was young.
the routines for the production have almost been complete. we've gotten our retro dance ready, ballet rountines are all done, left with the final dance which has a lil bit left. a lil something for y'all to know ;)
do pray for me and wish me well, my dear readers.
xoxo
not that i'm promoting or encouraging the use of foul languages or any of that sort, but i just found these videos pretty crappy and entertaining :P
this is even funnier. ehehehehehe...
enjoy!
done my shopping for MPT56 yesterday and am so proud of myself that i managed to get all i need yesterday itself! weeeee! no need for extra rounds of scouting and shopping..though honestly i wouldn't mind more rounds of shopping :D
went for dimsum with a few of our cg members, vincent, lihsia, victor, leepeng and also kevin. not forgetting boon of course :) dimsum in puchong was great! lurve the salad prawn dish :D
went to midvalley to collect my lovely tiny vest with boon..which doesn't look so tiny on my body.. :( sometimes i wish that my body frame is bigger, or that more clothes could cater to the needs of petite young girls like me ;)
anyway, after that we gave bangsar village a try. but to my surprise and disappointment, no nice dresses were found and also not many nice shops were there. quite quiet there too.
and since we were already in bangsar, we decided to visit pastor's shop which i'd been longing to visit!
juli and leelee were working there, and we had a chat as well as browsed through the awesome stuff! juli asked me to try some on, but i told her i don't think i should cos after i tried them on and don't have the means to get them, i'll become sad. ahahahah seeing alone can already motivate me to work hard to get some :)
and i saw this particular piece which was really really nice! and juli said that it would fit me just nice cos i'm petite :D hmm..maybe being petite is not so bad afterall :P
this is the one me and juli love love love so much!
it's called Momo Modella, and it costs RM959.20.
*cries*
but i really really want that piece i want it so bad i want cos it's so nice i want i don't care!!!! :(
oh well.
we left bangsar after a while, and decided to go back to our first love, 1U. and yes, i managed to get all the stuff i needed and wanted there. woohooooo~! happy happy! :)
thanks bee for accompanying bee throughout the shopping spree. thanks so looking out for stuff for me. thanks for all the food. thanks for all the time. thanks for the leave u took. thanks for the stuff. thanks dear. :)
imagodei poster :)
which i think is quite few. hehehehe.
yours truly have just finished her trials today!!! woohoooo~~!
*everybody pops champange and celebrates*
but then, she has to start working extra hard for her real STPM exam. this is just the beginning :(
*everyone drops bottles of champange and start giving careen hugs*
...thanks guys, i feel much better :')
hence, yours truly is taking her time doing HTV script for this weekend, going online and blogging :)
oh, this is soon gonna be mine mine mine! :)
this is such a classic, tiny vest! it is both very cute and hot at the same time. weeee~
am most probably gonna collect in tomorrow! :D
oh, baby has taken his day off tomorrow to go shopping for prom with me! he gave me a few packages.
package #1: he'll pay for my accesories.
package #2: he'll pay for my acesories and shoes.
package #3: he'll pay for my gown.
package #4: he'll pay for my gown and accesories and shoes.
hmmm...which one should i pick? ;) kekekeke.....
am so excited! can't wait can't wait! :)))))
i'm so excited got so many things! shopping tmr, new vest tmr, upcoming production, MPT5&6, and my si-fu Natalie is gonna get married this Saturday!! am so excited for her!!! :)))
there's just one thing that i am so not excited for. i guess you guys should know what it is. =/
but i'll work hard. after today :P
hellllllo babies!
my sexy sister will be having her final paper for her trials tomorrow! huh??
which sexy sister? careen la who else!!
after that, she'll have more time to hug and kiss me, and pay attention to the cute lil me who is growing bigger by the day! i'm soooo excited!!! :D
*yay* clap with me! clap with me!!! :D
oh what a day! :)
started out with going to church. which is always a good start for a great day ahead. keith's sermon was really relevant and true. will share on it after my exams :)
after having lunch in church..alone..which is very seldom..hehe cos boon was away in labuan for about a week :( yea so after lunch, did my make-up by my favourite erin wong and lex low, and had my photoshoot and video shoot for the upcoming dance production, Dance, My Love :)
while at it, he gave me a surprise by coming back this morning from labuan instead of coming back only on the long, painful wednesday. he deserved a punch on the stomanch. which he did..hehehe i love you :P
the process of the shoot was quite an oily affair! to create the sweaty effect, they decided to apply baby oil onto my skin. neck downwards and hips upward. minus what are inside my bra of course..hehe. which worked quite well :)
i think the flyer for the production should end up something like this.
cool! hope it turns out like this of course..hehe.
afterwhich, went to subang lake and around there to have the video shoot for this weekend's production promo.
it was all about me walking by the lake, looking emo and deep in thoughts, sitting on the grass looking across the lake, throwing stones into the lake..hahahaahaha damn funny. was trying to hold back my laughter the whole time! they even had to play some emo song to get me into the emo mood. ahahahahaha it was really funny la..some more boon was there. you know, whenever that joker is around it gets hard to pretend to be emo. ahahaha! :Pp muax!
after the shoot was done, we sent patrick and francis back to church where they had to start with all the cutting, pasting and editing of the films. i really admire our church's tv crew up to this day. i have a lot of admiration for them. they don't get paid nvm..but sometimes people don't even acknowledege their works. it takes a lot of love and passion for it to be in this ministry. guys, gambate don't give up!! :)
went home to change into something more comfortable, and headed to sarah's house for POS barbeque. i have this love for condos i don't know why. baby said he'll find me a nice one which is strategic to everywhere and that includes all the shopping areas next time :D
all of them except for me and cindy who are having our time of the month jumped into the pool and back up and jumped in and back up. =/ sometimes it sucks to be a girl with ovaries. but God, i love being a girl most of the time..please don't let something like 'hot chick' happen to me please i beg you God don't!!
studied a lil there too. yes i studied don't you there say i didn't :P
headed back home after that..and after fetching me home, boon went back and joined them get wet together. fun..... :(
and here i am...after studying econs for a while and taking a break. so there you go..this is my day :)
i know you love me ;)
back to econs!
i was happily relaxing in the middle of our beloved kuala lumpur..just going around snapping pictures here and there. i saw this view of our malaysian flag, and just behind it was the eye of malaysia (ferris wheel). as i thought that xinyi would love it, i look a picture of it, and asked her if she liked it, and she who stood right beside me, told me she loved it.
next scene:
suddenly, a building right in front of my eyes collapsed. it was on fire especially in the middle section of the building, and bits and pieces just began to fall onto the floor. just like the scene where the joker had burned the hospital down, and how parts of the hospital fell everywhere.
i got shocked by what was happening right before my eyes, and i ran away for fear that i might get injured by the destruction of the building.
then as i looked to my front right, i saw a few man rushing and kept on throwing people down from a three-storey flat walkway. they just kept on collecting people as if they were dummies (as in dummies/patung), and just threw them onto the floor. some of them got unconscious, some of them had very obviously damaged their backbones, and some just..without any reaction..as if without any feeling or pain. those being thrown were just being stacked on top of one another, unable to move.
i saw a few familiar people in that scene. one was my school mate, one was uncle lee (yes, lee sk), and one was my dad. he and unc lee were the only two men throwing the people down. but in case you're thinking that they were commiting murder, nope, they were doing it out of desperation. what sort of desperation? i don't know.
then, i woke up. felt a strange, eerie feeling. but didn't really care, and just continued my sleep.
at night, when i was messaging him, he sent me a text saying that he'll support me in everything i do even in his sleep. and as i was thinking of what to reply him, i thought of saying "i'll still love you even in my sleep/dreams."
then, i tried to recall what dream i had the night before.
after recalling and remembering the dream, i looked at the date of my phone, and it was 11.09.08.
i did not even see or hear anything about 11.09 prior to that dream or my sleep which was the day before 11/9.08. didn't even have the slightest thought or reminder. and yet, what i dreamed about was exactly it. and know what's worse? it's at the heart of kuala lumpur.
how freaky did i feel?
you wouldn't wanna know.
