3 months of not updating my post. Here's my last post before going to tekong.
Feeling nervous yet excited. Gonna make myself calm down first.
I will be back in two weeks time so stay tune! :D
P/s: I'm waiting for someone's comment but seems it's not possible...
Journey through this phase of my life @ |{1:45 AM|
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Chances.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
"Chance is always there. We all
use it. The difference is a poor photographer
meets chance one out of a hundred times and a
good photographer meets chance all the time."
Brassai
Is it really the end? Looking at current situation, I guess so... Sometimes, people just take things for granted and wait for it to happen. But, they didn't realize that every moment is a chance.
We may think that : oh, there will always be later or don't worry, there will be more opportunities. This is totally a wrong mindset!
This guidance from sensei always run in my mind.
"If you summon your courage to challenge
something, you'll never be left with regret.
How sad it is to spend your life wishing, "If only
I'd had a little more courage." Whatever the
outcome may be, the important thing is to step
forward on the path that you believe is right."
Sometimes I do really hated myself as an gemini. Having an indecisive mind is a fatal factor. I gonna know what I really want and stop being a frinkle minded person.
Journey through this phase of my life @ |{7:29 AM|
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YOG
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Fire Dancers group photo
Time flies, Aug 14 is over. I felt so empty with my tues, thurs and sat :(
6 months of trainings, sweats, burns have finally paid off in our performance.
Flash backs....
During March, we were selecting our group and practicing the basics. Played around different props like poi, stave, rope dart etc and in the end, i got into fire poi group.
During April, we started to learn our choreography which took a long while to master the skills. Hitting our own head or other parts of our bodies and burst into laughter was a common scene to all of us. Some of us were fast learners while some took quite a while to master the tricks. We had our own group trainings apart from our normal training times. In the end, we managed to pull through.
During May, we started playing with fire and overcoming the fear of it. It was quite overwhelming at that time. As i learnt to respect the fire, I begun to enjoy myself with it and started to do my choreo with confidence. It was a hard one but i managed to overcome the fear.
During June, we started to do our formations and runs at mandai hill and floating platform. It was a hectic one as we have limited time to complete our formations before proceeding to floating platform. The weather was affecting our fire run during our training sessions. On top of that changing in our choreo from time to time and changing our prop to double poi do gives us a lot of challenges. But we managed to pull through again.
During July, we landed on marina floating platform. Done a lot of dry runs, music runs and fire runs. Got our costumes which doesn't fit on us despite the fact that the tailors did a detailed measurement on us O.O . Filled with cork liver oil smell on us. Weight was an issue to us as our poi got double increase in size, weight , flame and heat. So all of us had free waxing sessions on our hands, legs and even our hair.. Despite all these obstacles in front of us, we came together and chant lots of diamoku and gave encouragements to each of other. And once again, we managed to survive.
AUGUST, final preparations for our costumes was finally done. Almost everyday is filled with YOG trainings, fire retardation and rehearsals. But it was fun and enjoying. However, sanshoshima started to appear. People were falling sick and admitted to hospital (Shiling), but our spirits were never dampen by all these factors. All of us were in high spirit! On the actual day just before our actual performance, there were dark clouds above the floating platform. All of us started chanting diamoku to ensure the good weather of the entire opening ceremony. In the end, our performance went smoothly and we scored total victory!
I would like to pay my gratitude to Xyn, Wilson, Dixon, Ben, Chun, June, Romi, Nigel, Jerry, our gate ics, our fire safety crews, our logistics crew and most importantly, all of us ; D Without everyone's efforts, it would not have been so successful!
Well every good things will come to an end. Can't wait for 27 and 29 Aug to come! Keep spinning people and all the best those who are involved in Bornfire 2010! And for those who wanna learn poi, there will be workshops organized by bornfire during sept to oct period :)
Journey through this phase of my life @ |{4:41 PM|
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A value creating week
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Feeling tired after coming back from YOG CR. Had continuous training for the past two days..
Muscle aches from swim and training, not to forget roasted hand during music run. My arms are not obeying me.
My left elbow is not feeling good too, gonna get elbow guard.
On a lighter note, I have been doing house work or maybe abit for the past two days. I'm glad i have made a small breakthrough. Well at least it's a good start for myself who is so lazy.
Well gonna stop here for now. Going for a morning run.
P/s: I'm smelling my wide angle tmr :P
Journey through this phase of my life @ |{1:13 AM|
Wishlist
1. AFS 70-200 VR II
2. AF-S 17-55 F2.8
3. D300s
4. SB 900
5. Car license
6. Oakley Radar Path /M Frame Qoutes
Do you give up the struggle to overcome your own limitations on the first attempt, or do you keep on with it, trying a second time, a third time, and continuing on in the challenge for the rest of your life? That is the only difference between the genius and the ordinary person.
Daisaku Ikeda
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