i was feeling quite head-achy until jess called!!!!!!!! i was very excited. hahahah and i forgot about it (: I MISS YOU BUD, i wish i was at the 'hot chocolate' event too!!! lovelove!


and i am so glad for angelina in JS and love actually. everything's more fun with a friend, and i feel safer with her around, cos if i dont know whats going on can ask her!!! (: wah, she's so organised its amazing. and she entertains me in lecture also haha(: <3 and she's the bridge btw me and our other JS group member too, cos i cannot understand what he's saying sometimes hahah


today i practised competition rumba with altron in SMU's very nice walkways today before we went to paso prac!

he really is very very nice to dance with. i've seen a lot of partners argue a lot over steps cos they get very frustrated with each other. to the point that they don't want to talk to each other for a while. haha

my partner is really awesome, he knows what he's doing. before we start dancing, he always does the checklist: back straight look up, give me some weight, connection. and im terrible at connection so so he spends time correcting me instead. haha connection basically is the leading and following thing. the man is supposed to lead, and the lady respond, but i tend to move on my own instead of responding to his leading.sigh, im a modern girl even in dancing. hahah, its very complicated okay.. i always forget to wait for him to move before moving myself. haha, but he doesn't get angry with me no matter how many times i forget, yet he'll apologize if he makes a mistake!! so nice (:

i think partner dancing is really very different from the usual individual dancing that i like. it can be difficult cos you're working with someone else, but it's fun cos there're a lot of stunts and fun lifts that you can do cos they guy can support you (:

and if the girl falls down, they almost always blame the guy. hahaha

i'm glad its fun to dance with my partner. but he's really too hardworking. all the days that we don't have official training, it's likely that he wants to self train! haha


This is why latin dance takes up so much time:
Let's use the paso routine as an example

1.Before we showcase it to SMU latin team for vetting, we need to prac under supervision of our external choreographer

2. Before we show it to our external choreographer, we need to prac with the team under supervision of our captain

3. Before we dance with the rest of the team, we need to practice with our partners

4. Before we dance with our partners, we need to get our indiv basics right.

so many levels! haha
of course you can skip steps and not bother to train outside of official training time, but really, if you want to improve faster you have to!!!


what you learn from the choreo in one hour, you need to prac on your own for another 5 hours before it goes into your head! hahah


im really sleepy actually. i feel like im falling sick! OH NO! ): but it's ok, cos my partner isnt going to training tmr. so i can't train much too anyway. haha