dance dance dance!

Street Jazz 1 course by Yenny has just ended. I enjoyed it a lot despite not being able to stretch as much as i would (im so inflexible!!! arggh). Anyway i enjoy the jazz walks and chereography its so me. haha.

I'm now looking forward to Broadway Jazz by Andy! Im sure that'd be as fun! :)

However as part of Dragones Latinos i have to take other salsa related classes. I;m gonna be broke cause im gonna have to take the following classes very soon:

1. Casino 2
2. Men's shines.
3. of course salsa advance.

(i would want to take Turns 2 soon)

that more than $170 together! I guess i'll have to let go of my desire to get that cool brown/gold watch by Puma.. boo hoo. Well, i would love to take all the classes i like but there a limit to how much i can take.. restricted by my disposable income and time. And what about my savings for KL work stint!!

materialistic pursuits

there's so much to buy. Even with a considerable amount of pay it will never be enough to satisfy one's desires. I guess it's true you have to separate your wants and needs. but right now i just wanna pen down my desires, desires for materialistic pursuits. This is the list:

1. a leather messenger bag with those snazzy straps - maybe from Dunhill (i wonder how much they cost?)
2. More customized/tailored shirts for work
3. a new PC - or a laptop- so that i can play exciting graphic intensive games...
4. World of Warcraft!! - i want to be a Blood Elf! :p
5. white loafers for casual fridays! :p

yay!

that's not too bad right the list? oh though i have to juggle these with dance courses (which im starting to get addicted to) and allowance for mom and dad AND savings for my KL work stint? haiz.. any sugar mommyies (or daddies) out there??! drop me a cash line!

mid term goal

i have been thinking about it - working in a different country, staying on my own for a while. I always wondered how different will it be staying by myself with my own room away from my family and friends and amongst new friends.

all my life i never really had my own private space- having grow up with 2 elder brothers sharing the same room. which is why i always enjoyed camping trips and stayovers at chalets etc. Probably the only other time close to 'staying on my own' is during Tekong - especially when i was an instructor. Although i stayed with three other colleagues i enjoyed it nevertheless.

There was an opening in KL for a research position - qualitative at that! I was short of leaping at the opportunity. But unfortunately there's a lot of other things to consider. Firstly like money. I think i should save up more to go on such a 'long' trip. I probably would stay for at least a year there. And i should have at least a couple of $K for advanced rent, additional fixtures, furnitures, expenses, etc. Also I've only been in my current job for less than 6 months. I'm starting to see light. :P

hopefully i'll be able to work towards this goal and eventually be in KL on my own. Probably even i dun make it to KL, at least i would want to experience staying by myself at least here in safe Singapore.

here's to independence/privacy/ and a new experience! Cheers!

hiatus

it's been so long since i last blogged.. has to be mainly because of work - of getting used to the things which i'm not exactly comfortable in - numbers! work's getting better now though. I'm into my 5th month (time flies!!) 'crunching' numbers making sense of them and arranging them into a story.

it's quite funny how i'm still not myself at work.
In social psychology, there's a term called 'Idionsyrantic points' - it says sth like after spending some time with a group, one is able to get away with their little idionyrancies. For me, depending on the extent of familiarity, it can range to being very suggestively humorous to laughing and rolling on the floor. Oh yes to affectionately calling my dear friends 'slut' and 'bitch' and the works. haha!

anyway yeah, im still my 'professional' self at work. Rarely breaking into my crazy routine. Of course i wun want to be so comfortable to the extent of rolling all over the carpet in my office but you know comfortable enough to enjoy more being at work.

perhaps its not the right job for me... i know that this would be challenging.. especially dealing with numbers. I've learnt that multi-tasking can be quite challening too- one moment ur rushing to do A and task B gets in your way and u have to put on hold A for a couple of hours but still need to complete them by the EOD (end of day)! But im getting the hang of it... and i feel less depressed. it can be quite depressing not living up to what you perceived as the expectation of others of you and worse still of your own expectations.

i am still considering switching to Qualitative research but i need to find out more about it...

for now, i look forward to my first overseas trip (on an SQ!) to meet clients, my first fieldwork supervision and hopefully my first presentation. :)

have so much to blog abt! like:
1. going overseas to work/staying by myself
2. DANCE!!
3. Being Happy
4. my materialistic pursuits :p
5. and more...

Puteri Gunung Ledang

note to self: blog about the GREAT musical i watched earlier... wonderful!

Social (salsa) Coward

haha. what a great post title.

I've finally decided to social more often.

Though im still a coward, okay let me use the word shy.

I think i only danced about 5-6 dance from 9pm to 1135pm at Union just now! I think its good. At least i didnt, i repeat DID NOT dance with anyone i wa sfamiliar with! Which i think is the point of Salsa SOcial- to improve salsa social that is!

I had ....
First dance with Joyce* (we both thought we've seen each other before but not sure, read below for post Social encounter!)
3 dance with super beginners- of 2 which in super tight places
One rather experienced beginner - she's ever smiling, how sweet!
One HOT babe called Jane- her styling/shines is WOW. It made me dance great too- definitely the best dance of the nite!!
The Caucasian/Sg babe from NTU (i think) - she's hot! but my last dance/ with her wasnt as hot as i wished it to be ... :( - my fault lol... i think..

anyway...

*
Its so hilarious really
long story short. Joyce mentioned addie and we prb met at his bdae party at HRC, i was like er... who's addie??
I was introduced to her friend. i think her name started with J too.. (im so confused)
I asked Joyce for a dance, asking her name again. !!!
In mrt i met Joyce and a friend. I didnt realize the friend was the one whom i was introduced to who was saboed for birthday! :p
Then we talked. Joyce showed who is addie (from her phone). then i was YES i know him.
i mentioned about cherating and his gf's loss of wallet in the chalet.
THEN...
At this point they giggled...
Apparently one of them is THE GF!!
lol!!
Guess who? Its Joyce!! WTH! so embarssing.. haha actually not .. its more Hilarious i say! :D
kewl
at least now i noe of someone who stays near me- she's at CHinese Garden! yay!!


BTW, i learnt some stuff about leading today:
1) i sometimes confuse my follow if my hand is on my chest styled towards the lady.. they thought i want them to hold it..
2) as usual i can be quick indecisive. Like i want to turn but i didnt but the follow read the cue to turn and then i didnt turn her and then i decide to turn her and then its too late- but hey we broke it laughter. :D
3) dancign with very beginner people is v fun and challenging! (if i can lead a beginner and look decent/look like we're having fun, i MUST convince myself that i CAN LEAD THE BETTER LADIES in the dancefloor too!!!!


For greater my Salsa Lead, Cheers!

kitten on the roof

was walking home in the evening earlier today and i saw 2 cats (one orange and one white/black) rested beside each other along the Bugis Alley. I meowed to them. They looke quite anxious but stayed for a while to 'check' me out. At the same time i heard a meow. Not from them. But from behind.

I looked behind and up. It was the same cat who i saw a coule of weeks back.. On the roof!!!! I think it's a kitten. It looks quite quite peering up from the roof like that. But i wonder whether it is stuck there.. I doubt so since its be 2 weeks. Plus it looks like he could get down as its not so low down to the other ledge/landing. CUTE! It's probably the kitten's favourite hangout- wad a view from the top eh? :p

On another note, rather morbid note, my friend Melvin hates cats after a very tragic incident. Apparently the mother of a few kittens gave birth on his roof. After a while he smelled the stench of carcass- from above! SO poor thing, he said his room especially stink quite bad (cause they were directly on top)and he cant sleep.. Eventually he had to call professionals to remove the carcass.. I refused to agree to this theory that mother kittens dun care about thier litter! I think that perhaps the mom got killed while getting food or sth.. Poor kittys.. RIP..

Oh yeah.. last story about cats though not on the roof this time:

I was walking to work last friday wait it was yesterday when i saw a box by the main road with the cute collared spotted cat inside. It looked so rested and i was afraid someone actually put it there cause it got ran over by traffic.. I felt sad for him/her.. But on the way back home i was so relieved that its ALIVE!!! yeah it was lazing around in front of the colorful shophouses. :p Thank god. I think i get quite depressed when i see cats especially dead by the road decomposing...

meow!