i slept at 8+pm last night hahaha!
today woke up and received a sms from water saying that there is not sch today
wah happy lor can go back to sleep.
then after that slept a while more, ming called and say that we need to be back in the academy for the 2nd period onwards..
then had to wake up and went to sch lo hahah


in the end missed chinese tech cos it was the first class.
then had ballet today
the typhoon yesterday caused the APA air conditioning to spoil
so the whole academy was out of air-con, so it was super hot! btw, they don't have fans
and all the dance rooms have no windows that could be opened.
it was very stuffy haha
but it was nice cos we get to sweat, but sian today never really sweat a lot leh..only abit,cos only got 2 class and they are so far apart. and they felt really fast too.


classes were still going on as normal.
did a little more stuffs in ballet today.
and today we did this combination on the barre to one of the music from les choristes,
i was so reminded of Singapore lah, reminds me to ebird too. haha, those days when i watched the movie "les choristes", then ebird and i fell in love with the songs inside.


oh and yesterday in the locker room,
i was sitting under an opened locker and i didn't know..
then i stood up and my back banged the edge of the locker, super painful!
then now there is a cut on my back, hahah. wear leotards can see lo, unglam!
but at least its 皮外伤 only, hope i don't get any 内伤 lah



i felt today's contemp was more productive,
hope it'll get better! hahha.
end really early today cos i got no 普通话 class.
went to slack around while waiting for the rest to finish their class.


then after that , vivian, karen, ivan, andy and me went to the canteen to have afternoon tea.
wah the food is nice lo, ate some toast thingy,
but its super fattening! so long long eat one time lor
hahah, must exercise more liao, but tmr also dun really have any dance class, all academics de.
only got chinese folk and tap. hmm maybe tap will be tiring hahah

can't wake up late tmr cos i've to be in sch for the demonstration thing..
hahahha.
and i'm ending real late tmr!
hope i'll not be too tired (:

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earliest day i've been back from school since the school started.
there was a typhoon signal 8 today
and we were halfway having acrobatics class while people came informing us that we had to leave straight away and go home.
aww i wanted to finish class first!! but oh well..

first time experiencing a typhoon,
its quite fun actually, its very very very windy
and if its raining, the rain hits you hard..
sort of ran to the mtr to take the train cos it was raining quite heavily and if i took out my umbrella i'm pretty sure the umbrella will overflip.

i'm still really really sleepy and i hope that i'll be sleeping early tonight.

today was rather slacky,
i think the only proper lesson i had today was ballet
fundamentals was okay lah, just recapped stuffs that were taught last week.
contemporary tech was canceled, don't know why also..
so had a long break and we did some rehearsing for the music for dance CA assesment thing

i really admire my ballet and contemp teachers.
every single time i look at Tasha(ballet teacher) she always looks so nice when she dance, she has got such a wonderful body, wonderful grace, its always a pleasure to watch her dance really.
and Cho yi (contemp teacher) has such a strong character, she always knows what she wants and is very clear of what she is doing, both to her life and in dancing.
i like having ballet and contemp classes haha.
never really learnt them before coming to APA, but i think my interest for them only increased since having the classes in APA

the days feel like its passing so fast
but in actual fact its not, i've only been here for 3 weeks.
and i still have so many more weeks to go haha.

going to watch the CCDC performance this saturday and the HKDC performance next month.

and i can't wake up late this thursday cos i have to go for the demonstration for intro to performing arts.

okay i'm really sleepy even though its still early
shall sleep ealier tonight and hopefully i'll have more energy tmr (:

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i've not been posting much..
cos i'm just really sleepy everyday when i get home,
and i'll have to wake up early the next morning again

classes are fine so far,
first continual assesment is coming up this friday for intro to music for dance
hope we'll do well lah haha.
its been 3 weeks into dip one and i'm still feeling quite okay.

too many things to say about my classes, but don't know where to start, so nevermind.
anyway i've been going online almost everyday, hahaha!
so talk to me online! hahaha

shall blog when i don't feel so sleepy,
which is i don't know when.

anyway,
i still love dancing to the pianist (:

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i'm feeling sleepy..

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today is a public holiday here in Hongkong because of 中秋节
so no lesson at APA haha.

on saturday, Went to redbox(which is our kbox) with vivian, water, jensen and kieren.
haha my first time, and its was quite fun, we sang loads of song and i was like totally lost at all the cantonese songs!
but water and kieren super power lor, they practically know every single song and they are so engrossed in their singing haha.
and i'm like a sua ku there lor, i should got sing K more often lah

pictures another day!

then jensen and i went for the APA foreigner gathering at causeway bay,
had yummy yummy korean food!
people who went were Alisa, Sayako, Annie, Joni, Lu, Manuel, Natasha, Jensen and me
hahah. it was a really nice dinner, and i would love more of such gatherings, cos we all can relate to one another and its like you know you're not alone (:

then i had to leave ealy to attend Alina's musical at Sai Wan Ho Civics Centre (which is like 2 mins away from my house)
Alina was really good the in muscial! she should totally be and actress lor!
hahahha

On sunday,
It was 中秋节
did my homework in the morning! (finally haha)
then after that went to celebrate with class mates!

haha met near our school and we took a looooooong bus ride to New Territories. it was about a 1hr++ ride lo..
then after that we met up with some others and went to the supermarket to buy stuffs for our picnic at 黄金海岸！
bought lots of food and drinks and loads of rubbish snacks hahah!

then we took a bus to 黄金海岸, there were a lot of people there celebrating as well.
all with their picnic mats, food and drinks, mooncakes, lanterns and too many lightsticks!
then we found a spot and placed all our stuffs and started eating cos we were all too hungry la!
then we played lots of games! super lame one lor...hahhaha!
and the forfeits were like really stupid.
i think we made so much noise lah, but nevermind, cos we weren't the only noisy ones.

Took SUPER lots of photos, but not with my camera lah.
will post up sometime next time when i get them hahaha.
it was fun lah, actually my first time celebrating 中秋节 like this, cos usually you don't really celebrate it in Singapore.

anyway played for quite long there and then we took a mini bus to karen's house (super far) for the stayover.
bathed there and everything. ate mooncakes, chatted
and we decided to play more games
haha it was hilarious lor! super lots of lame games and all the forfeits were super disgusting and lame!!
i kena quite a few times lah, then took alot of photos and videos of ppl doing forfeited. super unglam.
The guys are totally disgusting people lor, they came up with so many stupid ideas! but anyway it was fun.

slept at around 4am, and everyone just lied on the floor and slept....
it was like so improptu, but everyone just slept haha
and we were all squeezing together cos there isn't much space in hongkong houses...
then stupid karen go take photos of us sleeping...unglam lah. haha

woke up a few hours later, watched TV , then we took the train to have our breakfast at a 茶餐厅, really nice food!
and yea i'm sleepy hahaha

long ride back to hongkong island..

pictures up next time when i get them from my classmates.

i have classes tmr...and i'm sleepy..



好想家。
不知为什么，刚放下打回家的电话之后，
眼泪不禁流了下来...
这感觉真不好受

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yesterday, had fundamentals in the morning,

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i've just reached home.

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i'm so sleepy.

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first day without my parents.
its indeed a different feeling...
i think i'm really like a baby, an ungrown child.

not that i wanna be emo or what,
but i just really do miss home, miss being in my comfort zone
its so irritating, you know how badly i want to be in hongkong, how badly i want to be accepted into HKAPA
now i'm here, supposedly in the best place i could ever think of, but yet i still yearn to be back at Singapore....



today's classes were fine.
had ballet in the morning, and we finally did more proper barre work.
the ballet majors went to join the dip 2 ballet class.
so unfair, why can't the chinese dance majors join the dip 2 chinese dance class, they should change the timetable or something so that this is possible...but i know they won't haha.
ballet was quite nice, the teacher (oh no, i forgot her name) said that i've got nice plies,yay (:

then contemp, it was just okay, but i know that contemp is going to get tougher cos i heard from my seniors that my contemp teacher is crazy when she really gets going.
and the teacher (argh forgot her name too) said that she will work us till we can't go on anymore, and that contemp will get more interesting as the days goes by, cos thats her style haha.
so right now, we are doing some simpler stuffs, and actually i'm kind of looking forward to being tired after contemp hahs.

then intro to music. boring as usual.....

after lunch, had body conditioning (yoga)
its quite fun, we all had a yoga mat each.
and we did stuffs to relax various muscles...
then towards the end, the lights were off and we were told to close our eyes and lie down..and the whole room was so quiet and dark and the mat was so comfortable that we all slept haha, i think it was for about 10 mins, but it was really refreshing after that.

then it was chinese folk.
haha i kind of like chinese folk because the teacher is quite humourous and haha she teaches in chinese (:

jazz! i think the nicest class of the day
haven't learnt any jazz before coming to APA,
but i really enjoyed the lessons, its more of old school jazz and its really fun to learn and dance.
the music is so jazzy and the movements are so dramatic, haha like musical theatre, so its really nice to dance it. and Mandy is always so hyper, so that makes class much more interesting (:

then the guys wanted to stay back to do some stretching, so i kind of followed them
and we chatted a lot.
i realised that the guys in my class are hardworking, they stay back everyday to 拉筋 because they are not very flexible and they are not so young anymore, so they really train and hope that they will improve and be a good dancer, they have the right attitude haha.
then they were so nice that they brought me out to have dinner together, and i'm really very grateful because they try to help me out and stuffs, and they know that i have nothing to eat haha..
it really nice of them to treat me as their friend and they really made me feel better today.

well, its kind of late already and i have to wake up early tmr by myself, should go to bed now haha.
shall post up some pictures tmr if i don't come back home too late.

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first week of hongkong!

well, things have more or less settled down.
bought all my household appliances, new table, chairs, bedsheets, everything
and i've have my first night in my new home yesterday. my bed is soft and comfy (:

so tmr will be the start of a new week, another week of school, another 5 days of dancing.
i hope it'll be fine, and i sort of hope that the class will progress a little faster, cos right now we are really very slowwwww...but as everyone of our teacher tell our class-must get our basics right and our foundation strong!

today, i woke up late.
then my parents and i went to have a walk around the place i'm living in.
in the afternoon, we went to meet up with friends of relative and all sorts to introduce me to them so that if i have any emergencies, i can look to them for some help.
then we went shopping, for my room, my house and for school.
we went to tai koo to do the shopping, walked around in Jusco, kornhill plaza, cityplaza
when i was in cityplaza, we walked past the ice-skating ring, and i was reminded of 3 months ago when i was here together with elizabeth, uncle Emu and Valai jie jie...those were really good days.
i really wish that elizabeth was beside me, wish that the both of us are in hongkong together now, in HKAPA together...

today is the last day my parents are staying in hongkong with me.
and to say the truth, i really really can't bear to see them leave...
and during dinner today, i realised that its my last dinner with them before they leave tmr morning, and i was so 心酸
tears kept welling up in my eyes and i was trying really hard to control them, i don't want tmy parents to see me cry, i don't want them to worry about me, i want them to know that i will be independant and take good care of myself alone.....but seriously, i'm not even sure myself if i can take care of myself.
i'm so uncertain about myself, and i really hope that i'll be able to survive well, to be happy, and enjoy dancing here.

when they leave, everything is gonna be different already.
have to do everything by myself..have to look for food myself..
i really think i'm gonna starve, i don't even know where to go to eat and such, and oh man i'm gonna have such a hard time.

really pray that God will help me, pray that He will be watching over me, guiding me through this difficult phase of my life.

i going to be alone from tmr onwards, and i hate to be alone.
and i forsee nights after nights of cryings....

P.S. its really much tougher than i thought it would be for me

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FINALLY! INTERNET CONNECTION!!!!!!


okay so today is the first day that i'm gonna stay at this rented apartment, which explains why i get to use the internet. As for the past few days, i was living in a hotel on the first two days and at my dad's friend's house for the next three days.


i don't know where to start, because so many things have happened since my previous blog post. hah.


okay so....lets start from before i left for hongkong.


FRIDAY (29 August)
Went back to Xinmin for teachers' day celebration.
managed to catch some of the performance in the hall haha. then it was just going around to find teachers, and of course meeting up with friends (:
had a nice lunch with mr chan, junyi, rose, kuay huay.


Went to cousin's house for a sleepover with my other cousin! (confusing? haha)
Then we both went to watch Huaykuan's dance concert because I got free tickets from someone! haha. anyway the concert was so nice!! just like the rehearsal that i saw, only with a few more dances cos i didn't really watch the finale and liang laoshi's dance the last time.
and it nice going with my cousin to watch because we haven't really gone out like this before, but anyway, after the performance we went to back to my cousin's house
and we watched movie, gossip, chatted with cousins and all. Ahh i just really love going to my cousin's house for a sleepover, hope we'll get to do that again sometime soon!


SATURDAY (30 August)
woke up and received a call from my mum.
she said that the student visa had arrived at my house so we are leaving for Hongkong the next day. and i was.....


SHOCKED.


too fast. i still have plans for Sunday and Monday, but I'M LEAVING THE NEXT DAY ALREADY?


made a lot of calls, sms-es to inform people and change of plans.
then i left for bugis to get the box thing for zls's teachers day present and to meet ebird to settle the flower and cookie stuffs for the Huay kuan dancers that night.
we went back to my house and everything was just SO RUSH after i found out that i was leaving the next day.
i remember that it was raining SO HEAVILY when we got down the bus and i only had a pathetic small unbrella to share, so we both tried to sqeeuze in, but the first step we took out of the bus stop, VOOOM we were both drenched hahahha! so we started running and all and it was so much fun even though we both got really wet, but i really enjoyed it.
reached my house and we started writing the notes for the dancers and attaching them to the roses and cookies, it took us longer than we expected, but i guess that's considered my last time spending time with ebird like this before a really long time...


after both of us got changed and all, we cabbed down to Victoria Theatre to meet up with the Huaykuan dancers backstage, gave them the roses and cookies. And they gave me a farewell present by the people from Huaykuan! (:

after that went to meet limin and joey to bake the cupcakes and cornflakes thing for zls.
limin and i went to the supermarket to get the baking ingredients. it was already 9pm when we met to get the ingredients, but no choice cos i'm leaving the next day.
then limin and i took a bus to joey's house and waited sooooo long for the bus, but it was nice cos we had a really nice chat (:
then on the relatively long bus ride, i opened the present from Huaykuan and started reading them. it was really sweet of everyone and i was quite surprised because i thought that some of them actually don't really know me, yet they still left a message and all. everyone was really encouraging and HAHA to the big and small sizes of hand shapes by everyone.

reached joey's house and it was quite late by that time already.
started baking! it was really fun baking together, not the first time baking, but the first time the three of us are doing it together, hopefully not the last though.
anyway it was really fun cos we did all the melting together, all the mixing together, all the measuring together, all the spilling everything together, all the getting dirty together.
great fun really.
and we ate a lot of the cornflakes thing after we made them and some of the cupcakes (woops)
it was yummy. was hoping that zls will like them


then it was about 1am already, but we still haven't make the card for zls yet, so we just hurried up to joey's room and decided how we want it to be, joey and limin were so sleepy by then and i was practically the one doing the whole card lor, hahah but nevermind lah.


on a side note, when i was in hongkong already, limin told me that the cornflakes and cupcakes were ants infested!!!!!!!!!! I SPENT SO MUCH TIME AND EFFORT MAKING THEM WITH JOEY AND LIMIN AND OUR EFFORTS HAVE GONE DOWN THE DRAIN. to say the truth, i was quite disappointed when i heard about it...but oh well, can't do anything also.
but heard that they re-made the cornflakes and gave them to zls haha. well, its just not the same. which is the reason why i insisted that we make them together before i leave..


left at 2am and when i got back home, continue packing my lugguage while talking on the phone with elizabeth, when everything was done i was so tired that i just plonk down on my bed..


SUNDAY (31 August)
woke up and rush again.
reached the airport and SO MANY people came.


i really bad at expressing my feelings, so i don't really know what to say


but I MISS EVERYONE!


well, let the pictures do the talking, but i'll upload them another time, because i don't really have time today and there is a lot of photos!

RECEIVED LOTS AND LOTS OF PRESENTS! and most of them were hand-made with A LOT of effort, so i was really touched and all by everyone, cos i know that they love me, and i love them a lot a lot a lot!!!

When it was time to go through the departure gates......it was.............how do i say.......
full of 不舍得-ness.
and i was fine at first, i know that i'm definately gonna miss everyone, but my emotions then were stable.
until when people started hugging me at the last moment...i was like..."okay i'm gonna cry soon if you guys hug me any further!"

so i went through the door and i didn't want to turn back, cos if i turned back, i know i'll start crying like crazy and start regretting that i've made this decision and i'll so want to stay in Singapore but i'll have no choice by then. so i just tried to remain calm and everything....

then junyi called. her voice was a little shivering and i can tell that she was already crying, and she asked me "why you don't turn around one.."
wah siao, then suddenly i started crying like crazy liao. couldn't control myself at all, and when i was already inside waiting for the plane and all, i just couldn't control myself. i miss everyone already and i can't wait to be back in Singapore. the tears just kept on flowing...

as the plane took off, i took one last look at Singapore-my home.
and for the first time, flying towards another country didn't seem so happy and excited. it was more of the uncertain-ness, the nervous-ness and just the feeling of being alone.

reached Hongkong in the evening, went to check in to a hotel that is just 2 minutes away from the Hongkong Academy for Performing Arts.
went to cafe-de-coral for dinner, and went to bed after that.

MONDAY(1 SEPTEMBER)
i was all prepared to go for lessons on the first day of school already, although i had absolutely no idea what class, where to go, what to do.
so went to the school to register first, and it took so long that i didn't even have a chance to attend my classes!
after registration at the admin block, i was taken to meet my advisor in the dance school.
my advisor is Mandy Petty and she is SUPER NICE LAH! she helped me out a lot and we registered my courses together and all, she is the musical theatre teacher, but since APA doesn't have musical theatre in the Dance school anymore, she now teaches the electives and is the advisor for Diploma 1 students.

anyway i think that in the future, musical theatre will be in its own school of APA and not in the dance school of APA, so that is why musical theatre is taken out of the dance school in APA. thats what Mandy Petty told me haha, to give musical theatre equal importance as drama, music, dance etc. school

oh and Shen Pei Qi actually wanted me to join the Diploma 2 for my chinese dance classes! haha i was really happy. but then the Dip 2 chinese classes clashes with my ballet classes, and i can't miss ballet. so i couldn't join the Dip 2. but i'm happy that i almost had the chance to (:

after that, Mandy took me to introduce me to my classmates. they were having ballet.
so we went in, and it was so weird cos everyone was like staring at me like i'm some alien or something! then Mandy said " say hello (: "
and then everyone waved at me haha. stayed to watch the class a little.

then went off to do my bank account and all the other stuffs.
didnt go for any classes ):
so in the end i still missed my first day of school even though i reached Hongkong before 1st Sept.

TUESDAY( 2 SEPTEMBER)
sort of my first day of school!

went to school and i was so blurr. then i met one of my classmates in the lift, he told me about my locker room and all.
then had Fundamentals for the first lesson.
Fundamentals is basically Anatomy.
just introduce ourselves...and we had to draw ourselves three times and i'm have no artistic talent i think i draw until i look like a ghost.
nevermind about that.
but yay the class is taught in english cos the teacher is from brazil i think. haha so i can understand the lesson

BY THE WAY, EVERYONE IS SUPPOSE TO HAVE AN ENGLISH NAME! SO MY NAME IS NATHALIE. yes hahaha, i know its really weird and funny, but yes my name is nathalie. (sounds familiar right, sajc people?)
anyway my classmates have really interesting english names......
they are called, rainbow, nature, water, skinny etc...

then had ballet technique.
every one of our class is extremly basic because all the teachers want us to get our posture correct first, get our muscle correct and everything. so we did a lot of basic exercise to strengthen this and that.
the class was conducted in a little of english and more or cantonese, so i'm quite lost.

contemp technique
we did some contemp movements lor hahah! it was nice cos the class was in taught in both the chinese lauguage and the english language (:

I LOVE DANCING TO A PIANIST!

had lunch.
i think i'm really lucky to have nice classmates. and they asked my to join them for lunch! i was really happy haha (:
and they were really nice and friendly to me, they helped my order my food, intro me to the canteen, and they were just really nice people. i'm really thankful

left the academy for a while to settle my Hongkong identity card...

then came back for Acrobatics class.
it was really fun! its like Huay kuan.
Acrobatics is one of the electives but this elective is compulsory for chinese dance major students.
we did handstands and some rolling on the mat.

after that had Tap class
haha my really nice senior was so nice to lend me her Tap shoes for a year so that i don't have to buy one cos its expensive haha.
Tap was fun! my teacher is Mandy Petty and is a really fun-loving person!
hahha love Tap classes.

WEDNESDAY AND ONWARDS (cos i'm too lazy to blog le)
actually theres so much more i want to say but i'm quite lazy.
nevermind, i shall blog them next time.


so here is my time table.

MONDAY- ballet technique, contemp technique, intro to music, lunch, Body conditioning(yoga), Chinese folk, Jazz.

TUESDAY- Fundamentals, Ballet technique, Contemp Technique, lunch, Acrobatics (2 hrs 45 mins), Tap

WEDNESDAY - Chinese technique, Ballet technique, Improv. and rep, lunch, Contemp technique, 普通话

THURSDAY - Intro to performing arts, English, free period, lunch, Inprov. and rep, Chinese folk, Tap, Cantonese

FRIDAY - Fundamentals, Ballet technique, contemp technique,lunch,Chinese technique, Intro to music, Jazz


So basically i start at 9am everyday and end at 7pm everyday.
but on wednesday i end at 5.30pm
and on thursday i end at 8.30pm

each class is 1hr 15 mins, and you have a 15 min break between each class to move to your next class venue.

the APA studios are big!!!!!!!
you definately have space when you dance. i have all my ballet class and some of my contemp class in Studio 6, which is the second biggest dance studio in APA and its huge
even the smaller studios are big
so its really fun.

Oh yah, i had the worst class ever on wednesday for my chinese technique class!
IT WAS TERRIBLE!
the teacher conducts her class ENTIRELY in cantonese
then she asked who can't understand them i raised my hand..then she found out i'm from Singapore and such...
and then she look at me sort of angrily and said "你很麻烦leh".
so she kept saying cantonese and i didn't understand so i just had to copy,
so sometimes will do wrongly cos i don't know the beat and all.
and she keeps scolding me and scolding me,
like if i got the beat wrong or what, she will "haiya" at me or come and hit my head or something.

wah i was really quite demoralised at that time.
cos i don't understand a single thing at all.
then cantonese is driving me crazy!!!!!!!!

oh but i like improvisation class haha
its conducted entirely in cantonese too, but at least she will try to help me out when i couldn't understand, and during impro class, we do really fun things.
at first i though i won't like the class because you have to choreograph or something...
but then during the class its really like we can do any movement we want and no one will say anything. its like free moving and its really relaxing as well. love impro class!


okay so more info about the place i'm staying.

its about 15-20 minutes away from the academy. so quite convenient.
and my landlady is REALLY NICE to me (:
hahaha she graduated from HKAPA film and television 5 years ago, so that makes her my senior hahah! what a coincidence!
she works in Disney and she is a voice dubber, she is the voice of a few of the disney characters you see on television! so cool eh? haha, but i don't know which disney character though, haven't ask haha.

anyway i'm too lazy to post up pics already, shall do it next time (:

I MISS EVERYONE IN SINGAPORE!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S. cantonese is killing me.

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i slept at 8+pm last night hahaha!
today woke up and received a sms from water saying that there is not sch today
wah happy lor can go back to sleep.
then after that slept a while more, ming called and say that we need to be back in the academy for the 2nd period onwards..
then had to wake up and went to sch lo hahah


in the end missed chinese tech cos it was the first class.
then had ballet today
the typhoon yesterday caused the APA air conditioning to spoil
so the whole academy was out of air-con, so it was super hot! btw, they don't have fans
and all the dance rooms have no windows that could be opened.
it was very stuffy haha
but it was nice cos we get to sweat, but sian today never really sweat a lot leh..only abit,cos only got 2 class and they are so far apart. and they felt really fast too.


classes were still going on as normal.
did a little more stuffs in ballet today.
and today we did this combination on the barre to one of the music from les choristes,
i was so reminded of Singapore lah, reminds me to ebird too. haha, those days when i watched the movie "les choristes", then ebird and i fell in love with the songs inside.


oh and yesterday in the locker room,
i was sitting under an opened locker and i didn't know..
then i stood up and my back banged the edge of the locker, super painful!
then now there is a cut on my back, hahah. wear leotards can see lo, unglam!
but at least its 皮外伤 only, hope i don't get any 内伤 lah



i felt today's contemp was more productive,
hope it'll get better! hahha.
end really early today cos i got no 普通话 class.
went to slack around while waiting for the rest to finish their class.


then after that , vivian, karen, ivan, andy and me went to the canteen to have afternoon tea.
wah the food is nice lo, ate some toast thingy,
but its super fattening! so long long eat one time lor
hahah, must exercise more liao, but tmr also dun really have any dance class, all academics de.
only got chinese folk and tap. hmm maybe tap will be tiring hahah

can't wake up late tmr cos i've to be in sch for the demonstration thing..
hahahha.
and i'm ending real late tmr!
hope i'll not be too tired (:
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earliest day i've been back from school since the school started.
there was a typhoon signal 8 today
and we were halfway having acrobatics class while people came informing us that we had to leave straight away and go home.
aww i wanted to finish class first!! but oh well..

first time experiencing a typhoon,
its quite fun actually, its very very very windy
and if its raining, the rain hits you hard..
sort of ran to the mtr to take the train cos it was raining quite heavily and if i took out my umbrella i'm pretty sure the umbrella will overflip.

i'm still really really sleepy and i hope that i'll be sleeping early tonight.

today was rather slacky,
i think the only proper lesson i had today was ballet
fundamentals was okay lah, just recapped stuffs that were taught last week.
contemporary tech was canceled, don't know why also..
so had a long break and we did some rehearsing for the music for dance CA assesment thing

i really admire my ballet and contemp teachers.
every single time i look at Tasha(ballet teacher) she always looks so nice when she dance, she has got such a wonderful body, wonderful grace, its always a pleasure to watch her dance really.
and Cho yi (contemp teacher) has such a strong character, she always knows what she wants and is very clear of what she is doing, both to her life and in dancing.
i like having ballet and contemp classes haha.
never really learnt them before coming to APA, but i think my interest for them only increased since having the classes in APA

the days feel like its passing so fast
but in actual fact its not, i've only been here for 3 weeks.
and i still have so many more weeks to go haha.

going to watch the CCDC performance this saturday and the HKDC performance next month.

and i can't wake up late this thursday cos i have to go for the demonstration for intro to performing arts.

okay i'm really sleepy even though its still early
shall sleep ealier tonight and hopefully i'll have more energy tmr (:
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i've not been posting much..
cos i'm just really sleepy everyday when i get home,
and i'll have to wake up early the next morning again

classes are fine so far,
first continual assesment is coming up this friday for intro to music for dance
hope we'll do well lah haha.
its been 3 weeks into dip one and i'm still feeling quite okay.

too many things to say about my classes, but don't know where to start, so nevermind.
anyway i've been going online almost everyday, hahaha!
so talk to me online! hahaha

shall blog when i don't feel so sleepy,
which is i don't know when.

anyway,
i still love dancing to the pianist (:
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i'm feeling sleepy..
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today is a public holiday here in Hongkong because of 中秋节
so no lesson at APA haha.

on saturday, Went to redbox(which is our kbox) with vivian, water, jensen and kieren.
haha my first time, and its was quite fun, we sang loads of song and i was like totally lost at all the cantonese songs!
but water and kieren super power lor, they practically know every single song and they are so engrossed in their singing haha.
and i'm like a sua ku there lor, i should got sing K more often lah

pictures another day!

then jensen and i went for the APA foreigner gathering at causeway bay,
had yummy yummy korean food!
people who went were Alisa, Sayako, Annie, Joni, Lu, Manuel, Natasha, Jensen and me
hahah. it was a really nice dinner, and i would love more of such gatherings, cos we all can relate to one another and its like you know you're not alone (:

then i had to leave ealy to attend Alina's musical at Sai Wan Ho Civics Centre (which is like 2 mins away from my house)
Alina was really good the in muscial! she should totally be and actress lor!
hahahha

On sunday,
It was 中秋节
did my homework in the morning! (finally haha)
then after that went to celebrate with class mates!

haha met near our school and we took a looooooong bus ride to New Territories. it was about a 1hr++ ride lo..
then after that we met up with some others and went to the supermarket to buy stuffs for our picnic at 黄金海岸！
bought lots of food and drinks and loads of rubbish snacks hahah!

then we took a bus to 黄金海岸, there were a lot of people there celebrating as well.
all with their picnic mats, food and drinks, mooncakes, lanterns and too many lightsticks!
then we found a spot and placed all our stuffs and started eating cos we were all too hungry la!
then we played lots of games! super lame one lor...hahhaha!
and the forfeits were like really stupid.
i think we made so much noise lah, but nevermind, cos we weren't the only noisy ones.

Took SUPER lots of photos, but not with my camera lah.
will post up sometime next time when i get them hahaha.
it was fun lah, actually my first time celebrating 中秋节 like this, cos usually you don't really celebrate it in Singapore.

anyway played for quite long there and then we took a mini bus to karen's house (super far) for the stayover.
bathed there and everything. ate mooncakes, chatted
and we decided to play more games
haha it was hilarious lor! super lots of lame games and all the forfeits were super disgusting and lame!!
i kena quite a few times lah, then took alot of photos and videos of ppl doing forfeited. super unglam.
The guys are totally disgusting people lor, they came up with so many stupid ideas! but anyway it was fun.

slept at around 4am, and everyone just lied on the floor and slept....
it was like so improptu, but everyone just slept haha
and we were all squeezing together cos there isn't much space in hongkong houses...
then stupid karen go take photos of us sleeping...unglam lah. haha

woke up a few hours later, watched TV , then we took the train to have our breakfast at a 茶餐厅, really nice food!
and yea i'm sleepy hahaha

long ride back to hongkong island..

pictures up next time when i get them from my classmates.

i have classes tmr...and i'm sleepy..



好想家。
不知为什么，刚放下打回家的电话之后，
眼泪不禁流了下来...
这感觉真不好受
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yesterday, had fundamentals in the morning,
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i've just reached home.
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i'm so sleepy.


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first day without my parents.
its indeed a different feeling...
i think i'm really like a baby, an ungrown child.

not that i wanna be emo or what,
but i just really do miss home, miss being in my comfort zone
its so irritating, you know how badly i want to be in hongkong, how badly i want to be accepted into HKAPA
now i'm here, supposedly in the best place i could ever think of, but yet i still yearn to be back at Singapore....



today's classes were fine.
had ballet in the morning, and we finally did more proper barre work.
the ballet majors went to join the dip 2 ballet class.
so unfair, why can't the chinese dance majors join the dip 2 chinese dance class, they should change the timetable or something so that this is possible...but i know they won't haha.
ballet was quite nice, the teacher (oh no, i forgot her name) said that i've got nice plies,yay (:

then contemp, it was just okay, but i know that contemp is going to get tougher cos i heard from my seniors that my contemp teacher is crazy when she really gets going.
and the teacher (argh forgot her name too) said that she will work us till we can't go on anymore, and that contemp will get more interesting as the days goes by, cos thats her style haha.
so right now, we are doing some simpler stuffs, and actually i'm kind of looking forward to being tired after contemp hahs.

then intro to music. boring as usual.....

after lunch, had body conditioning (yoga)
its quite fun, we all had a yoga mat each.
and we did stuffs to relax various muscles...
then towards the end, the lights were off and we were told to close our eyes and lie down..and the whole room was so quiet and dark and the mat was so comfortable that we all slept haha, i think it was for about 10 mins, but it was really refreshing after that.

then it was chinese folk.
haha i kind of like chinese folk because the teacher is quite humourous and haha she teaches in chinese (:

jazz! i think the nicest class of the day
haven't learnt any jazz before coming to APA,
but i really enjoyed the lessons, its more of old school jazz and its really fun to learn and dance.
the music is so jazzy and the movements are so dramatic, haha like musical theatre, so its really nice to dance it. and Mandy is always so hyper, so that makes class much more interesting (:

then the guys wanted to stay back to do some stretching, so i kind of followed them
and we chatted a lot.
i realised that the guys in my class are hardworking, they stay back everyday to 拉筋 because they are not very flexible and they are not so young anymore, so they really train and hope that they will improve and be a good dancer, they have the right attitude haha.
then they were so nice that they brought me out to have dinner together, and i'm really very grateful because they try to help me out and stuffs, and they know that i have nothing to eat haha..
it really nice of them to treat me as their friend and they really made me feel better today.

well, its kind of late already and i have to wake up early tmr by myself, should go to bed now haha.
shall post up some pictures tmr if i don't come back home too late.
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first week of hongkong!

well, things have more or less settled down.
bought all my household appliances, new table, chairs, bedsheets, everything
and i've have my first night in my new home yesterday. my bed is soft and comfy (:

so tmr will be the start of a new week, another week of school, another 5 days of dancing.
i hope it'll be fine, and i sort of hope that the class will progress a little faster, cos right now we are really very slowwwww...but as everyone of our teacher tell our class-must get our basics right and our foundation strong!

today, i woke up late.
then my parents and i went to have a walk around the place i'm living in.
in the afternoon, we went to meet up with friends of relative and all sorts to introduce me to them so that if i have any emergencies, i can look to them for some help.
then we went shopping, for my room, my house and for school.
we went to tai koo to do the shopping, walked around in Jusco, kornhill plaza, cityplaza
when i was in cityplaza, we walked past the ice-skating ring, and i was reminded of 3 months ago when i was here together with elizabeth, uncle Emu and Valai jie jie...those were really good days.
i really wish that elizabeth was beside me, wish that the both of us are in hongkong together now, in HKAPA together...

today is the last day my parents are staying in hongkong with me.
and to say the truth, i really really can't bear to see them leave...
and during dinner today, i realised that its my last dinner with them before they leave tmr morning, and i was so 心酸
tears kept welling up in my eyes and i was trying really hard to control them, i don't want tmy parents to see me cry, i don't want them to worry about me, i want them to know that i will be independant and take good care of myself alone.....but seriously, i'm not even sure myself if i can take care of myself.
i'm so uncertain about myself, and i really hope that i'll be able to survive well, to be happy, and enjoy dancing here.

when they leave, everything is gonna be different already.
have to do everything by myself..have to look for food myself..
i really think i'm gonna starve, i don't even know where to go to eat and such, and oh man i'm gonna have such a hard time.

really pray that God will help me, pray that He will be watching over me, guiding me through this difficult phase of my life.

i going to be alone from tmr onwards, and i hate to be alone.
and i forsee nights after nights of cryings....

P.S. its really much tougher than i thought it would be for me
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FINALLY! INTERNET CONNECTION!!!!!!


okay so today is the first day that i'm gonna stay at this rented apartment, which explains why i get to use the internet. As for the past few days, i was living in a hotel on the first two days and at my dad's friend's house for the next three days.


i don't know where to start, because so many things have happened since my previous blog post. hah.


okay so....lets start from before i left for hongkong.


FRIDAY (29 August)
Went back to Xinmin for teachers' day celebration.
managed to catch some of the performance in the hall haha. then it was just going around to find teachers, and of course meeting up with friends (:
had a nice lunch with mr chan, junyi, rose, kuay huay.


Went to cousin's house for a sleepover with my other cousin! (confusing? haha)
Then we both went to watch Huaykuan's dance concert because I got free tickets from someone! haha. anyway the concert was so nice!! just like the rehearsal that i saw, only with a few more dances cos i didn't really watch the finale and liang laoshi's dance the last time.
and it nice going with my cousin to watch because we haven't really gone out like this before, but anyway, after the performance we went to back to my cousin's house
and we watched movie, gossip, chatted with cousins and all. Ahh i just really love going to my cousin's house for a sleepover, hope we'll get to do that again sometime soon!


SATURDAY (30 August)
woke up and received a call from my mum.
she said that the student visa had arrived at my house so we are leaving for Hongkong the next day. and i was.....


SHOCKED.


too fast. i still have plans for Sunday and Monday, but I'M LEAVING THE NEXT DAY ALREADY?


made a lot of calls, sms-es to inform people and change of plans.
then i left for bugis to get the box thing for zls's teachers day present and to meet ebird to settle the flower and cookie stuffs for the Huay kuan dancers that night.
we went back to my house and everything was just SO RUSH after i found out that i was leaving the next day.
i remember that it was raining SO HEAVILY when we got down the bus and i only had a pathetic small unbrella to share, so we both tried to sqeeuze in, but the first step we took out of the bus stop, VOOOM we were both drenched hahahha! so we started running and all and it was so much fun even though we both got really wet, but i really enjoyed it.
reached my house and we started writing the notes for the dancers and attaching them to the roses and cookies, it took us longer than we expected, but i guess that's considered my last time spending time with ebird like this before a really long time...


after both of us got changed and all, we cabbed down to Victoria Theatre to meet up with the Huaykuan dancers backstage, gave them the roses and cookies. And they gave me a farewell present by the people from Huaykuan! (:

after that went to meet limin and joey to bake the cupcakes and cornflakes thing for zls.
limin and i went to the supermarket to get the baking ingredients. it was already 9pm when we met to get the ingredients, but no choice cos i'm leaving the next day.
then limin and i took a bus to joey's house and waited sooooo long for the bus, but it was nice cos we had a really nice chat (:
then on the relatively long bus ride, i opened the present from Huaykuan and started reading them. it was really sweet of everyone and i was quite surprised because i thought that some of them actually don't really know me, yet they still left a message and all. everyone was really encouraging and HAHA to the big and small sizes of hand shapes by everyone.

reached joey's house and it was quite late by that time already.
started baking! it was really fun baking together, not the first time baking, but the first time the three of us are doing it together, hopefully not the last though.
anyway it was really fun cos we did all the melting together, all the mixing together, all the measuring together, all the spilling everything together, all the getting dirty together.
great fun really.
and we ate a lot of the cornflakes thing after we made them and some of the cupcakes (woops)
it was yummy. was hoping that zls will like them


then it was about 1am already, but we still haven't make the card for zls yet, so we just hurried up to joey's room and decided how we want it to be, joey and limin were so sleepy by then and i was practically the one doing the whole card lor, hahah but nevermind lah.


on a side note, when i was in hongkong already, limin told me that the cornflakes and cupcakes were ants infested!!!!!!!!!! I SPENT SO MUCH TIME AND EFFORT MAKING THEM WITH JOEY AND LIMIN AND OUR EFFORTS HAVE GONE DOWN THE DRAIN. to say the truth, i was quite disappointed when i heard about it...but oh well, can't do anything also.
but heard that they re-made the cornflakes and gave them to zls haha. well, its just not the same. which is the reason why i insisted that we make them together before i leave..


left at 2am and when i got back home, continue packing my lugguage while talking on the phone with elizabeth, when everything was done i was so tired that i just plonk down on my bed..


SUNDAY (31 August)
woke up and rush again.
reached the airport and SO MANY people came.


i really bad at expressing my feelings, so i don't really know what to say


but I MISS EVERYONE!


well, let the pictures do the talking, but i'll upload them another time, because i don't really have time today and there is a lot of photos!

RECEIVED LOTS AND LOTS OF PRESENTS! and most of them were hand-made with A LOT of effort, so i was really touched and all by everyone, cos i know that they love me, and i love them a lot a lot a lot!!!

When it was time to go through the departure gates......it was.............how do i say.......
full of 不舍得-ness.
and i was fine at first, i know that i'm definately gonna miss everyone, but my emotions then were stable.
until when people started hugging me at the last moment...i was like..."okay i'm gonna cry soon if you guys hug me any further!"

so i went through the door and i didn't want to turn back, cos if i turned back, i know i'll start crying like crazy and start regretting that i've made this decision and i'll so want to stay in Singapore but i'll have no choice by then. so i just tried to remain calm and everything....

then junyi called. her voice was a little shivering and i can tell that she was already crying, and she asked me "why you don't turn around one.."
wah siao, then suddenly i started crying like crazy liao. couldn't control myself at all, and when i was already inside waiting for the plane and all, i just couldn't control myself. i miss everyone already and i can't wait to be back in Singapore. the tears just kept on flowing...

as the plane took off, i took one last look at Singapore-my home.
and for the first time, flying towards another country didn't seem so happy and excited. it was more of the uncertain-ness, the nervous-ness and just the feeling of being alone.

reached Hongkong in the evening, went to check in to a hotel that is just 2 minutes away from the Hongkong Academy for Performing Arts.
went to cafe-de-coral for dinner, and went to bed after that.

MONDAY(1 SEPTEMBER)
i was all prepared to go for lessons on the first day of school already, although i had absolutely no idea what class, where to go, what to do.
so went to the school to register first, and it took so long that i didn't even have a chance to attend my classes!
after registration at the admin block, i was taken to meet my advisor in the dance school.
my advisor is Mandy Petty and she is SUPER NICE LAH! she helped me out a lot and we registered my courses together and all, she is the musical theatre teacher, but since APA doesn't have musical theatre in the Dance school anymore, she now teaches the electives and is the advisor for Diploma 1 students.

anyway i think that in the future, musical theatre will be in its own school of APA and not in the dance school of APA, so that is why musical theatre is taken out of the dance school in APA. thats what Mandy Petty told me haha, to give musical theatre equal importance as drama, music, dance etc. school

oh and Shen Pei Qi actually wanted me to join the Diploma 2 for my chinese dance classes! haha i was really happy. but then the Dip 2 chinese classes clashes with my ballet classes, and i can't miss ballet. so i couldn't join the Dip 2. but i'm happy that i almost had the chance to (:

after that, Mandy took me to introduce me to my classmates. they were having ballet.
so we went in, and it was so weird cos everyone was like staring at me like i'm some alien or something! then Mandy said " say hello (: "
and then everyone waved at me haha. stayed to watch the class a little.

then went off to do my bank account and all the other stuffs.
didnt go for any classes ):
so in the end i still missed my first day of school even though i reached Hongkong before 1st Sept.

TUESDAY( 2 SEPTEMBER)
sort of my first day of school!

went to school and i was so blurr. then i met one of my classmates in the lift, he told me about my locker room and all.
then had Fundamentals for the first lesson.
Fundamentals is basically Anatomy.
just introduce ourselves...and we had to draw ourselves three times and i'm have no artistic talent i think i draw until i look like a ghost.
nevermind about that.
but yay the class is taught in english cos the teacher is from brazil i think. haha so i can understand the lesson

BY THE WAY, EVERYONE IS SUPPOSE TO HAVE AN ENGLISH NAME! SO MY NAME IS NATHALIE. yes hahaha, i know its really weird and funny, but yes my name is nathalie. (sounds familiar right, sajc people?)
anyway my classmates have really interesting english names......
they are called, rainbow, nature, water, skinny etc...

then had ballet technique.
every one of our class is extremly basic because all the teachers want us to get our posture correct first, get our muscle correct and everything. so we did a lot of basic exercise to strengthen this and that.
the class was conducted in a little of english and more or cantonese, so i'm quite lost.

contemp technique
we did some contemp movements lor hahah! it was nice cos the class was in taught in both the chinese lauguage and the english language (:

I LOVE DANCING TO A PIANIST!

had lunch.
i think i'm really lucky to have nice classmates. and they asked my to join them for lunch! i was really happy haha (:
and they were really nice and friendly to me, they helped my order my food, intro me to the canteen, and they were just really nice people. i'm really thankful

left the academy for a while to settle my Hongkong identity card...

then came back for Acrobatics class.
it was really fun! its like Huay kuan.
Acrobatics is one of the electives but this elective is compulsory for chinese dance major students.
we did handstands and some rolling on the mat.

after that had Tap class
haha my really nice senior was so nice to lend me her Tap shoes for a year so that i don't have to buy one cos its expensive haha.
Tap was fun! my teacher is Mandy Petty and is a really fun-loving person!
hahha love Tap classes.

WEDNESDAY AND ONWARDS (cos i'm too lazy to blog le)
actually theres so much more i want to say but i'm quite lazy.
nevermind, i shall blog them next time.


so here is my time table.

MONDAY- ballet technique, contemp technique, intro to music, lunch, Body conditioning(yoga), Chinese folk, Jazz.

TUESDAY- Fundamentals, Ballet technique, Contemp Technique, lunch, Acrobatics (2 hrs 45 mins), Tap

WEDNESDAY - Chinese technique, Ballet technique, Improv. and rep, lunch, Contemp technique, 普通话

THURSDAY - Intro to performing arts, English, free period, lunch, Inprov. and rep, Chinese folk, Tap, Cantonese

FRIDAY - Fundamentals, Ballet technique, contemp technique,lunch,Chinese technique, Intro to music, Jazz


So basically i start at 9am everyday and end at 7pm everyday.
but on wednesday i end at 5.30pm
and on thursday i end at 8.30pm

each class is 1hr 15 mins, and you have a 15 min break between each class to move to your next class venue.

the APA studios are big!!!!!!!
you definately have space when you dance. i have all my ballet class and some of my contemp class in Studio 6, which is the second biggest dance studio in APA and its huge
even the smaller studios are big
so its really fun.

Oh yah, i had the worst class ever on wednesday for my chinese technique class!
IT WAS TERRIBLE!
the teacher conducts her class ENTIRELY in cantonese
then she asked who can't understand them i raised my hand..then she found out i'm from Singapore and such...
and then she look at me sort of angrily and said "你很麻烦leh".
so she kept saying cantonese and i didn't understand so i just had to copy,
so sometimes will do wrongly cos i don't know the beat and all.
and she keeps scolding me and scolding me,
like if i got the beat wrong or what, she will "haiya" at me or come and hit my head or something.

wah i was really quite demoralised at that time.
cos i don't understand a single thing at all.
then cantonese is driving me crazy!!!!!!!!

oh but i like improvisation class haha
its conducted entirely in cantonese too, but at least she will try to help me out when i couldn't understand, and during impro class, we do really fun things.
at first i though i won't like the class because you have to choreograph or something...
but then during the class its really like we can do any movement we want and no one will say anything. its like free moving and its really relaxing as well. love impro class!


okay so more info about the place i'm staying.

its about 15-20 minutes away from the academy. so quite convenient.
and my landlady is REALLY NICE to me (:
hahaha she graduated from HKAPA film and television 5 years ago, so that makes her my senior hahah! what a coincidence!
she works in Disney and she is a voice dubber, she is the voice of a few of the disney characters you see on television! so cool eh? haha, but i don't know which disney character though, haven't ask haha.

anyway i'm too lazy to post up pics already, shall do it next time (:

I MISS EVERYONE IN SINGAPORE!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S. cantonese is killing me.
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Ruimin. 15 May. Dancer. The HongKong Academy for Performing Arts

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