Jan
7
Belly Dancing Performance~!
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Here is it, the belly dancing performance video and some pictures, as promised, taken during the annual dinner in Dec.
The original size is nearly 500MB and after many cutting and compressing, I managed to reduce it to 20MB, from 5 minutes to 1 minute and 17 seconds. (so, please bear wif the quality and lotsa cutting)
How I miss going for the belly dancing classes!!!
We arrived ready to Sunway to practise.. and to take pics!!! 
Let's practise in a circle, put your hands like this~
The colorful belly dancer, talking & laughing~
All were ready and dressed, waiting for our turn to perform! *nervous*
Dec
18
I did it~!
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Belly dancing performance is over. And I did quite okay, with some forgotten steps of course, but I think it’s not that obvious, with 8 people on the stage and I was right at the back. Some of them did mistakes too but well, it was alright overall. 
I am just glad that I didn’t have to perform off-stage like my 9 colleagues. It was too dark down there with no spotlight on them! Only the light from the stage and from camera’s flash! I know some of them aren’t too happy as they felt that their effort wasn’t being really displayed. I would too if I am one of them.
I have many pictures and some videos too but the sizes are too big to upload, over 200MB for 2 minutes! I am feeling rather lazy to filter them at the moment. 
Perhaps over the weekend when I have more time to go through the pictures!
But I am happy that I did the performance though it meant that I missed too many good performances by others at the beginning and missed the good food and even time to socialize with my colleagues during the annual dinner! And thanks to all your supports!
Dec
14
We gonna shake it!
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It’s a busy, busy week as I have to practice shaking my bum for belly dancing. The performance date is very near and we haven’t perfected every step! Thus we have to stay back after works and practice and practice and practice nearly everyday! I felt like a school kid practicing for school performance!
I reached home around 8 or 9 pm plus daily and shower and take crappy dinner (not much time for preparation and lazy to buy). Very tiring but quite nice and looking forward for the performace.
We have to arrange for the standing position (trust me, it isn’t easy to make 17 ppl happy and see who get to stand on stage, who stand off stage, who can dance better and the different of height and skirts and yes, 17 women!), make use of the small stage, come out with backup plan if it rains (it is open air) and coordinate our top, find unoccupied meeting room to practice, coordinate how to walk in and out of the stage, etc.
We finally got hold of the tailor made skirt yesterday which cost a bomb! Yeah, it is RM150 for a simple design (read : no design), just a piece of cloth that covers our hips to the ankle, rather long and I am afraid I might step on it and fall, on the stage! My company finally agreed to subsidize RM120 and we have to fork out RM30. But the skirt really doesn’t worth RM150. As it is quite transparent and have 2 high slits to the thigh, I cannot wear it for any occasion in the future! Quite wasted!
Anyway, wish me luck and gracefulness!
Nov
15
And I am going to shake~
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Well, last time I mentioned that our company requested us to do belly dancing performance for our annual dinner on the 15th of December at Sunway. Believe it or not, my-little-dysfunctional-brain actually decided to join the performance! Wooohooo.. I am so going to shake my bottom in from of my hundreds of colleagues!!!
Nahh.. I probably would hide behind those that could dance and shake well! I think around 17 of us signed up so it is going to be a group performance and I would not be so visible, right? Right?!? (Say yes!!!)
Actually we are just in the process of learning how to do the dance for the whole song and are only half way there. We only have around 1 month or 4 classes to be exact!!! Too little time!!! I am not sure if we could really master the whole song within such a short time. As of now, I keep forgetting the next steps and I have to keep looking at others! I couldn’t recall ever performing in a stage for stuffs like that, not even in school!
According to our colleague we would get some ‘incentive’ for performing but we shouldn’t expect much from there. And I told them that they shouldn’t expect too much from us as well as we are all only beginner!!!
I hope it’s going to be fun! If it is going to be a bad performance, at least I am not going to face my colleagues for long, rite (if I really leave my company for the new one! Oh, am I really in denial stage?!?)!?!
Hope we could dance better than this cow!!!
Oct
26
To Perform or not to Perform?
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Geez.. this is not good. Very bad.. I am not ready, really! I can’t even do a proper ‘shimy’ but my company S&R team wants us to perform belly dancing for our upcoming annual dinner at Sunway!
Man, I can hardly shake my butt without my top body moving and likewise. I cannot do the small little hand movement while rotating my bum, the lesson that was taught yesterday. How can we do chorography by December 15th when we only have around 6 weeks to learn and it normally takes 2 months to master?
My company is willing to sponsor the costume and searching the internet, I saw how sexy the costume is! Man, I don’t have a nice body figure to flaunt! *sweat*
So, now the decision is to join or to chicken out. If more than half the class (around 30 in the class), join the performance, I guess I would be barely visible right? Hmm.. I am so petite that I could be invisible in the crowd.. *think, think, think*
Oct
8
My 1st oh-so-noisy-scarf~
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Weekend was my rather usual back to hometown weekend. Just stayed at home entire Saturday, probably the only day in the month where I did not face the computer!!! Geez, think bout it, I face the computer almost everyday in the month, day and night! No wonder my eyes are getting more tired each day and darker! Nah, my parents didn’t miss me much while I was away. We watched some Chinese series from the DVD though, which was quite enjoyable. ^.^
Back to the topic I am rather excited about, till now. I hope it doesn’t go off soon, I mean the excitement. Yeah, belly dancing! I’ve gotten the belly dancy scarf last week from e-bay. Not actually buying from e-bay but the e-bay seller came to our office with her colourful scarves. The price is rather cheap, only RM32 (less than USD10), compared to the one in Khazanah, selling for RM70 a piece! The tutor, Nanncy is selling at RM220 a piece, but hers is handmade from Greece, thus superior quality from the rest of them. Nah, can’t afford them. I am happy with a RM32 one~
The picture is taken from ebay~
At first, I wanted to get the pink velvet scarf with silver coins. After that I wanted the black velvet one, look so classy and sexy! But at last I took the pink rose, which is like chiffon type quality, sheer, soft and noisy! It has more than 150 pieces of gold coin attached to it. So imagine the jingling sounds it makes as you hold it. Ahh, that’s exactly the point. You tie the belly dance scarf around your hips and when you shake your hips, it goes jingle-a-ding sound.
Pretty fun, ain’t it? Can't wait to wear it for my next class!!!
This pic is taken from the Ebay, the many ways of tying it. But we only tie at the hips, so far. =P
This is taken by a Sony camera.. ^.^ Nice, huh?
Oct
3
Wednesday means dancing~
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My mood brightened up considerably yesterday, yeah~ Perhaps it was the yellow bird that I saw yesterday morning in front of my house. Or maybe it’s the list of SRR (task) that my manager asked me to test, so I have something to concentrate at work and happy to finally feel useful at work. Or it could be because my pinkish nails gleam prettily under the light. Or maybe the e-card that D sent to me to cheer me up! Or just because I am woman and the mood is like roller coaster? Whatever it is I hope it stays, the good mood I mean~!
I got a phone call from a survey person, Vivian the other day. I was supposed to attend a survey about e-learning and earn RM80 of instant pocket money and I was rather happy! But she called again informing that decided to put me under another survey, about Dutch Lady low fat yogurt and the pay is RM100! I was even happier as I consume yogurt quite often and it was a topic I would be familiar at. And what’s more the timing is at 7.30pm in MidValley, so I have ample time to reach there. Some more, my ex-best-friend-colleague might be able to join me for this survey. So we can have jolly good time while earning extra dough~ Yeah~~
So I confirm with her the about my attendance and feel so good about it. And then I went to brush my teeth, preparing for bedtime… and it hits me! Darn! It was Wednesday, which means Belly Dancing day!!!! Man, how could I forget?!? I suppose there is no need to guess which one I finally choose. And so I send an apologetic sms to Vivian, the survey person to inform about my oversight of my schedule.
So, here I am, RM100 poorer but a belly dancing class to look forward after work today~!
