Last Day of Break

Today uni officially started but I dun have uni on mondays so I actually start tomorrow, therefore last day to cram any work that I havn't payed attention to in the past week XD

Well.. after the longest unscheduled hiatus of blogging (6-7 days), ('I cheated, ie posted all those previous days today') this would be my last post till 17th Nov takin a break from blogging and prepare for the finals which yeh ends on 17th.

Till then, bai bai!? ^_^

Street Fair

Today was Spring Festival's Street Fair...

'I'll write something about it when I feel like it'

Farewell Benjamin Tran

'why the fek is my face always red!?'
'Ben's guy on the bottom left with the stripy shirt'

In two days Ben would be leavin' to Japan for the next 11 months and before he leaves he wanted to enjoy the last outing he'll have in Sydney for a long time, doing most of his favourite things such as TimeZone, Karaoke and Mac's Angus Burger ^_^

Basically started the day off in TimeZone from early till 12:00pm, which I missed, followed by a quick lunch at Mac's before heading off for Karaoke at Echo Point for 5 hours. Can't really explain what happened at K but it was fun fun fun... There were so many jap songs.. and I think only one person there was actually Japanese.. 'I dunno any jap so I spent most of the time singing english songs although my EN library is pretty low too'. Then we watch Inglourious Basterds and had dinner at Hurricane's.

'Now am I suppose to write a tribute to Ben.. huh.. maybe I should've done one for Lap too'

I met Ben through the anime club although knowing only he was a friend of Lap's and like Lap he was also a gamer, one of the few in the club back in the days. His list of played games greatly surpasses mine but I have a pretty good knowledge of the gaming industry too therefore chatting and watnot was easy for us. Like gaming, his seen alot more anime than me but our opinions and reviews of them are similar so I guess we've got the same taste in things. His a great friend and hope for his quick return. Till August 2010 Ben~?

'Somethin' like that..'

Menya Noodle Bar's Godzilla Challenge

Menya's Godzilla Challenge, with over 2KG of noodles, costing $29.90, if you can finish in 30mins you get your money back. Tonight me and a few friends were taking up this challenge... ... but they already discontinued it 2 months ago.. <_>

Well.. keep lookin I guess..

Advance Salsa Class

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Capoeira

I was working at the Melody Markets today and one of the performances of the night is a Capoeira showcase. I don't get it, I just don't see it as a martial art cause they don't actually fight and I can't call it a dance either cause they don't really dance to the music.. I don't get it...

Afa's Facts about Salsa

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La Cita

My friend Jess, who I know from dancing classes and also performed with me in the Australian Dance Festival, is taking a 6 month leave to the US tomorrow so there was a farewell party tonight to Lindt Cafe for dinner and then to La Cita to club.

I didn't have time to have dinner at Lindt Cafe so I only went to the dance club afterwards.

La Cita is a restaurant and a two level bar with dance floors and since it was thursday night, entry is free with level 2 focus on to Latin/Salsa that starts from 8:30pm and level 1 starts from 9:30pm with mainly Live Latin Band.

It was so much fun I can't really explain it, I still feeling like dancing now (Saturday night XD). There was only a few faults, one upstairs was always so full so I wasn't able to fully salsa, two downstairs was alright except it was open to outside where alot of people smoked, three finished early (1:30am) and I was told I was dressed too casual so I had to burrow a button shirt from Jess's friend.

'I was thinking of dressing more formal in the morning but then decided not to'

So, Tuesday night = Establishment Hotel, Thursday night = La Cita XD

Willoughby's Spring Festival has begun

Tonight I worked at the opening ceremony of Spring Festival which Willoughby City Council hosts every year

http://www.willoughby.nsw.gov.au/Spring-Festival-2009.html

Salsa Night

Every tuesday night at Establishment Bar is Salsa night and I went there with my dancing friends but unfortunately I had to leave early. Starts off at 8pm where the "teachers" basically begins the night off with some basics then after a few rounds of tought dancing, you'd be now left to keep the night going on your own. Since its salsa, you'd be either partnering with friends or any strangers. I left at 9:30 but from what I've heard, peak-hour is about 11pm where the club just fills up what little spaces are left.

This was my first time to a Salsa club and overall it was alot of fun, I would have liked to have stayed much longer but I guess till next time.

http://www.merivale.com/whatson/rumbamotel

40 Years Since Apollo 11's Moon Landing

With the 40th year celebration of the moon landing, space related stuff has boomed specifically from Discovery Channel and National Geographic Channel. They are all verying interesting stuff and I wish I can somehow keep and rewatch most of the programs aired. Other channels which I don't have are also showing similar stuff namely BBC Knowledge and Discovery Science.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/index.html

Enchanted Sky

"A constellation of harmonies with a unique blend of Western and Japanese sounds, four renowned musicians will weave magical melodies from both classical and modern genres."

'It was nice'

Happy Birthday Eve

Last night we celebrated Eve's 21st birth at The Fringe Bar and Churras The Brazilian Barbecue, just in time before she left to go back to Victoria. Won't be seeing her till Uni starts again so she'll be misssed. I'm sure everyone else had a fun time yesterday XD

EasyWay Jay Chou

'because EasyWay is always in front of JayChou PX'

To start it off, I had terrible seats, I went with my family and from where we were located I can assume that they got the tickets pretty late 'but when I first found out about the concert tickets were already sold out so still good I guess'. We sat in 'mountain seats' in the furthest corner, ie behind the stage and projector screens... worst.

The concert however was pretty good 'although theres really no way to rate concerts so yeah'. I consider myself as a casual Jay Chou listener, not a complete fanatic and therefore abit selective on what songs I like from his collection but he did sing a few of my favorites so I was all good.

'There was so much mando, I had no idea wtf their saying.. just smile and nod'

There were like special guest performing aswell but I had no idea who they were. I got to give props to the stage dancers as well as I can see them pretty much performing the whole night in varies of styles from HipHop to Latin and everything in between. Ofcourse man of the hour '3-4hrof it' is Jay and his influence on so many people, the audience was just so into it that its just a amazing. I had to mention I was his performance with the Guzheng, the chinese string instrument, I have huge respect for chinese culture and it was just a nice touch.

There was also a proposal on stage and was a sweet thing to see... if only I knew what they were saying the whole time.

All in all, great concert.
'Wish I had a view though'

Jay Chou Sydney Concert

Going tonight XD
EasyWay must've payed big time

Blogging Back

'Woot.. Exams over.. now time ti relax till the results come out LOL'

Ok here's are some major thing that happened during my absent

On June 13th I attended to the Australian Dance Festival which mainly consisted of night performance, whole day of workshops, stalls selling stuff and after party.

Night performance was great, I was performing a contemporary dance piece.I thought we were OK because during practice our timing and everything was right but at the show we were abit off. I blame stage fright.

Workshop started from 10am - 4pm, hour after hour of classes totalling 5. I attended;
Anthony Ikin's Acrobatic Techniques, which open to me trying to free hand cartwheel. 'still can't though'
Paul White's Advance Contemporary, which was good, nothing exactly to comment about
Rhiannon Villareal's Hip Hop, which was a very girly dance piece
Marko Panzic's Intermediate Lyrical, which was epic, liked it alot
JD's Hip Hop, which was more manly than Rhiannon's.. lol
I didn't buy anything in the stalls, it was all chick stuff XD

After Party was fun, I need to do hip hop just to get that freestyle dancing. I'm pretty amazed how salsa dancers can freestyle salsa aswell.

From June 2-4 was E3 and it was amazing with so many gaming announcements. My favorites were PSP Go, the new more portable PSP and I like it; Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, which was announced to be the true sequel to Snake Eater, finally, a real MSG game on the PSP; and finally The Last Guardian, just aw.

The 1/1 gundam statue in japan was completed on 9th June, yes..

Signing Off, for a while..

Ok, the examination timetables has been released and I was then hit with the face of reality that there isn't much time left to study/catch up.

In reaction, this will be my last post till 24th June which is the day of my last exam.
'yeh I'm going to post right after the exam.. maybe...'
'if I'm posting from now till 24th June, it means I'm procrastinating'

But before I go, here are some things I was going to post over the next few days

Movie: Star Trek

Over the past month, I've been anticipating Star Trek, Terminator Salvation, Transformers: ROTF and Where the Wild Things Are. No I have not seen it yet nor am I a Star Trek fanboy but watching the trailers makes me very hyped about the movie because it looks like such a 'good epic thriller movie'. I'll be seeing it soon but I won't review it not because I'll be on hiatus but I don't feel like reviewing new release movies. DragonBall was an acception because it was such a fail.

TV: Beautiful Cooking 2

Hong Kong's TVB has aired the second season to the sucessful reality-ish show Beautiful Cooking. Think Iron Chef with Cooking Mama and Dancing with the Star. Its a family friendly comedy show where female celebrities cook meals for a round of judges and two-thirds of the time the cooking is just so bad its funny.
Got to point this out.. The judges have like maid helpers through the show but they changed the girls this season with like super models which I didn't like, season one they were cutie girls, now they're just.. well.. lady's 'yeh I notice these things... its healthy'

Slice Of Life: Australian Dance Festival

ADF is a brand new festival starting this year and hopefully for many more years to come where you can meet and gather together with many dancers across Australia.
There's going to be 2 days of dance workshop where you can attend and try out the various of styles offered.
There will be exhibits from dance schools, dance retailers and services which support dancers.
Also there's going to be 5 shows to watch over the 3 days with 'It Takes Two' I assume focusing on paired dancing, 'All Things Contemporary' which consists of mainstream dance styles from Hip Hop to Contemporary and 'A Celebration of Cultures' which I think is like the asian/indian/brazilian dances.
The other two shows are on saturday and sunday afternoon with under 16 year olds.

The tickets seems abit confusing at least to me.. so its..
$35-45 for tickets to the shows individually
$200 for a day pass to go to the workshop and both shows
$275 for a full pass which is day pass but both days
'yeh the math doesn't add up'
'so you can't go to the workshop unless you get the day/full pass'
'There's also an after party each night so hhmm, whats a party with dancers going to be like.. dance off's??'

I have exams on the 15th and 16th June so I won't be able to attend all three days
I am performing in the dance festival in the 'All Things Contemporary' so I got a Performer Pass which is basically Full Pass with extra goodies. Because of that, I am only going on Saturday.

For more information go to
http://www.australiandancefestival.com.au/

So till next time, peace out
shoop da whoop

Ribs and Rumps

Went out to dinner with friends tonight at Ribs and Rumps.. where I didn't eat any ribs or rumps.. I had half a chicken and chips...

I Quit Facebook!?

'Guess they can write just about anything these days'

I'm not as into facebook as everyone but I really don't care anymore and decided to just 'Deactivate' my account...

That was all I was going to say, but when deactivating, I notice facebook's attempt to make me stay... idiots..

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'Shut up!?'

Study

Nothing's happening, just studying (and possibly for the next few days aswell)
According to this, I shouldn't even try XD