First overseas skating comp

what to say, I am really really excited. It has been a dream and I did not dare to go for past 2 years because I know I am not good enough. This year I still feel I am not there yet, but I decided to go to help myself improve even more. This has been my dream since secondary school, which is to go overseas and skate.

All the effort, pain, tears, emotions I felt is finally worth it. I want to go overseas and compete and learn. To become a better skater. I dont care what others say about it having no future, I just do what I love doing.

Very honestly I am really afraid I would throw my face but still I will work towards that dream.



Remember me saying that I skate and kept training to fill up this emptiness inside of me? Well at least for this point in time all the encouragement, all the hype, it has fill up the hole for now. Sorry to disappoint if you all think I will do well because standard is really too far. Still I want to personally hug everyone of you for your support.

So when I leave, I just really want to thank everyone of you who supported me especially my parents. If not I will not even have my skates to begin with. And also thank my friends who were part of my skating journey. I knew that leaving skating would have been the worst decision and I am glad I was not stupid enough to leave for good.

I am not a 'slalom God' like you all say. (maybe Slalom Lion) but still....I am working towards being that happy slalomer. and who knows in your own hearts then I will eventually be that true 'slalom God'.

TPSkate 2012 intake

okay just came back from midnight movie with the skating turtle Mr Daryl. Watched The Avengers and the movie is mad! from an audience, fanboy or a film maker point of view. Really sick and its a sin not to catch it.

On the side note thanks you for taking your time to read my blog, especially if you are the newly added freshies from today skating orientation. I hope you all had fun! Teaching is not exactly my forte but i got to help what i got to help with still. If you are wondering where can you find the others, simply go to the link here and like the new TPSkate 2012 page =)

Had a lot of fun spending time with Jacq, Shirlynn and Cherie today. Really takes my mind off school for the time being while we went to AMK for food before going my place to kill some time with C & S. Had dinner at my place before we went off to orientation. Thanks mum and dad for preparing dinner for both of them and fetching us to school for orientation in time. After teaching tried a couple of highier end tricks and results were sick! both back wheeling was able to hold a distance of 10 cones (not going through yet, had a reverse toe fake in the making, crazy stable toe spin of 6 rounds. Only bad thigns were deproved basics flow and falling hard on my elbow while trying toe cockfoot. Demo was fine, as always improvised from lowest to highest level. Slalom freestyle routine went fine despite cone being too far apart for my liking and a little too on the spot for me. but today is a good day. Gave my Facebook so that freshies can add me and so i can update them about to bond with us more as i will not be able to do that next week since I will be in Thailand for slalom comp.

Meeting Cherie tml to teach her while I train for next week Thailand Slalom Series, I am really nervous about it and i want to correct my routine as much as i can before that. Pray for me.

 Okay and now something off topic...my Ribena shuffle stars entry, bloopers and my once shuffle student with Colin entry. hope you like it.

Here are the compilation for yesterday videos. Featuring Ryan, Xian Zhao and my routine.(ill include Clarence and Terence clips for viewing as well, for others check out the channel) So this is a quick post. Before that my plans in skating now is to save up and try get a job for money to go for WFSC (World Freestyle Skating Competition), Thailand for Thailand Series and Penang for Malaysia Series so help me if you can. I will also be training even more to bring my technical level up. Those who want to train with me let me know. First up will be my routine. Which i feel has no power. I could have done better. a lot better still. Next up is Ryan routine. Good start at the 0.5 cones. Complex tricks at the 0.8. Took my ideas to even better use of syncing his moves to music. Im proud that he has progressed to this level. and Xian Zhao who trained hard. He has the style and power in his moves, lack the technical and confidence. A student who will eventually step up to have stronger style then me. If he is more prepared for the competition he will do a lot better! Not to forget Singapore top slalomer Clarence who has always been epic. He is actually flying back to hometown for a few days right after the competition. and his elder brother who used to train a lot, along with a butterfly slaloming through 0.5 (i wonder how much marks he got for that) before attacking Terence face haha. another 2 that caught my attention was Katoh and Wukai's routine. Wukai has amazing flow and is very nice to watch as always. while Katoh improved a lot from travelling all over the world to skate. good job to both skaters. overall i feel that this competition level has went up. All the slalomers performed well and has a pretty impressive standard. Even for the girls. Especially the new comers. There was one girl who came but didnt perform well for her competition but could see she has a lot of flair and trains a lot during her warm up. But unfortunately overtrained before her comp, so thats a lesson learnt. Looking forward to the next competition to see more routines as well as for me to compete again

Craziest day I have planned, but worth it!

Photo Credits: Krystal Teo So i was stressed, i was nervous i couldnt sleep the previous night at 4am. I nearly overslept for my registration and rushed down. Thanks Terence for helping me so much with the song and registration. But all went fine and i went 3rd after requesting it as I may have to rush down to school for TPDE auditions. Quite honestly on my way to the group i am freaking out, i set my competition song on loop, listening to it over and over while visualizing what i am supposed to do. I was shivering on the bus in fear and being very nervous. This carried on till the very point i started my routine. It was pure numbness even when i jump and i could not feel anything so i decided to lower my flair so as not to kick cones. With my heart resuming to its normal as i continue skating with my stage presence helping me, i could feel that this may not be tat bad after all! Ryan and Xian Zhao actually did quite well as well in my opinion, its just the standard is really high IMO. I am sure they can do it for Rookie! Just let me know if you want to see any of their videos! After the comp i had a quick lunch with the skaters before rushing down to TP for my TPDE auditions. Which i was late for and had to go for a later slot. It MAY have been a blessing in disguise as i bonded with the dancers more as well as learning from them. However my audition went really bad, i had a lot of problems with the choreography. Ultimately though i had fun. I met my ex boyfriend who was trying out for TPDE as well, walked up to him and tried being nice to talk to him, he is rather soft spoken and shy IMO. However during the audition, he is really really too good when it comes to dancing. I was planning to go home seeing there is no point going Sentosa since it is 6pm already, but Andy Lau called me and I rushed down to join them for dinner instead. I reached Sentosa an hour later and changed to my beach wear. As I was done changing they were leaving the place already! haha! So we took the shutter bus back to Vivo City to have dinner while we had fun singing, doing magic, dancing randomly, splashing water and eating. I bumped into 2 BW members training there as well, good to see juniors training their passions. We left awhile later and was on our way back and XZ texted me that the results are out. And i am really happy with it!

Judging by me being right below, Clarence & Terence who are Singapore placing first and second skaters, Wukai and Wayne who are team people who trained really hard and went overseas as well, Jerome who used to skate professionally and go overseas with the team to compete and Katoh who learnt a lot after going all over the world to skate with others. I am happy with my results. I am planning to go for both competitions, and to go down to Sembawang to train every Friday after my batch of newcomers are settled first. So for now I will still skate in school for Fridays until lesser help is needed before going Sembawang more to train and bond with the rest and aim for team! Also to open up the new group around my place so i can train more!

Got my new shoes!

Today is the first time I went on air in the studio, it was really tough especially when you got to pay attention to your camera works and listen to the director's cue. Overall though it is a really fun exercise and i learnt a lot from it. Nothing much for second class except to watch a triller called The Orphanage, already caught it and so i got bored, especially when my phone has no reception in class to kill boredom. After class i went to sport complex to practice on dancing when i met a bunch of bboys there and jam with them. I am horrible at break dance, but fortunately they knew who i am, dont ask me how but i think it got something to do with secondary school i think. I know 2 of them were my childhood friend's friend. So we had a lot of fun and i messed around a little there till about 6pm. Oh i got a new move as well. tho its not nice yet.

yeah! I want to do a proper 7 freeze soon. its really nice. and my hand spring is better too. After dancing i went to eHub! to join my mum and brother for dinner before buying a new pair of kicks coz my Edwin shoes has a hole at its base from all that dancing. its such a beauty!

And i am back to my work, a thousand word essay on production design over a movie which i picked, V for Vendetta. till then!

first lock and waack try

i never really lock or waacked before. but i picked it up during camp from a freshie and a GL. so here is my first try on it. I tried out a lot before i took the video so i couldnt do the whole song at all hahaha

DESIGN GOT THE BEST SPIRITED AGAIN! YES!

yes! WE DID IT! DOTC, DOTC2 and Camp Giza WAS THE BOMB. and all our efforts paid off and we got the BEST SPIRITED AWARD ONCE AGAIN!

I was literally in tears the moment the announced that we got it! before the announcement, my heart stopped for a few seconds hoping we did it, make our year 3's proud and leave the school with their dreams intact.

also i would like to thank all the Loggers. It has been a really good time knowing you all and working with you all. Even though like i said during one of the debrief before that Logistics was not in my choice and i didnt want it, I didnt leave. Partially because the 3 in charge are people who i know and can say somewhat close with. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? its a choice i never regretted. I know i didnt mix well with you guys but i still had a lovely time, silly moments and working with you all.

And year 3's I'll really miss you all, words cannot describe how lost I am feeling now without the sight of you all in school. yes its true that many say MOI people are hardly seen around school so there are little MOI friends. but just saying Hi like close friends in school, stopping for a few minutes in lift stairs outside school and talking about our life for a few minutes, it really meant a lot to me for my Poly life.

I am both upset and afraid of this year, when i become a year 3. its also because i felt a big sense of support gone. I have became slightly reliant to my year 3 friends for emotional support and to spend time. being a year 3 its only another blink of an eye before i post about me leaving from TP already.

I WISH I COULD HUG AND THANK ALL THE LOGGERS AND EVERYONE ELSE..too bad i got to leave early due to parents. <3 LOGGERS! MEI JIO!!!

I cant type anymore man, got sand in my eye. Ill stop here