In Love................

...with Emilio Dosal!

It didn't occur to me when I titled this blog post that the song Emilio's dancing to in the video's a Moments In Love remix. So when I titled this post "In Love!" it wasn't meant to be a pun haha.

But yes I love him, possibly more than I do for Kenny Wormald heehee.

Okay it's 2:39AM now guys and I have to be in school for a ONE HOUR lecture from 1-2pm (#somebodyshootme) so see y'all around! Gonna upload the photos I took yesterday on Deepavali at Marina Bay Sands! Had an awesome buffet lunch there with my relatives and my baby cousins who-aren't-really-babies-anymore whom I love to bits.

p.s. I really miss that guy awwwwwwwww.

'Cause everybody dies but not everybody lives

School has been such a bore for the past week!

Well okay hi guys incase you didn't know, school has officially reopened for me and I've begun a whole new semester at SP. Apparently my Video Prod & Digital Post module has 2 8-hour tutorials which means major credit units +++++++++.

My life's been terribly mundane, like I've been doing the same things over and over again. It's no wonder I have nothing to blog about! Lack of photos + contents makes Realityworks a VERY boring blog.

Plan J is a-go for tomorrow!

My good friend Rebecca Ten-ten has recently launched a collection at her blogshop Flashflust!

Go check it out, this collection's full of hand-made dream catcher accessories made by our dearest classmate Liyi. My favourite's Scarlet Swallows:

Real pretty ain't it? And it's RED. The best colour EVER.

Click the image below to start shoppinnnnnnnn'

MITC2

So the other day, Jevin, Azrul, Yixiang and I went down to Toa Payoh to support some of our seniors who took part in MITC2 (Money In The Cap 2).

$15 well spent (for the ticket)!

Definitely an amazing experience as the competition was judged by Henry Link! Watching videos of him dancing on YouTube already made me brain-banged, but watching him LIVE and taking in his advice as he stood there talking to all the participants and audience of MITC2.. It. Was. Amazing.

I have no words to describe how I felt that day.

Well maybe except 'high', 'crazy' and 'awed'.

For any aggro-skaters out there who are wondering - MITC is a brand and the competition's organised by them, unlike the aggro-skate mini competitions like 'money in the hat' which is where y'all literally each put out a sum of money aside, skate your hearts out and winner takes all.

We were extremely early when we met (I was the earliest, and even though the rest were all late, latest being Azrul with a record of being an hour late. So late that Jev and YX already finished eating when he came!), so Az went to buy his food and we settled down at this fitness corner opposite the place where the competition was held.

Looks wrong on so many levels

Brought my pack of Cluedo Suspect along and taught Azrul and Yixiang how to play (since Jevin already learnt how to when he came over to my place with the other dancers to chill).

Love this game! Even better than Monopoly Deal I swear.

Y'all should all get a deck! Endless fun guaranteed!

Didn't change my camera settings so everything's blur.

But yeah those are my seniors taking part! We were waiting for the event to start.

Az, Jev and I got MITC shirts from the first MITC! Old design but still nice. We all bought L, me and Az got grey while Jev got green. Size fits them great, but me? Not so much.

I wore it to training today though and LOVED IT. Felt like some old school hip hop dancer! Super old school to wear a shirt that's halfway down your thighs to dance, I swear.

Lookie lookie guess who?

Hint: His name is spelt H-E-N-R-Y and his surname's 'Link'.

This was around 8pm+ during the 7 to smoke segment!

Super dope - and super long - 7 to smoke. We had Zaihar, Xuehui, Semmy Blank (JD'11 winner), Darren Toh, Rahim, Alif, Luqman (MITC 1 winner), Psyk.... - I'm missing names here guys - battling each other.

Can believe we sat throughout the whole event which lasted from around 3pm to 10pm!

Dopest evening of my life. Can't believe I got to be there.. my first official battle event (that I attended as audience. SDZ Jam doesn't count)! And it was MIND-BLOWING. Everyone there made me want to improve myself even more, and I definitely do feel the inspiration to do so.

Did I mention my senior Eda got to Top 4? She was reppin' SDZ HARD! I only uploaded the videos of her on Facebook though.

It's alright you'll see the videos of her battles on YouTube soon enough. Just check the MITC YouTube Channel for it!

p.s. Khaki Slim Fit Chinos.. to get or not to get?

Pain

It seems like every week there's someone shouting at my block.

What I'm hearing now is prolly a dad scolding his kid cuz all I heard was "YOU (dare) RUN AWAY AGAIN?!"

Poor thing. It sounds pretty intense and for a dad to be this agitated at 4.32AM in the morning.. it's crazy.

Oh well, looking (and at the same time, not looking) forward to MITC2 - Money In The Cap 2 - tomorrow. Gotta get up early cuz I've to be down at Toa Payoh at like 12pm. Doors open at 2.30pm or so if I'm not wrong.

Found this on Tumblr:

I can't tell you how many times I thought "GPOY" when I saw this.

Chill Evenings

The past few evenings have been pretty relaxing, what with me laying in bed for hours on end without getting up unless for water or food.. all until 4-5 in the morning.

Today I'm just lying here catching up on Karen Cheng's blog while listening to my iTunes playlist titled 'Chill Pill' (ironically so), and texting Geisel about dance and school stuff because I'm wondering whether to pop by SP tomorrow to pass Sherilynn my running shoes.

Definitely not dancing tomorrow though, as I'm still pretty worn out by today which was a dance-after-dance day for me. Oh and did I mention? I finally went for Allegra's open class again after roughly a month of not being able to do so due to my SDZ commitment - I have Waves trainings on Tuesdays that start at 8pm. Hurrah!! Felt so blissful as I entered the studio and started stretching. I even told Jevin, Rina and Chan (in a rather dramatic way) that I "was home".

After an hour of sweating it out and regaining my whole muscle memory thing (I haven't pushed/forced myself to learn steps ever since I stopped taking open classes because in SDZ I'm pretty much pampered with the option of opening my mouth and asking the person who's teaching the choreography to go through it again), we went back up to join Nez and Muto for our sesh. This was followed by a mini waacking crash-course by Shina, who came up after her waacking class, and it was super fun.

I might even consider taking up waacking!

And oh, Bryan of O School's taking over Daniel after next Monday! He actually took Allegra's open class with us today and he was pretty funny, made me look forward to next week! For the next 3 weeks it'll be one waacking class, followed by one street jazz class - which Jevin and I are madly excited for - and lastly one class combining the two! All that and AnAn would prolly be back from her tour with WCO.

Life without my Facebook account has been surprisingly alright. My online life I mean. I just miss playing Tetris Battle in the wee hours of the morning because my nights are just boring like that.

Now I'm just contemplating whether I should get my ass off my bed to get something to much on even though it's almost 4am and a very bad time to eat anything.

I. Am. Starving....

..but also very lazy.

Cause Lovers dance when they're Feeling in Love

Thanks to Sheri, this song has been on repeat on my iTunes for the past few days. Something about this song makes me think.. a lot.

Temporarily deactivated my Facebook account yesterday. Personal reasons, and as much as I would like to disconnect myself from my social world for a while, I can't do so. Not now. Even deactivating my Facebook account now would cause me problems and inconvenience cuz A LOT of things related to my everyday life (meaning dance) are on there.

Stuff like my Waves items Facebook Groups. Gotta get updates from others in the same items as me I guess.

I wanted to take a break from dance, a week actually. Then found out it was impossible to due to responsibility issues. Unkle once mentioned that we have to think of the other dancers in the item, and skipping Waves trainings wouldn't benefit me in any way. So... according to Pika, "Looks like someone's break is gone." or something along the line.

The past few days were lovely though.

Caught up with two friends I really missed a lot over a well-deserved sleepover before rushing down to training the next day. Hi Rei and Elie, if you ever read this (and I KNOW Elie does).

The items that I'm in for Waves 16 seem to be getting clearer and clearer with each training. I'm in Khai + Val and Unkle + Zul's items which initially made me feel a bit stressed cuz they're all alumni. But their trainings so far have been very rewarding and I feel da hype for Waves 16 now! Can't wait to learn more and to improve.. vetting's soon! 65% for hip hop items and 70% for modern items was it?

Oh well time to head to bed. Got a lot on my mind still and I'm not sure how much quality sleep I'll get/have been getting.

Things are changing and as much as I want things to go back to the way they were before, I doubt things will be the same. I see you almost everyday and I can say I roughly understand you well enough. Something's amiss.

G'night!

p.s. My inspiration! Everyone, meet Overflow from Japan! One of the dopest crews out there. TOTAL SWAGFEST.