Kyoshu (Nostalgia)

The past week had been a very busy one for me!

We had decided to help out as our friends were the organizers of the JCN event.

We had danced traditional dance for the past 2 yrs dy for JCN, and this time we gonna dance traditional dance again hahaha. Simply cuz thats the only performance we can join, cant join modelling right i dont think my height even qualify lol. And def not modern dance, drama? Nooo unfortunately i cant act!

We only started on our sem's first week, kept browsing YouTube vids for Japanese traditional dance, as we had to make the whole dance ourselves.

We used to learn from a teacher for the previous years in Cyber, but now shes not available IDK why and we're on our own.

Luckily Chin Xiang had lotsa experience in traditional dance and we all created the dance ourselves!

We had 4 hours of practice every single night for the whole week. 8pm to 12pm at acr.

And we decided on the geisha theme (it met with the event theme coincidently huhu!) cuz its so elegant and cool, should be easy to learn.

It was so fun to trial and error on the dance steps and tryin to interpret the weird japanese music.

And the best is to gossip and fool around with the bunch of girlssss!

Middle one is Grace who helped us get into our yukata!

Me in yukata ^_^ i dunno what the jap word 'Shi Te' means btw, haha have to ask the editor.

Me with YikXin. Her light purple yukata is so pretty!

Due to some 'misunderstanding', the models wore her yukata on Saturday and pity YikXin had to resort to other inferior yukatas. =(

Cuz we dancers chose the yukatas first and we dont know what happened, on that day the models wore the same yukata and the committees said models should have prettier yukatas so they gave YikXin other yukatas that are not that pretty, some even have holes in it.

The committees really shouldnt have let the models take the yukatas we chosen and caused this kinda problem. grr.

 Teehee. The yukata damn big size la haha.

This is our petite leader Chin Xiang~hehe Thanks to u we managed to create the dance!

The dance crew! Yes tallest in the middle so my position is no doubt at the corner. lol

The cute obi(ribbons) behind. The obis have to be tied really really tight to ur waist so that the overall shape looks nice ;) And this left us all have difficulties in breathing in yukata hehe.

Our initial dance position.

The story of our dance goes like this: We're all 7 sisters geishas who had passed away.*touch wood* This is a portrait of us. Then on that day, we'd come alive one by one and dance to entertain the crowd. And at last we went back to our portrait position again. ^_^

Practicing our dance in yukata.

We spent just 3 days to create the whole dance! Cuz geisha dance should be very elegant and very slow, so its not that hard to learn hehe.

Saturday 19th of March is the big day! We all gathered at main hall at about 1030, mana tau they all told us the PA system hasnt arrive yet and asked us to go have breakfast, bout 1230 only back.

I ate my breakfast dy but still took some rice. And was vry vry grateful that i took some lunch, cuz we'll be starving for the next 12 hours!

So we came back bout 1230, the PA system still hasnt arrived yet and they asked us to go home bath =.= so we lepak at main hall and played few rounds of poker cards haha.

At last, around 1smth, the PA system has arrived and we managed to practice and mark the stage.

The we proceeded for makeup!!! (We dont have high hopes on the makeups cuz sure vry ugly one, the past 2 yrs dy proven.)

And we were right. The end result looked like this:

LOL damn scary right! Doughnut shape bun on top and little red lips like the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland! My face can blend into the wall behind dy. Same colour =.=

Actually the makeup artists didnt know that we wanna have geisha style makeup one.

We told the committees in charge 2 weeks before, that our makeup and hair style will be in geisha look, but then on that day, the stylists thought we only need slightly fair makeups.

So they didnt bring any white body paint for the face. They used the white eye shadow powder and gradually pat on our faces to get this effect.

This is Sufen. The stylist is drawing the Red Queen's lips lol.

We were shocked at first to see our makeup. But then when we get used to it, we begin to fool around lol.

First time Peace without smiling at the camera hahaha!

Super white us with Luo Wei, vice president of JLS :)

With Grace. This is not scary cuz we all smiled haha.

And now the scary ones :

Ken the drama king.

Drummer of the band preformance joined the fun haha.

Have u seen geisha playin poker cards before? =P

Hi im geisha kristy and my hobby is playin poker cards. LOL

^_^

*My hand!* Drama queens! hehehe

Chin Xiang's bf, Sundenn came visit us. haha

JS, Sufen's bf came too!

Cj and HanKai as model for traditional fashion show! So was Winson!

Another traditional model, Kay Lim.

Chloe looks like those evil traditional geisha hehehe!

Me and sis! Actually the eye makeup is quite pretty. Thanks to my lovely makeup artist ^_^

Rawkstar geisha yo! Sufen and the band.

The band. Evon Song, the sweet girl in the middle has a powerful voice! Shes good!

Took pic with Suki, the super tall gorgeous model!

See the height difference. Shes 175cm without heels, 180cm+ with this heels can u bliv it?!

Shes currently a model for Amber Chia academy if im not mistaken.

Im like a 10yr old kid beside her lol.

Super friendly and she really can walk gracefully in heels!!

Behold~ Our performance!

^______^

This is the drama, Cinderella! Altho it has nothing to do with Japanese culture haha

But its seriously very funny and well written! Awesome actors too!

The prince is Justin Bieber and the wizard is Harry Potter LOLLOL so hilarious.

Pity we didnt get to see the real show!

Saxophone performance!

This guy here is stil studying his Upper 6. Not a bad performance altho Chloe, who had 5 yrs of experience in Saxophone kept complaining where hes out of tune haha.

Clubbing on stage. Nola its actually modern dance.

But the lighting was so bad it shone directly on the audiences faces instead of ON the dancers!

And this was what we saw below stage. Shadowssss haha.

Modern Fashion show! *screams*

Traditional fashion show. Love the music.

Han kai. HAHAHA his face was so white as if hes one of us dancers =P

Kay and Yiting.

Winson and his partner, Kai Hong.

Funny how he posed and extracted the sword hehe. Thats a real sword btw!

The traditional models

The super cool modern models.

Round of applause! ^_^

Thats all for 2011's JCN! Well done to all the committees! Will really miss the dancers :)