Welcome 2007!!

I realized that the last time I blogged was last year..time flies.

8 days had passed.

How would 2007 be different??..a question I asked myself....

Am I back to my normal life or am I striving for a change??

It starts off with "ok, I need a change my life next year" and when the new year comes, the irony of it is, people get too comfortable at where they are and just accept things as it is. Now how boring is that? or how silly?? Easy to say...i know.....but if we dont make the first move then who will? We are the author of our faith....of coz God is there to help is thru but the decision is us to make.

I have not list down my resolutions yet........wait a minute....I think I did....on New Year's Eve, in church. We were given two pieces of paper, one for bad habits and another for resolution. Of course I cant type it out here...LOL! Totally forgot I wrote down my resolutions.....now I need to prep myself.

Well enough bout all this.

Let me talk about my weekend, my happening weekend.

5th Jan (Friday Night)
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Left work early. Got home around 5.30, decided to watch my newly purchased DVD (Material Girls by Hilary Duff)...yea a chick flick.

Finished the movie closed to 7.30pm and decided to take a nap. Woke up at 8.15pm and freshen up....Aaron was coming at 8.30pm.

We drove to queensbay, I ran up to Borders to get my puzzle mag. We made some plans to meet some friends @ Northam Beach Cafe......but when we got there, our friends cabut-ed , due to reasons such as assignments...blah, blah, blah...

After dinner both of us were rather tired - both also down with flu.....so gatai didnt want to head home coz that was our last friday without SWYF (Shalom Working Youth Fellowship).

It also didnt stop us from going to Starbucks....darling has his caramel machiato, I had my schneider. We were outside gurney tower, people watching n being fashion police. Left buckers around 12.30am and headed home.

When i got home, I started packing for my concert rehearsal.....clothes, shoes, hair pins and such.

Took medicine and straight to dream land....ZZZzzzzZZZzzzzzZZzzZzZzzz

6th January (Saturday)
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9.15am......Alarm ringsssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How annoying. Cant I sleep in longer for the weekend?

So drag myself out of bed, wash my hair and got ready.

Sayang picked me up at 10.15am. Bought sausage buns for backup and off to Dewan Sri Pinang.

11am, practice for modern dance started.

11.30am, practice for Ballet started.

1pm, went out for lunch.

2.45pm, full dress rehearsal started.

6.00pm, FINALLY!!!.....rehearsal ends in D.S.Png

Dressed up and headed to SFX for 6.30pm mass. Choir was pretty interesting......nice church.

7.30pm, headed to Northam Beach for dinner with Yvonne, Aaron, adeline and Andre. Halfway thru dinner, it rained like never before with strong wind. Yvonne reminded us that it may be the floods coming, as predicted in the papers. We quickly finished our food and left.

It has been a while since i went home so early on a saturday night. Nop i didnt sleep yet...was sewing my dress......Dont know if we were losing weight, but it sure feels the dress were looser each time.

After which, i hit the sack...totally pooped.

7th January (Sunday)
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7.00am, RISE AND SHINE!

Oh NOOOO, its much worst than yesterday...wake up soooo early on a sunday?

Today's THEE day. After 4 months of practicing, todays the day. Only one shot, no more mistakes on stage.

Aaron picked me up at 7.45am, he's such a darling. Waking up so early just to fetch me. Its not that I dont have my own car, he's more afraid that I will be too tired to drive back aftet the concert. Thanks for the sweet thought sweetie...

We stop by mcd's to get me breakfast......two sausage egg mcmuffin, one for now and another for lunch......*yummy*

Reach D.S.P just in time.....8.30am, only to find out that our hair do starts 9.30am. AN HOUR. I could have slept another hour. A whole freaking hour. So i just plop myself on the chair, halfway snoozing, then my teacher calls....."Carmen, Carmen, are you guys ready??" I'm like what?? We have practice now?? gesh....i'm so not a morning person.

So we change into our costumes and there we were waiting for our turn to hit the stage. Our teacher was in a pissy mood, raising her voice at the dancers and making them dance over and over again. I sure hope she would not reprimand us......I mean "HELLO" its morningla, give us a break.

When our song came, we just danced. To our amazement when we finished, she said GOOD! So thats it? Apparently yes, we only danced once. Woohoo.

Next we proceeded backstage to await our hairdo. Our sponsors was from Variety Hair Studio & academy( from prangin mall). All 8 of them looked funny......funky hair colors and hairstyles, definitely not my forte. Yes, we were worried. Our dance is a serious dance, cant be looking like some freaks.

Yvonne (my co dancer) is funny. Straight forward girl. Tells you in the face what she feels. So she tells the hairdresser, we need an elegant hairdo and not whacky. A good 10 mins.....us trying to tell them what we want. Finally they understood. We were satisfied.

Next make-up. Sponsored by Stella-IN.

I must say they are kinda good. Friendly girls and professional. Our make-ups were all super thick, stage make-up so no choice. We had to use fake eyelashes, my first time. It was damn uncomfortable, a quarter of my vision was blocked....no kidding, it was so long n bushy that I cud see it from my eyeline.

Our concert was suppose to start at 4pm.....so at 3.15, I could not find my shoe...panic habis....and where did Sharon leave her shoes?? At the auditorium itself! So I wore a t-shirt over my dress and and walked down........crowd was begining to pour in, people were staring at me...hahahha......thank goodness i realized about my shoe before it was too late.

To cut the long story short, after the opening speaches, welcoming of YBs, ribbon cutting....we were ready to rumble. Mine was the 4th and 15th item. As soon as the first group finished their dance, I had butterflies in my tummy......the adrenalin rush. Before we knew it, the 3rd item came to an end. IT WAS OUR TURN! The lights went out and we were in epose position. Our song started, and we were all out in action. It was fun...a memorable time. Mistakes?? we made tons on stage, I nearly slip and fell. LOL! Strange part is hardly anybody noticed our mistakes.

We were laughing back stage......one down another to go. I changed to my modern dance outfit n hair accessories and waiting for our turn. Not too long a wait, we were waiting for our turn. I must say everybody danced their best, from my angel, it was synchronized. Good job guys! Ours was second last item...and before time the concert came to an end. A tiring but definitely enjoyable time.

Had dinner then head home to SLEEPPPPP!!!