VIDEOS + Pics

AIRBAND PICS!!!!

3East olson and a bunch of guys dancing to their 'rain medley' - umbrella, it's raining men, singing in the rain

This super cool group dancing hip hop to supersonic by family force 5

Gerig and their dramatic 'deliver us' from the prince of egypt. they won 2nd place. drama mama.

Dancing to 'joyful joyful' from sister act 2

The winning act - 2EZ and their awesomely funny step in time from mary poppins

Our lion king act dancing on stage. i'm the zebra in the middle.

our awesome ending. rafiki holding up little simba. she was the CUTEST little baby!!!! :)

Men in Black.

girls dancing to 'morris brown' by outkast. it was freaking awesome.

3rd place act - glowsticks n strobe lights n dancing to daft punk.

I love relaxing weekends where u just sit around and do NOTHING but catch up on tv shows!! absolutely delightful :)

so..i can't figure out how to put up videos on my blog...so i'll just put the links. the quality isn't the best, but oh..great memories. haha.
Here's our International students AIRBAND performance of the lion king medley!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amtb6L9sqtQ

and if u wanna watch, here's the winners of Airband...2nd east wengatz! with step in time from mary poppins. they're hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeuM17-2tT4

and this is a totally hilarious Airband commercial that some guys filmed. a homemade mtv to 'bleeding love' by leona lewis. haha.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n30y5R6DPo

and last but not least, a totally random video from my birthday weekend. dancing in andrew's car to 'the way i are'!!! love that song.

i NEED a break

i really do. so tired of having so much work EVERY day of EVERY week!! it never stops! mostly cuz of working for the Echo. newspaper work is so tiring!! i don't know how anyone can do this for a living! but then again, i get a sense of pride in seeing my work published and my name in print. it's pretty cool to have people come up to me and be like, hey! i recognize your name! you're in the newspaper! i guess i have a love/hate relationship with writing. :)

talking about publishing, i wrote a movie review for this god-awful christian movie, The Touch, for my freelance writing class. and my prof liked it! so he sent it to Church Libraries, and they're gonna PUBLISH MY REVIEW in the december christmas issue of the magazine!!!!!!! i'm so excited. so what if i'm only getting published in small christian publications?? starting small and working up is the way to go!

oh. and if you go to www.taylor.edu, you'll see my article on my school's website!! it's called 'Council meeting gives students global perspective'. I wrote it for The Echo, and the Director of media relations at Taylor liked it, so he put it on the website!!
CLICK ON IT to read it!
i just thought it was pretty cool seeing my article on the front page of Taylor's website :)

this week been superrr busy preparing for AIRBAND!!! which was freakin awesome. we just got done doing two shows. tiring!! someone filmed us, so i'll put up the link to our performance soon!! I WAS THE ZEBRA in lion king!! haha. so glad we're done with all the rehearsals. everyone was awesome though. the dancing and performances were sooo good!! and we were the first act!!! whoo hooo!!! was on an adrenaline high just now. super tired now. only one class tmr!

PICS FROM AIRBAND :)

sarah, cait (who were in Gerig's 'Prince of Egypt - Deliver us' performance. they were AWESOME!), me (the zebra!!) and cartoon (who did Daft Punk's 'harder, better, faster, stronger' with strobe lights and glowsticks n all!!)

Dan (who was Simba!! complete with flips and jumps n crazy stuff. and he has a crazy awesome tongue stud) and mark (our fake drummer)

Jordan (she's a bird) and me

me,cartoon,dan,mark. waiting downstairs for our turn to perform!!

April (the other zebra!), anne (a creepy hyena), and me (a scared zebra)

Zebras!! with furry tails and white duct tape on our black costumes! :) everyone loved our face paint. Sooo many random people came up to me and were like, 'I LOVE ZEBRAS! you're awesome!' haha. i didn't know zebras were so popular.

Rhona (who was an awesome rafiki. just LOOK at her costume and face paint!) and me. waiting for our second performance.

Liz (who performed a super awesomely slick hip hop dance to Semisonic. they creeped me out the first time i saw it. just look at their masks!!)

me, rafiki's stick, and jordan!

Liz and Athena (she was a gazelle :)

Why

Why are some people always bent on breaking the rules? Why do some people never grow up? Why do some people call themselves Christians but don't act like one? Why do some people behave the way they do? Why am i so agitated now?

i'm tired of being the easy-going, happy-go-lucky peaceful mediator. i'm just sick of some people. maybe i need to get mad and flare up once in a while so people stop taking me for granted and start taking me seriously. i hate confrontations. makes me, the middle person, feel very awkward and uncomfortable.

you know what else i don't like? having guy friends like me. makes me feel, once again, very awkward cuz it's hard to...let them down easy and still remain friends.




i wonder if i'm starting to regret not doing anything sooner
sometimes i just wish you'd grow up
junior year is definitely full of.... interesting experiences.

i guess there's a first time for everything.

(more details later. when i'm not so upset)

birthday weekend

all-danced out from the hoedown at the retreat. i actually did some square dancing. and it was actually fun! :) playing spoons in the dark

our asian version of the nativity story. ian (the guy in the middle) was baby Jesus. haha

roasting hotdogs around the campfire. love fires.

worship team on sunday morning. we were all pretty much dead from no sleep last night

pretending to be drunk. haha

hanging out with random guy at random bridge.

hoodies

around the campfire

in the car on the way to get yellow n pink hairdye at walmart (can't wait to streak my hair!!) and see 'Eagle Eye' in theatres!!! it just came out today! and it was awesome. everyone shld go see it. sooo intense.

cartoon's camera aiming skills are poor, as u can see.

andrew's imitation of my evil rocker face

GANGSTA friday!!!

mark n me. singaporeans!

sad faces

awesome jump shot. cartoon, sam, me

gangster faces

ooh i love kimbab!

tryna look cool outside the souphouse

love cartoon's gangster outfit :)

happy gangsters

susan chasing us out of the kitchen cuz we were useless. haha

bored waiting for kimbab to be ready

this weekend was really fun. hanging out on friday..retreat from saturday till today...even though i'm not a fan of camping, it was fun roasting hotdogs n marshmallows by the fire, worshipping arnd the fire, going for walks in the woods, sleeping in the bus, climbing trees, square dancing at the hoedown, hanging out with awesome people :)

i'm 21! one life, live it :)

Another sleepless week

these are my friends. ahaha. on emo friday. they're pretty awesome emos.

me and dan. he doesn't normally look like this. he should though. haha.

they made me wear a pink tiara n earrings for my party.

ooh yummy birthday cheesecake at the souphouse. oh the guy on the right is from SGP too!!! but he lives in HK now

sean, me, alana. random photo from asian dinner. love my ex roomie's face :)

seriously! even on my birthday week..so much stuff to do! but it's been cool :)
ISS (international students) GOT INTO AIRBAND!!!!!! aaahhh!!! Airband's this totally hyped up awesome campus wide dancing/lip syncing performance competition. if that makes sense. haha. it's my first time in it!!! past 2 years gerig didn't get in, then my wing didn't get in. i'm SO EXCITEDDD!!! airband's in 2 weeks. we must practice hard!!! even if i'm kinda sick of listening to our circle of life/be prepared/just can't wait to be king medley and running through the dance moves in my head. me, capri, dorothy and dallace waited till like 2am on tue night for the results..and we heard screaming all over olson, so we checked email, and WE GOT IN!!! omg can't wait. will take pics next time. our face paint was rockin'. i love being a zebra! get to be all black/white :)

also stayed up most nights trying to finish my audio broadcast project for scriptwriting. not too happy with the end result, but it's over. my midterm in specialized reporting is over today too!! it's the WEEKEND!! party time.

someone interviewed me for her intercultural class this week..was kinda weird to be interviewed for a change, instead of interviewing people. haha. didn't really get a chance to workout :( cuz been so busy. although we got stuff done FAST ystdy at our Echo newspaper meeting! hannah and i got done with editing stories and layout by 9pm!!! (cuz she wanted to rush to watch the office) it's a new record. and the newspaper looked pretty cool today! we got color pictures..cuz it's our Green issue.
all in all, today's a very happy day. and it's GANGSTA FRIDAYYY. :)))

happy pics

MY NEW PURPLE PHONE!!! :)

lovin it

pretending to talk on my awesome phone. i've been addicted to it

presents frm friends! mooncake.. and a box of games/cards from the dawgz back home!

and of course..my very awesome and very black wallet n watch frm very awesome pple at home :) i've been using them and they're still in good condition!

:)))

today my friends threw me a surprise birthday party :)

i was pretty surprised. don't know why but i'm just not good at figuring out surprises. haha. but i was so touched..so sweet of them to do this!!! so i got up early today to paint the set for Airband..we're doing a medley of songs from The Lion King, so we painted the bongo drums and xylophone that we made outta cardboard, painted our sunset backdrop and made our rock for simba to stand on. everything looks pretty good, if i do say so myself. haha. watched like 10 mins of the football game (which we of course lost) while eating lunch.

then andrew drove me n cartoon to go get me a CELL PHONE!! yes i have a phone after 2 years! i'm now contactable!!! :) so excited. it's all nice and purple too! motorola verizon. it flips open too! SO HAPPY! i finally get a new phone after like 5 years of the same lao pok phone. haha. too bad can't use this at home though. they don't use sim cards here apparently.

so we went to the souphouse, where everyone like jumped out at me and yelled 'surprise' when i walked in!! i was like, OMG what is this. can't believe they did it for me!! pple cooked asian food (stir fry, jap soup, chicken rice, satay) oh made my day. and susan gave me a mooncake. haha. they made me wear a pink tiara and pink diamond clip on earrings too. but awww..i'm so touched so many pple turned up!! :) yummy choc cheesecake too.

on a side note, Brother Yun, who wrote the book Heavenly Man, came to speak to my sch. it was pretty cool. he's been thru so much! he got sent to prison in china, where the guards crushed his legs, but one day God just told him to walk out of prison, and that's exactly what he did. no one stopped him. isn't that incredible??? his testmony is just so awesome.
also, this weekend's parents weekend. so tons of old pple around. good side - free food all around ystdy. cotton candy, popcorn, some greasy calorie-infested pancake called lion's ears, all that yummy stuff.
we had Orphan's Night again. haha. for all those whose parents didn't come. games, food, fun. oh how i love it here :)

MY FIRST PUBLISHED WORK!!

AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

ok guess what???????

so i'm taking this class, Freelance Writing, at school, and the professor is super intimidating but extremely experience and well-connected. so he had us write 3 devotionals for class, and apparently he liked mine so much that he showed them all to an EDITOR of an online newspaper called The Aboite Independent!! and the editor thought they were (quote) 'marvelous' (aaahh!!)
so he wants to PUBLISH them during the next few weeks!!! isn't that INSANE?? so unexpected too!! not one, not two, but all three!! my prof just did that without telling me!!!!!!! :)
and i dun get paid for it, but hey. awesome exposure!!!! soooooo psyched! can't believe it!!!! :))))))

GOD IS SO GOOD.

on a side note, i realized i like having stuff/work to do. keeps me alive n alert n feeling useful. i should do something this summer instead of slacking around.