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Ah, I just realised that I'd forgotten to include the link to the performance video up in my last post.

Here you go guys!



Enjoy. :)

Labels: salsa

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Belated update on...the opening of Jitterbugs' new studio at The Cathay's basement! A huge congratulations to them - the spanking new facilities and awesome flooring totally were making me bleed with envy.

So it was a black & gold themed salsa party, but almost nobody dressed up to theme. Not even the hosts themselves (who performed in white and gold)! Gasp. We were no exception to the rule - ADS put together a cha cha performance to Azu Ki Ki...clad in funky/random/eclectic black and white.



We did quite a bit of mirror-whoring too, thanks to Miche. I like the mirror pictures though!





The performers for the night: Attitude Dance Studio in black and white, Dance Unlimited in neon orange and of course, Grupo Invicta themselves!





And of course, how can any performance be complete without the standard performers' photo-whoring that comes after? Yay for the people who came down to support us. :)





And...my costume!



I've decided that I probably quite prefer wearing pants to dance and perform, but unfortunately nobody else does (on the girls' end, that is) - that, coupled with the nature of salsa, means we always end up prancing around in tiny skirts and virtually nothing past the vital bits are covered very much.

Like, *cough our next costume cough*.

You'll see what I mean in, hmm, about a month.

Labels: party time, salsa

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How would you feel if you found out that your father was also your grandfather?

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Doctor's incestuous relationship produced son - ADRIAN LOWE
October 15, 2009
An inner-city Melbourne doctor is expected to soon learn his professional fate for having a four-year incestuous relationship with his daughter, which produced a son.

At age 17, the doctor left his home country and moved to Australia, not knowing his then-girlfriend was pregnant. Six weeks after the baby was born, she was adopted. The doctor never met or saw his baby daughter.

Twenty years ago, the doctor returned to the country and resumed contact with his then-girlfriend, but it was not until 1991 that he met his daughter, then 25.

Within 72 hours of their meeting, the doctor said he felt ''intimacy and closeness'' and, later that year, his daughter moved to Australia and their relationship began. A son was born when the sexual relationship between the doctor and his daughter was ending, he said.

The revelations of the doctor's incestuous relationship were revealed during Family Court proceedings relating to another partner in 2006. He was subsequently charged with incest and was earlier this year sentenced to one year's jail, wholly suspended for two years.

The doctor, his daughter and their son cannot be identified for legal reasons.

Yesterday the doctor, who has been a practising GP since the 1980s, told the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal that he was remorseful for actions that he ''remains in shock about".

''I am unable to give an account of how I managed to allow that behaviour to continue,'' he said. ''[I feel] shame and remorse for the injuries I've caused and the inexcusable nature of my actions.''

The doctor, who sees between 100 and 130 patients each week, said their son, now a teenager, lived with him in Melbourne and he appeared to have coped ''better than anyone could have imagined'' - and was aware that his father was also his grandfather.

Andrew Clements, for the Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria, said the doctor's actions were ''reprehensible'', constituted ''gross disregard'' for his daughter's wellbeing and that he should have been aware of the cognitive defects that could occur when a child was born in an incestuous relationship.

He said the tribunal's options included suspension or cancellation of the doctor's practising licence, which, if it did occur, should last until the end of his suspended sentence.

Phillip Priest, QC, for the doctor, said a reprimand was also available to the tribunal and that the Medical Practitioners Board did not see his actions as a risk to the community because it had twice met to discuss the doctor and he had not been deregistered.

''He doesn't raise any spectre of pedophilia,'' he said.

The tribunal also heard that both the doctor and his daughter have other children born to other partners. The tribunal reserved its decision.

--Taken from http://www.theage.com.au
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How disturbing. And it really makes me wonder why the daughter isn't blamed here either. After all, if you agreed to all this at the age of 25, I don't think that the excuse of coercion and ignorance is valid any longer!

Labels: random

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Really, really late update coming along now - on the Singapore Grand Prix - Formula One 2009.

Guess who was on the starting grid with all the drivers this year? :)

So, yeah, I was a fake Singtel Grid Girl (together with 29 others) to make up numbers on the grid and add-on to the top 20 girls in the competition. Congratulations to Shumin, Constance and Cordelia for winning top 3!

We were transported around from the Singtel Tower at Pickering Street to the circuit via the specially chartered and wrapped Singtel Grid Girls Hippo Bus! I love these topless Hippo Buses - the feel of your hair streaming behind you in the wind is priceless. Plus we're elevated so high up compared to the other vehicles on the road that we get to more or less escape the pollution. Not to mention the view...



Unfortunately, we weren't allowed to bring our cameras or phones around so we have really few pictures in uniform, and completely none of us on the grid! Guess I should find some time to go online and dig up some pictures of us on the starting grid from various media sites/photographers.





Here's me with my partner on the grid, Su Yin (and Cheryl's head cheekily popping into the photo). We were originally slotted to be on Kimi Raikonnen's grid but somehow landed on Torro Rosso's Buemi instead. Su Yin was holding his placard and I was waving the Swiss flag. Frickin' heavy man, especially so when the wind starts up. But on the bright side, Jenson Button (my new favorite driver) was right in front of us. Lucky Sam and Amanda got to be on his grid!



Cheryl looks damn cute here right? Haha.

After that, we changed out and photowhored excessively in the tent and on the bus out of the circuit. Most of the girls stayed on for the official F1 party, but a number of us were too tired/feet had died/didn't feel like partying and so partied our way back to the Singtel Tower on the Hippo bus instead.






It was quite something to see the blown up pictures of the various girls plastered all over the bus. Cordelia made me risk my life to run out to the middle of the road, just to snap a photo of her with herself on the bus!





Well, all I can say is that being a Singtel Grid Girl isn't easy. Working for the supporting races in the day was literally painful, as the sun was scorchingly hot and bright to the point that the asphalt was just absorbing all that heat nonstop. We could feel our feet sizzling through our boots and socks! Many of the girls got blisters from just standing on the grid for the supporting races. Fortunately the bottoms of my feet are so abused and thick-skinned from all the salsa dancing that I do so it wasn't so bad for me.

For the final race itself, we were standing on the starting grid for a ridiculously long time. We were the first to march out, then we had to wait, then the mechanics came in, then more waiting, then the drivers drove in, and there was still more aimless waiting before we finally were given the cue to march out of the grid.

Still, I suppose it was fun and quite an eye-opening experience to be in the centre of all that action on the track.



And so I shall leave you with my smiling picture on my F1 all-access pass. ;)

Shall update with pictures and a video of the performance at Jitterbugs on F1 Friday soon!

Labels: work mania, yay

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Vamos Bailar takes a break for the month of September as we head on down to Jitterbugs' BLACK AND GOLD SALSA PARTY, #B1-08 The Cathay, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 21:00 – 23:00.

Hit the dance floor with your grooves and moves, dressed in Black and Gold, Fame-style (think 80s). Fee: S$10 per attendee (Includes 2 cans soft drinks or bottled water)

Also, catch a jazzy, snazzy, cheeky, fun CHA CHA CHA SHINES performance by Attitude Dance Studio. Choreographed by Jared; catch Crystal, Dalena, Michelle, Rebekah, Glenn, Jared and Amit (debut performance of our newest team member) heating up the dance floor.

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Come support us @ Jitterbugs tonight! :)

Labels: advert, salsa

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Hoo boy, it's been a good and long weekend, I must say!

The last few days have been the same old story over and over again - dance prac, dance prac, and more dance prac. We'll be showcasing our new chacha choreography at Jitterbugs' official studio opening this Friday night at the Jitterbugs Studio at the basement floor of The Cathay! So come on down to watch and support if you'll be free and around the area.

Also, Moses has somehow acquired an electronic keyboard and a box drum (whatever its proper name is - the one that looks like a drum and when you hit different parts of it, it produces different types of sounds) and so he's got me hooked onto jamming at his house! We have Mo the drummer, Ming the lead guitarist, Zee the singer/guitarist, and me the singer/keyboardist...and of course, E-Wan the band manager! So far the jamming results have been so-so - we've got poor band chemistry I tell you! But I suppose t's all in the name of good fun though and I'm sure it'll get better with more practice too. :P

That aside, we're getting a new car now that yours truly has her driving license. Discussion still in the works with the parents (budget issues, must be a small car so I won't bang it around too much, etc etc) but will keep you all updated once we've decided.

Shall keep my fingers crossed for getting what I want, hopefully!

Labels: salsa, yay

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Driving is really quite exciting so far - managed to persuade my mom into letting me take the car out for a short spin on Saturday! Handling the terrible family Merc is really not as easy as I thought it would be though, especially after being so used to the nifty Hondas that we use in driving school. Parking is a major bitch because the car is just soooo loooooooong.

Anyhow, after a brief practice driving the car around and attempting to vertical park many times at a random deserted Queenstown carpark, I got to drive to studio for prac (with the mom and brother in tow)! Too bad they had to take the car back to go eat dinner so I didn't get to keep it, but ah well not like I can parallel park at the studio. Not yet, anyway.

I've decided that driving an auto car is seriously too easy. I never realised how much brain space the clutch control takes up until I suddenly don't have a clutch to contend with anymore - then everything suddenly seems so...relaxed, so simple.

Meh, time to practice driving a little more often. Thankfully, I have a cooperative mom who seems quite willing to let me take the car out by myself once I get a little more seasoned!

Labels: yay

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Guess who got her driving license today? :) :) :) :)

I'm now legally certified as safe on the roads, safe behind the wheel!

YAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY no need for anymore one-hour-long-per-way trips to BBDC! :D

Labels: yay

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I only just recently realised that I really, really hate it when people talk to themselves.

It irritates the hell out of me, though to be truthful I'm sure I'm also guilty of it from time to time.

It makes me just want to reach over and smack the person-in-question fully right across the face and tell him/her to shut up.

Meh, I think a combination of fatigue + work + the freezing central air-conditioning is making me angsty. :(

Labels: grr

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Just the perfect type of weather to sleep in for an entire day - but noooo, I have to be stuck at work. Yes, I know that the rest of the world is working too and so I'm not alone and perhaps not quite entitled to whine, but oh heck, that does not comfort me very much!

Pitter patter outside my window / Pitter patter on the glass

The general dreariness and greyness of the skies outside is dragging me down, down, down into a muddy pit of lethargy.

All I want to do now is to curl up under my covers at home and go to sleep. :(

4 more long hours to the end of work, argh!

Labels: rainy days

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