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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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Oh boy, I do seem to be perpetually in costumes for the last few days running! Been working loads since the boyfriend flew off on Friday and half the friends are away on holiday or just plain busy with their lives - leaving me with more free time than usual, especially since there's no school at the moment. Makes sense for me to up the working factor a little and just earn that much more money for the next term right? :)

Thursday - some mingling event at Franklin Offshore's D&D. Twenty of us sailor girls were hired to run around, eat, drink and party with the guests. The costumes were super cute I tell you!





I also made two new fun friends at work: Lynn (who happens to be from SMU too, year 2, but we've never seen each other in our lives somehow) and Tourmaline. I swear it's been ages since I've found people at work that I can click with and talk to so easily. The best part is - we found out that we were going to be working together quite a bit for the next few days, which means good company is guaranteed.





Friday - Jack Daniel's event at Cafe del Mar, where my job was to...mind the Nintendo Wii where they had a Guitar Hero World Tour station set up! Super fun huh. ;) I even got to play with the customers who (foolishly) decided to challenge me. HAHA. Okay I really should not brag about my GH skills since I actually rank as one of the worst players in Rock Band guitar/bass when I'm at Mark's with the rest, but seriously, compared to the rest of the normal world...!!!

Then there was Saturday - the Harry's bus party tour where six of us girls had to dress up as Santarinas to take pictures with the guests and all. They rented a topless Hippo bus to take the guests (and us) from one Harry's bar to another around town, from Marina Bay to Dempsey to Chijmes and so on to end at the Esplanade branch. There were two buses so we were split three Santarinas per bus, so Lynn, June and I were grouped together the whole night.





Everyone was super high and all especially on the bus, waving to random strangers, screaming like mad and throwing water all around. Santa even made an appearance halfway through the night!







So yes well, three days straight of partying and boozing led to a partial voice loss on Sunday when I woke up. :(

But no, Sunday was not exactly a break, because there was still En Motion's Shanghai Rouge event to attend at night. Compulsory event to attend because the sister was performing! Yay! Her first big performance for the salsa scene. Rushed out in the evening to find a cheongsam for the event so that I would be at least vaguely dressed in theme...which was post WWII Old Shanghai (I think) when the people were making a slow transition in culture, from east to west.

I was very pleased with the cheongsam I bought - but look, isn't her performance outfit cute? She was dressed as one of the more Westernized ladies of that era - with their frilly tops and high-waisted skirts, lady-like brollies and immaculate coiffures, being all dainty and elegant.



Cheryl was also performing (for the first time too, I believe) for En Motion's student performance team!




The whole place was really like, whoa, cheongsam overdose all around! A surprising number of people were sporting enough to dress up more-or-less in theme so we had many cheongsam-clad ladies, some gentlemen in Western clothing, rickshaw pullers/trishaw riders, and even a Japanese soldier. It was fun!























The sister then changed to her cheongsam after she eventually got bored of dancing around in her performance costume...we're so gonna wear these for Chinese New Year in 2009! Might as well, right? :P



Now that the whole flurry of activity is over, today was a good rest day for me. I'm actually utterly sick of putting on makeup because I've had to do it for the past four days running, and oh trust me, as vain as I may seem, it's not something that I particularly am used to OR enjoy. The skin on my face feels like it's going to suffocate to death, and I feel so restricted half the time because I can't just carelessly rub my eyes anytime I feel like it. Hmmph.

Ah well, I suppose that's the price to pay if you want to look good (or at least, better than usual). Now off to bed I go because a shoot awaits tomorrow!

Labels: party time, salsa, work mania

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For the second time in the past week, it was Zouk night again for me - last Friday was the premiere of the Wardrobe 2008 fashion showcase in Zouk with FurrMuse and Pouf! I agreed to help out with the preshow segment - The Wardroblings, featuring the upcoming local designers.

I wasn't too keen on my outfit, makeup and hair (you'll see why in a bit) - everything was too over-the-top and avant-garde for me, which, well, isn't all that surprising since I was modelling for the avant-garde category. Still, a fashion show is all about the clothes anyway and not quite about us, and so as long as we make the clothes look good on stage...it's good enough.

A warning before you scroll down though - I really did look very scary that night! So be prepared and don't laugh or choke too hard at the photos!

Before the show - we had so much time on our hands because all we did was wait, wait and wait in between doing our hair and makeup as well as rehearsals before the show finally started. In fact, there was so much time that the stylists decided to change my hairstyle thrice before the show!







That was my original hairstyle - don't we all look like we just emerged from some random Chinese martial arts movie? Just put us in the robes and we'll fit right in.

These are some photos of us on the catwalk that I managed to scavenge off various places. I was in a Siamese-twin outfit! And my Siamese twin for the day was Michelle, two years my junior from RJ. Speaking of RJ, it was like a mini JC gathering there for us across the batches - so many of the models for Wardroblings were from RJ because most of us were roped in by Charlotte. Small world huh.







After the show - ran out to find the darlings who came to support me! CHECK OUT MY CRAZY HAIR AND DRAG QUEEN MAKEUP! I totally had pineapple hair, man.











A special thanks to the boyfriend, Shan, Bel, Miche, Kemmy & Daniel for coming down to watch the show! <3

I promptly went to search for a toilet to get rid of the crazy hair and take off some of my makeup. It was so thick that a lot of people couldn't recognize me! All the girls trooped off to the toilet with me because I needed all the help I could get to take off the 285729587 pins they stuck in my hair and wash off the 25872958kg of hairspray. After spending a couple of minutes in the toilet, I figured we were fighting a losing battle because my hair essentially looked like this:



RAWR!

I gave up and tied it all up into a normal ponytail and headed back into Zouk to grab some drinks (read: use up our drink coupons) and enjoy the music (House, but was surprisingly good I thought).

Met some of the other girls from the show at the bar again!





Returned to my friends - and here are all us girls together...



And all us boys together! (Look at my impressively manly bulging biceps flexed and ready in attempt to be as guy as possible in this picture.



Photos with the boyfriend...





On our way out of Zouk, I bumped into Cherlyn too! Miss Singapore World University Queen 2008 - congrats, babe! ;)



Look - this is my friend, Mr. Snail, who spent way too long crawling from one side of the pavement to the other I was so tempted to lend him a hand and dump him on the grass in case he got stepped on - but I decided maybe I shouldn't touch a slimy snail right before supper, hmm?



I've had an exciting week/weekend, really - too exciting, in fact, that I'd lost my voice somewhere along the way. Throat started feeling iffy on Wednesday (lack of sleep and water, etc etc) yet we went to mambo, attended the Save our Salsa party at Azzucar on Thursday and oh boy I'm glad I did because the music rocked! Friday's Wardrobling show finally did me in though, and Saturday I still had a performance with Marc at St. James Powerhouse for the NUS Science Faculty freshman bash, which certainly didn't help my poor throat. So for now, I can only whisper or croak very unglamorously to people.

Oh well, it's the price to pay for fun I suppose!

Labels: party time, poor sick girl, work mania, yay

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