On the road again

So today was my first time driving since I got back from overseas. I got up, had breakfast which consisted of fried eggs and toast and waited for the instructor to arrive at 1pm. I did pretty well, though I still need brushing up on turn rules and I had to relearn how to do parallel parking. After I finished, my regular instructor called me up and said that he booked a test for me on Saturday. He also wanted to train me as much as possible till then. My next lesson is tomorrow morning, hopefully I can make lunch in the city afterwards. Then Thursday and Friday. There's a possibility I might skip out on going city on Friday, hope nothing important happens.

I watched my brother start Resident Evil 5. Apparently he wanted to play this in preparation for the new Resident Evil 6. Though before playing he told me that he was scared to actually play. I convinced him otherwise. It can't be as bad as Dead Space. At least in horror games you have a degree of control rather than in a movie where you just watch the characters make the wrong moves and die. As I watched the first person get infected in the game I realised that this game has the potential to be scary. But it was a cut scene though, so I'm not really expecting any in game scares. In the cut scene the guy's eyes were bleeding and stuff. Here's the clip.

classy.

Dinner was had, I saw a commercial that Sherlock Season 2 was going to air soon on channel 9. *Excitement* I completely forgot that Season 2 was done. But then I realised I could probably watch it online by now. Choices choices. But yeah Sherlock has to be one of my favourite tv shows. It being Sherlock Holmes and the text effects completely won me over.

New episode of my favourite cartoon show Adventure Time came out and I watched it online. I'm adding 'good cop, bad cop' to the list of awesome things to do before I die.

Covering Change... Are we going to learn the whole thing? That's going to take more than one class won't it? Actually the song doesn't look hard but apparently we're not even getting up to the Jun Hyung part...

Also can you suggest a more suitable person to be HyunA? Mhm didn't think so.

Well I'm probably calling it a night early, got that drivers thing and all. Night everyone.

We never stop, let's rock

Yesterday was the anticipated parade day. Instead of waking up at 10:30 I managed to sleep in till 12. I realised that I was supposed to meet up with Kelvin for lunch so I pretty much had to leave straight away. I had Maccas then we realised that Kelvin was supposed to be at the Sunday rehearsals so we high tailed it over there.

Since it wasn't my day I decided not to take part and just relax on the couches. Toby gave me and Elena a small lecture on the theory of dance which is supposed to apply to all styles including choreography. I still have the diagram he drew about music theory. Perhaps I should start building a scrapbook on theory.

I think there was a break between the two parade rehearsals but not sure what happened then. I think people went to get lunch and stuff. We also danced Crazy again (well we did it many times) and it still never gets old. We should definitely try to learn more of it.

Anyways it was time for everyone to meet up for the parade. Announcements were made and we got down to organising ourselves. My group brought orange fabric to accessorise themselves. It was pretty cool to see their enthusiasm. Final practices were done and my group went out for last minute food. We ended up going to Sussex centre. Went back to the studio then we all made our way to the meet up area at the Anzac Memorial.

After that we had to wait a really long time for the parade to start. It actually felt longer than the parade itself. I expected the parade to have been more tiring though we ended up moving more than stopping to actually dance. Footwork was basically impossible without looking like a sped. By the end we were all sweaty from parading. Luckily the weather wasn't too hot. We ended up going back to the studio to get our stuff and when we got there ice cream was present so a certain duo went nuts and hoarded a whole tub. After that was some jamming. MORE Crazy, past performances and other dances were done, with glow sticks. The effect was really cool. Pizza was had and I stayed until my last train.

Came home really sweaty so a cold shower was really nice. I then proceeded to go on computer and stay up till like 2:30.

Not knowing if my driver's lesson was postponed I had to wake up at 6:30am and get changed to be sure. I then got a call from my instructor saying that he did postpone it to 4:30pm today. Relieved, I changed back and went to sleep till 1:30pm.

edit: scratch that, the lesson got cancelled and is now tomorrow.

oh internet, you never cease to entertain me.

Victory is indeed sweet and it was fun while it lasted. Till next time.

Jiokgata!

I went to the studio in the early afternoon. Whitney and Kelvin were there already. Kelvin was trying to work out my code. Odds are he still won't be able to figure it out. Despite it being girls kpop class, it was another undecided class which ended up being Crazy by Teen Top. It was the funnest class of all time. After that was the parade class for newcomers. I had the opportunity to tutor one person, though he'd already been in the practices before.

Lunch time with Kelvin. He was late for work so we went to Hungry Jacks. We sat next to the window and bet on which people/cars would cross the road first. Elena, Bec and Bonnie showed up and found us, despite our elaborate Disguise. Kelvin left for work and we then bumped into Whitney and Jaye who were about to go to Pitt Street to see a Kpop contest. Apparently today was a Korean culture event for the lunar new year. We bumped into Huy on the way. We also came at like the end of the event. We were also late for the Saturday rehearsals. Jibbie was waiting at the studio when we got there.

Saturday rehearsals was good. We learned the whole routine and got down formations. I'm pretty happy with my group. All for the best tomorrow. Afterwards was jamming. Old performances were jammed to as well as Crazy again. After that I had to go home early cause my brother was home alone. He ordered pizza and we had that for dinner.

For some reason this blog post feels shorter than it should... oh well.

I probably should refrain from wasting energy tomorrow. Also to horde as much water as I can.

In regards to my previous post - I'll tell you now that it only makes sense if you know what you're looking for. My final hint is that the numbers are in no particular order.

If that code proves too much for you, here's another one. But my conditions on the previous code still stand. This one is just for fun, but has value also. May God help you, or perhaps a Roman emperor.

P ruvd fvby zljyla

U ready for the hotness?

Guys I'm not going to copy and paste again, that would be totally unoriginal.


So like, I am ground zero to what appears to be a sickness epidemic. Great.

To all those who get sick, I'm so very sorry. To those not sick yet. You should try not getting sick. That should help.

Today I arrived at city at 12ish with not much to do. I decided to do a bit of shopping and yeah I totally enjoy buying cool things that have potential uses even if that opportunity never arises. Met up with Elena for a little bit then we parted ways to do our own stuff. Was going to have lunch with Kelvin but he totally ditched me. So cut but it was fine I decided to eat at my favourite place in Market City.

Ended up being late to Crossover, well slightly late. Bec was back, and gave us Pokemons. Jaye was already doing warmups so ended up skipping it. I know some people don't like sit ups but guys I can't really stress how important it is to build our strength up. We'd really benefit from it. Which is why we should definitely raise the standard every Wednesday class or even Sunday practice when that happens. The class was undecided then it became Mona Lisa. Which was good since I forgot the choreo the last time. Actually I might forget it again. Sadly the dance isn't that memorable other than the chorus. Hooray for teamwork and colour symmetry. It was actually more fun than last time.

Parade practice was after. Being a Saturday leader, I decided to sit this one out due to there being a lot of people and being slightly tired from last class. I decided to learn a little bit of Teen Top which I've come to really enjoy the move simply because it is so power based. I helped Angeline with the 3 step and six step. I just have to say keep working at it. There's no perfect defined way of doing it just get used to the movement and make it your own by making it look like you have complete control. I danced and sung Crazy with Emily which was real fun. It's just that much of a really fun dance.

Afterwards Jaye wanted to remake the video for the parade learners. Hilarity ensued, I had the honour of being the DJ, and yes I laugh if people actually contact Bec. Apparently the whole video lasted an hour. I'm surprised Jaye's camera could film that long. Guess that's the advantage over a DSLR. Not bad of an advantage. Good thing I have my own camcorder which I'll keep in mind for lengthy videos.

Afterward everything else, we went to Mappen for some dinner and went to our respective stations. Elena lost her multi, I felt really sorry cause she had a relatively sucky day.
By the way thanks for the help. I really appreciate it.

I might learn some more of Teen Top tonight. I'm starting to favour intro songs with dance because they're more concise and dance focused though so far I only know You're my Lady and Teen Top. If there are more of these perhaps we could use them in performances?

who wouldn't like a dance where you can yell like crazy?

So I see you decided to not make any moves recently. I suggest you should, because henceforth I'll be making my own sooner than you think.

F-5-8-7-6
T-28

Too lazy to blog

Elena was with me most of the day, so I'm going to copy and paste her blog right here because I can.

Today was pretty rainy I suppose. Just the usual - got up early to get my uni ID (which looks terrible btw - nuuu stuck with a crappy photo) and walked up 10 floors... rushed to get down cuz that was totally hilarious like that... Uhmm yeah. Bumped into Christina and Claudia and then Beryl at Mappen when we ate at Pepper Lunch. Oh and we also dragged Kelvin along so that was totally smart. Uhmm. Went to Crossover, then went to eat at Thainatown... and yes milk. And then it was Look Only At Me (again... after a course and a class later) and yeah. Nothing new... Then 90s music. More clues that I don't understand... I totally give up LOL. Trying to figure it out by myself doesn't work ): Oh yeah then dinner happened and I didn't eat... much. Kinda. Blame Kelvin LOL. And then Carmen and I went home and like yeah. That's about it for my day. Mundane life is mundane. Anyone want to eat steak? I'm poor.



Well played my adversary. But I feel that this game is drawing to a close. It's only a matter of time.

Game Time

Recovery rate? Too early to tell, I'm still coughing but it's less painful I suppose. Or that could just be a placebo effect.

Early wake up thanks to my highschool friends who came over my house. Today was supposed to be our LAN party which I started back in the day. Though this year I wasn't the one who really organised it. Anyways what we would do is play multiplayer games, typically Halo. Though it kinda sucked that there are no other games that we could play that was similar and Halo was getting pretty old. Also I was tired and kinda out of it, I don't think I had as much fun as I should've. Playing the new gametypes was interesting. Speed Halo was cool. And the LAN party favourite, Duck Hunt, where one guy snipes defenceless players as they run for their lives.

Afterwards people just did whatever, some played Modern Warfare 3, Seb was playing Splinter Cell again after he lent it to me months ago. David was playing Dead Space 2 from the start using my save. I didn't really care cause when you do that you keep the items from the previous save. In my opinion that's a bit OP for a survival horror game. I was surprised when he got the final armour at the beginning of the game. If I were to play again I would've started from scratch. I totally want to spend one night with friends playing this game in the dark with loud volume on the highest difficulty. That'll turn out real well.

I'll probably call it a night early. People tell me to sleep more. Got to get up early for funsies tomorrow, and hopefully no dramas haha.

New videos of performances on I Just Got K'd's youtube channel. Click the link on the side.


I will find out your secret. Even if I have to put in a ridiculous amount of effort into it. The game is on.

Cured?

Went to the doctors today at Parramatta. It was a bit of a wait but I wasn't bored since I had my phone. So I was diagnosed with hypersomething coughing (I have such a great memory) caused by extreme changes of weather. I guess that's plausible since it started when I was travelling on holiday. So my prescription was to take one tablet 15 minutes before eating. Right like I totally plan when I eat. Also got some cough medicine which should do better than the one I'm using now.

Afterwards I decided to explore Parramatta since I haven't done that for a while now. A new thing I found out was that there's a new asian media store which half of it is made up of Kpop music. It was like the one at Chinatown but the one in Chinatown is still much better. But still it's nice to know that I have a local store. I wanted to buy something and I ended up choosing to buy the new Teen Top album. When I first saw it I thought the album was called "It's Teen Top". But when I stuck it in my laptop itunes identified the album as just "It's". Okay...

Where do they come up with these album names?

Also I got this cool card of L Joe. I guess that makes him my bias now. Destiny has spoken.

Hopefully this medicine will help me get better. This has been going on for a while now. I actually fear that I'll be like this permanently.

I should totally see a doctor.

The hours before a performance is usually one full of stress and hard work. And sometimes unfortunateness strikes and you're put to the test.

But the Chinese New Year Launch was a success. Well in an overall aspect. The Trouble Maker performance was good. The Maximum and Only You performance in my part I actually felt was below par.

As some people know I've been coughing every single day now and though for some reason it goes away when I dance I still feel like it hindered me from being my best. I'm very sorry to those I feel I let down. But at the end of the night we had a good time and people liked it so I'm glad for that at least. Though really our night had just begun.

Then came the all nighter at the internet cafe. Kelvin, Kwan, Jibbie, Jaye, Jimmy, Leslie, Huy, Elena and I proceeded to play computer games all night. Specifically Diablo II. David tagged along for a little bit before having to go home. The plan was for everyone to go be druids but that didn't happen. Elena was supposed to be my potion wench but our organisational skills were crap and people were everywhere doing whatever. Some of us ended up quitting and playing Left 4 Dead. Surviving through a zombie apocalypse with Kelvin and Elena was quite interesting and fun, per se. Kelvin will always provoke the witch, then consequently get killed by it. At the final stretch Elena and Kelvin died leaving me and a random guy online to escape alive.

Afterwards was more games, Frozen Throne and Starcraft. Everyone ganged up on Kwan in Starcraft, while I was trying to figure out how to use the Zerg race. I still don't know. At this point people decided to leave early. Jibbie decided to go back home and Jaye went back to the studio etc. The rest was kind of a blur. More Left 4 Dead and I tried TF2 which was real hard to find a game. We managed to play through the night and into the day. With nothing left to do we went to Jaye's to try to nap on the couches, but we couldn't get Jaye to wake up so it was hobo time haha. We talked about doing this before and we've now "technically" done it so now we can cross that off the list. Anyways that was a very interesting morning. The rest of the day was spent playing on our DS's on the couches. Fun fun.

As totally predicted, Jaye skipped out on the Lucifer class again. I literally walked in the class and found them playing boardgames. Obviously, we joined in on the action. Rehearsals came afterwards and the students did pretty well. One person came who was totally new got I am the best pretty well. We played another game of mafia. I liked how the civilians simply guessed randomly than actually working together. I think by the end of that game it was the most tactical game I've played of mafia. It was kinda awesome that civilians finally won one.


Ugh I'm so tired and I forgot what else happened so I think I'll end it here.

Unique food day

Today instead of doing the usual nothingness. I went to the city for practice for Friday. When I got to the studio Huy was playing Pokemon and I remembered that I was carrying my game as well that day. The logical choice was to battle him. However the more logical choice was to battle with Pokemon of equal strength. But no I only had 2 badges and my party was average lvl 16 up against one lvl 41 Pikachu, that knew surf. Obvious who won there. 

We then proceeded to have lunch. I ordered a sencha green tea but they ran out. They suggested the other green tea which I forgot the name of but all I knew was that it was mixed with rice. It literally tasted like congee tea.

When we got back to the studio I battled Huy again with something called a flat battle. Apparently it's supposed to raise or drop all Pokemon to lvl 50 for a fair fight. However that wasn't the case and I found myself having a lvl 17 Quilava against a lvl 50 Shuckle. Quilava actually put up a good fight as it could take Shuckle's hits. Smokescreen helped as well to avoid his attacks. I remember when I used to immediately delete any moves that did no damage. But being tactical is so much more fun. Afterwards was hours and hours of practice. The result was really good. At the end of the day, which was like 8PM, I was so exhausted from the heat and oh so very sweaty.

Dinner time and we all went to Mappen. Elena totally lied to me about the tempura eggplant being good. It was okay but lacked flavour and it was really bad compared to the sweet potato. Oh sweet potato how I miss you so. Then Kelvin was craving candy so we went to the Asian supermarket next the station. We were so impressed and even overwhelmed with the size of the place. Elena bought me this.

:0

The other day I was asked to build a chair for my brother and saw this on the box

...It's a sign.

Confliction

Right now I feel incredibly conflicted. I really don't know what to do from here. What if I make the wrong decision? What will my friends think of me? What will I think of myself? I just don't know.

Home time, Warning - blog spans over a long period of time

Well technically I got arrived home last Sunday. It's only now that I decided to blog. That's how I roll.
The days before I left for home were okay. Adventures were had though they weren't as exciting as I hoped. By exciting I meant physically demanding and maybe even life threatening. By the end I was just tired and hoping to finish the trip soon. Oh wait, I forgot I didn't talk about my early days in Vietnam.

Okay rewinding, we arrived in Ho Cho Min City, we were greeted by our uncle and aunt. Last time I saw them was after I finished year 10. Honestly living in a place like this is tough, luckily we were staying with our uncle who lives in a lego shop. That's right, a lego shop. It was dinner time and we went out to eat. The restaurant we went to was alright, though I only ate like half the food. The menu however was extremely lulzworthy and couldn't resist taking a photo.

When you see it...

The days after were slightly dull, we were going to go to an island in a few days so we were pretty much chillin at my uncles. One day we went to an arcade where all the games were like the same price. Also I like to mention how weird the currency is here. The highest bill they have is like millions or something and its equivalent to like $25. Anyways I'm sure it's like that in other countries too. I saw a dance game similar to DDR but they were playing Shock. I knew I had to take a photo.

A very bad photo.

When we went to the island we had to take a smaller plane. This one had turbines on the tail not under the wings. I'm no aeronautical engineer so that kinda made me uncomfortable. The island wasn't that much of an island, it was pretty big though I don't know what size constitutes an island. It was 'this' close to being a peninsula. Just saying. Our first day was to go on a boat trip. Goody. I don't really like boats especially small ones. I definitely don't like swimming when I know I'll be heaps uncomfortable the rest of the day. So all I did was eat seeds and fish. Which I didn't catch anything. Brilliant.

land ahoy!

This brings us back to the present (of the blog) the days after we just went on a huge road trip on the island. It was very bumpy. We saw beaches, and stuff. Yep. After this we had to go back to Ho Cho Min City in order to go back to Singapore to go back to Sydney. What I didn't know was that we were staying one more night with our relatives at Ho Cho Min. That really sucked. What really sucked was the day we were supposed to leave I get hit with a crazy illness. I had a fever, was coughing and couldn't even stand up straight let alone think straight. I spent the day shivering in my bed. Luckily by late afternoon I was able to pull myself together. I realised that the time of arrival would be Sunday at like 11am. Rehearsal was on today as well as Jaye's birthday. However I couldn't even move that morning and my headache was still around. But I still had time to rest so I put off thinking about it till later. 

We went from Ho Cho Min City to Singapore. By then I was feeling a bit better. Hot beverages were definitely more helpful than cold water. Though it didn't matter as I still needed more fluids anyway. If I was to meet up with the others I would have to either go straight from the airport or go home and then get to the city by train. However I didn't bring a backpack or my track pants or red clothes so I really had no choice but to choose the latter option. Also I smelled, so I needed a shower too.

On the way to Sydney, instead of doing the sane thing and sleep, I watched movies instead. I watched Real Steel which I've been meaning to watch but missed it at the cinemas. It was good. I loved the music especially at the end. It really captured the moment of the final round. Then I watched Puss and Boots. Egh. 

Sunday

So we arrived in Sydney at 10:30ish which was good. Though the baggage took forever to collect. It doesn't happen in other airports, huh Sydney? I worked out that if I was to make rehearsals I would have to get home shower and get my stuff real quick. We got home and we were excited to see our pet bird after so long (during holidays we looked at our bird photos and talked about how much we missed him). I was the first one to go inside from the back to open the front door. My grandmother was home and as I was heading to the front door I called out for my parrot. But then my grandmother said in broken english with an almost crying voice that Abi was gone.

"No. No." I thought. This couldn't be happening. I started yelling at the house but nothing. I immediately opened the front door and told the rest of my family what just happened. They were shocked. My mother was devastated. Four days ago, when Abi was at the backyard obviously due to my grandmother was, he managed to fly away. Conflict of emotions erupted from sadness to anger at my grandmother and fear of what happened to our 1 year old bird. As for me, it was tragic, but the emotions didn't get to me. I was alright, at least I could be strong for my mother. My dad left the house, most likely to search around. I decided that right now there was nothing I could do. I showered and packed and told my mum that I was going out. At least she wouldn't have to worry about taking care for me as I would have dinner on my own. 

I caught the train. I worked out that I was going to be a few minutes late. That was alright I would just have to skip warmups and early stuff. Besides I had already practiced Maximum in my hotel room at night once or twice. The train ride was mostly me thinking what I could possibly do to find our parrot. Four days is a long time. Anything could've happened. I planned to make posters when I got home. As I got closer to the city I put my thoughts away since I was going to see people from IJGK who I have missed so much. On the way to Goulburn I noticed a new Meet Fresh. That was interesting. When I got up to the studio I saw that the kpop class was still doing warmups. That was great, I didn't have to miss anything. By the time I got changed they were done and just resting. I popped in to their surprise I think, but yeah it was good to see them after what felt like so long. Kelvin got me presents, one of them was a cool mini duck roller coaster thing. I was pleasantly surprised. The other was my USB. Yes, MY USB. So we got to rehearsing/learning since it was an actual class.

Afterwards we went to Jibbie's place to sign gifts for Jaye's birthday. I got to see what Jibbie was making and I must say I was really impressed. While we were there I got a text on my phone. It was from my dad saying that we have our bird back. Surprised, I immediately went to call him and ask him what happened. My dad went around the neighbourhood asking if they saw our parrot. Luckily he found the person who found our bird in his backyard, but one of their relatives was holding it in their house. So he and my dad travelled to his house and took our bird home. I was really relieved. Now I didn't have anything to worry about. Well mostly anything. We went to Jaye's party at near Darling Harbour. It was quite fun. Kelvin and Huy insisted I get a drink despite my previous illness. Such good friends. Then came the rain and me and Kelvin decided to do Kpop dances that had rain in it. It wasn't a good idea. We were then joined by Elena and Whitney and together we got drenched. What a way to celebrate Jaye's birthday. Though I don't think Jaye knew we did it. On the way home the train had air conditioning and I was really cold but whatever, I wasn't going to die, just suffer really badly. This stuff is good since it's bracing.

Wednesday

So today class was going to be a special cpop class. During warmups I noticed something different. Sit ups were unbelievably easy for me. The thing was, during my days in Singapore, every night I did sit ups. Like an entire song of sit ups. Sometimes a bit more. It was then I realised that I have improved noticeably in terms of sit ups. The feeling was awesome. Especially when Jaye did a harder version of sit ups. We did class and I thought the dance was cool. When I got home I decided to spend my time trying to learn it and keep it in my head. I even looked up a little on the dance break.

Thursday

An unusual day, since we hardly ever meet up on Thursdays. We ended up doing practice on the parade performance, Troublemaker, Maximum and Only You. We practiced a lot. Though to me I expected nothing less. It was good. 

So that's about it for now. I'm really tired. Though I have this to say. For Only You, the parts between the choruses and stuff look really easy. If we learned the pre-chorus we could pretty much do the whole song. A full cover perhaps?