Lord of my Dance

If you ask me which hip hop dancer I admire, it’s definitely Sofia Boutella. She is amazing. Just looking at her twisting and turning her body like rubberband, and doing those break dance moves just makes me want to aspire to that level of professionalism. You’d probably go like, “Sofia who???” She may not be that well known over this part of Malaysia but she is pretty well known over in Europe. I was first introduced to her when Nike introduced this new workout called the Nike Rockstar Hip Hop Workout. In partnership with the famous choreographer/director Jamie King, who has achieved stardom working with stars like Britney Spears, Madonna, JLo, Janet Jackson, etc, this workout promises some really cool moves. Working together with Rihanna in her release of her second album, “A Girl Like Me”, introducing the single called “Rescue Me (SOS)” features a sample of the classic 1981 tune “Tainted Love" by Soft Cell, a cover of the song by Gloria Jones. When I first watched the N...

I finally had the time to catch the much talked about movie, “Memoirs of a Geisha” after postponing it time and again due to my busy schedule. I’ve heard how the book was talked about, read about in most of my teenage years and up to my adult life, making it a ‘must read’ classic literature. Now everyone can see it on the big screen. Of course most of what I heard about the books are from female magazines since they are the so called ‘gurus’ on the art of seducing and catching that elusive commitment-phobic man…talk about stereotyping!! So of course the book came in highly recommended since being a Geisha is about a “woman who has mastered the art of seduction” as how Mameha (Michelle Yeoh’s character) teaches her virginal protégé Sayuri (Zhang Ziyi’s character) on "stopping a man in his tracks with a single look". Some people think that a Geisha is just a glamourous name for being a hooker…but I think the Japanese will highly contest that. Not that I want to watch the mo...

The AYA Festival 2006 is on again! And this time we have Delirious coming to town. For those who are not familiar with this group, they are the ones who wrote these familiar songs which we sing during our worship like, “I can sing of Your love forever” or “Did you feel the mountains tremble?” One of my favourite is “The Happy Song” though I first heard it sung by Chris Tomlin. Nothing prepared me for the incredible performance that they put up. The sound system was world-class…I think they brought in their own mixers and stuff and the effects were really amazing. It was like watching a U2 or some international band in concert. At yet this band is incredibly humble and is only glad they can serve and minister God’s Word through their music. They utterly availed themselves to AYA to use them fully and make their time here in Malaysia as fruitful as possible. I know that fame can really get into some people’s head and cause them to glorify their music more than God. But this is no...

Seven…such a magical number. Below are my whimsical rantings on seven…. Se7en Things I Plan To Do ….with immediate effect 1. Clean up my room 2. Smile and encourage/compliment someone 3. Start sleeping earlier and stop skipping meals…especially my dinner. 4. Challenge myself more physically…it’s high time I add more weights for my BodyPump class…Sue, if you’re reading this, I know I know…and stop laughing!!! 5. Throw away all the “white elephants” in my room…dunno why I am such a collector of “rubbish” as my father would say. 6. Practice my piano AND violin more often….I’m trying to aim at 2 hours a day…hmmm, with my schedule, I’m more like aiming to fail! 7. Stop procrastinating so much…haha…what an oxymoron… ….not so immediate 1. Finish my Grade 8 or diploma or higher for my piano and violin…ha! Getting really ambitious… 2. Get an apartment/house of my own…too tired of renting rooms and shifting house 3. Go bungee jumping or parachuting. 4. Learn how to do break dancing…my inspiratio...

I’m not much of a book reviewer but I just finished reading this book called Shameless by Paul Burston and I kinda have lots of mixed feelings about the whole story. With my busy schedule, it’s not easy for me to squeeze much time to read fictional works but after reading the synopsis of this book my curiosity was piqued so I dived in. Also part of the reason was because one of the supporting characters share my name too…not that she is anything like me in particular! The synopsis read like this… “Martin is kind, decent and good-looking. And look where it's got him. His boyfriend of four years has run off with a male prostitute. His friends John and Caroline are no help-John prefers infamy to sympathy and Caroline is too busy trying to work out if her wonderful, sensitive boyfriend is a closet case. And to top it all, Martin's hippie father turns up to stay, wearing his "Proud to be an Embarrassing Parent" badge. And so Martin jumps head first into hedonism, throwing ...

...5...4....3....2....1...HAPPY NEW YEAR!! *fireworks* Can't believe another year has come and gone. Another 525,600 minutes spent and never to be retrieved again. I remember exactly one year ago today I was in church for the Watchnite service(naturally). My close friend and ex-colleague, Bee was back and so were a lot of old friends I haven’t seen for a long time. Was so excited to see her and made an appointment to meet up so that we could catch up with each other the next day together with the “5 sisters”. Fast forward a year later, I’m in church for the Watchnite service again with the “fireworks” from the keyboard going off at the opportune time. After reflecting for the year gone by, here I am deciding whether to move on to another church. Part of the reason was because I felt I wasn’t growing much in the church and the fellowship of other believers who share my passion for studying the Word deeply was sadly lacking. The other part of the reason was because I felt that some o...

It's that time of the year again where we exchange gifts with our friends and loved ones. Recently our young adults group had a Christmas get together and each one brought a gift to exchange with each other. I have always loved shopping for gifts, so given a budget of RM10, I went looking for a nice gift that can be unisex...after all what if a guy ends up getting a hairclip, what is he going to do with it? Start cross dressing? We had a lot of fun guessing what were in those mysterious looking and shaped packages. One of them were wrapped in just plain white paper but in the shape of a rocket. Another was wrapped up in layers and layers...and layers of paper! Happy unwrapping!! And another was wrapped up nicely but I think weighed about 2 kilos. The host happily tossed it over to one of the guys and it dropped with onto his lap and 'kena' his more tender parts of the body...Ouch!! If you guys are wondering what could have been that heavy...well wonder no more. He unwrapped...