My Blue Heaven

Dancing Joy

Well, I’ve certainly been getting my dance fix these past few days. Went to salsa class on Thurs AND Fri night.. and then went to Zoonation today. All at Pineapple Dance. Whee. 🙂 Salsa is fun!! Did a beginners class on Thurs night and that was enough for me, on Fri moved into level 2 intermediate. Hopefully I’ll get good at this quickly and be able to dance at Salsa clubs with my friend (who happens to be quite a good salsa dancer).

I tried Zoonation for the first time today. Man it was quite hard! The style is difficult to describe.. very smooth and flowy but fast movements. The teacher described it as modern, new-school hiphop. I think the style looks a bit like Mario’s vid clip to “Let Me Love You”. The routine was to an old Destiny’s Child song “I love you”. Slow paced song… but damn the steps were fast! I like it though – it challenged me, and I like that. I think I’ll be going back to that one again. Pity the class is so crowded.

Well.. better go shower coz I stink. And then gonna have a quiet one at home, cook myself some yummy dinner (sukiyaki steak with rice and steamed bok choy – yummo!) Maybe I’ll watch a dvd or something. I can’t really afford to go out anymore…. I’m watching my money disappear into negative. Prob shouldn’t go to so many dance classes.. but I get bored staying home too much. Thank goodness for overdraft and credit cards. But I sooooooo need to get paid (haven’t been paid a single penny yet… they only pay monthly here, I missed last months pay day, and have to wait till end of this month for my first pay check!!! Another 2 and a bit weeks away..)

Current listening “California Love” – 2 Pac

Yet another week flies by

Wow… this blog is really being reduced to weekly entries huh. How the mighty have fallen. 😉 Well… the past week since my last blog entry has just flown by. I’m getting pretty settled into my job now, which is good. It’s been quite hard so far – as in, the work itself is hard and I wondered if I was ever gonna understand. My brain just couldn’t cope – I was going home every day with a headache. BUT as I thought (well hoped), it is actually getting easier! I have actually accomplished a fair few tasks today, and on my own too, which I’m quite proud of! 🙂

My body has had a pretty tough time lately too. Been through a rather nasty bout of UTI/Cystitis over the weekend. This is the first time I’ve ever experienced UTI.. I used to wonder what was so bad about it. Boy-O-Boy… it is NOT fun. Try having the burning need to go pee ALL the time – even if you don’t have much/anything to pee.. and when you do pee, then damn its painful! I slept for maybe an hour max on Fri night coz I kept going to the toilet like every 20 mins. Ok too much info I know. 😛 But I NEVER want to go through that again!!! I’ve only just gotten better from it after 3 days on antibiotics (which as a side-effect, also made me feel a bit nauseous.. ugh.. and might have also given me a bit of thrush). And now to continue the fun…. I just got my period. Woohoo. It’s all fun and games down there huh. *cough* Okaaaay… yes.. time to stop.

Lets talk about the weather shall we? Its been a loverly sunny day today, and is getting warmer too. Yesterday was quite cold though… but the next few days are forecast for the 23 mark. Yay! 🙂

She wants to move

I just discovered a few videos I uploaded to my server during my last few weeks at Laura’s hiphop class, and I never even posted the links here! Well… here’s a treat for you! If you wanna see me dance (ha!), then click on the links below. They’re all compressed wmv files, around 1 to 2 megs in size. I’m the chinese girl. 😛

1. 50 Cent – “Disco Inferno”
2. Beyonce – “Lose My Breath (remix)” (Take 1)
3. Beyonce – “Lose My Breath (remix)” (Take 2)
4. Ciara- “1,2 Step” (Very rough run through – I couldn’t remember some of it coz we learnt this routine so long ago. Also watch me get my feet confused and stack it at the end!)

*sigh* I miss Laura’s hiphop class heaps. She was an awesome teacher… probably my favourite regular teacher (yes even beats Rrrramon!) I improved heaps whilst taking her class. I miss the hiphop scene in Sydney in general – esp DanceKool!! It’s just not the same here. I haven’t found a class here yet that is of similar style. I think Oz’s hiphop style more closely matches US style. UK has it’s own style, which is more funk/popping oriented. But hey, I’ve only tried a few classes. Hopefully I’ll find a good one I can settle into soon. 🙂 In the meantime… I need to learn me some lockin and poppin! Everyone tells me Jimmy William’s class at Pineapple Dance is the best for this… gotta go check it out! As well as the many many other classes they have on offer! I need a dancing fix – haven’t gone to a class in over 2 weeks (no £££)! And I STILL haven’t gone clubbing here. Was supposed to go on Sat night with a friend… but alas the UTI. Grrrr.

Sin City

Instead of clubbing, we caught a movie instead – Sin City. Boy was that a shock to the system! I totally wasn’t expecting it to be such a violent, graphic, gory and.. disturbing.. movie!! I thought it was just your typical comic book action, like other Marvel comic movies. It doesn’t come out in Sydney for a while yet hey? Well.. if you don’t like explicit gory violence… then don’t watch it! The cannibal guy freaked me out the most. Like seriously, the hair on the back of my neck was standing on end in some parts of this movie. Not coz it was a horror movie.. but just coz… what was happening was so.. disturbing! *shudder* I probably could have happily lived without seeing this one. But I thought it was really quite well done.. very creative. Kill Bill ain’t got nuttin on this one in the graphic violence arena (even with this one done “comic-book style”).

Phew quite an update. Just got invited out to drinkies with a few work mates… so gotta go! Outstanding pics and vids coming soon… I promise!!!

Current listening :: “Good Foot” – Justin Timberlake

Updates

Hey guys. Sorry for the lack of updates! Things have been rather busy here… apart from starting work, I’ve been going out heaps as well! Really need to catch up on sleep..

Work

Ok so, work. It’s my 5th day here at Adgistics (err yes I’m blogging from work again). Work has been not bad thus far. The people are very nice – the environment is a fun and laidback, yet hardworking one. And everyone is quite young.. my manager, the IT Technical Director is only 31! I went out with a bunch of my work mates last Friday night, which was nice. I thought it would be a good idea to try and get to know them a bit better in a more relaxed environment at the pub/bar.

The work itself has been a bit slow – I’ve been just trying to wrap my head around this system and the code – its getting slightly easier as time goes by.. at first I wasn’t sure if I would be able to understand it at all. But now bits and pieces are coming together and making sense. It’s a much larger and more complicated system than I’ve ever worked on before, involving some rather abstract OO concepts (even though its just ASP/SQL). I like the responsibility though – I’m actually taking on a whole project (my client is Canon – I’m taking over their online advertisement management system). So my first task will be to make updates and enhancements to this existing ASP system.

Fun

So apart from work… things have been getting a bit better here. Am feeling a lot less homesick. It was pretty bad about a week back. I was getting really depressed and homesick and felt very alone. It was even affecting my ability to socialise with and meet new people, which wasn’t really helping my situation.

But now I’ve been going out alot more. Last night I went to the Ben Fold gig at Hammersmith Apollo. T’was an awesome gig… Ben Folds lives up to expectations yet again. 🙂 I had a fairly good view too, and this time I actually remembered to bring my digital camera! Woohoo! Took a plethora of photos and video. Hee. Will upload them when I have time.

So what else have I been up to… saw The Lion King Musical on thurs night with Annie and Andrew, went to a bbq at a CCiL friend’s house on sunday eve where we totally stuffed ourselves with food, monday was a public holiday (woohoo!), went to a karaoke bar on monday night (one of those at-a-pub-in-front-of-everyone do’s.. except these people could actually sing rather well!), “enjoyed” the night bus experience 2 nights in a row (one night with it actually breaking down.. luckily only one stop away from my stop), and otherwise just chilled at home doing stuff like washing my clothes etc etc.

This Thurs night I’m going to a friend’s leaving party at a Salsa club – should be fun! 🙂 And on Fri night, I’ll be going to Shakespears The Globe Theatre to watch “The Tempest”. Really looking forward to this! Got standing room tix for just 5 quid!

I’ve got lots of photos to upload. Just haven’t had time to go through them yet. So stay tuned. 🙂 Ok back to work!!

Current listening :: “Rush Rush” – Paula Abdul

More pics

Taken over the weekend.

Current listening :: “Sol Y Sombra” – The Cat Empire

G33k Quiz

Which File Extension are You?

Hahaha.. how appropriate. Hehe.. I found this quiz highly amusing.. as any true geek would. (Thanks to Joe for the quiz.. whose result of .ogg is so totally accurate :P).

Updates

Anyway, so one more day of freedom before I start work on wednesday. I hope it is as good a place to work as I expected. Today I met up with Annie and Andrew from my church back home, who are holidaying here. It was good to see a familiar face, and hear that good ol aussie accent again. We had lunch in chinatown (trusty asian food… always cheap.. and was quite yummy too! :)) Then after scrumptious dessert at Hagen Dazs cafe (man I love that place!) we went down to the British Museum. I saw real mummies!! And a well-preserved mummified corpse. Freaky cool stuff! Took lotsa pics which I’ll post later.

I also bought myself my first gig ticket today! Ben Folds at the Apollo in Hammersmith, 25 pounds not too bad (going by myself tho.. :|). Ooh… and the support act is Clem Snide! I remember seeing him aaages ago in Aust… can’t remember who he was supporting but I remember he was pretty cool.

*sigh* Never thought I’d say this….. but I miss my parents. 🙁 And of course I miss my friends. I miss home. I miss Sydney. I think I’m finally feeling homesick… now that the newness and wonderment of being in London is starting to wear off. *sigh* And I miss Coltrane…. I dreamt about him last night. And also my parents. And.. others. I feel sad and alone. (Not all the time. Just sometimes. Like now.)

Current listening :: “Breakdown” – Jack Johnson