Wii

The most brilliant thing I've ever seen!

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iced green tea lattes

Me and Rheena + Starbucks Lattes + Laptops = Friends who wanna chill but are too broke to afford anything else :D yayyyy
Oh yeah, and her little sister was there too. She's so adorable =]

We met after Rheena bought Angelika this little Tinkerbell book with puzzles and such from the Disney store. Angelika says to me, "My sister bought this for me so I don't get bored while you guys talk." lololololololol!
We killed about over 3 hours (which went by pretty fast) talking, drinking our green tea lattes, taking Photobooth pictures on her mac, watching random videos, etc. We also watched my dance videos from one of my competitions in May because Rheena was unable to come to my year end show this year and was still interested in seeing my dances on video yayyy :D I absolutely hate watching my solos though because I'm hardly ever satisfied with the overall look of my performance. Yes, I'm quite hard on myself. At the same time I was editing a video that I needed to upload that night! Ahah. That's the only reason why I brought my slowly falling apart laptop. But in the end, it was a good thing I brought it because for some reason two of the dvds didn't read on Rheena's Mac... but it read on my crappy Toshiba. Whaaat?

We're glowing *o* and also our ONLY normal picture.

Hot.

Animated!
(It was so hard for us to make it look like we actually had eyes with the terrible lighting LOL)


We blew up.. lolololololol

And my absolute favourites...

The "I think I'm so awesome, but I'm really not" expression :D


The fake pout.

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Cathedrals

The results and videos are finally posted on the Hall of Fame website
Watch Cathedrals here if you're bored. I am in it, but I guarantee you will not find me in this one.

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not those tea cups! ...errr barrels

Back on Canada day. I went to wonderland with the cousins :D


Not as epic as the time my brother got away with his camera on Sledge Hammer and filmed us. lolololol... I don't know that video is now.

But I found THIS ONE >:D
My hair was still long

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stays in vegas? not really.

Wow, so I'm finally starting my Vegas post a week after I get back. lolololololol. And since, I've postponed it so long I barely remember the things I wanted to talk about =( Oh well.

I went to Las Vegas for nationals for the dance competition, Hall of Fame Dance Challenge :D! It's exciting because Hall of Fame is such a well known dance competition among competitive dancers around America because they post videos of some of the top winners onto their site and sometimes you may find some contemporary dancers from SYTYCD on the Hall of Fame from years before they auditioned.

Eiffel Tower? Wtf???

The competition was held in Paris Hotel which has a miniature Eiffel Tower. I can't wait to see the REAL one though. Ahah. Yes, the hotel was hella expensive but because the competition was held there, we got a discount yayyy.

This competition was really amazing. It went so well! We were against so many talented studios and it was really inspiring. So, the first two days of the competition was just solo entries. I did not expect to place in the top 10, but in fact, I did. And I was 4th! There were a couple of ties along the way. There was definitely like 20 people that placed. Ahah. But what made me especially happy was that everyone from the Top 4 and above got to perform in the Solo Showdown, where you're basically competing again against the top solos from your age division (in my case Senior) and a new set of judges pick one winner and everyone else would be runner ups. So, that time around, I especially did not expect myself to win first. But I was so happy and felt so blessed to be able to perform in the Solo Showdown in the first place. I was the only person from my studio that made it.
When the Solo Showdown came around I was so nervous because the expectations were very high. I didn't relax until one of my dance teaches gave me this great talk. However, I did not think about winning first place. My goal was to just dance my best and make the audience really feel something. I don't know how to describe how I was feeling during my performance, but I felt so great. The reactions that I got after I got off stage were unbelievable and definitely not what I was expecting. People were so happy and so surprised with my performance, saying it was the best I had ever danced in my life and that they almost cry or did cry. Being told that you made someone feel like crying is such a huge compliment for me! People that hardly ever tell me I did a good job said I was amazing! I was very happy with my performance.
In the end, I was just a runner up. But I was still very grateful being one of the nine qualified dancers to perform in the Solo Showdown out of the hundreds of dancers that performed. The host said himself that the Showdown was one of the hardest ones he had seen not just for the 2010 season but of all time in Hall of Fame history! I was very happy with that experience and also got to keep a tiara! =]

All my other group dances did amazing as well throughout the rest of the week. At Hall of Fame they have something like the Solo Showdown except its the highest scoring group from each studio against each other in the World Series. The piece from my studio that ended up getting in was our Lyrical line, Cathedrals. Annnd we won the World Series! :D I have no idea when but that dance will be on the website yayyyy. I'll post the link whenever that happens.

That was the last night of the competition and our studio and dancers from other studios decided to chill together in someone's room. But when not even half of us were there, we realized the room was way to small and decided to just go to the convention center where the competition was, hoping we would not get kicked out by security. Security actually passed by a couple of times but they didn't say anything even though there was probably at least 30 or 40 of us. Ahah.

Other than that there's been a lot of site seeing, shopping, and spending time with family and friends...

At Premium Outlet mall.

They have these mist systems all over vegas because of the heat. They're pretty cool, but these ones at least didn't help me too much because they're too tall. It's just easier to step indoors with air conditioning =]

This one was cool =]

In all the big hotels, they have this 24 Hour buffet that was like $40 per person? I don't remember exactly. Sounds like a lot, but it was actually worth it. They had really good food and the buffets in each hotel were different. Me and my mom went to three within the 24 hours I believe. We went to the one at Paris, Ceasar's Palace, and Planet Hollywood. Planet Hollywood had the best food! They had cotton candy! Harhar~ The only downside to the buffet was that so many people were doing it and the line ups to get in were hella long. It sorta felt like we were lining up for a roller coaster.

Cotton candy = love

I only went swimming once for the whole trip. I waited til the day after my competition to finally go because I didn't want to be too tired or discover that I actually do burn and go on stage peeling. I was in the pool for almost two hours and I just tanned. Thank god my swimsuit doesn't give weird tan lines :D Tube top swimsuits yayyyy!

I met another second cousin that I didn't know existed. He's so awesome! It was so great having him around to drive us around and also bring some light and humour everywhere we went.

Yeah, he's super tall.

Eating at California Pizza Kitchen with Ryan and Dobrina

And I will conclude my Vegas trip with...
A BEST BUY VENDING MACHINE!

Until next time.

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THUNDERRRDROCTAGONAPUSBLAHHHHHHHHH

is what I woke up to after getting back to Canada at 7am and finally getting some sleep at 10am. I was not able to sleep on the plane ride back unfortunately =( Having a full week of clear skies and hot air in Vegas, I almost forgot about the existence of rain... and thunder.

Welcome back to Canada yayyyy...

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