before I'm gone.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Take this sinking boat and point it home.
We've still got time.
Raise your hopeful voice. You had the choice.
You've made it now. And now I'm gone.
Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová - Falling Slowly
Contemplating.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Should I give up,
Or should I just keep chasing pavements?
Even if it leads nowhere
Adele - Chasing Pavements
Dance loving ghosts?
Saturday, November 1, 2008
So it's Halloween and I have discovered that the Ryerson Theatre School building is haunted =] yayyy
I actually found this out like two days ago but didn't actually research it til today. I was never really a ghost believer before but I'm pretty sure I will be cautious around the theatre school from now on. Well, maybe not a lot but definitely whenever I'm alone and its late x_X. I never thought of the theatre school being haunted and all. In one of the two dance studios that we usually have class in called Llyod, the door always seems to open and close on its own sometimes. I always though it was a draft or something? but it happened quite often. And I never thought of the idea of a ghost or something. It didn't really bother me that much. Also, during Improv class once in that studio, there would be random banging noises from the other side. We were presenting our 30 seconds of choreography based on 3 magazine pictures at this time. I thought the banging noises were just coming from people moving around stuff or something? but then I realized that the next week during Improv, it was happening again. And for some reason I've only been noticing it during Improv even though we have other classes in the same room on other days of the week. I don't know if it has to do anything with the idea of the third floor being haunted or anything ahah.
I read like two articles from google about Ryerson being haunted. One of them was actually on wikipedia T_T. But most of what freaky things people noticed were directed to the McAllister studio which is the other studio that I go to a lot. There's one saying that the north east corner is always cold or something? I'm not exactly sure which corner in the room is north east but i wouldn't mind checking this out the next time I'm there. There's also something about the lights flickering and stuff. As far as I know that hasn't happened in my classes yet. The freakiest would probably be being alone in McAllister. Apparently, you feel like you're being watched and you might hear someone whisper your name. SO! I'm definately not gonna be alone in that studio ever knowing that x_X. There's other creepy stuff like seeing a white figure of a girl also. But I'm not gonna even try and look for that >_> Ughhh writing about this stuff this late on Halloween night is giving me the creeps too D:
Well, with this whole ghost thing. It's not something to worry about ahah. I'm not gonna quit the program or anything because there are spirits and such in the school. I was never really a strongn beliver in ghosts and stuff to begin with. If anything, they are probably friendly ghosts =] that like to watch dance? ahah
Until next time.
Toodlez~ <3 Read more...
Always.
Friday, October 24, 2008
It's like we turned back time. Thanks for everything ♥
Read more...slow dancing in a burning room
Saturday, October 18, 2008
I'm really big on downloading music and finding out the meanings of the lyrics. I do this usually for songs that I could possibly dance to. I have no idea how to define this type of music especially when people ask me, "So! What kind of music do you listen to?"...so I shall just call it 'contemporary music'? meh.
Every so often special songs come to me that I download and listen to like all the time. Most of these songs are heard from dance ahah and most likely no one else but dancers will know them.. yayyy. So I thought it'd be an awesome idea to share whatever new songs come to me in the future with you!.. who ever you are D: don't know why you're here! XD
Anyways, I shall be sharing this song that I've actually known for a while from So You Think You Can Dance. Katee and Joshua danced to this song, but I wasn't really into it until I saw Pam Chu and Ben Susak do the exact same routine on youtube. They were actually the original dancers for this routine and they danced to the whole song.
They are sooo amazing! I really like the choreography because it's more human? For some reason, those kind of movements appeal to me more as a dancer. There were so many powerful moments. I felt they were more intense and more passionate than Katee and Joshua.
I also found it kinda funny how both girls are asian! (asian pride yayyy ^^v)
So, after seeing this dance, I obviously had to go and download this song and look up the lyrics! XD I'm sure it's obvious that its by John Mayer. A very familiar voice. I don't actually have that many of his songs on my ipod. I guess this would be my THIRD John Mayer song I've ever downloaded. I love the lyrics. Even the title itself is beautiful on its own. (Not sure if beautiful is the word ahah but you know what I mean) These lyrics stand out the most to me.
"It's not a silly little moment
It's not the storm before the calm
This is the deep and dying breath of
This love we've been working on"
"I was the one you always dreamed of
You were the one I tried to draw
How dare you say it's nothing to me
Baby, you're the only light I ever saw"
"Go cry about it, why don't you?
My dear, we're slow dancing in a burning room"
I find that these songs always come to me at the right time in my life.
I heart my ipod touch =]
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Last week, I finally got a new ipod! (yayyy)
I only got one because I had the very first nano and the battery started dying since i've been using it for 3 years. Music is my saviour when I am commuting to school because I'm by myself most of the time. And even if I do see someone I know on the bus or train, mostly likely I won't be able to sit with them because there are barely any empty seats for two people. With my nano, if i just kept scrolling around to find songs, after like 10 minutes it would die. So in order for it to last I would just have to play it and leave it on. And then maybe it'll last for almost an hour. If I wanted to change a song, the power would decrease even more soo i was really hesitant about it aaand it sucked T_T
Well, I'm happy that I finally got it though =] And honestly, I didn't really look up any of the features it had before I actually bought it, so now I'm quite surprised with it ahah. I didn't know that it could connect to youtube and other websites... though probably most of you already knew that >_>. I am currently trying to put some game applications on without having to register on itunes or something because it requires a credit card number for payment xP. And i don't plan on paying for any games on my ipod. So far I was able to get Reversi and Sudoku by going on the web apps section of the apple site. There are a few other games I wanna try getting though.
Until next time.
Toodlez~ Read more...
I ♥ pmall
Monday, September 15, 2008
My birthday is coming up and I got my first birthday greeting from a sales associate in pmall.
The end.
yayyy...
Uni what??? D:
Monday, September 8, 2008
So first week of university DONE!
Wow, I still can't believe that I'm in university. Probably because it doesn't feel like it at all XD. I mean like being in a dance program and all? It just feels like dance class with people I have never met before! fun stuff =] yayyy...
So for frosh week, I left off saying I barely made any friends. But this week I was able to make a lot of friends from my program! =] It's pretty cool because so far everyone in our program are not like split up into little cliques and such. Oh yeah, at my ryerson audition, I was only the asian there. And now, I'm STILL the only asian in my program! wh00t? ahah. The majority of the people in my program are white. So, I'm sorry if I'm fully white washed by the end of the year!! D:
The first two days of school were really good =] I only had dance classes those days AND I ended around 12 for both days (yayyy!!). The main dance classes I have are ballet, modern, and jazz... and there's also one pilates class. So far, my favourite class is jazz. I guess its because its more similar to my style? and I've never really done the kind of modern that they are teaching us before, so it feels a bit awk on my body right now I guess.. ahah. It's only the first week. I'll get used to it! XD I also find that everyone in my class are very strong in ballet; however, when it comes to like jazz and stuff a lot of them seem very stiff?
So being done early on those days, I actually decided to visit my high school on Wednesday. When I first got back in the school, my first thought was, "It's so small." University is sooo massive compared to high school. And yeah, I was able to visit like three of my teachers, which were all in the art department. There really weren't any other teachers I felt like visiting beside my photography one, who was busy talking to some student in the hall way that day so I couldn't talk to him. I do miss high school. But for some reason right now I feel like I'm enjoying myself more in university! I think it's because I'm not in a classroom as often just listening to the teacher blab about whatever. Plus, I get to be dancing like every day for school! I'll probably just have to wait til work starts to get heavy on me to start hating it... I guess.
On thursday, I had my first sit down class ahah.. which was Production Elements of Production. The class is combined with all the dancers, actors, and production people so we were put in a pretty big lecture hall with these awesome chairs that were attached to the tables! They were like computer chairs, but they had no legs. The chairs were attached from the side and you can still shift your chair forwards and backwards. So to me, it kinda felt like I was floating or something. The only annoying thing was that the chairs squeak when you move around a lot. So a billion people + a billion chairs = Chantee crazy!! >:D (yes, I am overreacting) This class really scared me though about university though. The teacher was explaining so many things at once about the class and up coming assignments ...and I got really confused T___T. I wasn't the only one though. Pretty much everyone who brought up that class to me was like "Did you understand ANYTHING in that class?" "Nope! =]" So after that class, I had a break before my english elective. I got there on time and I see a bunch of people standing outside the classroom. But at the same time there are already people inside the room. So I ask what's going on and this girl tells me that they are waiting for the other class to finish. We waited for a REALLY long time. Like maybe 20 minutes after our class was supposed to start. So, I asked the girl how long she had been waiting. She tells me that she got there a bit before I did. I was like "... Are you SURE that isn't our class?" and she tells me she's not sure x_X So she went inside the class and asked the teacher which class it was and obviously it was ours. The teacher was wondering why half the class was missing >_> I ended up only being in that class for like an hour because she ended half an hour earlier.
FRIDAY! I danced in the morning as usual. Later on I had my english elective again and a class called Creative Performance Studies, which is a class combined with the actors. It was pretty funny how at the beginning of class one side of the classroom was all dancers and the other half was all actors. We didn't exactly mingle that much at the beginning xP Not until we had to create groups of 3 dancers and 2 actors aka. "creapods." We had writing activities before hand, but we had to read them to our group T_T which wasn't so fun ahah. After that we had to join with another creapod and create a MARCH for whatever we wanted. These were the ideas of the other groups: march for the ages, march for dance, march for the washroom line up, march for the ATM machine, march for relaxation... My group decided to do a march for THE MONTH OF MARCH! :D pretty cheesy but it was a lot of fun! Pretty much what we did was stand in a line and each of us would call out a month and do some retarded pose.. and when it came to march we just marched out the door >_>. Now that I think about it, the idea sounds retarded LOL but the whole class laughed sooo it's all good =].
And yeah, after that class... I see Zack Efron at my school O.o yepp, t'was very random. I didn't realize it was the Film Festival until then. It was pretty ridiculous how many old adult guys were there trying to get his autograph and everything! LOL They were going crazier than the girls. So when i was there, he was being interviewed but he had his back against everyone. When he finally turned around everyone started screaming his name like crazy. He would come up to us and do some autographs and then go back to the cameras. It was pretty much that kinda cycle until he went inside the building. I was able to get pics of him on my camera though >=] JUST to make my friends that are REAL fans of Zack Efron jealous! >:D nyahaha!
Because I just had my first monday, I shall talk about it.. yayyy. Again, I danced in the morning and later on had my Timelines of Performance History class and Music class. Before my timelines class I found a Tim Hortons in the building and decided to get an ice cap because my next class was gonna be like three hours and I was in a rush. There were two guys working there. One guy took my order and I was waiting for him to finish making my ice cap. Then the other guy was assuming I was the next customer and asked me for my order, so I told him that I was already with the other guy. So I finally got my ice cap and was about to hand my money to the guy... until he walked away o_o. I was gonna pay the other person, but he was busy with the other customers and was ignoring me. Sooo I felt like I had no choice but to leave because my class had already started and I had friends waiting for me. I did feel guilty about it.. but at the same time i was thinking "SWEEET! XD" ... kay, maybe I wasn't THAT guilty. I wasn't the only one that had food in class. Pretty much half the class had their lunches on their desk! Because of our schedules, we only have like a 45min break before the class and the prof understands that. So he lets us eat in class =] Just as long as we "don't spill our drinks on our neighbours expensive laptop." Speaking of lap tops... It is very convenient to sit behind someone who has a lap top during a lecture! XD Seriously. Yeah, I was fully copying off this guys lap top during that class because I kept zoning out the teacher's voice >_>.
I also had my first Music class. I thought that the class would just be about theory and stuff because I heard that we don't actually do singing until 3rd year. But actually we are doing theory AND singing as a choir along with the actors =] That day all we did was determine which vocal groups we're in. A lot of people already knew what group they would be in based on experience. Yes, I have experience but I don't like talking about it =] yayyyy. I am in Soprano by the way. The biggest group would have to be Alto. It was also my first day coming home after 7 from school! It's starting to get really dark quicker x_X Fall is coming!
I kinda realized this today that I seem familiar to a lot of people from my program. Some of them remember me from past dance competitions or auditions and stuff. Like there was this one girl that not only recognized me from a dance competition, but also remembered how flexible I was and that her friend told her to watch me at that competition! I was wondering how she knew about my flexibility because we haven't really done any major leg stuff at school yet and I thought I blended in with everyone else. It's pretty weird o_O ahah. I kinda feel bad sometimes when I don't recognize the other person xP The only people that I do end up recognizing are people that went to my Ryerson audition or York audition. But yeah, it feels good to know that people do remember my dancing =]
Overall, I really like university. I just hope I don't start my procrastinating ways again... >_> I probably will end up doing so. lulz. I just hate how much money we have to spend on books that we're barely gonna use! T_T I seriously need a job.
Until next time.
Toodlez~
On thursday, I had my first sit down class ahah.. which was Production Elements of Production. The class is combined with all the dancers, actors, and production people so we were put in a pretty big lecture hall with these awesome chairs that were attached to the tables! They were like computer chairs, but they had no legs. The chairs were attached from the side and you can still shift your chair forwards and backwards. So to me, it kinda felt like I was floating or something. The only annoying thing was that the chairs squeak when you move around a lot. So a billion people + a billion chairs = Chantee crazy!! >:D (yes, I am overreacting) This class really scared me though about university though. The teacher was explaining so many things at once about the class and up coming assignments ...and I got really confused T___T. I wasn't the only one though. Pretty much everyone who brought up that class to me was like "Did you understand ANYTHING in that class?" "Nope! =]" So after that class, I had a break before my english elective. I got there on time and I see a bunch of people standing outside the classroom. But at the same time there are already people inside the room. So I ask what's going on and this girl tells me that they are waiting for the other class to finish. We waited for a REALLY long time. Like maybe 20 minutes after our class was supposed to start. So, I asked the girl how long she had been waiting. She tells me that she got there a bit before I did. I was like "... Are you SURE that isn't our class?" and she tells me she's not sure x_X So she went inside the class and asked the teacher which class it was and obviously it was ours. The teacher was wondering why half the class was missing >_> I ended up only being in that class for like an hour because she ended half an hour earlier.
FRIDAY! I danced in the morning as usual. Later on I had my english elective again and a class called Creative Performance Studies, which is a class combined with the actors. It was pretty funny how at the beginning of class one side of the classroom was all dancers and the other half was all actors. We didn't exactly mingle that much at the beginning xP Not until we had to create groups of 3 dancers and 2 actors aka. "creapods." We had writing activities before hand, but we had to read them to our group T_T which wasn't so fun ahah. After that we had to join with another creapod and create a MARCH for whatever we wanted. These were the ideas of the other groups: march for the ages, march for dance, march for the washroom line up, march for the ATM machine, march for relaxation... My group decided to do a march for THE MONTH OF MARCH! :D pretty cheesy but it was a lot of fun! Pretty much what we did was stand in a line and each of us would call out a month and do some retarded pose.. and when it came to march we just marched out the door >_>. Now that I think about it, the idea sounds retarded LOL but the whole class laughed sooo it's all good =].
And yeah, after that class... I see Zack Efron at my school O.o yepp, t'was very random. I didn't realize it was the Film Festival until then. It was pretty ridiculous how many old adult guys were there trying to get his autograph and everything! LOL They were going crazier than the girls. So when i was there, he was being interviewed but he had his back against everyone. When he finally turned around everyone started screaming his name like crazy. He would come up to us and do some autographs and then go back to the cameras. It was pretty much that kinda cycle until he went inside the building. I was able to get pics of him on my camera though >=] JUST to make my friends that are REAL fans of Zack Efron jealous! >:D nyahaha!
Because I just had my first monday, I shall talk about it.. yayyy. Again, I danced in the morning and later on had my Timelines of Performance History class and Music class. Before my timelines class I found a Tim Hortons in the building and decided to get an ice cap because my next class was gonna be like three hours and I was in a rush. There were two guys working there. One guy took my order and I was waiting for him to finish making my ice cap. Then the other guy was assuming I was the next customer and asked me for my order, so I told him that I was already with the other guy. So I finally got my ice cap and was about to hand my money to the guy... until he walked away o_o. I was gonna pay the other person, but he was busy with the other customers and was ignoring me. Sooo I felt like I had no choice but to leave because my class had already started and I had friends waiting for me. I did feel guilty about it.. but at the same time i was thinking "SWEEET! XD" ... kay, maybe I wasn't THAT guilty. I wasn't the only one that had food in class. Pretty much half the class had their lunches on their desk! Because of our schedules, we only have like a 45min break before the class and the prof understands that. So he lets us eat in class =] Just as long as we "don't spill our drinks on our neighbours expensive laptop." Speaking of lap tops... It is very convenient to sit behind someone who has a lap top during a lecture! XD Seriously. Yeah, I was fully copying off this guys lap top during that class because I kept zoning out the teacher's voice >_>.
I also had my first Music class. I thought that the class would just be about theory and stuff because I heard that we don't actually do singing until 3rd year. But actually we are doing theory AND singing as a choir along with the actors =] That day all we did was determine which vocal groups we're in. A lot of people already knew what group they would be in based on experience. Yes, I have experience but I don't like talking about it =] yayyyy. I am in Soprano by the way. The biggest group would have to be Alto. It was also my first day coming home after 7 from school! It's starting to get really dark quicker x_X Fall is coming!
I kinda realized this today that I seem familiar to a lot of people from my program. Some of them remember me from past dance competitions or auditions and stuff. Like there was this one girl that not only recognized me from a dance competition, but also remembered how flexible I was and that her friend told her to watch me at that competition! I was wondering how she knew about my flexibility because we haven't really done any major leg stuff at school yet and I thought I blended in with everyone else. It's pretty weird o_O ahah. I kinda feel bad sometimes when I don't recognize the other person xP The only people that I do end up recognizing are people that went to my Ryerson audition or York audition. But yeah, it feels good to know that people do remember my dancing =]
Overall, I really like university. I just hope I don't start my procrastinating ways again... >_> I probably will end up doing so. lulz. I just hate how much money we have to spend on books that we're barely gonna use! T_T I seriously need a job.
Until next time.
Toodlez~
Somewhat Frosh Week
Sunday, August 31, 2008
I had my frosh week from monday to thursday! =] .. but why "somewhat"?
Well, first off... I wasn't even there on monday and tuesday! XD
I finally came on wednesday, but I had time to wander while waiting to meet up with friends. So, I came across this place that was promoting iced tea and they were giving samples of the different flavours. And if you went to get a free sample, they would give you a week's worth of tea. Sooooo. I ended up getting two boxes of tea, meaning two weeks worth of tea! (freebies yayyy!)
So I finally got to my school, but I didn't really participate in any huge events. There wasn't much going on actually. There was this "Student Life 101" thing, where they had all these booths set up and what not... which also meant MORE FREEBIES! :D And yes, I got a lot of pens/ waterbottles/ candy/ pins/ stuff.. but my favourite item would have to be the STAR-SHAPED HIGHLIGHTER!!! XD
It came from this one booth that gave a ridiculous amount of stuff compared to the other booths, which included: the highlighter, a water bottle, pens, a flashlight, and a bracelet. But before I even stood there to listen to their speech about the group, one of the guys there had all the freebies in his hands and just gave them to me because he saw that I was carrying a big bag! Yeah! XD Anyways, I actually listened to their speech about their group 'POSITIVE SPACE' and afterwards they gave out their freebies. Sooo I ended up getting double of everything! Sweeeet >=]
After that, one of the events that was about to begin was the Wet and Wild Condom Olympics... yesss... that's what it was called. I remember seeing this event on the site:
My first impression was o__O?? Probably a lot of other people were like that too. So out of curiosity AND also because some of the frosh leaders were telling us to go and join their team, me and my friends went there to just WATCH. However, this asian guy who was a frosh leader came and talked to us and kinda pushed us to participate. Soooo we had no choice but to go and join his group. Unfortunately, my friend Lizzeh kinda ditched me and went to her extremely large frosh group that she was with for the first day T___T. When we got to our first station with another team, they explained the game which was: one team member from each team had to be blind folded and had to spin around 5 times. After that their team members had to lead them to the items on the floor which was a cucumber and condoms. The blind folded person then had to put the cucumber in between their legs, open the condom with their mouth and put it on the cucumber. Whoever completed this the fastest won. Each team member had to go at least once. Soooo... it was incredibly AWKWARD for me and I snuck away from my group when they started! :D It was also funny how at the same time I saw Lizzeh sneaking away from her group as well on the other side of the field and we kinda ran towards each other in the middle of the field LOL. I ended up sitting down at the side with other friends, while Lizzeh decided to go back to her group and said that she would come running back to me if it got any more awkward for her. And yeahh, I spent a lot of time watching the Engineers fool around at the side because they were just there. They weren't even participating in the condom olympics. There were so many of them o__o; and they were PURPLE! XD That's pretty much all I did for frosh that day.Wet and Wild Condom Olympics
Yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like! Wild and wet games, using condoms of
course! Join us and your fellow Olympiads to see who will win the next Gold
medal! These games are going to get messy!
I came back on thursday because I had my orientation from 10am - 1pm. But I still had to practice commuting. I wasn't sure of how to walk to Ryerson from Union Station using the underground path way that goes to the Eaton Centre. The day before I took the subway, which was easier and faster, but it's still better to walk because it's only a 25min walk and it saves money =] S'yeah, my dad tried to teach me the path way to get there, but we got lost!! :D We ended up having to go back up to the street level to walk to Ryerson. When I got there I went to my "orientation" which was pretty much registering, getting a head shot for a class reference sheet, signing out a locker, and having this lady talk to a few of us at a time about what was going to happen on the first day of school for 2 minutes. And that was it. So, by the time I left the Theatre School it was 10:30am. No frosh events were happening until 5:00pm and I wasn't even planning to stay downtown for that long, but at the same time I didn't want to go home right away because I just got there. I ended up wandering around Ryerson with a new friend I made from my program, Monika =]. I was finally able to learn how to join the Ryerson network on facebook and picked up my One Card which I applied for online a few weeks before.
I was surprised to see that the photo I submitted was acceptable for the One Card! I used a photo that was taken from last year LOL.This is it..
1. My head is cropped
2. The background is a dark colour
3. The picture is taken at an angle
The other requirements that my picture made though was that I'm not doing any funny poses and I'm not wearing any hats or glasses.. LOL yeah
Why did I choose this even though I know its incorrect? I didn't want to use my passport picture xP aaand I was too lazy to take another picture of me that was passport like or find one on my comp that looked decent enough with the requirements. So I chose this one and wanted to see what would happen. And they accepted it! =] lulz.
When I met up with my dad again to go home, he figured out the correct path back to Union.
I had to practice this on friday xP I went back and forth downtown sooo many times for different reasons. It was tiring T_T but at least I finally know my way x] yayyy.. I'm gonna be at the Eaton Centre all the time!! shopping yayyy!!! (i has to get a job first... ;_;)
And yeah. That was my 'somewhat frosh week.' I'm still scared of uni T___T It's like in two days?!?! D: ahhhhhh... I didn't expect this blog to be so lengthy ahah.
Until next time.
toodlez~
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Blogger yayyy...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
So, this would be my very first blog thing! (yayyy...)
Well, lately, I've found myself browsing other people's blogs and it kinda influenced me to start my own! XD ... even though I know no one's gonna look at my page anyway... well, at least I think so o_o; unless there's some random person that's interested in The Exciting Life of Chantelle! :D and yeah, I'm sure this will be more fun than like facebook notes or something. blehhhh...
I shall do a little update on what's going on later =] I am fully aware that it is 4am and I have to get up early to go to frosh tomorrow! D: (ZOMG university ahhhh...) S'yeah. Until next time ^^
toodlez~ <3
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