FBodz practice on thursday =D wk13

Another wEEK has ended!! This post is due week 13 on my progression in dancing~
I went to Thursday batch as usual except for the last week's one. Thursday batch is quite a few number of juniors though. But it's quite fun because we actually have much more spaces while we are dancing =D.

Okay, let me start from the beginning of yesterday, Thursday practice. When i enter the room in block E. I got really happy that some of the juniors kinda remember my name and tagged my hand as a greeting =D. Although it's been quite a several weeks in this club,to be frank, I don't really socialize a lot between the FboDZ as I'm quite a cool person that doesn't really like to talk much.

But yesterday's occasions which the juniors tagged with me, something split through my head and this is what we called as a family aka FbodZ bonding. HUH!, felt bit touching though =X
We also chat quite a while and then attendance are taken by the seniors as usual. Then we starts with our warming up session. Before i go to the practice, i remembered what Fadhlan told me about stretching and keep reminding myself to do my best-est in stretching in making myself a good dancer =D. The warming part session aka stretching parts was quite long one as the seniors really wanted to puntuate the flexibility of our body. I have to admit, i did stretched to the max without uttering the strains and pains in any parts of my body~! Felt very relieve after the stretching! After that, we complete our ISOLATION parts as usual.

Then I learn new things which is "bounce" conducted by Alex our grand senior. Bounce in such a way that it looks so natural and fluently- that's what he taught. Among the juniors, some can do it well and some can't. I think i just did moderately. After that, we also learn "harlem shake" from one of our grand seniors, sorry i forgotten his name =X. It's quite a cool move that basically just isolating ur shoulders in a very fast speed, Doing it back to forth will create a very cool moves. Similar to the "bounce", i just did fairly. Rooms for improvement =D

After that, i though we will be continuing our last choreo with song 'touch it' by Bustam Rhymes. But it's a new choreo for today which is a new song for me- Booty music by Deep Side. This choreo is taught by weimin- FbodZ senior, he is always the one that teach a alot in choreos-is a pro guy =D. We learnt 2-eigths and we got to showcase after that.As for this choreo, it's very difficult as the beats and the speed-it's not quite well co-ordinated. It has a flow- a strong sense in hearing is needed to get all the steps done!-it's very fast though =(

When the showcase start, i can barely feel the song and try my best to get the feeling then dance to the choreo. After the choreo, as usual, we are given comments by the seniors to see where should we focus on next time. To be frank, I felt very happy that i was praised that i can follow the moves quite -okay- =D. Although it's a small compliment from the seniors, but i seriously felt happy on that! =D. There's where i get motivated and will my road to a passionate dancer has got closer! XD Later that, i just takes mrt and back my home with one of the junior- Mark , he has a quite same name as me -Marcus XD

Practicing with Friday's batch

YAY!! Common test ended today, the last paper was Metrology & QC. It's tough man! Ms Dolly, you really did a very good job in shocking us that Metrology can be so difficult >"<, Well, i did all the question except for those i really 'tembak' it =D. Hm, overall of this common test is still quite okay! I think i should score... let's wait for the result =X. After the test, all of us were so damn relieved and went for basketball in the school, phew! I'm all sweat. After that we also ate in Koufu den the clock strikes to 5.30 already. I'll be having the practice at 6.30. Nicholas aka my cousin aka current roommates accompany to walk around int he school area until it's 6.30.

Well, this practice is almost same as the previouse one on the thursday except for the room capacity and the juniors =D. But i really had fun today. As usual, we started warming up ourselves first aka 'the very tired warming up' because there is some stretching parts that kills me! But i got motivated from Fadhlan^^, he said, 'stretch well then u'll dance well =D', wont forget this!, ahha, but the stretching was really a tough one especially for people that has 'hard' bones as me.

Later that, we back to practice the down motion again. What had been studied is"Dance with the music, hear the beats and apply it. Don't get off beat!" After a moment, we are called to make a circle, moving around applying the down rhythm and also dance in such a way that expressing the song's beat. I really had fun moving around doing down rhythm although didn't really makes cool variation.

After that, we back to our very 'own' choreo which is with the "touch it" song by Busta Rhymes. We had learn it before the camp and still memorizing all the steps and moves. Today, the seniors revised with us what had been learn and add a few more moves onto this choreo. After the practice and sweat, we are asked to give a showcase as normal! All of the juniors has improved ! and i shall say myself too ^^. Improved in such a way that we really love showcase!, No more shyness between juniors and seniors! =D. It's a very good culture to love showcase as the seniors always say " Appreciate the showcase as all of you are still juniors!, when u are seniors, u'll be watching ur juniors to showcase! =D" I think this sentence really motivated me and enhance me in loving showcase!

For the showcase, I got a lucky number which is the 1st to dance. I think i really dance to the max neglected the details =X. After every group's showcase, we are advise with some comments by our senior. This could help us in improving for the future! After that, CHAOZ~!

I guess i'll not be attending this friday's class as thursday will be a more convinient class for me =D. I really enjoyed today! THANKX seniors! and also juniors for interacting and remembering my name =D, Really appreciate it =P

Fb's camp 25-27 June

PHEW! New blog updates. Its been few weeks after the last post in blogspot. In this few weeks,it is a very busy and tired day but REALLY ENJOYED TO THE MAX.This updates, Im going to write about what had i been doing in this few weeks.

In the week 9 & 10, Its a term break for all the student of Poly. I went back to my hometown, Malaysia at week9. To be frank, i really enjoyed the day in my hometown. I met my friends and we hang out for the whole week! Everyday outing and chatting around. Although this week passed very quickly, i am able to recall every moment in the week9! Outing includes celebrating friend's and movies. i watched 3 movies at that week! Once again, i really enjoyed the day in Malaysia and really have to thanks my frens for accompanying me =D CHEERS!
Okay, back to the dance. After the 9th week, i came back again to Singapore. At week 10th, Foreign bodies dance club has planned a camp for juniors that takes place on 25-27June, Nanyang Polytechnic Block E =D.Im gonna talk all the activities in this camp =X

Day1 Fb's camp

All the juniors are separated into 5 groups. All the respective groups discuss about their group's name. For my group, we called it SDD - Sexy Dance Dumplings. The main reason we select this name is because of our team member's gender. We have 4 guy and 12 GALS!!. Compare to other, we really have a very imbalance gender =X. Nevermind that! Our team rox! We are also companied by few seniors. They are helpful and cool!. Motivates us all the time and made the SDD's felt enthusiatics. The 1st activities is mainly on ice-breaking which is normally held as the 1st activities in every camp. Alot of games has been planned by the seniors in giving all the juniors opportunity to make new friends! I really felt excited to make new friends as we are FB's family =D.In this game, all the members in my groups really did well the best. We played Tangle the Human. And we also played passing by a small plastic paper with mouths around. All the guys have to sit in between the gals. Infact, our team comprises of 16 members which is the most among all the groups.But, we did the passing fastest and also the most efficient one with the record of 11 rounds in 10 minutes. Last year, our seniors best record was only 6. HAHA. SDD ROX!

Some games are going around here. Forgotten =P

Concentrating The most exciting game; Passing a 7x7mm plastic with 'naked mouth' XDPlaying guessing opponents game, All freestyle came out!
SDD ROX =D

Dodge Ball time!
Suffering but still CHEESE- That's the SPIRIT! =D

After that, we are asked to change into dancing attire as we will be learning different genre. I didnt change as i came into dancing attire already at first. We are then separated into two groups. Each groups is taught by our GRAND SENIOR. They were so cool. The 1st small 'lecture' i attend was 'House'. There it goes, the grand senior started with some history of 'House' and den start teaching some basic thing about this genre. Its more in footstep. It looks easy but it doesn't actually =P. After the 'house' lecture, all of us gone sweat and we switch with he other group for more 'lecture' . The next thing we are going to learn is 'Styling and Expressing' by Andee, grandsenior. I really like the way this senior taught! He is hilarous and also gives alot of example in expressin the true meaning of dance." 'Dance is to relax' perhaps, tell a story", he said. With all the expression in face could really helps in expressing. Not less with the body movement. At first we are to learn how to moves every nerves in our FACE!. Its was so funny for all of us to pronounce ' AEIOU' with maximum facial movement! We all also learn new choreo, a simple one. Conducted by Andee. His purpose was to teach us 'how many kind of expressio could be made in a single choreo' includes Happy, Cool, AND SEXY. the sexy part was the most difficult part as we shall move our hips to the largest displacement =X. After the the choreo, before we go on to the next 'lecture' we are to showcase. This 'lecture's main purpose is to introduced us about some theory parts and what's dance can be categorised into.

After that. We are go for other lecture. All the 'lecture' was so nice and really helps us alot. The grandsenior themselves have their own genre to master. After the whole thing we are introduced with some really cool genre such as, House, Whacking, Locking, Popping, Bboy, Reggae, Hip Hop. Before i joined this club, I don't know any types of dance. After this camp, i felt so 'optional' XD, the seniors also keep asking about what genre are we heading .As for me, i choose for the Hip Hop. Hip hop is basically cool moves with fast action. After all the lecture in day1, we also called for bathing and den go to bed *early*. Infact, everyone's getting hungry and called for McD delivery. HAHA. The delivery came at 3 midnight. LOL. Hence, everyone's to bed after the meal XD.

Day 2 Fb's camp

All of us woke up at 645 and den wash up ourselves.Then headed to the stadium ran for 1.6km. Everyone look really sleepy but still we finish the 4 laps.Sadly on today, Famous popstar dancer, Michael Jackson died of heart attack. As a dancer, all of us felt sad because a once talented pop star died. We mourned by sitting down on the field under the sunlight by closing our eyes for 1 minute. AND THEN, we are splashed water by all the seniors!. Its a sudden attack. =X. Everyone laughed but all of us will still remember the contribution in dancing of MJ. Seniors planned a game for us, we are asked to 'decorate' up one of the member and name her/him a princess/prince with newspaper. We are also given some plastic bags. These plastic bags is to filled up with water. To win this game, we must throw the water plastic to opponent's princess /prince, the lessest the newspaper drops in their body, that's the winner. All of the guys in my team group, Zen,WeiKiat,Johnathan and myself strike our water plastics to the MAX. Neglected about the status of our princess in the castle! LOLX. When all of us got back, we found out that our princess has gone all wet! And we started to laugh and starts to defend her although its too late! The games then ends and the winner is the other group, SlumDope. As expected!

Sexy Dance Dumpling SDD's

We also headed back and change into dancing attire. This time we learn Hip Hop. As we are lack of time we only learn 8 counts. Then we are headed to one room and played some game.All of us get so HIGH~ We also made a cypher around us and started a freestyle show. its was so high that all of us enjoyed shouting and moving around! After that, all of us settle down and time for prize giving. Indeed, we are the winner! SDD's a winner~! with the points of 130!i think mostly is because of the passing small plastic paper by mouth game. All the team accepted the newspaper wrapping snacks, Depending how big it is only. All of us had fun in bidding. Sounds like a marketing person=X. All of us settle down and wait for the next activities which is watching movie, Dead Silence. Its was so freakingly scary. And the volume was so loud, i was just sitting beside the speaker>"<> is going to happen in the night walk lol. Then we are separated into a group of 4, 2 gals and 2 guys a group. Then we started to walk around the school following the glowing sticks. Weird sounds is keep happening and its freaking prompting. Throughout this activities, one gal from our gals started to cried. She is so scare that she actually asked us to stop this nightwall and head back. As a guy, i said some motivational lessons to her" Finish this night walk and great memories in the future awaits!" Sounds cool rite? XD. Then we just end our night walk. Infact, she is a very brave gal and have alot of stamina too. Crying from the beginning of this nightwalk till the end LOL. After that, all of us just go to bath and I was so tired, lack of sleeping through the whole camp. I was the 1st one to sleep! which is at 2 midnight =.=

Day3 Fb's camp

Today seems to be a very relaxing day, all of us can wake up at 8.00 ^.^ we then washed up ourselves and den headed to the Atrium in Block A. We are asked to prepare a choreo by ourselves in groups. For my group, we made a choreography successfully with the theme of 'zombie'. We discuss and practice very well in every steps. Finally we had done it! After the 2 hours in doing this preparating, all the groups are then asked to showcase. All the groups really did well, and has applied what had been learn in the past 2 days. All of the groups inserted every genre that had been learned. Not less with the seniors, they also made their own choreo. And finally, the grand seniors also showcase. They were so COOL!! XD

After the showcase and some brief motivation talk by our seniors and grand seniors, we are headed back to the room and started to pack everything up and leave the room. Later that, we have a photo taking session. For all, we made a video too, I will post the link in blogspot when the video is up in youtube ^.^

FB-not very obvious>"<Better? AHAH
The Bond In FB~

That's for the camp, to recap abit, all of the juniors had fun as well as the seniors.All of us learnt new things in dancing field!

THANKS EVERYONE FOR ALL THE HARD WORK IN MAKING THIS CAMP A SUCCESSFUL ONE!

CHEERS FBODZ!~

3rd Practice in Foreign Bodies

Another blog update. This blog is talking about my progression towards dance in Foreign Bodies Dance Club at week 7. Well, It's likely the same as the 2nd practice. This time, we warm up until all of the juniors sweats up.

After that, we are leaded by one of our seniors, Brandon, he is a very funny guy. He taught us how to do the *down* motion more correctly. He taught us very well, and among all the juniors can do as he said. He uses very good example in symbolize the down motion, not less with the jokes he made. Although it was lame, everyone laughed.He kept telling us that dance comes with music and dancing is to relaxing. DO not be tense in dancing.Later that, the seniors turn on the music loudly and let us freestyle in our own position to get ourselves cool down after absorbing how to do the *down* motion. All of us had fun!=D

Later that we are taught again by one of the GUY's incharge, Wei Min, he taught us the new choreography which is the most difficult move that i have ever seen. The moves seems to be easy, when i'm doing it, it's very difficult as my hip's nerve just won't move on the choreography. He said this moves will only be more attracting when the hips move swimmingly. After all the choreography is taught, we then try out the dance accompanied by music. Its was just so fast as it was like split-second in my mind after the whole song has been played. Many juniors can't catch up with the beat that counts. After practice and practicing, all of the juniors started hands-on with the beats of the music.

It's already 9.30 pm, kinda late already, the seniors stop us from practicing and tell us that we will showcase this dance later. All of us just went' WHAT?'. Obviously, we scared to showcase as it a very new and difficult moves for us. One of the seniors said that this showcasing is not judging whether u are taking part on the dance or not, it's just to make us to felt more familiar and comfortable in performing in front of people. I thinks that this showcasing really helps in the future. I can see a lot of dancer can dance well, but when they are on stage, they just couldn't remember all the moves and got frightened. Hence they stunned and creates a very weird situation in front of the audience.

After a short break, we got a number and then five by five started to showcase our moves. When it's my turn, i groove a lot and forget many moves when dancing in front of the seniors.Sweats. In facts, not only me that didn't dance well, a lot of juniors forgotten the steps too. Some are very excellent while showcasing. I just hope to be as good as them!. After that, they surely have to perform once again after picked by the seniors.The good one.

After the the showcasing, our president gave us some brief infomation about the camp that will lies on the week 10.After the whole thing, i just felt uneasy to forget all the moves, i will have to try harder and practices more to be a excellent dancer!

2nd practice in FB dance club~

Another blogs updates! This is updates is about my progression towards dance at week 6.I went to Thursday's batch Foreign bodies dance club. I went there on time which is 6.00 pm. I met a friend of mine, which is taking the same course as me ,Digital And Precision Engineering. His name is Yi Hao.Let me describe some of him, he is a better dancer as he succesfully joined the dance club in the first audition already, Different from me, I tried twice only able to join this club. He is a very friendly boy.Other than him, I also met with another friend. His name is Jia Hao. He is also a very nice boy, i knew him in the first practice.We do some cross-hand signal as we are FB's juniors. Then, we do some warm up exercise.Although it's a warm up exercise, it doesn't mean that it is easy. Those warm up exercise is kinda harsh. After the warm up accompanied by our seniors, all of us, the juniors gone sweat like its raining already in the club house,Block A239.

After the all the sweat, we felt relieved after the whole warm up session. The president, Fadhlan gave us a short break about 3 mins for a sip of water to avoid us from dehydrated. Without wasting much time, Fadhlan , the president taught us some new moves, which is basically moving every part of our body. Let me describe more, this moves is called ISOLATION. From the name, we could barely understand it. Which is moving the very specific part of our body while keeping other parts of our body in a stationary mode. It's not easy though, a lot of us undergoes difficulty but we are not left behind. All the seniors walked around to teach the juniors to acknowledge about the moves,ISOLATION. After an hour of practice of the isolation thingy, a lot of us improved and isolated very well with the beat of the music.

Then, the GUY's incharge senior taught us the down motion, which is moving our shoulder down and up while straining our tummy. The down motion is a very crucial part for a hip hop dancer as it must be mastered before we are able to make good moves in dancing. After that, the president gave us some break, 10 mins to get ourselves cool down. Jia Hao,Yi hao and me went to toilet together and drank some water, we chat for a while.

Regroup. 2 seniors which is the GUY's incharge perform a dance to us. This will be a new choreography for us. We are then divided into 2 groups, taught by the GUY's incharge. We are given about 45 minutes before the showcase begins. Our groups were taught by one of them, named Wei Min. He taught us all the moves for 45 minutes. Ofcourse not him alone to carry so many of us, he is helped by other seniors too. They taught us all the steps and practice with all of us by making the beats faster and faster as we counted them. The fastest one was with the music. I hardly followed all the moves at first. But i tried very hard and try to observe other's moves. Atlast, i succesfully dance correctly with the music.

We are then given another short break to get ourselves ready before the showcase begins. We are given numbers which is one to seven. I'm given the number of 7, which is the last group to perform the showcase. The showcase starts. We are given 3 times to dance same as the one in audition. As i can observe, alot of juniors hardly to follow the moves when the music is tune on. I think they are nervous when they step on the centre. When the time for me to showcase, I thinks positive and looks very confident infront of the seniors. When the music starts, i started to groove by moving my body in such a dancer way. When the real part started, my mind was blanked, i forgotten all the moves and just barely follow the seniors to dance in the first trial. I kept telling myself to dance in correctly. Well i failed for the 3 times. i felt very nervous and i'm not sure when is the real part dancing starts and i forgotten every steps. But nevermind, the seniors motivate us alot.

I will try my best to stay away from the nervous and practice well before i attend the practice next week! Although i didn't dance well, i learnt alot from the seniors!. Thanks you seniors for the teaching!

1st Practice in Foreign Bodies Club

Yesterday was the 1st day of training in Foreign Bodies allocated in Block A. The whole purpose of the 1st training is basically just welcoming fresh juniors. The president and seniors introduced themselves to us and gave us some of their hand phones contact on who should we look for if we are not attending the practice and leaving early. Other than that, all of the freshman are given to 2 days to choose for the training session.

I choosed the Thursday one

After that, we are divided into smaller groups and accompanied by few seniors sitting in a circle. Then we start our ice-breaking session to introduce ourselves and know each other more as we will be seeing each other for the next 3 years maybe. I had fun talking and talking in that circle as everyone starts to talk about their goals to achieve when they are in FB and why are they eagerly wanted to join in the Foreign Bodies' family. As for me, its simple, i just simply love dancing. Then we start to played some games that made us to remember each other's name for the future benefit. Time's up after that.

4 seniors comprises of 2 boy and 2 girls which is what they called " Guys in Charge" and "Girls in Charge" accompanied us to do some warm up activities before the real fun games start. These warm up are very essential to avoid us from cracking our bodies or any other part. Since the place was so small and there were alot of freshman, we kinda feel awkward to warm up together by stretching out our legs. We had fun although its just a warming up session.

After that, the 4 seniors starts to explain the game. Then they teach us how to play that game.It was basically mind versus dancing. After everyone knows how to play already, we are divided into 13 groups and are given a paper of choreography on the dancing movements. Next, we are demanded to leave the Club room and find a better site for us to practice that will be presented after 25 minutes.

Then my group, started to practice and creates formation. Everyone gives idea and concluded together. We had a lot of fun back then. After 25 minutes, the president asked us to go in and get ready for the showcase. We sat together and starts to watch others to perform their showcase. Although they didn't dance uniformly, we still clap our hand hardly to motivate them.

As for us, we were motivated too when we were performing.

After the last one had performed, the 4 seniors presents their dance. Seriously, they dance really well in term of their movement and formation they changed was totally awesome. I was stunned! After that, the president just give a few more words about that day activities and everyone starts cross hand with each other and then chaoZz. The 1st day was really an amazing one!

I'm in the GROOVE~!

AHAHAH, i successfully join in the foreign bodies dance club with a lot of effort on it. Let me elaborate some of the history ~~

I went for the audition for twice which is the 1st audition and the 3rd one.. The 1st audition i couldn't get in, but it was predictable as I did not dance according to the choreography taught by the senior. Well, to be frank, the music and beat was so fast and I'm sure you don't have the time to remember it yet it's the 1st time of me.

I still remember the first after the 1st audition which falls on week 3 , i walked back sadly as i had dance all my sweats out for about 1 and a half hour and can't even dance properly according to the choreography and only capable to barely follow the beats of the music. I started to feel that is dancing really that difficult to learn? the results came out after a week like that after the 1st audition. I saw my name was not there and kept staring on the FB's notice board with my other 2 roommates nicholas and tommy, i made them wait! , sorry guys .As for the rules, one participant can only participate for one audition,so, its either the 1st day or the second one.So, afterall, i just have to forget everything about dancing as I'm not talented to dance and failed for the 1st audition in week 3.

After a while, i visit the blog of foreign bodies again in the week 4, i happily to found out that the club's crew is still recruiting and gives last chance for participants who didn't get to join and the one who are willing to join the club but is not free on the 1st 2 audition. The 3rd audition will be on 19th and it is just next week.The first thing that bolts my mind was " Am i free for the particular day?". This very last audition or i can say the last chance for me to enter the club on this year. Well, previously, i thought that after failing in the 1st time, i decided to join adventure club to as it was recommended by my senior,Jit Khai and promised to join that club. well, i went to the adventure club for the first time on Monday in the week 5 as it's already a must to go.I have a very tiring day, tomorrow will be the audition, i felt really tired and wishing to get home earlier and sleeps to regeneration. As the rational of me, i selected to stay and give another try on the audition tomorrow.

On that day, my 2 roommates left me alone and went home after classes. NEVERMIND that! I went to the audition hall to meet up with the seniors and participants is divided by groups. As the training starts, i focused very well in every words that the seniors said and practice every moves hardly by trying them out oftenly and asked senior as if my moves were correct or not.I even kept practicing when its the time given by the seniors to rest.I'm really grateful on the way the seniors taught and the patient they have on teaching newbies and not less with the effort based on their knowledge in dancing. OK, after the practice, i felt fully confident but still abit nervous as it is the human nature to nervous when some test or exam that is important to ourselves is up ahead a couple more minutes XD.

Well, its my turn already, there are 3 trial, 1st is dancing accompanied by senior, 2nd will be by ourselves, that the 3rd is swap position with other participants, although it seems to be alot of trial. I can tell the whole process was moving like thunder as for me the nervous one. My mind towards time when dancing was like split seconds. After the dance, i don't really how far i did, everyone in the room just clapped their hands, but i dun dare to jump in to a conclusion as the seniors will surely clapped their hand to entertain the participants. Now, all i have to do is to wait for tomorrow as the result will be on the blog as i asked on of the seniors.

At 10.00 pm, I just keep refreshing the webpage on the FB's blogspot, eagerly to know whether I'm IN or not, I happily found out that my name, Marcus Yap is written on the list(27) I was so happy that i hugged one of my roommates , tommy!~ XD. I passed! and in this following friday, i will attend for the training session in the club room! =DD

NO 27