Monday, April 28, 2008

So you think you can Dance 2008 OZ version

So this show is finally over
Final four ... Demi Sorono, Rhys Bobridge (front), Jack Chambers or Kate Wormald

& the winner is Jack .tho i think RHys has more public charisma but Jack has better technique
watch their duet dance and u be the judge.
Jack was in red

Jack's video

The judges and host
So You Think You Can Dance judges Bonnie Lythgoe, Jason Coleman, and judge Matt Lee (right), with host Natalie Bassingthwaighte. Jason is like the Simon Cowell but his view are definitely Sharp and True.


here i wanna share some of my fav routines, watching all these is as good as going for a good dance theatre i guess tho i haven been to one before. do bo

Hot (highly recommended)
Sizzling Hot !!! Jemma & Rhys- Break it off - Hip hop # 1 most watched video

Breath Taking!!! Jemma & Rhys - a new day has come - "Contemporary"

Sleek!!! Kate & Rhys - There it go (the whistle song)

Breath Taking for the judges!!!! Kate & Graeme - fix you " Contemporary" # 2 most watched video

Fun!!! Kate & Jack Spiderman
Quickstep

Funk!!! Kate & Jack singing in the Rain


Cute!!! Graem, Jack & Rhys - Hurt something

Lively!!!-Rhiannon & Graeme 4 minutes (Mr & Mrs Smith)

JFH A fusion of the standard dances styles of Jazz, Funk and Hip Hop.



Sharp!!! Vanessa & Henry - Lo lo Dzama "Samba"# 3 most watched video

Kate & Rhys - Give it to me

Not so Hot but still recommended

Jack Solo Mission Impossible

Rhiannon Solo 1 Thing

Demi & Jack - Brainstorm # 4 most watched video

Rhiannon & JD- Somebody Told Me Jazz

Rhiannon & JD- What's your Flava Popping

Some with Pop Songs
Pump it - BEP

Untouched by Veronicas
Hot by Avril


Group routine
i like gp routine as well

Top 4 Impacto

Top 4 Grand Finale

Top 8 song of the heart

Top 10 Hip hop is dead

Grand Finale Top 10 I got rhythm - sorta 60s-70s theatre

Top 12 Blackbird

Top 16 Sing Sing Sing

*It's such a pity that some of them don't have the original music.

Guess Performances
Hip Hop breakdance
Tap Dogs


Caleb THe young promising dancer who is not qualified but there is so much fuss about him.
i think it's a marketing strategy.
his description by the judge
15 year old boy with a jump that rivals any male dancer in the world , the flexibility & line of a prima ballerina and the performance maturity of a 30 year old. Caleb during audition


his guest performance with damien leith song in Grand Finale

i'm wondering if Caleb was qualified, will he win instead? >_<

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Foreign Films

I juz love foreign films.they are just so true, raw and not as corny as Hollywood or Hongkie Show moments ago, i just watched this
Jeux d'enfants (aka Love me if you dare) is the story of a game of truth or dare gone wildly out of control. The games (jeux) begin when Julien and Sophie are children (enfants), but as they grow older they intensify and become more twisted and dangerous. Although they are in love with each other, the game later dictates their future, and the dare even goes as far as hurting and tricking each other. Tells a story of two adults who never wanted to grow up and are getting this big burst of adrenaline out of this game. Their likewise escalating love strives to be expressed in a way other than through the games.

The overarching theme is of a struggle between childhood playfulness and the expectations of the adult world: the characters age significantly over the course of the film, and Julien is forced — several times — to pick between the rose–coloured world of fun represented by Sophie, or the expectations, demands, and successes of the adult world represented by his father and his eventual wife and children. Sophie, meanwhile, is content to live her life — as she puts it "a cream puff", becoming a trophy wife to a successful (soccer) player. Nonetheless, she keeps returning to Julien, despite her superficial satisfaction with what she has.

Keystone to the film is a small tin box in the shape of a carousel. In a flash–forward segment, the film opens with a shot of a construction site, with the box partially enveloped in concrete. Once we return to the present, we see Julien initially receives it from his mother, and upon seeing Sophie being mistreated by other children at school, presents it to her. He hopes she'll lend it back on occasion, but she demands he do something daring to prove he really wants it. Thereafter, the two are engaged in a playful rivalry: whoever has the box can force the other to perform a dare to get it back. The film ultimately ends with a nearly identical shot to the opening, with the box once again partially enveloped in concrete.

The film's visual style also reflects the setting: while Julien and Sophie are children, the world is slightly fuzzy, and everything is bright and colourful. As they grow older, the film becomes sharper, and the colour more realistic. In a hypothetical scene of the two as an elderly couple, the film again becomes fuzzy, but now has a definite sepia tint.

-adapted from Wikipedia



French longer version trailer

The Official Website

I totally loved the experience of this movie... and the conceit of "the game"! BUT what I really liked IS questionable... these were perhaps the MEANEST characters I've seen in a film who WEREN'T "bad guys" in years! That said... THAT'S what I loved! These characters were completely selfish... withholding their feelings from each other for fear of being hurt... but then taking it to another level by dragging innocent bystanders into their game (through marriages that are PART of the game)... Without giving away too much... what I liked about watching this movie unfold is what Hollywood never allows-- sometimes people just suck!
Michael Carlin

I totally agree. i like and hate the anticlimax too. It is especially wicked when they make one party believes that they are so totally in love and is goin to reconcile but then strike back with an even more evil revenge. it's a vicious cycle. sometimes you are so bored of hollywood romance movies, this actually come as a surprise to me. Though the "happy" ending is artsy, atypical and symbolic, it's still abit sad tho.... shall not spoil it for you...


Sunday, April 06, 2008

Getting my life back together...

MEDICINE
The start of the medicine term is what i call LIFE
medicine is more relaxing as compared to surgery... start later in the morning, can go home on time....... the renal team is nice.....welcoming to students.....less "bitching" than surgery :D
and i don't agree with the idea of totally hating one specialty....i heard surgeon to be frens saying that they hate medicine and ward round..... but when u come to think of it...it's like a division of labour....you can't totally hate something when you can't survive without it.........
anyway....my renal knowledge is deteriorating day by day....felt like revising....but is overwhelmed by the different assessments : case presentations, Quality of Medicine assignment, Tutorials, Attendance & participation in the team, blah blah blah.etc

Year 6 under the old course is so lucky....they have no obligations to participate in the team and ward round as it's not part of their assessment....so they have the liberty to MUG at home.... but i don't know what will they miss in return.
while the poor year 5 have to juggle the clinical participation and mugging altogether....and most of the time after my clinical participation, i'm already too KO to mug >_< really need to adapt and learn how to study effectively man!!!

NETBALL
as i was contemplating how to keep myself fit
i have 3 choices
1. join the gym
2. buy a treadmill (same price as one year membership of gym) since that's the only thing i use in gym so better long term investment.
3. run to bondi again like last year (which makes me have big calves.... plus i have to fight with time as have to get back before sunset so that i don't scare myself at the cemetery.

in the end i didn't choose anyof them but i have involved myself in some netball stuff
--> first i spent 80 bucks to join netball thursday social as i figure i don't want something too vigorous for a start..... but in the end it can't satiate my desire to perform
--> so i spent another 210 bucks to join the winter comp.... felt better becuz have training....but still not quite there yet...

my conclusion is that the more i play....the worse i felt, the more frustrating i get..... kept making those shitty passes that don't reach my teammates......kept having obstruction/contact till i don't feel like doin active defending anymore. Wing D is hard to perform for me....
given my like ~7 years experiences of playing netball casually....i never felt so bad before....... : (

our thursday social team is like a rojak of players....obviously no chemistry since it's the first time we play together....no training as well so how can have CHEMISTRY LEH?!!!! pple r not keen on training too. we still lack some chemistry and strategic positioning. won the first game but lost the second week....felt that coach shld teach us on strategic positioning instead of basic stuff like knowing your boundaries and run and stop -_-
but i do see some potential good players as they have the HEIGHT

playing with angmos is definitely harder and different fr asian
cuz they are taller, more macho and thus faster. Nevertheless, i still enjoy playing netball as a form of exercising cuz i get to upgrade my skill at the same time.


* last week was the record week when i played 5 days of netball straight fr wed to sun....anyways: We won the the Sydney Malaysian Students Sports Carnival Netball. it was well played in the sense that it's skillful with minimal catfighting for the games we played and the opponents felt happy playing with us... that's how netball shld be. Kudos for the MSO netball gals. stayed back after the game to watch bball....but totally no " kick" so left halfway.*_* I have no idea who is the overall champ.


Unprepared for pic


There you go!! the FULL TEAM

The 2 towers >_<

The 2 sassy goal attackers

The Sassy Goald Shooters and the Macho Goal Defenders


Check out Georgia....the pretty ref wearing the UNSW netball uniform at the sideline *o*

Meijiun: Yeeks!!!! Cockroach!!! *Jump*

Looking at the Sassy Attacker doing their stuff while we rest our legs....

Yeah....another effortless goal....ok time to stroll back to starting line again

Run for the ball!!! (Why am i not running as hard as the others ? :P)

fyi:
MSO is UNSW
SUAMS: sydney uni
MASA: Uni technology of sydney
MSA: Macquarie uni
Molly
previously i was having some trouble with Sheila which is actually getting better as she's slowly opening up to me. However, Kate strongly suggested me changing so i oblige.....so
here she is Molly- the oldest resident

second time i saw her juz happen to be her dining time. which is good in the sense that i know wat is she going thru everyday but bad in the sense that other residents are curious about me. but i don't want my attention for Molly divided.

so today i went, brought her out to the garden and driveway on her wheelchair for some adventure. but i got abit scared....cuz she got a little bit confuse and thot we were lost at somewhere in bondi junction.... -_- she kept pointing me to some random places telling me that thats the direction to Oxford Street... apart from the disorientation. she also had hallucination, saying that there is a book on the floor or some little boy sitting somewhere or someone callin me but infact there's none.... anyway i juz play along with it.... accordin to the nurse she was quite down the whole day as she wants to go home.
she had typical symptoms of dementia: depression, hallucination.etc. i guess antidepressant will really help her.....
plus she can't see and hear well so most often our conversation doesn't flow.
i had a feeling that she's getting abit upset of getting lost on the "oxford st" while we were actually still on safe premises( she even suggested me asking someone for direction).
i illegally pluck one flower for her from the garden. isn't she cute....but as you can see she looked so confused... i was alil bit worried that bringing her out may upset her more....so i wheel her back again.... then i join her in the Rosary Benediction Mass which i pretend to be "closing my eyes to pray" in fact i was actually dozing off...........which the sisters noticed straight away.... :P


oh no....come to think of it...she may be delirous instead of demented. cuz i saw her 2 weeks ago she wasn't that bad and she is having some sort of diarrhea....better call back tomorrow morning and ask.