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♥ Thankyou NJMD!
Aristal 2010 ended on Wednesday!
I attended College Day Award Ceremony today receiving a CCA Award for Malay Dance.
All I want to say is thank you NJMD! Not for all the awards and stuff that add to a nice portfolio, but for giving me love and care and concern throughout these years. For allowing me to have something to look forward to everyday. For allowing me to have a CCA which I am proud to be from. For simply just allowing me to be a NJC Malay Dancer, having such awesome CCA mates and awesom teachers-in-charge. For simply adding laugher and joy to my life.
Took two leaves on Tuesday and Wednesday. It was camwhoring and more camwhoring on both days. No reception for most of the day because the dressing rooms were underground (I forgot all about it!) That means I was cut off from the world for most of the time unless I go to the washroom (which is the only place that can receive certain amount of reception). And I do not mind this kind of disconnection from the world, really. As long as I'm with the ones I really treasure.
I wouldn't say I'm exactly awesomely excited. Afterall, I played a minor role in this year's Aristal. Only had a few practices from what I remember. But what made me really touched is that juniors continue this family spirit that we have and will continue to pass down to future batches of juniors. And that they made me feel that although I'm a thing of the past, I have never really left the family all along. Had gotten many many notes from them and pictures flooding my Facebook tells me that despite everything, I'm still loved. (:
Life is really good with just dance and dance only. Nothing else but dance. Just like what Joycelyn has said before, because dance brings me to another world where I can simply lose control over my mind and let it flow with the people and the music. Okay, if I were successful one day, after my dream of opening up a wedding planning services centre, please do not be surprised that the next centre I would open is a dance school.
I wish I could continue dancing. This may not be my last Aristal. For all you know, I will come back next year, the year after and many years later. Till my bones start to crack even when I do warmup on hemstring. Because once a dancer, always a dancer. And nothing else expresses this better than the picture below.
And Joycelyn has said this in the email too. Whenever I tell people that I'm from Malay Dance, they will ask me ' Why Malay Dance? Why not Western or Chinese Dance? Or for that matter, why not Indian Dance?' Have never been able to give a good answer. Angela definitely sort of plays a part in bringing me into Malay Dance. Going to trial practices does not make me feel obliged to continue to stay in NJMD. So why NJMD? It's just fate, really. Sometimes I wonder why I did not IP-ed into NJ, then I'd join NJMD earlier, then I'd have spent 2 more years in NJMD. But then again, if I had done that, would I join NJMD then? Not just because there was no Angela to pull me in or what, but somehow. Everything just happens for a reason.
I could never feel blessed enough. Awesome CCA, I always tell my friends. And I could never do enough or say enough to express how much I love NJMD. Actions speak louder than words. The only way which I can do so is to be there everytime NJMD needs me. A sense of pride beems within me when I walked up the stage today. The GOH said 'Wow it's so rare to see a Chinese in Malay Dance." I smiled. GOH: "Do you enjoy it?" Me: "Yes, I enjoy it a lot." Thank you NJMD, without you, I wouldn't have been what I am today.
