Some of you who have been following me on Twitter, Facebook, most probably know what's happened at last weekend. The biggest achievement I've had in my 9 years dancing career. No Joke! I and my dance partner won.

in 11th Stardust Dancesport Championship on 27th June. Presenting to you the big and beautiful trophy.



Happy, excited, crazy...Of course! But above all, I must say it's a SATISFACTION! It's a reward of so many nights (almost 5 days/ week) of practice for 2 to 3 hours each day.

It's a REWARD for all the blisters on my feet, the bruises on my legs, the pain on the body till the next day I couldn't walk properly.

The big COMPLIMENT for the patience that I spent every night on making the dance costume on my own for that competition.

I think among the hundred competitors, I might be the only one who self-made dance costume. Most of the costumes are made by professionals which cost more than a thousand dollars each.

From this normal teddy or monokini whatever you call it, I cut it off into a few pieces.



adding some shiny fringes i bought in Malaysia time ago......


Every night, I spent at least 2 hours after my dance practice to make this. The final result is this



My competition was on Sunday and only Sunday morning, I completed the whole dress with the hand-made accessories come together i.e bangles, earrings (in exact same color) and


Ok, I know those manicurists can curse me or hate me more now because I did my nails myself too. Sorry for taking up your business, it's just I didn't have time for you. Anyway, it isn't perfect if I don't want to say it's lousy nail arts, but I did it on my own, hello! What you expect?

I have not mentioned about my shoes yet :p


Sorry, there weren't many photos captured because everyone was busy watching. I had great friends came to support me that night, feel so happy to dance for them too.

And here is the video!

Queen Cup International Ballroom Dancing Championships!!!!

Some photos were taken by DStudiolab just before the competition. Too beautiful not to share.

The bullfighter

or the Paso Doble dance

I was supposed to blog 3 days ago about this, but I was too damn busy. So I guess, some of you have seen the video on my Facebook fan page. And here is the story about this video. 

Autumn Leave is a famous song sang by Eva Cassidy. I was totally in love with the song when first time I listened to it. It was so beautiful, yet emotional (Perhaps, Eva's soothing voice adds extra emotion to the song). It is a sad song! (*I don't know why, but I always fall in love with sad songs than happy ones). 

The story in this song is about a girl, who misses her boyfriend so much. Since he left her, she started counting every autumn leave falling until the day he came back. The lyric is short, but full of meaning behind every word:

"The falling leaves drift by my window The falling leaves of red and gold I see your lips, the summer kisses The sunburned hands I used to hold Since you went away the days grow long And soon I'll hear old winter's song But I miss you most of all, my darling When autumn leaves start to fall Since you went away the days grow long And soon I'll hear old winter's song But I miss you most of all, my darling When autumn leaves start to fall I miss you most of all, my darling When autumn leaves start to fall"

Every time I listen to this song, I want to dance. So Sam Kumar (movie director) has met my idea and offered to make a dance music video for me. This was our first collaboration. It took us 2 weeks to finish recording all the scenes and another month for Sam to put all in together. It was fun during the shoot, but it was tiring too. I ever played a role and acted in theater before when I was at age of 16. I thought all acting was the same. But the truth is, acting in theater is totally different from acting movie, and a dance music video. There is no conversation, just facial expressions alone. One scene, we had to repeat a few times because either my facial expression was not deep enough to portray the story of the song, people walked around, or dogs ran here and there. 

At last, we managed to finish. I'm very happy to see the video I've acted. Some people were asking me, what did you think when you were walking, sitting down and look very sad. What did you think??? To be honest, I didn't think of anything. I was looking at the bird lolz. 

Just me myself with the feeling of walking around, thinking of my boyfriend, missing him, counting leaves falling to wait for him to come back, etc... So I guess, you should watch the video and judge yourself about my acting, I hope it won't be that horrible, :D

Overall, I like the video, but I dislike my make up that day. *pffff, the shiny make up plus the sunny weather made my eyes look so puffy. Hate!

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Do I look like an angel fell down from the sky? Hahaha

Love my white real-silk dress bought at Vietnam airport! So flowy! I purposely reserve this dress for beach occasion, but still haven't gone to beach since I got it. So damn pissed!

Thank you so much for watching the video and reading this random post. 

Ok, just show you some of the photos to view back the event that I have gone through. It's memorable; I could say! My pretty gals! The sexy couple with Rumba. This blue fringe costume was the first one that I made and I don't like it that much now.The sexy samba girl, the pink dress I did it few day before the event. Every night back home from teaching, I spend a couple of hours sewing and cutting. I'm so tired. But luckily, the result comes out not so bad at all.The Chacha couple, this dress will look so much nicer if it's attached to a big flare bottom skirt, I think.TThis sexy golden fringe costume is my favorite. It came from my idea on the day I was shopping with Cassandra. We both saw the materials, and three weeks later, the dress was done. And this is the result. Paso dance, I just love the expression on Yvette's face.
And here you go, my performance. It was my first time dancing with Jonathan for this anniversary. At first, I thought, it's going to be a bit difficult for us because Jon seems a quiet person while I'm very talkative. Prior to this dance performance, we didn't have time to know each other more, plus his dancing style and mine are pretty different. Surprisingly, everything went well. We had a great time working together. He is young but very discipline and very punctual. That's what I like! In the end, we managed to give to our audience this result. Here and there, there were some mistakes, but only we both knew. Wooooooohhhh! I'm flying! Here you go! Me and my "borrowed" partner- Jonathan. That's about it! More pics will be up soon!

Just take a look at some photos I captured on that day to cheer you all up! Wish all my students can improve more and more, go further in the dancing world and joining competitions is not impossible in the near futurer!

SWDS group

Best shot of the night with Jive action (Tony_Amy) by Crystal

Chachacha- See what little gal can do

"We are not worse than the model in the backdrop" :D I know gals

Ended up the exam is pizza small party! Cheer!

Borrow Cass to replace my BB temporarily :p

The beautiful backdrop was a great job of Randy (Ivy's brother in law). Excellent!!!

Ivy was helping students to make up.... We stayed there since 11am to prepare all these... I was exhausted.

Three sisters in a family... Believe or not??? :)

Our pretty receptionists.

The dance performances