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a few weeks back, i sent an email to my ex-dance teacher from my primary school about "Mary's Adventures of Dance" and i thought that i'd share it with you guys too. Of course not the exact same words, just because HAHAHAH.

many of you have been asking me on ask.fm if i have any dance classes. i'd say no.

surprising or no? 

first, no dance classes cos no money mah, how go dance classes HAHHA. 

second, time consuming. kind of busy nowadays especially when it's exam period and the ndp thing going on. even on normal days when i'm completely free, i'm just lazy to get my butt off the sofa because #lazymary hehe. well in the first place if you'd ask me to choose between my laptop and dance, i'd choose my laptop HAHA jkjk. 

but yes, no dance classes. well, sunday stretching sessions in PA are an exception haha. they're not really dance lessons. 

so what got me into dance? 

well, cheesy story, it was my sister that got me into dance (and partially my primary school's talent contest). 

i asked my mom during dinner time a few days ago if i was already into dance when i was young, and she said "no? you were a singer and dance just came out of nowhere." and  i just laughed HAHAHAHAH   

dance just came when i was 10. there was that annual talent contest in my primry school, "kellock superstar" and at that time i didn't have any interest in dance. absolutely no interest in dance. (my cca from P4 to P6 was IT Club HAHA cannot believe or cannot believe?) but when i saw the contestants dancing, something struck me and after the performance, i stupidly vowed to myself that i'd join kellock superstar the year after. and i did. stupidly. 

so i signed up for the contest, picked two songs, combined it together and learned the dance, having no knowledge of dance at all. (credits to  my sis too. she learned the gee dance by snsd  and she inspired me hahahahah)  i watched the video every day to learn the steps and i stupidly (again) auditioned. it was a solo performance btw. and wow, surprisingly i got in. 

HAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHHHAHHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAH.

AND SO I PERFORMED  MY DANCE ROUTINE AS A CONTESTANT 

but no i dint win cos there was no winner pft. teacher cheat my feelings. 

so yay first ever performance of dance was in 2011. and after that i started loving dance more and more. 

so 2012 came and i joined the contest again, this time with a group (gabby, patrina and sammi hahah thanks guys!!) so we danced our usual kpop to the whole school yay. of course there wasn't a winner again because idek pft.

so after the performance, we were asked by our teachers to perform more. 

on teacher's day we had to make another choreography and perform again, and also on children's day we were last minute called to do a gangnam style  mass dance lol (we danced in our uniforms which was kind of stupid cos we didn't have any costume) and yeah. 

the last performance was i guess our primary school's open house. this time, i danced with my class kpop (again), which was taught by that teacher that i emailed. the song was i am the best by 2ne1 and for some weird reason, our vice principal put my class as the opening act lol. i cannot i just cannot HAHAHHA thinking about it makes me laugh. 

and yeah, after primary school i took dance to a whole new level. i asked for a lot of advice from my ex-dance teacher about dance and if i should really take dance seriously. i must say that his advice-s were really good and i guess he kind of molded me into the person i am now. 

i decided to join the dance cca and cheerleading and i've enjoyed it so far. 

of course nothing in life easy, including dance. 

there are a hella lot of strenuous stretching, and it can be extremely painful sometimes. some dancers start at a young age and that leads me to be behind them cos i'm not flexible in any sort hahaa. fyi i cant do splits AHHAHA so it's harder for me when it comes to flexibility. 

i am though willing to take that risk to break bones and stuff to make my self a better dancer cos omg you know when i watch videos of myself dancing i just /le facepalm.  

i am planning to take dance seriously, but the life of a dancer is usually very short so i'm not really sure what i'll be doing yet, soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo yah. 

my passion of dance is still burning strong and i guess i've found what i really want to do in my life and i hope you'll find yours too :) 

AS A BONUS, 

i've decided to show you an ugly fetus of my old ugly bony self a video of me dancing to wonder girls.  

PFT. (i'm the one in the middle with the green long dress haha) so ugly omg i cannot

this is kinda blur so if you want the link, click this heart ♥

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