Bling- bling Nails

Yay, it's 3 more days to CNY :). I'm so happy to be going back to home sweet home soon and i can see my family, my dog, my relatives, my friends and everything else that is so familiar. :)

Neway, to usher in the year of ox, i had decided to do something to my nails. I robbed DD in to helped me with my nail art. Actually, it's more to gluing the rhinestones on my nails rather than drawing anything artistic as i'm really a noob in drawing and i don't wanna ruin my nails. hehe..

I always wanted to give this nail art thing a try but because i always had classes and long nails are an absolute no-no for my field of study, so this one week break is a great opportunity for me to try it out even though my nails are still short. Since i'm trying to save money now, what's cheaper than DIY?

Actually, the whole process of doing the nail art is not difficult. But, it needs patience and is time-consuming as we had to apply the base coat, wait to dry, polish, wait to dry, then design the art or in my case, start gluing the stones one by one, wait to dry, and finally, top coat and wait for it to dry and you will have pretty pretty nails. :)

Some of the basic stuff needed

Guess which hand is this? hehehe.. this is the pink hand because the stones are pink and silver :p.. my designs are mainly abstract designs

The flower design on my thumb..i'm a left hander, so using the right hand to do this is more difficult compared to using my left hand to do it

The blue hand..more abstract designs

Pretty?

It is my 1st attempt doing this kinda thing, so i was pretty hyper doing it. hehe.. Now when i look at my fingers, i can see the bling-blingness in them instead of the usual boring-looking nails.

DD also helped me to designed a few. Guessed which is his work? haha

I'm so in love with my bling bling nails right now. I wish they can last through the whole CNY break at least. :)

I'm so into the CNY mood already. Can't wait to get home and i can get my hands on those CNY cookies and bbq pork or chicken. hahaha..

Let's just hope tomorrow bus ride will be smooth and don't take more than 10 hours. :)

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EAMSC 5 : Cultural Night and Farewell

Finally, it was the last night of EAMSC 2009. The four days of the conference was extremely short and it's marvelous how in such a short period of time we got to know some people so much more and meet amazing and wonderful people from all around the world.

The last night was specially dedicated for cultural performances and delegates were encouraged to dress in cultural costumes too. It was very exciting and this is one of my fav part of the conference because everyone would dressed in colorful and beautiful traditional costumes and of course, the various performances put up by each country was simply sensational. It's amazing how in such a short time frame (3-4 days), delegates from each country whom prior to the conference had never really met for practiced actually only met up during country meeting, planned and practiced their cultural performance and pulled it off so perfectly on the night of the performance. All of us don't have months and months to practiced, all we had were a few nights together to do some practiced, so for that i think everyone did an awesome job. :)

First country up was the land Down Under, Australia. Aussie's performance was crazy but very entertaining. They always had a twist of the unexpected and through their performance, we can see the difference in theirs and our Asians mentality. (very hard to explain this part..haha)

Waltzing Matilda

Chicken dance..the modified version

I don't quite understand why at every Aus cultural performance, there will be one part that they will remove their shirts, but check out the abs and triceps and biceps.. whoa.. (k la, for those who already know me, u know how attractive a good body is to me right..hahaha :p) To watch the whole chicken dance, click the video below.

Team Hong Kong demonstrating tai chi and followed by a modern dance

The Indonesians are definitely another to impress me. With such a large number of delegates, they managed to synchronize their dance steps so well and make it so interesting. No wonder they say, practice makes perfect. Behind this wonderful performance, the Indons really practiced hard.

Kawaii Japanese girls in their high school uniform doing a kawaii high school dance (if you notice, there is one guy among the girls actually..haha)

Kawaii :)

Koreans drumming..very hebat also..from the beat of the drums, you can actually imitate the wind, sun and storm.

After the drumming, pseudo Rain, which is actually Nick from my group (way to go Nick :D ) and 2 of his friends gave us all a very heart-melting modern Korean dance. If i didn't know Nick for the past 3 days, i really might think he is some Korean superstar. Serious, for the moment on stage, he looks just like a superstar and he is so good at dancing. I only managed to record the first minute of his dance which was a great pity (after that my batt went flat, arghh) cz his dance only got better and better. I will try to find a complete version of the video because you all really must watch it!! :p

Up next was Thailand. They too, gave a very light hearted, cheerful dance. The girls are all so pretty too

By this time, i was like, OMG.. So far, each and every country performances had been mind-blowing and super fantabulously terrific. Then, i thought about our very own performance. I only practiced and knew that i was going to performed like on the 1st day of the conference? There was this deep feeling inside me that did not want to go up on stage to perform anymore. After all we are the host country, we were supposed to be the most mind-blowing and memorable but somehow, can we? I was like looking at Mian Li and telling her maybe we should all come up with a plan B or something. It's like an emergency crisis back at our seats. Then just as we were in mid crisis, the mc called out for Malaysia. *thud thud thud*

So, the AMSA Malaysians picked up their couraged and decided to just performed since we don't really had any other choices anyway. Come to think of it now, it's quite funny how we felt then. Anyway, my part of Chinese dance was not that long, i think it's only 5 mins so even if we do embarassed ourselves, it will be for that short 5 mins.. hahaha

Basically, the Malaysia performance was divided into 3 parts. The 1st part potrays the Malay culture and there was a silat demonstration, serving of kuih-muih and playing of traditional games like congkak.

The second part was the Chinese culture part. Me and ML were the only 2 that wore cheongsam and DD and J were the other 2 that wore samfu, so there's only 4 of us doing the Chinese part. We did a short fan dance and then there was J great idea of throwing mandarin oranges to show that during the 15th day of Lunar New Year, girls will throw mandarin oranges to the guys and guys who pick them up will go spot the girl and they will start dating happily. Only in our performance, revolution had occurred and guys are the one throwing and girls are the one catching. :p

The fan dance..my fan super cacat..it broke halfway while i was dancing!! Luckily, the dance was only 5 mins and i had to hold on to it's broken end just in case it comes into pieces halfway, if that happens, Malaysia's performance will definitely be memorable :p

3rd part was the Indian dance..sizzling sexy..haha

And finally, everyone came out to take a bow and the last part was when all Malaysia delegates came together to sing 'Rasa Sayang' spontaneously. That was plan B. hahaha

By the time Taiwan went on with their performance, my camera batt was flat so i did not even managed to captured a single pic but all the same, their performance was very good. In fact, all the performances had been breath-taking and i wished we could see more of this often.

Just a few more pics of the night, everyone looking so pretty and good in their traditional costumes.

With Malaysian delegates..multi-cultural indeed

me and DD

More Malaysian delegates

The girls from Mongolia and Aus

Shazeea and me

The cute Koreans

With some of my group members i managed to catch

me, H fr Philippines and ML

Ali and Ally :p

I had to leave that night itself because turtle land starts class on Sunday. When most ppl heard i had class on Sunday, they all looked so shock. I really wished i had stayed for MOS instead because i shouldn't had bothered bout the c.o.w (what she always called herself). Kinda regret not staying another night.

This conference had certainly brought more memorable and wonderful memories to me and the experience was worthwhile every single cent paid. True, we could had traveled to somewhere longer or further for that amount of money, but the experience and friends gained is not something that can be exchanged for cash. It had been amazing working with my other crazy GM and my group members are fantastic. They had given me the opportunity to had so much fun and to learn so much in such a short period of time. Thanks to the invention of things like facebook, now we can all keep in touch no matter which corner of the earth we are as long as there is internet connection.. haha. Thank you too to the hard work of the organizing committe and everyone else that had make this conference a success. These memories that i had, will always remain with me. :)

Super-duper Group 16

Thank you, Group 16.. much love..muacks :)

PS : Anyone with videos of that night cultural performances, please send it to me. I will really love to keep a copy.

PSS : I will love to have pics of that night too and all the other pics that i had took since my camera batt went flat.

PSSS : Thank you for all that had send/tag me my pictures. Really appreciate that. :)

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EAMSC 4 : Saloma Bistro

Entrance of Saloma

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On the 3rd night of the conference, we went to Saloma Bistro and theater restaurant along Jln Ampang, which is next to Zouk for dinner. The dinner was themed 'Colours of Malaysia Night' as there was cultural performances as we ate.

Honestly, i think Saloma is one of the best choice to bring foreigners to dine at because they not only offer a wide array of local cuisines but they also have cultural performances install for us as we have our dinner. At night, the twin towers can be seen clearly and beautifully from the courtyard of the restaurant.

We arrived at Saloma at about 6pm and luckily, the traffic condition was still fair. We were first brought to Cocoa Boutique which is adjacent to Saloma. Here, there are varieties of Malaysia produced chocolates and some special flavours include papaya, mango, coconut and even durian chocolates. (Don't play play, the durian chocolate is award winning!)

Bananas chocolate! yum

Some sort of chocolate castle..chocs chocs!

While waiting for dinner to start, we walked around the lounge area and enjoy some mocktails served as everyone busy themselves with cam-whoring, lion dance performance (CNY coming..yay yay :D) and appreciate some of the craft work done by the locals.

Guess who i bumped into? UKM-mers from AMSC Tokyo :) (Hong also came into the pic..he also wants to be a Malaysian..hehehe)

As we walked into the lounge, there were kompangs to welcome us

Craftmen at work

Here, a local demonstrating the art of plaiting and weaving

What i find really funny about this pic is not me nor Trung. It's the guy behind trying to kiss the lion. Noticed it? haha

In the theater where we had our dinner, there were at least 8 different type of cultural dances, from the local Malay dance to the indigenous people dance. We managed to get a front table with a very good view of the stage but my camera batt died in no time..zzzz... So, i actually stole a few pics from others who managed to captured very good picture of that night performances.

Don't ask me the name of all the dances because i did not managed to catch it but it was awesome and fantastic. Their costumes are so colourful and eye-catching and the dancers were superb. They were so good that i stopped and watched them dance each time and in the end, even though it was buffet style, i only took 1 plate of starters. haha.. My other 1 plate was taken by DD as i was so glued to my seat.

These are just among some of the dances

Jentayu dancers

This peacock costume is awesome

So graceful

Indigenous people dance

And then, when it's time for the Bangla dance, everyone was invited to go up stage and danced along. I was up there too. Super fun. hehe

There are many many more pics i took that night, but these are among my fav. Can't put too many right, if not you all might get bored of my cam-whoring. :p

@ the lounge

DD, me and KG

The 2 crazy GMs

me and Hiroko.. we both wore black tights with black shoes..hehe

Fellow mates of the same table

I think this might be the only complete GMs pic..can you spot me? hahaha

Group 16! The best-group-ever :)

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