Not Feeling Well

Ish is not feeling well today. I think she got super exhausted with the rehearsals that started Monday. Now she has colds. I didn't feel ok on Wednesday because of exhaustion too but I drank a glass of fresh lemonade. She is not a big fan of lemonades and I didn't think that she was not feeling well that day. She was ok, she was even ok on the day of the recital. Today she didn't go with us to the movies. I didn't have a single idea that she didn't feel well. I thought she was just sleepy. But when we got home, her colds was terrible. I guess those rehearsals took a toll on her. Poor darling doll. She really worked hard to perfect their routine and I am happy that they performed well. Their group was well applauded. We are really very happy that she has gone a long way with her belly dance moves. I can say that she has improved a lot after a year of dancing. Way to go my darling girl.

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Perfect Tee

Haha, it's like screaming it loud, duh but i'm no PRO. I do it for exercise and I don't have any plans of turning pro, heh like I can. Well, that shirt was a token given to me by our Teacher when she had her dayoff and I was one of those who took over. Now I'm waiting for that episode to be shown. I don't have any idea when so I'd better watch every Saturday. I hope I won't miss it. Hmmm, maybe I can ask Teacher to send me sms, for sure she knows when.

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Belly Dancing Update

We finally finished the whole dance routine today. It just needs polishing. I really love this dance routine and I am having fun learning it. At first I thought that dancing with a cane was quite impossible, but hey I was mistaken. It's fun! I wanna learn more dance routines using the cane, but I hope it's as easy too. We actually learned how to use the cane last year, but I didn't enjoy it as much. Maybe because it was more advance than what we are doing right now. Teacher Gladys took a video of our session today but I will post it some other time. I still have to resize it, and I am totally clueless on how to do it for now. I forgot, so please give me a hundred years ^_^ before it appears in this blog. Boo!

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Teacher's Day Off

Do you know who this guy err gay err whatevah is? He is Pecto, one of the hosts of the show Day Off at QTV. Well we taught him some belly dancing moves because he will replace our teacher just for one session. Their show gave our teacher a day off. This guy is really funny, he's got funny bones. He was not hard to teach either, maybe a born dancer too?

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Still into Dancing

I'm still into Belly Dancing, and enjoying every minute of it. I don't think I can give it up because this is my only form of exercise. And besides this is the exercise that has given me back my curves (ahem). Really I'm not kidding, I used to have a body that can compare to a bean bag, but now no more, and thanks to Belly Dancing. If you are interested to enroll, classes are held every Mondays and Fridays at 6 in the evening. If you want to know the health benefits of belly dancing, read it here

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Belly Dancing

We had the privilege of having Pacita Prasarn as guest instructor at our belly class. She is an instructor based in the US, and she's really good. She taught us different ways on how to do the shimmy. And I was like, huh! how did she do that? It's really amazing how she can move her body and how she can isolate her movements. It was like wow! I don't know if I got her techniques right as it was really quite foreign to me. Too bad she taught for about 30 minutes only. She actually had another class yesterday. But I was not able to attend, I had a prior commitment. She'll be here until the 20th I guess, I hope I can still attend the special class she'll be having.

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Fruitful Week

Wahoo! I'm done with tutoring, 2nd Grading Periodical Test Week is over. It was a very toxic week, I didn't know how I managed. I always had to wake up early, to prepare lunch meal for the kids, checked the reviewers, tutor the kids after lunch, start preparing for the evening meal, teach them again after dinner. My only time to do sponsored posts was when everyone's already settled and asleep. It's so hard to do sponsored posts in between bloghopping. So I always end up sleeping at 2 in the morning.

Friday was a treat for me. I was able to sleep until 10 in the morning. Ahhhh it feels good. In the afternoon, I went to Union Bank to open an eon visa cyber account which has a tie up with paypal. Hopefully all the payments for the sponsored thingy will be credited to this account. Thanks to Rowena, I actually read it in one of her twitter messages. Although I already opened one with Security Bank, I just wasn't sure if it had a tie up with paypal.

I was able to attend belly dancing class too. I missed 2 sessions already and was happy to be back. We had our bonding moment after class when we had dinner at Tempura with my dancing buddies. Too bad Rica wasn't able to join us, miss you girlfriend!

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Practicing for December

The kids have been learning this dance routine (hiphop belly) for about two sessions already. They will perform this at the planned dance recital come December. Nothing is final yet, but hopefully it will push through.

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Inspired by KC's Peep Toes Shoes

I was inspired more like jealous of KC's collection of shoes in different colors that I decided to buy my own peep toes when I went to 168 Shopping Mall yesterday. I think it's made in Korea, and comes in different colors. I wanted to get the mustard one to go with my Furla bag, but too bad they didn't have my size.

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Yay! Finally

Oh yes! BFF finally joined belly class today. I'm happy that she decided to continue dancing after 6 months. Way to go cuz! I'm overjoyed that we shall see each other at least twice a week. Let's shimmy together...all right?

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Arrrgh! It Hurts!

It's good to be back dancing again. I didn't attend class after the BellyFest...a lot of things came up. And guess what greeted me? All isolations! It's pretty hard doing it. Imagine doing the shimmy combined with hip roll, figure 8 and reverse, maya and reverse, camel and reverse. But it's really good for toning. Teacher asked us to do our assignment at home, meaning spend time doing it until it's perfect, i guess close to perfect will do ^_^

Now my mid section hurts...and the good news? I did the isolation the correct way, teehee!

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Belly Fest 2007

Belly Fest 2007 was a success! It was held last June 9, 2007 at the Henry Lee Irwin Theater at Ateneo. It was really fun being part of the show. We were there as early as 3 in the afternoon to do a dance at the fairgrounds. The show proper started at 7 in the evening, lasted til i guess before 12. Nope we didn't get to do the curtain call, we were really starving. Good thing the restaurants within the area close late so we were able to grab a bite. N enjoyed the show a lot and was able to get pretty good pictures.

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Beading Time

I'm making new tops for the forthcoming Bellyfest 2007 on June 9 at the Henry Lee Irwin Theater at Ateneo de Manila. It's gonna be at 7 pm and we're one of the featured recitalists. This is the first Philippine Belly Dance Festival. Ish requested for a purple costume, and I'm making myself a yellow one. I had our skirts sewn, otherwise if I do it myself, we'd go bottomless ^_^. At least i'm done with the purple top and still working on the blue one, gosh I still have to do the yellow. OMG it's a lot of work still plus I have to do some beadworks on the skirts. Thank God Elma (one of my angels) is helping me out at least with the skirts. So if I'm not able to visit your blogs, please forgive me, I'll make it up to you once I'm done with all these. And if you're wondering why I'm able to do some sponsored posts, well your guess is as good as mine ^_^

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Away For a Holiday

If i'm missing in action, it's because we'll be away for a holiday. I'm leaving you these pictures taken during our recent summer recital. (Click photos for larger file)

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Dance...Dance...Dance

Man! We are dead tired! We danced practically for 6 hours yesterday...the longest. We are preparing for tomorrow's dance recital which will be featured in GMA's Unang Hirit. I don't know how we can dance that early. Regine said our call time is around 5 in the morning, and that means we have to be up at around 3? No way! Honestly I don't know how we're gonna do it.

I'm happy that Ish is dancing with me. She only started in May and she's joining the recital. She was able to memorize the 3 dance routines in like 5 sessions, and to think that she doesn't have a background in belly dancing. She still has to learn the basic. Too bad school starts in June and she can no longer join us.

a preview of Isha in her costume

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Bits and Pieces

If you noticed lately, I have been including sponsored posts in my blog. And i'm happy to share that the two posts i've written have been approved. Well I'm just waiting for them to mail my check (i'll keep you posted). Since I have been endorsing a lot of products here in my site, I thought why not get paid. The funny thing when it's a sponsored post, I find myself in front of the laptop longer than my usual almost everyday posts. Sometimes I just find it hard to endorse products, or talk about a certain sites. There are actually a lot of sponsored posts that you can take, but then again it's very hard to write about things that you can't relate to. If I get my first check in the amount of US$55, I promised myself to get a dot com, now isn't that cool ^_^

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My daughter Ish decided to join me in my belly dancing class. The first time I brought her there, she had second thoughts of joining. But she made up her mind one day and now we belly dance together. I bought her two sets of costumes in Divisoria for her to use on the 18th for another recital. I was thinking of making her one, but I just don't have the time to do it. I don't wanna feel stressed out just like the last time. I know it's my fault coz I'm fond of doing things at the last minute. And yeah, I don't think her Dad will allow her to use those bra type tops that I normally go for. Now is that an excuse? ^_^

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Cuz has been sharing with me this Korean brand of makeup called The Face Shop since last year. I didn't have the time to check it out until last Tuesday when my SIL invited me to go to Serendra. I bought their eye and lips makeup remover. It's oil free and alcohol free. I think I like it, it's not harsh even if a little goes into your eye. I also bought their pink lipstick.

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Belly Dancing & Yoga

This is the reason why I look forward to Mondays and Fridays. Belly dancing class gets exciting more and more. Since we already had our first dance performance, teacher said that it's high time that we do "advance". "Advance" means having to incorporate a lil of yoga to our routine, to be able to be more flexible. There are a lot more benefits of doing yoga which I hope to achieve. Like improve more on my posture, increase my endurance and energy level, be able to have a sound sleep, improve balance, and most of all the flexibility factor. These are just but a few, and I hope to achieve more. For first timers like me, arrrrgggg, it's an agony, body aches all over, but it feels good and gets to be very relaxing. What a start for year 2007!

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Performing for Family and Friends

We already had our christmas party in the studio where I attend belly dancing classes. We had fun performing for our families and friends. We got to wear the costumes and was able to do all routines that we were suppose to do in the so called "recital". Our teacher wants to call it a "mini recital" but I'd rather call it a performance. The audience really appreciated our moves, and I can see from their faces that they really enjoyed the show. I asked Isha to take photos coz N decided to take a video instead. Do I have pictures while performing you ask? NONE, as in NONE, and when I asked her, this is what she told me. "But Mom, I was enjoying the show that I didn't like to take pictures". So there, I don't have photos, but I have a video which I can't upload to YouTube right now because of the file size. I also couldn't edit it in Windows Movie Player, it does not support .VOB files. I need a hundred years to figure it out...so for now I guess these pictures will do. I had to crop/blur some of the pictures to show only myself, I forgot to ask them it it's ok to post our pictures in the blog.

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