New Life!

My blog is alive!!! Hahahhaaa! :) I've bought VPN for 1 year so now I don't need to worry about not being able to access FB or Blogger anymore! Though sometimes the connection is still very unstable, but at least I'm now sitting and blogging! :)))

So, ahem, I've moved to the new dorm. Now I literally live in a hotel. *cue applause* With me are my two wonderful roommates, Ellen and Kloy! :))) Malaysian and Thai yeayyyyy! Go go South East Asia! LOL!

However, living in hotel may not be as fancy as you think. Coz everyone is given the double-decker bed. Like this:

 

 I spent hours unpacking my stuff and tidying everything up. So I think these two pictures are worth showing off hahahahahaha! Now it's all messy again though. :/

 

The bathroom is my most favourite part!!!!! A very standard hotel bathroom with bath tub!!! :DDDD And the lighting is perfect, so is the hot water bath system. Major loveeee.

 

The only pain about living in this new dorm is probably this. Climbing up and down every single day. The worst is during the wee hours, when suddenly I want to go to the bathroom, I have to climb down and feeling extremely drowsy at the same time. Luckily so far no accidents happen yet. *touch wood*

 

This is how close the bed and the ceiling are!!!! I knocked my head several times during the first few days! T____T The woes of being a tall girl.

And the mattress they supplied us is super thin. Like only 2cm thick? So we pretty much just sleep on the wood. I have backache every morning I wake up. T____T But if you think on the bright side, some old people does that too for healthy purposes, right? O__O *self-consoling*

 

 Oh yeah, and we live RIGHT NEXT TO a construction site. How nice. It is like the perfect alarm clock every morning at 7am. 

Probably the most annoying alarm clock ever. And the loudest. =.=

BONGGG BIANGGGG BONGGGGGG! SO LOUD OMG.

Again, think on the bright side, I will get to wake up early everyday and won't waste time snuggling in bed (coz I really can't sleep while it's THAT noisy!! No choice!!), so I'll go to school to practise instead. :)

 

The very convenient thing is, right behind the hotel is our Chinese students' dormitory, and I can just go to the school canteen there to eat. 

In the school canteen, it has the coolest courier system ever!!! Anything you buy online, all the letters go right here!! :)))) Super duper convenient. Just key in the code and voila, you get your courier! :)

 

 I've attended a lot of gigs after I got back to Shanghai! Here are some that I took pictures of! :)))

This is a TV show recording in process! :))) It's called The Queen.

Now I know how everything works behind the scene! So interesting! :)))) And actually the artists on TV show they are just very normal people in real life. You won't feel like they're star or whatsoever. Coz when I was younger I sort of feel in awe when I see the stars in the TV, and I dreamt about meeting them in real life. But once I met some of them in real life, I realise they're just very very very normal people like us! :) Charming and talented yes, but still, just normal people!! :)

Do you get what I mean??

Borrowed this white gown from Micky coz mine is too dirty lol lol.Went to some gig on the lawn last time, and the mud ruined the lower part, can't wash them away no matter how hard I tried. T_T

 

 

All we need to do is just play one song. Hahahaha.

A beautiful flower-themed wedding I went yesterday at Shangrila!

 

And I went to become a hair model again. LOL. Wasn't planning to cut my hair this short! I already told the hairstylist I want to leave my hair long. And he said okay, he made a gesture that he would cut a few inches off, and I wasn't really aware of how much that is. LOL.

So uhm, now the length of my hair is something like this. Middle long hair. Hmm, I think I like it. Coz my previous hair is soooo dry at the end it was horrible. Now it is much more refreshing and healthier!

Btw this picture is before hair-dyeing!

 

Since my dark roots are growing out already, I requested for hair-dyeing too! And the hairstylist ponder for a long time about what color is suitable for me. He wanted to give me blonde hair, he said. And I was horrified. LOL.

I told him, nonono, I've never tried super light hair color, I don't think it suits me. Though he says light color hair will make someone looks fairer. 

So in the end I let him do whatever he wants but my principle is I don't want colorful hair or too weird ones.

 

 So in the end he sticks to brown, lol. Probably scare I get a heart attack or what. But he played with highlights!!! So now I have a few blonde highlights in my hair! :))))

Hairstylist always like to style hair into those Karipap fringe-do. =.=

Look funny on me lol.

So I change it back to my original middle-ish parting. Yeay, feel more like myself.

  

Can see the blonde highlights?? :)) Not very obvious in this picture. Hmm.

This picture is taken today! :) No that curled anymore after I washed my hair! :))) The highlights are very obvious here! :)))

I think I really like it, it's just something very new to me. :)))

So yeah, so far so good! And I passed the orchestra exam yeayyyyy! :))) Can't wait to play together with Mischa Maisky in October and November!!!!!!!! *excited max*

Till then!!! Xoxo!!

Working with S.H.E!

This shall be the record of my working experience with famous pop star group, S.H.E at Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai.

First of all, I'll show you the Mercedes Benz Arena. 

It's not a place for selling cars, just a small area of it I guess. It is the place where all the biggest concerts in Shanghai are held. 

From Wikipedia:

The Mercedes-Benz Arena (Chinese: 梅赛德斯-奔驰文化中心; pinyin: Méisàidésī-bēnchí Wénhuà Zhōngxīn), formerly known as theShanghai World Expo Cultural Center, is an indoor arena located on the former grounds of Expo 2010 in Pudong, Shanghai,China. It is owned and operated by the AEG-OPG joint venture.

The facility seats 18,000 people and includes a smaller venue, The Mixing Room & Muse, which is a more intimate live-music venue.^[1]

The arena hosted the opening ceremony for the Expo 2010, during which it was known as the Expo Cultural Center.

For me it looks like some kinda foreign spaceship that's too cool for words. Hahahaha! Check it out!

At night with all the colourful lights.

In the morning looks like some odd-shaped egg. O.O

And the inside of the arena.

Btw why does Mercedes benz have the naming rights to this arena?

Answer: The arena is sponsored in a ten-year deal by Mercedes-Benz and was officially renamed the Mercedes-Benz Arena on January 15, 2011.

Enough fancy photos, now back to my phone pictures hahahahaa! :) Here's the backstage area where all the dancers and musicians rest.

The corridor of the backstage. The walls are full of concert pictures of all the famous artists who performed at the arena. See Adam Lambert??

While waiting for our turns. We are the string players! :) They have a wonderful snack supply at the resting area. Cookies, instant noodles and coffee!

During the rehearsal time! :) We will sit on the chairs and wait for our turns. Those are the dancers sitting there. :)

Actually pictures are forbidden during the rehearsal, because they're worried that people might expose the concert backdrop and special effects out before the concert started, and it'll spoil all the surprises. 

So I didn't take any more pictures afterwards!

After the rehearsal, and before the concert started, everyone needs to go and pray together, that's the most interesting part I think, because it's also the Taiwanese culture, to burn the incense and pray for the smoothness of the concert and safety of all the crews. :)

My new fav clip-on earrings! :)))) From H&M, it was on sale and only RMB 5!!!! OMG!

How we spent our time hahahaha! Reading and playing ipad games.

Shanghai troops on one table and Taiwanese babes another! :) A Lo (the girl I drew orange stripes on her head) so sensitive to the camera hahahaha!

Trying to get everyone in!

Selfies with my new Taiwainese friends! :))))) All string players!

First off, the sweet violinist, A Lo! Actually I've met her before on my Taipei trip! The last day when we had beef noodle with Si Le's 2 Taiwanese friends? She's one of them! Really happy to meet her again here! :)

Love her tiger teeth and dimples!

With gorgeous Fiona! She looks a bit mixed-blood, really pretty! She is also a violinist! :) She has been a great help to me, teaching me how to play on the stage and a lot of stage tips!!! Thank you so much!!! And she has the sweetest voice ever!

With Amy the cellist! She's really fun, hahahaha! Amy, Chui Xiao (Shanghai's cellist) and I went to shopping during the break time and it rained so heavily on our way back. I only had an umbrella, a small one, so I was like omgg what to do, you guys wait here I'll send you to the arena one by one. And Amy was like striding into the rain with no second thoughts and said, No don't worry it's fine, let's go. LOL. 

She's just really cool in everywhere, not very girlish type, I like it. Hahahaha!

With the super cuteeee violist, Chiee Yeh! :) She looks exquisite but wait till you talk to her, she's completely crazy hahahahahaha! She doesn't mind doing crazy poses or distorting her face hahahahahahha!

To be honest, all four of them are so fun I love hanging out with them!!!

The after-concert photoshoot session.

Theme: Supermodel, Muscleman, Crazy girls, and Hip Hop Style.

Hahahaha image destroyed. XD

Trying to let my face covers in light. Hahahahah. Hence the my-neck-is-broken pose.

The dancers!!! All have hot body figures omg! *drools*

Heading out to watch the concert after we were done with our part! We played 4 songs altogether and after that we were free to do what we wanted! So Chui Xiao and Jie Wan (Shanghai's cellist and violist) and I decided to go out and watch the concert! :)

Underneath the stage! :)

Say hello to 18,000 audience :)

Hebe, Ella and Selina! :) They're actually pretty petite in size when I see them! Maybe because i'm too tall for normal Asian girls lol. 

Hebe is the one with most exquisite face features and ladylike, Ella is the funniest and most boyish one, and Selina is always full of positive vibes and bubbly personality. :)

Some cool backdrop effects. :)

The Persian Cat. Guess everyone knows that song. :) Hahaha!

The audience are amazing. :) They love S.H.E.

Me, Chui Xiao (cellist) and Jie Wan (violist)

After that, S.H.E announced that it was the last song, and they disappeared. The crowd went wild and requested for encore.

And then they appeared again!!! It was a great concert and everyone was satisfied ahhahaha.

All the concert crews had an after-concert celebration/supper get-together afterwards! At first we wanted to go ask for pictures with S.H.E after the supper but the supper lasted longer than we expected, and we eventually got so sleepy we decided to go home early. 

In compensation we stole a picture of them chatting at the table right opposite ours. Hahaha!

It was a great experience. And it was fun working with them and feeling all the amazingly positive vibes everyone has! :) I guess that's what they mean when they say, I really love what I'm doing now! :) I can totally feel it. :)

Will start working on my preloved-items sale soon! :) Stay tuned!