It's nearing the end of another summer, and it's about time I asked myself this important question: Have I improved over the past year?

My life as a dancer started at around this time two years ago, when I enrolled myself to a 12-session breakdance class in Vibe Dance Studio's summer dance workshop. That time, I was faced with opposition from both of my parents - my dad claiming that "it is time to work and not to learn something new" and my mom telling me to heed dad's warning.
   
I really wanted this from the bottom of my heart, so I withdrew my earnings from my previous job and secretly enrolled myself one day, only to find out two years later that dance had become an irreplaceable part of my everyday life.
   
At the end of each year's workshop, we hold a special performance night showcasing dance acts and the things that we had learned during our stay. As a regular student, the recital was some sort of a hurdle for me. It was my way of proving to people, to my friends, to my parents, and most importantly, to myself that it's never too late to do the things you want, no matter how impossible the situation might be!
   
So, have I improved at all?
   
2010 - As a newbie in both bboy and gymnastics, I planned to incorporate a handstand forward roll into my solo routine. It wasn't perfect, but I managed to do it without hurting myself on the hard floor much. When I look back at the video, my movements seem very awkward and stiff.
   
2011 - The challenge for last year was to do a back handspring (backflip with hands touching the ground) immediately after doing a back roll. I was shaking in fear, worrying that I might not succeed even after weeks of courage building and practice. In the end, it became a back headspring (I landed on my head >.<). But it looked intentional so I guess that's fine.
   
2012 - This year, I want to raise it up a notch. I'm doing 5 flips in my bboy set (I'm performing in 4 different dances, but I'm doing all 5 flips in just one of them). 2 back handsprings, 1 forward handspring, 1 monkey flip (sort of like a back handspring done while sitting down), and 1 backtuck (backflip without hands). I thought the backtuck would be the most troublesome, but the monkey flip proved to be a lot more difficult than I had expected. I'm trying to get everything mastered this week.

We'll be at the St. Paul QC Theater on June 2, 7:30 in the evening. Please support me and all the other performances!

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Meanwhile, #inkjinks would be at the Summer Komikon 2012 this May 26, 2012 at the Bayanihan Center, Unilab, Pioneer Street, Pasig City!







I'd love to join, but looking at my schedule, especially for this week, I'm not sure if I could make it.

Either way, thank you for supporting us and our products!

A few days ago, I suddenly had this realization...

Our big performance is coming up in two weeks and I haven't been able to master the moves I have to do yet!

I panicked for quite a while, and after calming down I committed myself to do everything it takes to get everything grafted into my muscle memory. So far so good.

The past few weeks had been very busy, and this week I'm only including one dance video for our upcoming Kpop performance. I'm performing in 4 different groups this year - bboy, house, locking, and Kpop.

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Starting today, I'll be posting one or more of my training/dance videos every week just in case someone out there is interested to join me watch.

May 19, 2012


May 8, 2012


April 28, 2012


Older videos:
[04.21.12] 2NE1 - I Am The Best dance cover: [link]
[04.22.12] Practicing back handsprings: [link]
[04.26.12] My first wall flips: [link]

As the title says...

Last week had been a very stressful one for me. I lost one of my favorite shirts during training and caused a lot of misunderstandings. More than once I had to hide my tears from my friends. Easier said than done.

I would like to say thank you to my watchers and to everyone who had been supporting me behind the scenes. Special thanks also go to my pal *tritanoch, who had accompanied me from last Saturday until the present time. I'm doing better now.

There's one huge problem I have yet to solve, please wish me lots of luck!

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My PC is upgraded! Finally, no more kicking needed just for it to work. I swapped to a faster Intel Core i7 processor and made necessary adjustments with the hardware to make everything compatible. Got another 2TB hard drive, which hopefully won't overflow soon, but my new camera's image and video files are damn huge. Also, I installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview, and looks awesome!




What I never expected was my precious graphics card to die. My old system's liquid cooling wasn't very reliable and my PC heated up like crazy.

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15 points to the first 6 commentors after this journal update! Go go! More games coming up soon!

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I'm loving the Sony Alpha a77. Photos shoot instantaneously and the video quality is just impeccable. Battery life is only satisfactory, and the filesize of each take is huge. I guess that's the tradeoff.

Sample video for you here, slowmo created using Twixtor (still studying it). The quality isn't as good as I've converted the video to wmv. I'll be back with better videos in the coming weeks/months.




Lastly, thanks to everyone who visited booth last Ozine Fest! We love you guys!