Freekzy Bots won the 2nd runner up during the SDD4 finals this year! Check out the interview i did with them to find out more about this awesome crew!

Q: How did Freekzy Bots come about? Tell us more!
A: Freekzy Bots is a collaboration or two crews. Freekzy Nutz and Born Out To Swag(BOTS).we just decided that it will be interesting to combine this 2 crews for a competition.

Q: Is this the first time taking part in SSD or any dance competitions?
A: Yes this is the first time we are joining as Freekzy Bots

Q: What are the dreams & aspirations for Freekzy Bots?
A: The Freekzy Bots dream is to inspire crews to join forces and share the love and passion of dance together as one

Q: What difficulties have you guys faced along the way?
A: We find it hard to get each other styles as both teams come from different dance background. So we are trying to get this right in order to perform a good routine.

Q: What will you guys do to reach yours goals?
A: We will practice hard and not give up in achieving our goals!

Q: After SSD4, what are the future plans for Freekzy Bots? Share with us!
A: Hopefully,We would have another to collabo again for competitions and performance..the future plan is do definitely compete in overseas competitions as Freekzy Bots so look out Guys!

Q: Do you have any advice for people who are trying their hardest to chase their dreams & aspirations?
A: The Advice I would give is to stay positive,be open minded for ideas and never never give up!!

Q: Where can we get more updates on the group? And what kind of updates can we expect from there?
A: We do have individual tweet accounts. You can follow BOTS on twitter @BOTSwag and Freekzy Nutz @FreekzyNutz for performance and competition updates.

KoolKidz Kru is one of the 2 fantastic crews that i had the privilege to interview for SDD4 this year! Check it out:

Q: How did Kool Kidz Kru come about? Tell us more!
A: KoolKidz Kru just started out this year only. It was formed by the youngest chap in our team, YiDe. He is also our baby in the group. Hahaha.

Q: Is this the first time taking part in SSD or any dance competitions?
A: Yes this is our first time joining SDD. In fact it is also the first time for 2 of our members to join a competition. We are really excited about this.
Initially we planned to join “Today Movement” comp, but unfortunately we pulled out due to commitment issue. We hoped to make an impact in this very first comp that we have.

Q: What are the dreams & aspirations for Kool Kidz Kru?
A: Hmmmm. As we are still new as a team, we are definitely open up to each other’s style and trying to adapt to it. We haven’t really carve out our aspirations, but we see ourselves as a crew doing more towards lyrical or street style. We like intricate and fresh dance moves. I think that’s what define us as a crew.

Q: What difficulties have you guys faced along the way?
A: Woww, talking about that. Yes we did experience a lot of hiccups here and there.
I had knee injury. Erwin has back injury. YiDe is in army while Fazil and Haicurl are studying. So sometimes we could not get a full cast training due to our commitment and certain unforeseen circumstances. However, we will always compromise and talk things out. I’m sure all crews have their own difficulties to deal with. It’s how you wanna minimize all these and make solutions.

Q: What will you guys do to reach yours goals?
A: Well, we practise everyday. I think it takes time and understanding for a good crew to be formed. Not just dance, but also quality time spend together.
In the short run, of course we would want to do our best to make an impact on the stage. In the long run, we hope to be versatile to be able to adapt to each other’s style and have a strong crew identity, while having strong individuals as well.

Q: After SSD4, what are the future plans for Kool Kidz Kru? Share with us!
A: We will be taking a short break and come back to train our basics and techniques. Definitely keeping a lookout for more competitions if there are.

Q: Do you have any advice for people who are trying their hardest to chase their dreams & aspirations?
A: Well, that depends on what dreams does one have? If you talk about chasing your dreams as a performer and dancers, there are always Platforms in Singapore which you can try out. No matter in learning in studio, competing, performing, there is always something to learn from. For us, dance keeps us alive and we always look forward to it. Always.

Q: Where can we get more updates on the group? And what kind of updates can we expect from there?
A: We do have Facebook and twitters. Haha. And some instagram. That aside. We are probably going to do some concept videos or create something. Who knows maybe we will have our crew YouTube channel soon? So that we can share our love for dance with the rest.

Now that Singapore Dance Delight Vol. 4 is over, the fun’s not over yet!

F&N wants you to take part in a simple contest by simply tweeting why you should be going to Osaka to watch Megamint compete with crews from Japan and South East Asia!

All you have to do is include the hashtag #fnnsdd4!

For more details, check out their facebook page.

I would reckon that you might stand a higher chance if you post a photo with a F&N drink to show some support, like this:

Good luck you guys!

These are the 12 finalists that were announced during the preliminary rounds 2 weeks back! i just CANNOT wait to watch them later at the finals this evening!

Many teams turned up for the eventful day at Vivocity amphitheatre. But there were really too many superb teams that have been training for a good period that the amateur teams stood no chance to be even selected for the finals! I remember a couple of teams that i liked didn’t make it through cos there were only 12 slots!

I’m really glad that we have these talent in Singapore. Because after watching a really strong and united team showcase their moves, it was really painful to watch when the following team wasn’t engaging enough and they looked like they were forced to be on stage. They weren’t enjoying it and neither was i.

Think it really applies in life when you’re chasing your dreams and aspirations, which happens to be the theme for Singapore Dance Delight Vol. 4. When you have a passion for something, people can tell. Going through motions in life day in day out will not actually make you reach your dreams and goals. Sometimes we really need that leap of faith and break through the boundaries. I’m speaking with experience when i entered the financial advisory industry.

That aside, one team really caught my eye – Le Flair. The other teams were mainly on hiphop but this team of 3 girls were really different. Firstly, they had very strong ballet background. Secondly, they really knew how to work Sweet Dreams and accentuate their moves on all the beats. Lastly, they were just SEXY (enough said!). I recorded a clip of their showcase during the prelims! Watch it and you’ll get what i mean!

To end it off, here’s an interview that O School, one of the organisers for SDD4, did with Le Flair.

ARE YOU READY FOR THE FINALS! (:

WE DEFINITELY ARE!

Thanks to Cozycot, i got myself an OLAY Regenerist Micro-Sculpting cream to try out. It’s one of the latest OLAY products in town and it’s a newly-formulated Olay Regenerist which promises a whole new level of anti-aging benefits! Living in Singapore can be SUPER hectic, with us trying to do too many things in just 24 hours (like me, blogging about this at 2 in the morning), therefore we always find ourselves with tired skin because we simply just do not have enough sleep all the time.

There was once i didn’t apply make up and turned up in office as i wanted to clear some paperwork before i headed off to facial. One of my colleagues came up to me and asked “Aiyo! Why is your face so chui?!” you see. Tired skin, dull tone, all the nonsense. Because i always do not have enough rest, it shows it all on the face.

Searching for a moisturizer that actually works, yet suitable for such a humid country like Singapore, is like a whole new level of challenge for women. I was expecting to use Olay Regenerist as a night cream as i have a combination of dehydrated skin with oily surface on the T-zones. But nope, it felt really hydrating yet it didn’t feel like my pores were clogged with goo and stuff. My face & neck felt really tender all the way till the next day when i woke up!

This isn’t really important, but it smells good too. Nice smelling skincare makes me happier when i apply it on too. Ok fine, subjective it is. It’s really good in the sense that it doesnt feel sticky after applying it on my face & neck but i have stopped using it for awhile because i realized i have a couple of acnes after i started to smear it twice daily. I cannot tell if it’s because it’s too rich for my face (after all, Olay is not really a skincare for people in their 20s i’ve heard) or because of other factors. But once my face is back to being acne-less then i will give it a shot again. But this will be really awesome for my mom! If it doesnt work out for me, at least i know it will for people above 30 like my mom. haha

Olay Regenerist micro-sculpting cream is retailing at $49.90.

Nah, not the next girl group that Ocean Butterflies’ gonna groom (i wish. HAHA)

Ocean Butterflies Music Forest has been around in the dance scene longer than other dance schools, but like any wave in the economy, the peak is now not with Music Forest, therefore they have started with a couple of Dance Ambassadors where all of us get to attend classes on a weekly basis and to prep ourselves with the routine for a couple of performances or 2, while each of us sharing our experiences of it on our personal blogs.

Have been contemplating to take up some sort of workout class prior to this when the mailer for this program came in. Must have been God sent! (:

Will update here when i know the details for our shows if we have any.

XOXO,

Mel

Glow was suppose to last for the entire month on February, but we did a weigh-in halfway on the day right after Chinese New Year! After all the binging on good food and CNY snacks, surprisingly i managed to have an overallreduction in my BMI!

Really thankful for Glow as it helped me to kickstart this healthy lifestyle. By healthy lifestyle, the good people of Glow emphasized on working out on a regular basis (at least thrice a week for an hour) while going on a controlled diet and consuming the health supplements. To achieve the reduction in BMI, i have been good for that 2 weeks, attending all the personal trainings and following the diet. Grocery shopping with Jacq was a regular thing as we stocked up on muesli bars and biscuits in low sodium and high fibre.

It’s really hard for people in my industry to lead a healthy lifestyle because we’re running around and eating out all the time. But minor adjustments every meal, and ensuring that we eat on time really helps. The muesli bars have definitely helped when i had no time to grab a meal.

It was really tough giving up bubble tea and my red meats initially, but as time went by, it got slightly easier and 3 weeks into Feb on one of my cheat days when i had bubble tea, it wasn’t as satisfying as before and i could make do without it. Haven’t had bubble tea since! (:

Now that February is over, so are our Glow trainings, which i have not be able to attend much due to my work schedule, i’m not on my own as the Glowsters have formed our own chatgroup to encourage each other along the way. Really glad to have taken part in this programme to get to know so many awesome people!

If you were wondering, Glow did not give me any side effects and in fact helped to speed up the fat-burning process with its natural ingredients!

I wouldn’t say im the most disciplined person in the group, but being able to get my BMI reduced in just 2 weeks, it really speaks much about it right?

Check out one of the Glowsters, Daphne! She lost 8kg since she started on Glow 3 months back! From her own personal experience, stopping Glow for a month while maintaining the same intensity in your workout and diet plan showed a slow in her weight-loss and it started to pick up after she start Glow again in Feb with us. But you gotta give her credit for being the most focused Glowster in the team. But like they say, if you really want it, there is always a way. So glad for Daphne, aren’t you too? (:

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Really grateful to the supportive customers of Odboskincare.com! The online store has been doing really well these days, so much so that we are always out of stock for some of our hotsellers like Silky Essence and Sunblock Pact. We’ve been sourcing for better and cheaper yet authentic product suppliers so that we do not have to adjust our prices again. Till then, please bear with us if we run out of stock again.

So glad to clear the last batch of backlog to our eager customers now that a new batch of stocks has arrived! (:

An untethered jailbreak for IOS 6 on iphone 5 is out (like 4 days ago)! Finally had the time to jailbreak my iphone tonight! i must say that evasi0n is the most idiot-proof jailbreak tool that i’ve ever tried, no pressing of home and power button followed by releasing one button after X amount of seconds all those anal stuff.

So now that it’s done, this entry is more of what i have installed so far. I have restored my older iphones before repeatedly cos i tried too many tweaks and my phone couldnt take it. So being a minimalist now, i try not to install things that has no other function other than cosmetics (except themes, but also one at a time).

I would have installed MakeItMine to change my carrier name from Starhub to probably iMel, but now that i am always traveling in and out of Malaysia more than ever to feed my car, it’s better to know what telco i am currently on.

Iconoclasm was quite cool, giving me a 5 rows by 5 columns of icons on my home screen, but it’s a little buggy, and setting it to a triangle layout kept putting my phone into Safe Mode. So off it went. Well it still can be installed, but just dont try the triangle layout.

This theme that im on now is called Jaku, but it did not provide me with a cool lockscreen wallpaper or homescreen walppaper. I still miss Engraved Wood theme, but it is probably not supported with the longer screen that iphone 5 has.

I did a Infinidock so that i can put apps on my dock and hide it away from the world to see. Unless some smart ass decides to swipe my dock horizontally, else he won’t even realize that i have other apps besides those 5 as shown.

Hide Battery on Status Bar is very essential to clearing the battery logo off the status bar.

Barrel is probably the only cosmetic app, so that when im changing pages on the homescreen, my apps move with a cool animation sorta thing.

FolderEnhancer so that i can add more than 12 apps in one folder and if it gets too many you can even have pages in the folder!

Winterboard just because i wanted to have a theme.

Zephyr was one of the first few that i’ve installed once i jailbreak my idevice. With just a swipe up from the bottom of the screen i can access my minimized tray of icons! Goodbye to double-tapping.

But this time i also combined it by installing Auxo. Auxo is damn bloody cool i tell you. Now my minimized icons in the tray has the screenshots of how it looks like, and by swiping it from left to right, i get to the music player controls, and swiping it again to the right i get toggle shortcuts! AWESOME OR WHAT. check out the screenshots and you’ll get what i mean. So how do you remove apps from the tray aka close it permanently, just swipe the app downwards in the tray! or if you want to remove all background apps from running, just hold on one of the apps and the following message will appear “Do you want to remove all apps from the multitasking tray?”. YEAAHHHHH

SBSettings helped me put the date back in my status bar so that it’s easier for me to see the date today as im not using the Calendar app as my default calendar. Also, it has integrated with Lockinfo so that the toggles are on my lockscreen too, and it’s also in my notification centre now.

Tapunlock is one alternative to the invisible tap to unlock tweak that i used to install, because invisibility is always cooler, and idiots that get their hands on my phone always get stunned that i dont have a slider to unlock my phone. But as a pure lazy bum, i think tapunlock can do for now as all i want to do is just TAP.

BiteSMS is a must have! It is officially free, just that after 7 days there will be ads in the inbox. But you don’t need to enter the BiteSMS inbox app because of Quick Compose & Quick Reply. By pressing on the volume button, followed by tapping on the screen to activate the Quick Compose, this is what you see as shown below. So after you click on SEND, this message popup window just goes away. SMS comes in as a pop up too. So no more disruption to Candy Crush unless it’s a whatsapp text. lol. Also if you forgot what the person was replying to, you can view the conversation by clicking on the arrow down at the Quick Reply& Quick Conversation pop up window.

Do you have any cool tweaks to share? (: