Life is colorful, don't you think?

It is your own choice whether your life is colorful or not.


Think positive, choose happiness and smile always. 


Simple like that, you can now enjoy a COLORFUL life.


B.Gs
May, 2011

My Top 10 Good Mood List

Have you ever noticed that every time when you are doing something in a good mood, you will usually get a better result than when you did the same thing in bad mood?

It is common sense. I am sure many of you have this experience. And even you don't, you know I am right and it is not hard to figure it out.

Everybody prefer to have a good mood all the time. But the real challenge is: How to keep yourself in good mood? Or how to remember to bring along your good mood with you when you are doing something important?

Here is my top 10 "Mood Booster":

1. Chocolate bar - It usually helps, especially when I need a quick mood boost.
2. Listen to a favorite song - It works when you get bored by your homework and study.
3. Helping people - You will be in a good mood for the whole day.
4. Be punctual in time - I hate to be late and I feel good being punctual in time.
5. Watch a disney movie - They are entertaining, educational and inspirational.
6. Singing when you shower - A mini "personal" concert in your bathroom really rocks.
7. Meet an old friend - A "must do" if you are really in bad mood.
8. Walking in zig-zag pattern - I know it looks weird, but it works.
9. Do some chores, and concentrate on them - It helps your mind to settle down.
10. Say "Good Morning" to yourself - It will remind you to live for today and to carry a good mood.

How about you? Do you have any "good mood" tips to share?

~ Ally, April 2011

Preparation that works

Last Saturday we had a ballet performance in the Town Hall, it was a fund raising event to help an elderly centre in our neighborhood. I was selected to perform a two-minutes pas seul (solo dance). My mother and grandmother also came and watched the show.

After the show, mother squeezed me in her arms and told me the  performance was marvelous and I looked very confident on the stage. She burst out with tears and said she was so proud of me. My mouth couldn't come out any word to express my thankfulness, so I just gave her a big sweet kiss.

Then I told mom, I had been preparing this show for almost a month. 

Once I heard that I needed to perform a solo, I was so nervous and worried. Although I also realized that it was a great opportunity being able to dance in front of the public. Therefore, I told myself I mustn't chicken out. I must get my mind and body ready for that. And the good thing was, I still had the time to prepare.

During the next four weeks prior the show, I was working non-stop. Physically I was practicing at least 3 hours per day. And mentally I repeatedly imagining myself dancing on the stage with hundreds of eyes watching. Slowly day after day my anxiety and nervousness were faded. There left only one voice in my mind when I was finally waiting at the backstage on the night of the show: "Stay focused! Just dance it out!"

When the curtain opened, I was simply repeating, almost mindlessly, what I had been rehearsing for the last whole month. My body just flowed so smoothly along with the music. My mind was so peaceful and calm and thinking of nothing else, until I heard the loud applause from the audiences.

I have made it! What I had been working hard on had finally paid out!

Now I have learned how important preparation is. No matter you are doing a ballet performance, having an exam or making a speech or whatever things in life. Confidence just won't come naturally to conquer the fear of failure. But what we can do is to prepare ourselves until we know we can do what we have to do.

Kate, March 2011.

P.S. Lately I have watched the Oscar-winner movie "The King's Speech". The story really inspires me!

Playing your heart out ... be enthusiastic!

What ever you do in life, be enthusiastic.


Find your passion and ignite it. Your enthusiasm will give you a better chance to realize your dream. Of course nothing come easily. There will always be some stumbling blocks waiting ahead of you. Don't worry, they are only there for you to discover how badly you want to actualize your dream.  Accomplishment after striving hard is the most rewarding thing to keep you going.


This is one of the most important things I learned from ballet.

~ Eve

March, 2010

I can always do better

Many of my classmates in the ballet class are quite talented. Like Ally, she learns fast and she can handle new maneuvers without much difficulties. For me, somehow I am quite a slow learner. I always need to practice very hard for every single movement and taking much longer time than the others to learn it.

People might think I should feel upset, but in fact I don't. Somehow I show my improvement by practicing harder than the others. Well, it is true that I need to put more effort than the rest of the class but at the end of day I am still able to make it. That's my way.

And I am happy. Because I know day by day I am getting better and better.

Descartes once said: "Conquer yourself rather than the world!"

Let's share this wisdom, and always doing things with our best effort to conquer our own selves!

- Mia

February 2011

Our Chinese New Year Special Dance Performance

Last year we visited China and joined the Chinese New Year celebration there. We were really impressed by the festive atmosphere and we all like the lion dance very much. So this year we decided to do a little play in our dance school to celebrate the Year of Rabbit. We have come up with an idea to combine the traditional chinese lion dance with some ballet moves.

Hope you all like it!

Happy Chinese New Year!

- The Ballet Girls

(To download the pic, just click on it!)

Get yourself ready

Are you ready .....


... to carry your smile first thing everyday when you wake up?
... to make a difference to make this world a better one?
... to get a start for what you haven't put into action?
... to accomplish what you haven't finished?
... to get rid of old bad habits and start new good ones?
... to become a better you than you were last year?
It's 2011! And it is all yours! So get yourself ready!


Happy new year!


~ Kate, Ally, Eve and Mia

We wish you have a fantastic Christmas!

A Christmas wish from the Ballet Girls

The Night of Oz

"After one full day of adventure, dusk finally arrived the land of Oz.

Cowardly Lion went to sleep at once, as if only in his dream he has nothing to fear of. Well, let's hope he won't have a nightmare. (^_^')

Scarecrow was leaning his back on an old oak tree, trying to clear up his no-brain head. It seems like one day's adventure already puzzled him too much. It's better not to disturb him or he will flood you all the questions in his mind. (O_o?)

So I was teaching Tin Woodman some ballet moves. He followed clumsily and I quite enjoyed it because watching him was really funny. However, I think he did need to add some lubricant oil to his joints. The sound from his joints were really awful!  (*_*')

Indeed, the journey was a tough one and the quests were not easy. But this night shall be the last night. Tomorrow we will finish the last part of the yellow brick road and enter the Emerald City to have our dreams fulfilled!"

Everytime I watched the movie "The Wizard of Oz". I always fancied myself travel with Tin Woodman, Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion in the land of Oz, to their journey of discovering wisdom, courage and love. We followed the yellow brick road, heading to the Emerald City to meet the Great Wizard to pursue our dream.

I always love to ask my friends, "In real life, where is your yellow brick road and what is your Emerald City?"

- Eve

P.S. Happy Halloween!

Flamingoes

Look at these big birds in flaming color.

Resting at the waterside quietly.

So relax and carefree.

Elegant their postures are.

Like a group of ballet dancers.

Mayhap, I should invite them to dance with me.

~Mia

September, 2010

Watched a TV documentary about wild flamingoes last night. They are so beautiful. When I was watching the show there was only one thing in my mind: "They really look like ballet dancers dressing in flaming dancing costumes!"

However the condition of their natural habitat is severely under threat. Air and water pollutions and global warming are putting their home in jeopardy. If we don't do something to stop the pollution and protect our environment, someday all these beautiful animals will disappear forever.