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Tuesday, September 02, 2008
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Performance was great.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">I had a good time with the girls.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">My sisters,Sam and J* came over to watch.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">It was a beautiful Saturday.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">(Picture below!)</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">I felt damn exhausted before my performance for some reason.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">But a banana and a redbull was my energy booster.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Lol, but the sugar concentration is SO high in redbull I dont know how T* and V* can drink it like daily/often.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Gosh.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oh and yes, come Sunday I went to my aunt's chalet at Aranda country club.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">It was beautiful.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">I got J* to come along.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">And my brother's friend Bubba came too.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">He's so funny he reminds me of Haiqal(the Dj) </span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Upon reaching Pasir Ris Interchange which took 1000 years btw, he started disturbing all the army privates who were returning to camp.Lol.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Upon reaching the first thing I did was to check if there was a TV, if there wasn't I would turn back and go home.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">REALLY!</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Cause I wanted to watch DHOOL. Lol.J* too la!</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">But to make sure there was, I called the Aranda Receptionist and all. Lol.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oh by the way, Dhool was good I guess.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Yep, and its such a pity the judges don't know certain things about the performers.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Don'twant to go into details.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">But I think its time ya'll know what J* sent in to Megastar Productions(The prouction team for Dhool), the reason I am gona put part of her letter in my blog is to tell ya'll J*'s views got HEARD!</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Dear Sir/Mdm,</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">I’m a 19 year old, Chinese student in Singapore. </span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Over the years, I have taken a liking towards Tamil films, songs and especially dance. I’m attracted to the Indian Culture mainly because of my bestfriend. </span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">She’s classically trained in dance and I have watched her performance in temples. She has introduced me to Tamil films and music. I’ve been watching Dhool since its inception. I definitely feel the dance competition serves as a platform for Singaporean youths to showcase their talents and what’s more, it’s entertaining! .........</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">.......I never fail to watch every episode of Dhool 08 and I was there in the audience on the 17th of August. My friends, Force Killabeez were performing that evening.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">However, there are some things I would like to comment about the show. </span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">During the 1st round, one of the judges, Miss Sridevi commented about groups Killabeez and Borderz that their costumes and props had ‘no link and meaning’ to their dance routines. (My friend translated it for me). </span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">I feel that her comments were a vague as she did not explain what she meant by there was no link and no meaning.</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >
<br />Also, I feel that the judges should give every group a chance to explain their concept as done at the auditions and at Dance Arena @ Singapore Poly. This will give the judges a better idea of what is presented to them. This way, every group will have a fair chance & the comments from the judges would be valid.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">(I thought of stopping here, but ya'll should read what else J* said. Lol.)</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Towards the end of the show, the results were announced and the groups Aerocratz and Killabeez moved on to the semi-finals. It was good news as both groups presented wonderful performances although the judges did not feel so. After the results were announced, the judges were asked to give their comments and Mr Vijaydren said that those were not the 2 groups the judges chose and he asked people to vote for those who deserve it.
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<br />I feel that this remark is unnecessary as at the end of the day it was 70% from the judges choice and 30% from the public votes that determined which two groups moved on to the semi-finals. The judges’ job ended after the tabulation of the results for all the dance groups. Hence, they should have accepted the results. I’m sure the audience can decide for themselves and thus they supported the teams that deserved it and the results follow suit. </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >
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<br />Even if the judges beg to differ, it doesn’t mean the audience should think the same way! </span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The reason why SMS voting is not free-of-charge is to ensure that people do not take advantage of the voting system by casting votes on teams that do not deserve to win. So am I right to say that they will vote for the team whom they feel deserves the money spent? </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" >
<br />I believe it is not a job of the judge to take sides and show displeasure towards a specific group as the definition of a judge is a person qualified to pass a critical judgment. </span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Therefore, I agree that they can be critical on the groups during judging but discouraging after the results, I don’t think so. The negative comments passed by the judges discouraged the teams."</span>
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<br /></p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Yeah! There you see, no one messes with J*. Lol, but I think they have to take her views seriously because she's a non-Indian and they woudnt want to jeopardize their non-India viewers' rate.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">So my point is, last week in Dhool, they got the teams to explain about their concept and the judges clarified on what they wanted to know.Wooo!</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oh well!</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Oh ya'll gotta wait for part 2 of J* birthday partyyy cause I'm running outta space in blogger, I guess I'll blog in my wordpress.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">So till then, enjoyed the pictures ya'll.</span><b style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><a href="http://s84.photobucket.com/albums/k20/Shahl/?action=view&current=DSC01478e.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k20/Shahl/DSC01478e.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a></span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">And this is Sindhu love whom I really look up to. She's one AWESOME dancer. :)</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">I loved their dance.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><a href="http://s84.photobucket.com/albums/k20/Shahl/?action=view&current=DSC01466e.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k20/Shahl/DSC01466e.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a></span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Sindhu and Saraves</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><a href="http://s84.photobucket.com/albums/k20/Shahl/?action=view&current=DSC01465e.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k20/Shahl/DSC01465e.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a></span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Sindhu,Saraves and Gaga in green!</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">I like this shot!</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">THIS TOO!</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">And this my favourite shot of my dance with Priya and Banu. Love my costume colour! :)</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Thanks J*, nice shot!</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">They danced to Dasavatharam's Mugunda song. So nice.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">After all performances, we gather up on stage while my teacher receives some temple gifts and appreciation.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><a href="http://s84.photobucket.com/albums/k20/Shahl/?action=view&current=IMG_3277.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k20/Shahl/IMG_3277.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a></span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">:) This cute girl who was named Suri Devi by Sam and J*.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Suri cause she looks like Tom Cruise's daughter,Devi due to the fact she's Indian.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Lol.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><a href="http://s84.photobucket.com/albums/k20/Shahl/?action=view&current=IMG_3292.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k20/Shahl/IMG_3292.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a></span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">I still look like her regardless the many make up ! Lol.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><a href="http://s84.photobucket.com/albums/k20/Shahl/?action=view&current=IMG_3293.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k20/Shahl/IMG_3293.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a></span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">My awesome sisters whom I dearly love. </span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> A pictures of Gaga,Thrina and myself, without flash thou.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Yay! a nicer one!</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">J* and Me! Thanks bro.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Thank you Sam for coming! :)</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">I like this picture of us in the temple itself. :) Sindhu looks so cute and Thrina looks like a small girl.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Havent I said how much I love her? I DO ALOT! :)</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">I was snapping this real-life sized statues of Krishna and his wife which I really think looked so BEAUTIFUL.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Anyways he's the one we performed for,as a week ago from my performance date was his birthday.So the temple arranges performances to make him happy! </span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> <a href="http://s84.photobucket.com/albums/k20/Shahl/?action=view&current=IMG_3299.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k20/Shahl/IMG_3299.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a></span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Close up! SO NICE.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">This temple official saw me taking photos and asked me if I SAW THEIR statues at the back of the temple which is with water and all.And I DIDNT? SO I excused myself midst the last prayers in the temple and went to look for them.</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">And my oh my was it beautiful!</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">OMG! This is just a teaser.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Wow wow wow!</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">I LOVE IT.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">If you look closely you'll notice how water actually comes out .</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The beautiful charming Krishna. :)</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> <a href="http://s84.photobucket.com/albums/k20/Shahl/?action=view&current=DSC01546e-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k20/Shahl/DSC01546e-1.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a></span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">A group shot! :) Gaga's like lookign elsewhere.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">On my way home, thankfully Saraves's dad was able to send and fetch me :)</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">:)</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">I did a bit more cam-whoring.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">And then it was time for my daddy's cake-cutting time! :)</span>
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<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Nice okay the cake! </span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Sam and J* trained back to my place for my dads celebration and dinner.And it was nice! :)</span>
<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Thanks for coming once again guys!</span>
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Performance was great. I had a good time with the girls. My sisters,Sam and J* came over to watch. It was a beautiful Saturday. (Picture below!)
I felt damn exhausted before my performance for some reason. But a banana and a redbull was my energy booster. Lol, but the sugar concentration is SO high in redbull I dont know how T* and V* can drink it like daily/often. Gosh.
Oh and yes, come Sunday I went to my aunt's chalet at Aranda country club. It was beautiful. I got J* to come along. And my brother's friend Bubba came too. He's so funny he reminds me of Haiqal(the Dj) Upon reaching Pasir Ris Interchange which took 1000 years btw, he started disturbing all the army privates who were returning to camp.Lol.
Upon reaching the first thing I did was to check if there was a TV, if there wasn't I would turn back and go home. REALLY! Cause I wanted to watch DHOOL. Lol.J* too la! But to make sure there was, I called the Aranda Receptionist and all. Lol.
Oh by the way, Dhool was good I guess. Yep, and its such a pity the judges don't know certain things about the performers. Don'twant to go into details. But I think its time ya'll know what J* sent in to Megastar Productions(The prouction team for Dhool), the reason I am gona put part of her letter in my blog is to tell ya'll J*'s views got HEARD!
"Dear Sir/Mdm,
I’m a 19 year old, Chinese student in Singapore. Over the years, I have taken a liking towards Tamil films, songs and especially dance. I’m attracted to the Indian Culture mainly because of my bestfriend. She’s classically trained in dance and I have watched her performance in temples. She has introduced me to Tamil films and music. I’ve been watching Dhool since its inception. I definitely feel the dance competition serves as a platform for Singaporean youths to showcase their talents and what’s more, it’s entertaining! .........
.......I never fail to watch every episode of Dhool 08 and I was there in the audience on the 17th of August. My friends, Force Killabeez were performing that evening.
However, there are some things I would like to comment about the show. During the 1st round, one of the judges, Miss Sridevi commented about groups Killabeez and Borderz that their costumes and props had ‘no link and meaning’ to their dance routines. (My friend translated it for me). I feel that her comments were a vague as she did not explain what she meant by there was no link and no meaning. Also, I feel that the judges should give every group a chance to explain their concept as done at the auditions and at Dance Arena @ Singapore Poly. This will give the judges a better idea of what is presented to them. This way, every group will have a fair chance & the comments from the judges would be valid.
(I thought of stopping here, but ya'll should read what else J* said. Lol.) Towards the end of the show, the results were announced and the groups Aerocratz and Killabeez moved on to the semi-finals. It was good news as both groups presented wonderful performances although the judges did not feel so. After the results were announced, the judges were asked to give their comments and Mr Vijaydren said that those were not the 2 groups the judges chose and he asked people to vote for those who deserve it.
I feel that this remark is unnecessary as at the end of the day it was 70% from the judges choice and 30% from the public votes that determined which two groups moved on to the semi-finals. The judges’ job ended after the tabulation of the results for all the dance groups. Hence, they should have accepted the results. I’m sure the audience can decide for themselves and thus they supported the teams that deserved it and the results follow suit.
Even if the judges beg to differ, it doesn’t mean the audience should think the same way!
The reason why SMS voting is not free-of-charge is to ensure that people do not take advantage of the voting system by casting votes on teams that do not deserve to win. So am I right to say that they will vote for the team whom they feel deserves the money spent? I believe it is not a job of the judge to take sides and show displeasure towards a specific group as the definition of a judge is a person qualified to pass a critical judgment. Therefore, I agree that they can be critical on the groups during judging but discouraging after the results, I don’t think so. The negative comments passed by the judges discouraged the teams."
Yeah! There you see, no one messes with J*. Lol, but I think they have to take her views seriously because she's a non-Indian and they woudnt want to jeopardize their non-India viewers' rate. So my point is, last week in Dhool, they got the teams to explain about their concept and the judges clarified on what they wanted to know.Wooo!
Oh well! :)
So now time for photos yes? .
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Oh ya'll gotta wait for part 2 of J* birthday partyyy cause I'm running outta space in blogger, I guess I'll blog in my wordpress. So till then, enjoyed the pictures ya'll.
And this is Sindhu love whom I really look up to. She's one AWESOME dancer. :) I loved their dance.
Sindhu and Saraves
Sindhu,Saraves and Gaga in green! I like this shot!
THIS TOO!
And this my favourite shot of my dance with Priya and Banu. Love my costume colour! :) Thanks J*, nice shot!
They danced to Dasavatharam's Mugunda song. So nice.
After all performances, we gather up on stage while my teacher receives some temple gifts and appreciation.
:) This cute girl who was named Suri Devi by Sam and J*. Suri cause she looks like Tom Cruise's daughter,Devi due to the fact she's Indian. Lol.
I still look like her regardless the many make up ! Lol.
My awesome sisters whom I dearly love.
A pictures of Gaga,Thrina and myself, without flash thou.
Yay! a nicer one!
J* and Me! Thanks bro.
Thank you Sam for coming! :)
I like this picture of us in the temple itself. :) Sindhu looks so cute and Thrina looks like a small girl.
Havent I said how much I love her? I DO ALOT! :)
I was snapping this real-life sized statues of Krishna and his wife which I really think looked so BEAUTIFUL. Anyways he's the one we performed for,as a week ago from my performance date was his birthday.So the temple arranges performances to make him happy!
Close up! SO NICE. This temple official saw me taking photos and asked me if I SAW THEIR statues at the back of the temple which is with water and all.And I DIDNT? SO I excused myself midst the last prayers in the temple and went to look for them. And my oh my was it beautiful!
OMG! This is just a teaser.
Wow wow wow! I LOVE IT. If you look closely you'll notice how water actually comes out .
The beautiful charming Krishna. :)
A group shot! :) Gaga's like lookign elsewhere.
On my way home, thankfully Saraves's dad was able to send and fetch me :)
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I did a bit more cam-whoring.
And then it was time for my daddy's cake-cutting time! :) Nice okay the cake! Sam and J* trained back to my place for my dads celebration and dinner.And it was nice! :) Thanks for coming once again guys!
