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This is the first time in my life to experience the procession with 20,000 dancers and 10,000musicians parading through the city over a route of four kilometres. I was very excited when l reached La Paz, the capital of Bolivia for this festival, so l bought a mask as a souvenier for myself, unfortunately, l lost it during the carnival, arhhhhh......Luckily l have taken picture with the mask.

The whole country was busy celebrating for the festival, this could be seen on the streets.....

The Carnaval de Oruro (or Carnival of Oruro) is the biggest annual cultural event in Bolivia. It was declared one of mankind's masterpieces of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity by the Unesco in 2001. The carnival is held in a mining town of Oruro in Bolivia at 3,700m above sea level.

The carnival is unique in the world by its religious sense, it invocations to Pachamama ( Mother Earth ) and to Tio Supay ( Satan Uncle). The performers represent various indigenous dance forms, and are accompanied by several bands. Their costumes were truly impressive to me!

The carnival was more exciting towards evening, unfortunately we did not stay due to the long journey back to La Paz.....and l did not have chances to dance with them...by the way, l did it in Puno of Peru, dancing on the street with the locals during their procession, how l wish l could dance a little bit longer......

I believe many wish to start something new after Chinese New Year, so, here you are another new intake for belly dance beginner class in Zero!

As usual, the class will be conducted by me. This new class is on every Wednesday 7:40pm, think this is the best timing for those working huh.

I always hear people telling me :  Conny l want to join your belly dance class, l want to dance like you! Oh some have been saying for years but have never taken any action.....ha ha.....hope l could see these people this time. Sometimes l wonder why it is so difficult to start something we like, l think people use to drag because we thought we still have plenty of time, and it is never too late to start a 'hobby'. I don't know why but l have different thoughts. I believe hobby is very important because l am happy when l am doing something l like, and happiness is what l must pursue in life.....yes, money is important, to survive is very important, but life is not only 'to survive' right? That's why l dance, l travel, and l learn, how l wish if l could start these hobbies much earlier huh!

By the way, yes, it is never too late to start!

An 80 years old Chinese lady told her grandson : I wanted to start learning English when l was 70, but l thought l might not be able to do it at this age so l gave up. l am 80 now and how regretful l am of this abandonment, now only l realize l was 'young' that time, if l did not give up, l must be able to speak fluent English after 10 years of practicing!

Yes, l am back, again......

I have not shared much of my Japan and China's trip here yet, and once again l came back from another trip, there are too many to share but l know l am seriously running out of time, especially now....it happens everytime after my trip, there are just too many things to do.....but no regret, l will fly again and again......

I have been to Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Amsterdam and Belgium this trip, in and out the airport and aeroplane 8 times in total, hooh, enough for plane!

It was an extreme tiring trip, l broke some records of mine as well, being sick the longest time during the trip, and spend the least for shopping. Usually l could resume my energy instantly after a good quality of sleep, but l am helpless this time, l have slept a lot for the first two days after reaching home, but my body is still weak, and l could not sleep well for the following days due to the jet lag....terrible huh!

But again, there is no regret.

I think l like Peru the most among the countries that l have visited this time, the old capital Cuzco has truly inspired me and l think l will go back again, most of all, we did not make it to machu pichu for the sake of the land slide, it was raining heavily there. It is a must for me to visit machu pichu, and l really don't mind to visit Cuzco again merely for machu pichu, l can't help to fall in love with the mountains there, l have only seen them in the movies but now l know there is a place.....how could l resist to go back again? 

And the Spanish language, l am eagle to learn Spanish from long long time ago, l have bought the book but have never started practicing. My dream came true in Peru, l have opportunity to kick start learning Spanish and l was so excited. I told myself l must not stop practicing by myself as l do not want to lose it, and l am planning to go Spain soon......So, l have three languages to practise now, English, Japanese and Spanish. Ha, no torturing, l enjoy learning languages instead.

And now, it is time for me to cool down and back to my routine, on top of that, l have two performances to do, a workshop to conduct and a workshop to attend this month, and, the most important task none other than 3rd World Belly Dance Day in Penang is waiting for me....let me take a deep deep breath, and start my powerful engine once again, Go Conny!

Hi friends, l am in Puno now, it is a small town on a highland of Peru, l am here to visit the highest lake of the world, the lake Titicaca, it is quite cold here, and very easy to be attacked altitude sickness, but l am fine now :-) touch wood....

I like Peruvian, most of them are very friendly, and the tribes here Aymara are beautiful, they have very sharp feature just like the engravement of the nature, my first Peruvian friend Henry is next to me now, and l have met the first Red Indian l know at Nazca. It is all a wonderful experience.

I am leaving for La Paz tomorrow morning, it is the capital of Bolivia, also the highest capital in the world, 5 hours drive from the border of Peru, may be colder there, but l am so excited to attend the Bolivia festival which featuring 20,000 dancers and 10,000 musician......hence, my Chinese New Year Celebration will be on the highland.......

Seems like we just have our gathering, everything is still fresh in memory, but in fact, it has been a year since our last gathering for 2009, sigh...times fly huh.....

The same every year, we could never get a full attendance, some instructors did not turn up too this year due to other function they have, though, there was still a wonderful evening....

Every beginning of the year, l invite all Zero's staffs and instructors for an annual dinner, it is the time for all to meet and know each other, some instructors do not know others because their classes are in different schedule, l am happy to see when they meet together, we are people with passion in fitness and dance, we should know each other and work together, so far, l am proud to say, in Zero, all instructors are united and cooperative, we are really like a family.

Unlike last few years, we did not spend time for game this time, instead, we chat more and took pictures.

Albert is not in the pictures above because he was our camera man and the only guy in the dinner, ha, the sole precious one!

Sharene brought her baby Herlisher along, she is a cheeky and healthy baby, she made us laugh a lot, her look is 100% duplication of the mother.

There is another baby girl Qing Qing in the dinner, she is Yu Li's niece, a cutie cartoon look baby.

Eat Eat Eat, Chat Chat Chat, Laugh Laugh Laugh.....

Every year, l buy a cake for all, we made wishes after the dinner, hope everybody's wishes come true in 2010.

And we exchanged gift as an appreciation and blessings to each other.....

Thank you to all Zero's intructors for their passion in teaching and all Zero's staffs for their responsibility, wishing Zero a wonderful year in 2010!

Yes yes, l love flowers, l could not imagine the world without flowers, but l love to see the flowers on the trees more than in the vase....

There are many different types of flowers in Japan, how l admire Japanese......

    These are peach blossoms as stated in the garden, to me, they are more beautiful than sakura in closer shot, sakura is phenomena but the peach blossom is charming..... 

To me, flowers are the gift of God to the earth, they look soft but they are strong indeed, just like women, hey!

It has been almost a year since my trip to Japan last March, l have so many to share but no time.....l remember my Japan trip again when l started to meet summer sakura in Penang here.....

When sakura blossoms, the world is so beautiful, l could not tell you how beautiful is the scenery with sakura, it is just amazing, now l understand, why Japanese indulge in the beauty of sakura.....

  My friends Eric and Takeshi chatting under Sakura trees, we were queueing to enter an outdoor cafe beside a river bank with full of sakura trees....

I sincerely hope that Penangites appreciate our summer sakura like Japanese because the summer sakura is as beautiful as Japan's sakura, but our sakura trees are too far from each other, how nice if we also have sakura street and sakura garden huh? Sigh....l am dreaming.....

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It is Zero's year this year, 2010, there are two zeros in this year, hence, l believe Zero is going to grow well this year, ha!

When l named the studio Zero five years ago, some of my friends worried for me, they commented that the name sound a little bit stupid, ha ha...but l think the name of Zero has become a trend nowadays, many people used it. I saw these big signboards in Tokyo last year:

 This is a Bistro & Pub.

  This is a mall.

     An exhibition of photography with the name Zero.

If you notice, the 'e' on our logo is upside down, l pronounce our studio's name as Z(J)ero, before l started learning Japanese, l did not know they pronounce zero the same way too, ha, what a coincidence, l thought l am the one who invented this pronunciation before l discovered this......

Did you meet the full moon on 1st January? The moon was very round and bright, a round moon synonymous zero, so once again l believe, Zero is going to shine up throughout the year.

Go Zero!

No matter it was good or bad, the time will not stay for anybody.....YES! It is the last day of 2009, l am happy that another year is coming!

I had bad time in year 2009, there were too many bad things happened to me, 2008 was not a good year for me too....but thank God, l had wonderful time on the second half year of 2009, hence l believe, my 2010 will be a GREAT one! Yes l believe!

One thing l appreciate myself is, l have grown a lot this year, l was not defeated by the bad things that happened to me, instead, l have grown...thank you to those who love and supporting me, also to people who hurt me, after all, they all help me to grow, but l pray hard to gain more love and less hurt in 2010!

Zero did not grow well in this year, but we did maintain well, thank you to all Zero's instrutors for their great effort and the passion to fitness and dance, thank you to Zero's staffs who always back up me so that l could conduct classes without too much worries, and thank you to all Zero's members and my lovely students, you guys have helped me to boost my enthusiasm to run Zero!

See you next year!