My First Zumba Experience!

I've wanted to go to Zumba for over a year now, and on Monday I finally went for the first time with Roi & Lynnie!
I was slightly unsure how it would go since as you can see by my "How To Body Roll" post, I'm not particularly gifted when it comes to dancing... or moving gracefully in general -_-'
But nonetheless I had an awesome time and felt really great afterwards! I'm pretty sure only women attended the class, and the majority were middle-aged, and maybe there were two others around our age and then some in their 20s-30s.
There was one instructor at the top, guiding us along and there were screens up along the sides for people far back who weren't able to see her, since there were a LOT of people there. I can't even remember how many songs we went through, but after each one, the rows at the front would move to the back and vice versa.
Of course, we had to be at the very front for the song that had this really difficult movement, that I honestly had no clue how to do so I sort up just bopped around for that part, pretending I knew my shizz, with the instructor awkwardly staring at me wondering wtf I was doing. /facepalm/
Actually, the instructor got slightly annoyed since when she said "go left" we'd all follow her and go right, which was her left, if you get me. It was funny though... since no one really gave a shit if they were going left or right. >_<'
Another awkward moment, was when we were at the back, and we had to basically just... shake our bodies LOL, so, since I was at the back I thought "heheh no one can see me so Ima go cray cray" and was like *SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE*, then afterwards I was told at that moment some creepers were doing what they do best, creeping in on everyone from the door. But I don't think they could see our faces, just our asses. O_o
The hour flew by so fast! I didn't even realise it was over. But a warning to those who aren't particularly fit, or don't work out that often: you might feel dead after the first time you go. I didn't though, since I work out a few times a week. *fist pumps*

If you want to know if there's any Zumba classes near you just go to their website here, enter your town/city under 'find a class' and voila! I have no idea if the cost of different classes vary, but where I went it was €6! Oh and also, I recommend going with a friend or even a family member, it makes it so much more fun & enjoyable. ^_^

How To: Body Roll (like a badass)

I don't think I've mentioned this before, but I'm actually a professional dancer. I don't wanna brag or anything, but I am pretty amazing if I do say so myself. Anyway, I thought I would share my awesome dancing skills with the world and teach you how to body roll like a badass! /awkward badass pose/

Oh and before I start, hi TOP if you're reading this~ ^^ (Oh I'm just too funny sometimes......)

Let's go!

Find a song you love to dance to and let it TAKE OVER YOUR MIND/BODY/SOUL etc. and then just let go of yourself and..............

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Body roll! Ahh, so classy, so talented and so.......

freaking awkward! xD

Probably thinking 'OTL WTF HAVE I DONE?! O.O'

So uhm, if you have some difficulties with moving your body without looking like you're being electrocuted, why not ask that friend that we all have that is just naturally good at dancing for some help and advice!

Yeeeeeeey for friends who were just born with the gift of being able to dance! *cough*why couldn't I be like that*cough*

Anyhow, once you ask them their response will most likely be.........

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Ah yes, they'll make fun of you. *le sob*

So there's only one thing you can do now.... Practice your ass off until you're better than them! *Pokemon theme song starts* I WANNA BE THE VERY BEST..............

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YAY YOU CAN BODY ROLL NAO, GO SHOW EVERYONE YOUR AMAZING NEW TALENT! /Dances off into oblivion/

PS: The video if from my vlog of Roi's birthday, if you wanna watch it click here ^_^

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New Blog URL

Random irrelevant picture because I don't like picture-less posts o_o

I've FINALLY decided on a new username for all of my social networking sites (for the ones that allow me to change my username anyway.) But now this is slightly awkward since my header has my old URL....
Anyway, I thought I'll share the meaning behind my new username. Originally I wanted to use 'shaunarose' but it's taken in most places, and then after that most other usernames that I checked were also taken too *deep depressing sigh* so I decided to go with 'sseulmei' because my Korean name is 슬미 so I added an extra s to make it 쓸, but I feel like I should have checked with a native Korean speaker to make sure it didn't mean anything bad in Korean....
Then instead of 'mi' I used 'mei' or 玫 which means Rose in Chinese. Actually my Chinese friend told me Rose is '玫瑰花' (mei gui hua) but I shortened it to just 玫~ my middle name is Rose by the way so that's where the idea originated from.
I could probably just make another header in less that 5 minutes but I'm too lazy and yeah... that's pretty much the only reason why.

Song of the Week

I should be doing English homework right now (forever procrastinating -_-') but I thought it would be a good idea to write a post of my favourite song every week, so when I look back in the future, my future self will see what an awesome taste in music I had. Imagine if I was still a kpopper in 20 years time... 아줌마 팬?! ㅎ

Getting to the point of this post, my favourite song this week is *drum roll*

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The DJ Is Mine by Wonder Girls (feat. School Gyrls)

Seriously though, this song is so addictive that even after one listen I had it stuck in my head! O_O I love love love love it, and I also love how JYP had his little cameo haha. I was never a huge fan of dubstep so I was skeptical when I first heard the teaser but then like maybe 10-15 seconds into the song I was like "ASDFGHJKL; THIS IS AMAZING OMG" and such. Of course, I prefer the Wonder Girls only version of the song more because Yubin's full rap sounds so. freaking. epic. Now I'm super excited to hear what other songs they have on their upcoming English album and for the movie too. Feb 2nd, Teen Nick~ don't forget, Americans who are reading this!

Also, please support WG and buy The DJ Is Mine on iTunes!!!

PS: Kim Yubin you are so flawless I can't even u_u

2011 Memories

Happy new year! It's 2012 already... and I'm 18 in a little over 4 months which is crazy. O_O

Anyway, I thought I'd blog about some memories from 2011 with pictures/videos taken during the year. I think I have some for every month so here we go ^^;

January

Ash, me & Lily out for nomz ^o^

One of my random outings with friends~ this one is of me, Lily & Roi. I miss doing this tbh~

This is also proof of how odd my friends & I are!

February

My fanmade Tonight MV.... this is so embarrassing to watch back on, what was I even thinking O_O But, it was totally worth it because it was my entry for Soompi's BIGBANG contest and somehow they actually picked me as one of the winners (WTF!!!!!) I'm not complaining though because I won a freaking signed CD!!!!

My babyyyyyyy <3 can you see I tried to take off the 'not for sale' thing cause it was annoying me but realised TOP's signature was wrote over it so I was like FUUUUUUUUUU xD

Lynnie & I in ECDL class~ this was probably one the funniest classes of TY. We were so crazy LOL

See what I mean? Even one girl got her head stuck in the window... yep that's how amazingly strange my TY class was~

March

Roi's 16th birthday on March 20th! Our maknae is growing up so fast /tears/ 

'Twas a fun day though~

April

Our amazing April Fools prank on our English teacher. It was so funny, definitely something you could only do if you were in TY tbh.

 Roi, myself & Lynnie at this Easter festival thing... I think that's what it was anyhow ^_^

Roi, Sharon, Lynnie, me and Sarah~ Doopose + derp faces ftw!

And some random selca I took that I completely forgot about until now o-o

May

Gael, me and Katelin and Orla's house~ this was the week our Dutch exchange students came here. Also, Shauna F showed us her song she wrote about our TY class too *sobs*

Creepy picture~ decided like a second before it was taken to jump in and do Doopose muahahaha

With Lynnie in Forever 21 in Dublin on a school trip w/ the Dutch students!

June

Lily and I~ on summer holidays nao! Fun day out in town with friends~ Ash and Roi were here too :)

My cousins wedding in July~ it was like a family reunion since I met so many relations that I haven't seen in so long.... some of them I hadn't seen for years O_O

July

Ok I had to include this picture because my eyes looks so damn creepy! O_O This is pretty much what I look like when I zone out, which happens a lot....

 Riri's birthday sleepover! Dara hair + kinder wrapper in her mouth idek keke

Some polaroids from le sleepover~ Roi in her chicken onesie and Lily in her flying squirrel onesie.. I really need to get one so I can too be equally as badass as them u_u

It was a fun sleepover~ we watched kpop concert DVDs and spazzed a lot hehe. Oh and I can't forget; Roi started talking in her sleep and we (well mainly me :'D) started talking to her and asking her questions (while she was still sleeping) ..AND SHE ANSWERED BACK! O_O I felt like some powerful magician that can control dreams OTL. It was so weird but awesome at the same time and now I don't think Roi will ever wanna have a sleepover with us again xD mianhaeeeeee *bows*

Short holiday in Cork with the family; this beach was sosososoooo nice ^_^

Oh and I also blogged about my holidays here and here so feel free to check it out~

August

Went to Donegal for a few days with Lynnie & Riri (and Lynnie's family too)

We stayed in this really cute cottage and IT HAD CHICKENS! If you meow at them they look kind of freaked out~ oh and there was also sheep and I had a conversation with some but they didn't like me very much cause they all ran away psssssht u_u

Me being a creeper while Lynnie & Lily watch videos on my camcorder heheh

*sobs* this was our last day of summer holidays AKA our last day of freedom, happiness etc.

And yes that is Roi knitting while walking down a street in town and me holding the yarn(?) of wool....

September

At the library with Roi, Ash and Lily~ we tried doing homework together but uhm.... we always got quite distracted and stuff  >o<

I think we spent longer getting lunch than in the library D: but we need food for energy to do work so... yeah. I went a little crazy with some random iPhone editing app on this~

Actually I'm not sure if these pictures are from October or September but I have no other pictures from September *sadface*

October

Halloween! Park Bom, TOP and Yoseob OMG!!!! :O

Yoseob and Bom dating scandal yep you heard/saw it here first guise!

YG family family family~ CL, Bom and TOP!

Zico and Yoseob!

TOP, Yoseob and Victoria... Yoseob wae you in almost every single photo?! :O

November

November was a pretty boring month apart from the fact that BIGBANG FREAKING CAME TO MY COUNTRY AND SO DID ZICO!!!!!!!! For the EMA's and I tried to go see them at the airport with Sheena, but they missed their flight and we waited the whole day but they didn't arrive until the next day and we never saw them *cries*

There was a tonne of photographers there taking pictures of us and I was in The Sun (at least I think it was that newspaper..) but it said we were waiting for Jessie J =_= actually the funny thing is, pretty much everyone at the airport was there for BIGBANG and some VIPs were interviewed by different news people from TV and newspapers etc.

Actually I saw Selena Gomez, Jessie J, Snow Patrol, Jimmy Carr and idek who else but I didn't really care about them I just wanted BIGBANG D: I probably sound like a creepy stalker fangirl but seriously, this is BIGBANG and I'm from Ireland... how often do you think kpop groups would ever visit here LOL

I also went to the Maynooth open day with Lynnie~ I went to her primary school talk thing and then we went to the Chinese Studies talk which I'm thinking of doing along with something else that I haven't really decided yet but probably should soon ^_^

December

Christmas quiz at school! It snowed that day and it felt quite Christmassy but then the snow melted T_T

Our team name was 'Double Jjang' heheh but we did fail at the quiz.... it was an epic fail though!

We got a dog! Her name is Lady (I wanted to call her sth more exciting but she answers to Lady so...)

She's a rescued dog, we got her from the ISPCA :)

Shauna, me and Lauren in town after just getting our Christmas holidays! Most people were off the day before but since not many people do music it's always on the last day T_T 

Yes we're very creative and used a giant Christmas decoration to take a picture of us~

Last picture~ really pretty Christmas dress I bought but I haven't had a chance to wear it anywhere yet ;~; Seriously though whenever I see I really pretty dress I always want to buy it... I am addicted to buying things Lord help me prz TT____TT

So yeah.......That was some of my 2011 memories in picture/video form~ there were more but this post is already long enough as it is... Hopefully I'll have some fun memories to post for 2012 too :3