Phantom of the Opera or Rabbit of the Opera?

After I finished making my craft, I took time to look around other groups only to find out that they had pretty intriguing crafts they made. I bumped into Roy who seemed to keenly polished his black and white mask. As I asked him what that was...he thought it was supposed to be some kind of yin and yang symbolized in the mask. It turned out to be not what he had expected in the first place.
But, I thought it was an excellent job.
It was simple, plainly made into one of a kind......I bet no one that day made the one this simple yet perfectly tuned into a rabbit mask that he made. I dubbed it as "The Rabbit of the Opera"
Since it was so captivating (at least to my eyes), I wanted to put it on and took a picture of myself wearing it.
Roy turned out to like it the way it looked. The idea of adding another color to the mask was then.....gotten rid of. Great decision. Otherwise, it would not have looked this attractive.

Talent Show at NIIED Orientation

The talent show did steal the crowd's attention. Lots of performers from different countries representing their current universities managed to make the best program ever. Two Indonesian students, Ivan from Pusan National University and Gemilang from Yonsei University, contributed their talents to the crowd. Ivan played an acoustic version of 2002's World Cup's theme song. His friend from India accompanied him in singing.  On the other hand, Gemilang did an excellent job of dancing a Western Javanese Jaipong dance mixed with that of Balinese dance. It was so mesmerizing. I myself could not believe what I saw since she danced beautifully. I bet lots of people were bedazzled.

Two singers from Yonsei performed their best in singing a Korean song titled 난 사랑할 수 밖에 몰라 'I know nothing but to love you', then four Myanmar girls dressed in their traditional costumes sang a Korean song. I also witnessed a at-first-it-was-kind-of-weird show from our friend Uganda, but it turned out to be one of the best show ever! I think most of us would never expect to have a kind of lecture or presentation about Uganda on power point presentation....especially during the Talent Show like that. But, it turned out to be quite an interesting twist of the night. We became aware of how little we know about other country's real condition. Bravo and Salute to the Ugandan team; especially after they closed their presentation with an energetic, electrifying rendition of kinda African-American music that did steal the show. The guys were so hilarious in showing off their booty dance. It looked like a poco-poco (Indonesian folk dance) at first, but it was somewhat different.
Indeed, that was a night to remember.

NIIED friends from HUFS & KDI

After the last session of the first day of orientation, we kinda felt cold due to having to be in the auditorium for several hours. Since it was still daylight in the evening, we rushed to the front of the building to make ourselves warm. We managed to take some pictures. The white long-sleeved t-shirt that we were wearing was not actually  a uniform that we must wear, but since it was an occasion where lots of us came from different background, a sense of being united as the new member of NIIED scholarship recipients, most of us did wear it.

It kinda soothe the feeling being one.
Oh, I forgot to turn off the 6-frames-in-a-minute shot that I set up earlier, so when my friend took the picture, it automatically took 6 frames continuously. That's why I kinda shouted at what was happening.:)

Orientation for 2011 KGSP Scholarship Student (part 4)

After a series of lecture on Korea's Success Story from Prof. Kim Byoung Kwan from Ajou University, we were presented with a series of Korean cultural shows. It was a good thing that some of the performances did highlight the pinnacles of Korean traditional and modern cultures, in this case through dances.
A dance with samulnori (사물놀이)musical instruments, e.g. janggu (장구); a dance with traditional fans (fan dance, 부채춤) were only some of the shows being presented.

I think most of us did enjoy it since most of us did not yet have any previous experiences of seeing the live performances of Korean dances.
I think this was pretty much helpful to give a preliminary hint of what we may come up with during our stay in Korea. The songs and ambiance that accompanied the show were typically suited to the ear of first listeners, except the loud songs of samulnori percussion that for some may be deafening if they had no prior experience of seeing them being played. But, it was a good that the performance did up to the standard.