Interesting thing happened last Tuesday. So I went to SM North (A.K.A. SM West)to play Pump It Up, and to interview the WoF there to see how the tournament has been going for them so far. I'll tell you about that later. While dancing, at the start of my First Love routine, where I'm supposed to do a one-handed handstand, my left hand (I'm a lefty when it comes to these things) slipped, much like it did some 9 days prior to this, except that this time it didn't get a sprain. It popped out of its socket. I dislocated my shoulder. It went numb almost immediately. I didn't feel my arm, and I tried to move it and I couldn't. I reached with my right hand and popped it in before anybody else noticed what had happened. Popping it in was an interesting feeling. It kinda hurt but felt good at the same time. Ultimately, it didn't really hurt except for some minor pains expected from such an experience. It hurt a bit the next morning, but it's pretty good now. It only hurts when my arm is positioned some ways, so I try not to put too much strain on my arm or shoulder for now, until it feels all good.

The lesson learned: always wear the leather glove for the left hand at least. That thing is pretty much non-slip, even when wet or when the surface it's on is dusty.

Okay, about the contestants from SM North. Apparently, no Koreans have signed up yet there. I saw a couple of the freestylers there. Both of them are naturally steppers, as in, they only learned to freestyle for the tournament, but without it, would otherwise always be playing speed mode songs. One of them is a polite high school kid named Christian. He's okay but he's obviously very new to stunts and such. And nobody seems to take him or his practice seriously so he doesn't progress as much as I think he should anyway. Also, because he seems to be the only one that really wants it, his partner(s) ended up being pretty much filler characters. Chrsitian does like 90% of the work, including most if not all of the stunts. The other guys are just there to fill the duo requirement of the tournament. Anyway they won already (last Saturday), so they're guaranteed to be in the semi-finals. The other is some guy who is probably a dancer already. He had some nice stunts, impressing me a bit, though I didn't see his duo-routine.

I saw the MVs of Pierrot (Lee Hyun-do), Funky Tonight (CLON) and Hot (1Tym). All of those gave me good ideas for steps. When we get through this Saturday, given we win, we'll start working on Funky Tonight, for the semi-finals, and if we win and have time, we'll do Hot for the Finals.

Y!M 7 sucks. It would've been good, but it freezes my PC inexplicably whenever I try to run it. No error messages, not even ctrl+alt+del works. I have to hard-reset the machine, then I wouldn't find out what was wrong. So I gave up and downloaded Trillian, which supports all the IM programs I use (or used to use). This is long overdue, because I got lazy to reinstall AIM when I uninstalled it like several months ago. So now I can get back in touch with my AIM buddies. One of the best features of Trillian IMO would be the cute smilies. Yahoo's smilies have been horrible since about 2001, when they switched from the cute little round buttons of smiles to the bigger, more unecessarily-detailed smilies. But Y!M is still different. So when they make an update or fix (there are a lot of other problems that everybody has, including display images, webcam support, etc.), I'll try to use Y!M again.