Say CHEESE!

Ahhhhh this was a wonderful day! Me and my brother played non-stop for several hours. We played some Super Mario wii, he showed me all of this Lady Gaga and Selena Gomez magazines (YES, he is obssesed with Lady Gaga!), he did a 30min show for me when he danced and sang to Lady Gaga, he showed me all of his toys, we drew some nice pictures and then we searched for birds on his balcony.

To make the story short, Rikard is my halfbrother from my dads´side. For the first 3-4 years me and my siblings, my little sister and my little brother didn´t got the chance to see him as much as we wanted to. He lived in Romania until just about 1 year ago, and the relationshipo betweeen his mom and my dad was bad, and we also had some language issues, where we didn´t speak good romanian and he didn´t speak swedish. I prayed for so many nights to please take him to Sweden, he would have a better life here. And we could see him whenever we wanted too.... And yesterday was That day, when I felt that this is how it´s suppose to be. We spoke the same language, we were just like normal siblings, playing and dancing.

he just lost his two front teeth! haha so cute
This is Lady Gaga, I have to say, it looks alot like her :)
In action!!



I took a 40min walk home, it felt so good just to clear my mind. And in this beautiful area called Edsviken..




Please, do not take your family for granted. I was without my brother for 5-6 years, almost missed all of his growth... And I´m still in the same position with my other half brother Matteo, he lives with my dad and his wife in Romania, he´s 2 now, and I havn´t met him for 1 year... So go and hug everyone in your family NOW!!! :)

ENJOY!!!!!

backstage - Jakob Öqvist & Jonas (The Voice Streetdance School)
David - only 32mins left to the show!
David found The Voices´biggest fan!!
Paul is getting nervous...
David and Rigo from Crossfire
Artist Kato, check him out @ - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NkjxTJQCZE&feature=related

Jingelmannen was brining it!!
Artist/dancer from Jamaica
Rigo from Crossfire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CiQx0A7QF0 - A video from the concert

Jakob & Josefin Crafoord - The Voice crew
Kjell was looking all fly
The one and only, Lazee - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROA0CV2EPGY


ladies and gents, Quincy Jones was watching the show!

The Voice Streetdance School

woops!!
Sean Banan

No comments... - he´s famous for his song - Skaka rumpa (shake your ass) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olcwt5SRnaM

Madcon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9QBK1W9Ag4


Beatbox challenge - Peter Haroun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N6v8tSJmjs

Mr Flo Rida! -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgM3r8xKfGE
now that´s just CRAZY!! they actually said thata they were gonna give away their blingbling to the audience! as you can see, the people went CRAZY!! luckly, the security guards stopped Flo Rida and his crew, it would´ve been like the world war 3 out there... everybody wants the blingbling. Even I found myself jumping up and down screaming " give it to me, give it to me!!!!!"

More pictures will be up @ www.TheVoice.se and on my website www.FeliciaMargineanu.com

ENJOY!!

here´s some of the pictures from the after party!! enjoy!!

 Paul, Josefin & Jakob - The voice crew

 The man himself, Quincy Jones - MJs producer and Josefin. Hahah she kissed him, and he got lipstick all over his lips hahah

 lipstick!!
 Dj Qute & her friend

 haha me and Ivona

 haha this is the girl I battled. She was all like "hey-look-at-me-I-can-throw-my-hair-and-look-cool"... and guess who won???!
 I had the peoples support!!

 go go go!

 Maria & Niki

ouuhhh it´s monday today and I think I have about 500 pictures from the weekend. This weekend was CRAZY!! On Saturday morning I went to Saltsjöbaden to take some pics on my friend, Marcelas´event. For you guys who doesnt know what Bachata is, here´s some short info;

Bachata music was born in the Dominican Republic, borrowing from the Cuban Bolero. Bachata is a very slow, romantic and sensual dance. A famous bachatagroup is Aventura;

While you´re lookin at some of the pics from the Bachata Summer Weekend ,listen to this song :) one of my favorite!
Aventura - Solo por un beso


Factoria De Baile, Bachatango and PornoBachata workshops


People are ready with their cameras!

Marcela Cardenas, Mdans!
Jesus Rivera, dancepartner to Marcela, Mdans.
in action!
the pool
haha the end of the bachata weekend...

Unfortunitly I wasn´t present during the party, I had to go to Kungsträdgården to The Voice10, pictures from the concert, backstage and the afterparty will be up soon!!

And if you want to see more of the pictures from The Summer Bachata Weekend, keep an eye on www.mdans.net
here´s some videos from Factoria De Baile and Mdans, enjoy!


Factoria De Baile Mdans

Here´s some pics from when we did the Promoting for Sony Musics new artist, Mike Posner! he will be here in Sweden in October!! Check him out @ www.MikePosner.com

This is the song we played; Cooler than me



So what we did was that we went to UNG08 (a festival) and we had our pimped up boombox with us! The plan was to dance and get peoples attention, and give them flyers and more info about him. Haha and we sure got the attention!! We also got the chance to go up on the stage and dance hahah.. here´s some pics from the day

flyers!
Niki´s in action
me and Ivona with the B-E-A-uuutiful boombox!
on the stage

Last week I took a very important, and life chaning decision. I contacted my previous tennistrainer. I told him how much I miss tennis and that I want to start play again. Just for fun, some me-time. He called me yesterday and told me that this is just perfect!! He told me that he would make sure that I could get a personaltrainer so that the focus is just on me!! I´m like a rusty bicycle... But if you oil me enough and help me goin, I´m gonna be like new again! So the plan is that, I´m gonna play once a week, 2 hours, with my Personal trainer. And not just with anyone, this dude is one of the best trainers I´ve ever seen!!! Let me tell you a little something about my tennis history :)...

When I was around 7 years old my dad put me in a tennis school. Because I wanted to. I started to play even more and more, the trainers saw that I was pretty good for my age, so they moved me a level higher. I remember my first trainer, Conny. He was death and stum. But he had sooo much heart! We all could actually understand him. He took me to tennis tournaments and I remember how much he supported me.

When I was around 10 I started to play with those who were 2-6 years older than me. I trained 5times a week + tournaments. At this time I started to feel the pressure even more... I was pretty mature for my age. I got in the puberty early and I was picked on for my body. And some if the girls felt the competition from me, so they picked on me even more. It was hard. I felt like an outsider. But I also knew that I was too GOOD to let it get to me. I had my teachers support, even some of the other parents support. They came to me after the training and gave me kind comments about my playing, and specially my serve. My best thing was my serve. I was strong. I served at 100km/hour. My way of playing was to have a good serve, and to have controll of the balls. I could place them wherever I wanted. I was not a fast runner though. But I saw how much potential I had...

When I was 12, I had started to compete even more. I traveled around Sweden, just a few times with the club. Once to Västervik, and once to Båstad. It feels like yesterday.. I remember almost Everything!!! I could write you a book about this, so much to tell you.. But one thing happend in Båstad that changed everything. My first game was against the Swedish number 1 in my agegroup. I lost the game and I was out of the competition. But I was there for a few more weeks to support my team, to train and to just enjoy the famous Tennis Båstad week. After that match, and after those weeks I just felt how much pressure I had, and how much more I´m gonne get, because I wanted to get better. My selfconfidence just burst. And the fact that I still was picked on made it even worse. I started to skip classes, came with lame excuses that my leg was hurt, that I had some study to do, that I was sick. And one day, I decied to talk to my teachers. We had a meeting, I remember it so well. We sat in our "team room" where we sat and waited for our turn to play a match (evert saturday we had a tournament within the team, to develop our gameskills. They sat infront of me. They knew what was coming. I told them that I started to worry about school, the money that my parents pay just to let Me play and so on (excuses, excuses...). They praied for me to stay. They tried Everything to keep me stay. But no, it was too much for me. When I left, I left with my heart in that room.

Ever since that day, tennis has haunted me. I have several times went to the tenniscourt, just to see people play. Just to hear the sound, the smell of the tenniscourt, and one day, for about 2years ago I saw my trainer, teaching a little girl. I knew this was it. I walked  to the office and I saw my other trainer, Anders. When he saw me, he couldn´t believe his eyes. Two years, and there I was. I started to play again, but just for a term. And now, here I am again. 2years later, ready to play again!!

" I dont want to regret anything in my life. And I can honestly say that, if I don´t have tennis in my life, just for 1day/week, I know I will regret it... But everything happens for a reason, and if I didn´t quit tennis, I would Never, NEVER be the person that I am today. A succesfull photographer, a dancer, and this Felicia I am today. So in one way, I am happy that it happend. Yeah, I might not be the next superstar tennisplayer, but that´s okej..."

I havnt been blogging for a while now. Ops, my bad! I´ve been so busy the last week and the upcoming weeks aint lookin any better. Just so that you can get a little clue how my scheduale looks;

Saturday (tomorrow) - Wake up at 6am. Fix my face, pack my bag with cameras, batteries, chargers, etc etc. Meet up Nikeisha and then go to Saltsjöbaden and take pictures at my friends´event - Bachata Summer Festival. Around 5pm I have to go, because then im off to Kungsträdgården The Voice10, takin pictures of the concert, backstage and the afterpary! heeeey!!

Sunday - Summer Bachata Weekend. 10am-5pm.

Monday - editing, editing and editing of pictures.

Tuesday - Photoshoot for a mining company. (Gruvföretag) - Pictures of the employees.

And don´t get me wrong, I LOVE when I have stuff do to!! Specially when it´s with photography :)

HAHAH a funny thing. I just got a message from Jakob Öqvist;
"Kjell has fixed a backstage pass for you! But he didn´t remember your last name... so you are Felicia Svensson!! Awsome name...."

hahah couldn´t stop laughing.. Well, Well, I still got my businesscards with me so nobody will think that´s my REAL name. Horrible!!!


If you´re planning to go to the Voice, or if you want some more info; check out their website for more info!
http://www.thevoice.se/







Or if you want some more info about The Bachata Summer weekend, check out Marcela Cardenas website;
http://www.mdans.net

Hahah im gonna let this video speak for itself :) enjoy!

As they say "There´s nothing like home!" And I have to agree. Of course I miss Miami and all of the friends I have over there, specially Marco and Miguel. Two wonderful guys, with hearts of gold!!

The last day in Miami we went to IHOP - International House of Pancakes!!! oohoooo take a look at this, it´s CRAZY!!
I could only managed to eat 2 blueberrypancakes, and I felt like throwing up!.. Marco and Miguel had an omelette AND Cheesecake-pancakes!


After 14hours flight, my friend Srdjan picked me up at the airport. On the way to the car we saw this dude. Haha Srdjan was a bit jealous, so I took a picture to let him see that he also got some muscles haha!