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20 Jan
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title: ACEKI salsa Compeition 2010 Phew! The dance marathon is kind of over for NOW. From what I can remember I had over 4 performance/competition spanning over a month. Thus the insane dance practice one after another. At least there is nothing ahead since the next event for xen will be the HongKong salsa congress which I am sadly not going. Almost the whole xen is going there. So I'll be emo-ing with Amanda in Singapore.
Today my feet was rather swollen as I by ballet shoes and usual dance shoes that I wore in xen to dance felt really tight. Ivy said it is due to too much dancing especially for the recent Friday's competition. Let's back-track to Friday. It was one eventful day though. After work I went to xen to start preparing for the night's event. When Dawn told me to stretch before running though, I thought I could go down into a split easily. But instead of the usual crack that i will get while splitting, I felt my inner thigh muscle stretch. Must be that I overused it the night before during the rehearsal. There was major space constrain since all the mirrors were shifted to one side to make space for the venue. As it got closer to the start of the competition, everyone was all dressed up looking so glamorous, glitzy, elegant... except Dawn and I who were in tank-tops and shorts. Such a sharp contrast. Since we were doing somewhat a reggae-salsa thing, we cannot afford to wear skirts. After that, I was busy cam-whoring away (says Dawn). But everyone was doing that too. And someone could not do it cause HER camera's memory was FULL. Hmmm... what does it mean. Am I more cam-whore than HER??? Anyway, I was expecting Baohui, her bf, Angela and Shuwen to come watch. Sadly Melissa could not come. Apparently even after I drew a map for them to follow, all of them went in the wrong direction. I think they walked from redhill to commonweath. But they did not missed the fun part of the competition though. During the amateur round, Dawn and I totally screwed the item. haha... our split jumps were not in-sync and final pose sucked. Thus, it explained why we received second prize cause the champions who were supposedly dressed in some Tarzan theme had some big moves up their sleeves. But apart from that, there techniques were not clean enough and thee girl did not point her toes man!!! I wonder why they fared better. Naturally in the open category where the competition ups another level, Dawn and I were determined not to win but to get a better video. And we managed to achieve that. We still got second (again) but won the jungle-themed couple and lost to Brenda and Libin who had a more kick-ass choreography. Unfortunately the video ended just before we split since my camera when out of memory space. Hizz... As for the prizes, Dawn and I each got 2 pairs of Titoban shoes (damn lousy) and $600 worth of clothes that could all be found in xen. Well that's all for now. And I shall take the chance now to rest. I am having serious panda-rings round my eyes. Ah! I need sleep... ![]() ![]() |
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