“Doraemon and Friends event rehersal at Queensbay Mall”

At 23th december 2008 which is last week, I drive back to penang straight after my work. I remembered Jefferey told me that they are having dance rehearsal at queensbay mall for doraemon and friends event. So i just head to queensbay mall and visit them for the doraemon rehearsal.

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Tough question for me, “Why you don’t want to be a dancer?”

This is a question where i can’t answer it well on the spot and just been asked by a dancer last tuesday. After she asked me, i just keep quiet and smile to her and quickly change topic to avoid any hard feeling for me to answer that.

Actually, the main core reason or perhaps answer for this question would be “Luck”! Why do i said so? Well, actually i do try on becoming a full-time dancer or in house dancer for some crew or whatever it is. Just sometimes, you really hardly to predict anything happen in front of your dream or your destination. When you saw some chance and you are just going to grab it in your hand, something will stop you doing that and won’t allow you to proceed.

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“Britney Spears Gimme More Video that you MUST watch!”

I believe you had heard of this song “Gimme More” from Britney Spears, and just found some videos of the song from YouTube that you MUST watch!

There are 3 video which is the original Gimme More MV, The Pill MV and The Black MV. You won’t regret of spending 15mins of your times to watch, Enjoy.

Britney Spears “Gimme More” Original MV

The Black “Gimme More” Edition MV

The Pill “Gimme More” Edition MV

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“Britney Spears, Gimme More Dance Competition @ Orange Pub”

Recall back to 23th Feb 2008, we are invited to perform an opening dance for Britney Spears Blackout Dance competition. Well, for sure we are choosing “Gimme More” for the opening dance since it is the most popular and hottest in the album. We took one week times to practice at California Fitness Center Mid valley.

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“Some simple photo compilation of D’Valis and D’Coloz”

Just compile few photo which i found in my gallery folder. Well, all pic is taken while waiting for show. Just…enjoy the photo. ^^

Tomato (Elva), Joshua and Me (Eric) posing at the backstage of dunno which ball room. All of us is posing on top of the make up table, luckily the table didn’t get spoil by us.

Me and Sunny is having some cool pose, well, if i say cool, i mean it!

Girls, sorry to say that you can’t beat us, definitely don’t have the chance of wining us. haha

“What you think about the winner of So You Think You Can Dance Malaysia, Alam and CC?”

As a dancer and also an audience for this competition, I’m quite impress with the choreography and as well as the showmanship from the contestants. I’ve been watching So You Think You Can Dance Malaysia for season 1 and 2 and by watching them fighting and compete each other from the audition, to the boot camp, go through the top 20 as well as to the final stage.

As one of the participant for the competition before, what i can say that the boot camp is the most challenging stage which you are require to learned few types of dances in a day and without any delay, you might need to have your lunch and dinner while you are learning the steps from the choreographer. There are no times for you to sit there and enjoy your meals, beside that, you need to squeeze everything in while you are learning because there are no extra times for you to mark even no space and place for you to practice. Once you had learned the steps, you will need to wait at the back stage for your turn to show what you had learned in front of the judges and also the media.

Let’s talk about Alam which is the winner for So You Think You Can Dance Malaysia Season 1 which is a break dancer, not a normal break dancer but a technical and skillful breaker. What i know and heard from others about his background that he is came from a poor family that staying at Muar and he learned break dancing mostly all by his own when he started to get interest in it. He fall, he hurt, he injure but still he won’t give up and keep on trying on the moves.

He is so lucky to have a good dance partner when he is on the Top 20 which he do learned lots of things about dance from her. Is a gift from the god for him to explore more from the inner of himself. Throughout the competition, he learned, he smile, he cried and even get lots of pressure from the choreographer when he learned on new dance style such as contemporary, latin dance and etc. But he make it on the stage and proud for himself. He passed one stage by one stage, learn and learn, finally he is on the top 4 which is the final stage for him.

However, what i want to say is he is really doing great in the competition and get himself the highest vote among the 4 finalist form Malaysia. Many people said that maybe he is the only malay in the top 4 and of cause all malay’s would probably voted for him. If this is the reason, then this competition is not a dance competition but just a voting dance competition. I believe lots of people out there would think this is unfair for those who had better skills, but bear that in mind, competition not only depends on your skills or techniques, luck and audience hence spontaneous reaction on stage is an aspect too.

But the way, I’m quite agree and support Alam to win this competition as he can use the price money which is RM50,000 to support and help his family. His parents surely proud of him for his result and success. Many people would said, breaker can’t really dance on other kind of dances, but Alam do it! So everyone surely can make it if you try and give pressure for yourself, you surely can do it!

Now we proceed to the winner for So You Think You Can Dance Malaysia Season 2, Cecilia (CC). From her appearance, we can obviously know that she is a ballroom / latin dancer and of cause, she is my friend which i know from a fitness center. We had dance together for more then a year and of cause we are not just doing latino dance but also hip hop, jazz, belly and etc.

What is my first impression on Cecilia (cc)? For the first time i saw her is from a hip hop dance class from the fitness center and she can really dance quite well with attitude. Well you know, as a latin dancer, attitude is really important to show how good you are on the dance floor. Besides that, she is really tall with 170cm height and perhaps the tallest in the class. The first time we dance together was the fitness center dance group practice and this girl really show her talent to us especially her latin dance movement.

We went for the audition of So You Think You Can Dance Malaysia Season 2 together and i’m still remember she said that:” Aiya, I join this competition just for fun, din think of win one.” So now, she’s the winner for the competition, really unbelievable isn’t it? But this winning isn’t a good started for her as in lot’s of bad comments from the crowd outside there especially from 8TV official website. I would like to talk and say something about this matter and i’m not offense with anyone out there.

Cecilia had been announce as Malaysian voted favorite dancer for So You Think You Can Dance Malaysia Season 2. Can you notice anything from the sentence above? Yes! “Malaysian voted favorite dancer”, the word voted had been spoken out and everyone should know that this competition is mostly about voted. Well, forget about the mostly, is fully about the vote on the final stage. I do understand and know the feeling of those who are not agree on the results which cecilia (cc) won the competition and lots of negative words i saw from forums, blogs and comments.

I know that Hong, Black and Sim also an outstanding dancer as well as CC. What i had mentioned that sometimes a competition really depends on luck but this competition involve another important aspect which is vote! From the very beginning, everyone knows that this is an voting competition, if you really want to win to competition, you should have bear that in mind.

So what I can say that Cecilia (CC) had won the competition and this is the fact! No one can change it and i believe no one can change the history as well! What i can say is she is so glad and happy on the wining and really feel sad on the negative comments from you all. With the supports of her family and friends, she stand up and ready to fight for the future in her dancing life and no matter how bad the comments and feedbacks out there, she ain’t going to bother and just do whatever she think is right!

So fellow friends, be sporting. This is an voting competition, and she won with her dance skill and also by voting. So please don’t complain no more with it, if there are any complain or suggestion on the competition, write an email or call up to 8TV which is the organizer for the competition to change the rules and bla bla bla. After 2 years which is the year 2010, we will see how’s the competition and i believe i had done enough preparation by that time to go for the audition again.

Anyway, only my friends know about the reason why i get disqualify from the competition, I’m so regret with it and I promise myself that i won’t be so stupid and repeat the same mistake again.

This is what i think of the 2 champions from So You Think You Can Dance Malaysia season 1 and 2. Anyway, keep the good work for both of you and good luck ya.

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“How to become a professional dancer”

This topic always buzzing me around and I’m hardly answer it to myself. But there are few aspects on how to become a professional dancer which i think is true, anyway, just a 2 cents from me and no offense to anyone or any dancer out there.

To become a professional dancer doesn’t require to know all kinds of dances or how many shows had you perform. Many peoples even dancers themselves always compare with others on how good are their dance skills, how many big shows performed and bla bla bla. I’m really hate on listening to dancers that keep showing off on the shows, competitions or classes they did or doing. Well, with this kind of attitude, you had failed yourself to be a professional dancer, and this is true dude!

If a Latin dancer attempt to be a professional dancer, well, keep polishing and improved your Latin skills but not to learn more dances like Hip Hop, Breakdance, Reggae and etc. A Latin dancer is very graceful all the time when they stand on the stage and if you learned other types of dances, it probably will affect your performance and dance style, bear that in mind and it is really serious.

For Malaysia, if you ever saw a Hip Hop or Break dancers dance on Latin or contemporary dance, you can notice the weird movement and style they attempt to show. Especially in So You Think You Can Dance, I think that is the only chance you get to see those scene. As the same as a Latin dancer that trying to do Hip Hop, funky style is strongly require but you can hardly see it from them but just clean and tidy dance steps and movements they did which more to normal dance steps and movements.

Besides dance skills, a professional dancer should have a humble and willing to learn attitude all the times but not to show off and think they are the best all the times. Please, if you’re acting in such way, others will get rid of you from their crew or group and also your bad attitude will be well-known soon in this dance field. So, attitude can affect your dance life, your dance journey. Don’t ever think of showing off yourself for the first meet with a crew or any dancers hence instructors. You might get into trouble and nobody will likes you or wanna dance with you at all.

Punctuality is very important for a professional dancer for training or any performance. If you are late means late, excuses is not acceptable and of cause, bad impression on you had increase. If you know that there are traffic jam or any matters that will cause you late, try to arrange your times and start your journey early to the venue, unless there is something really bad and accident happened. Anyway, me myself is a lazy bumb and had improve a lot in punctuality unless there are unexpected jam on the highway. Gosh, i hate KL highway!

I think I have to stop here for this round, means that there will be more articles and thoughts about this topic in the future, and i hope all the dancer would consider some of my thoughts in order you to have a better and smoother dance journey for yourself.

Peace.
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“Tutorial - Latin Dance : Basic Salsa”

Here are some video tutorial about Latin Dance which is the basic of Salsa. Probably you can learn it by your own at home in front of your computer and the video is freaking easy. Enjoy the dance!

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This side shuffle is one of the easiest downrock compilation and also name as CC or Cee Cee. Anyway, you can master this side shuffle (CC) in 2 days time if hard practice apply.

Make sure you had learned 3 steps and 6 steps before you learned this, it had to be combine for better and nicer downrock.

Enjoy.

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“Tutorial - Breakdance: 3 Steps or Three Steps”

3 steps or three steps is a basic move like 6 steps and obviously, it content 3 simple steps.

But what i can tell you is, i prefer 3 steps then 6 steps because it looks cool and of cause you can add on more hand movement and expression to get your 3 steps more professional and phat.

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