14th Penang competition

Penang competition just over a week.It is a very big event with lots of over sea's competitor.One thing I like about Penang competition is there is alot of professional's event such as Professional Open , Professional Close Asia, Professional Asia ranking..we can even see them on day event as the 1st round of professional's event is on day event.

As, usual, I am joining novice and Pre- Amateur for both latin and standard dance.
My roomate, Siew Wee and her boy friend Kiat Koon are also joining this competition for beginner's one dance event. It is 1st time for them . We followed A&C whole team to Penang by bus. The journey is quite tired and not so enjoyable as the bus got problem. We have to stop alot of time to check the bus again and again. Eventually, we reach Penang after 8 hours journey. =_=""""

It's so many people joining the competition some event even have 3 heats! This year, alot of China's competitors, there are very strong. Harry and I didn't hope for anything, we just aim for improvement. So, we just go and enjoy the dance everytime we go in. I had not much confedent in latin especially cha cha and rumba as our routine had just change two weeks before the competition. I know it is very obvious that i am not confident on the dance floor during this 2 dances, i even forgot my steps... :-s . For Pre- Amateur , we really aim for nothing, just go for experiance. We knew that with our techniques and all that we sure will be kick off after the 1st round. However, it ends up we enter the second round for the Pre-Am standard dance. We can't believe what we see, stoned there for half a minuite.

" Shit!" Harry shout. A woman with ballroom costume who is also looking at the result was curious , keep turning her head to harry's number tag and to the result.

" Why shit? you are in for the second round wut. " She asked Harry. Harry just smiled . It is really a bonus for us, haha.

We didn't get any placing for the competition, but we did really enjoy the professional's event. The China team is very very strong. Zhao Liang and Zhang Ding Fang got 1st placing in both Professioanl Close Asia event and Professional Open event. They got alot of fans there. I enjoying watching they dance. But personally I like Yoshihiro and Hidemi Yamamoto who is from Japan. The couple is more gentlemen and friendly, but they are resigning soon. They have alot of supporter too .

My roomate wee and kk got 5th placing in their beginner quicksteps. Congratz to them. After so much of hard work, they got what they deserved. Although me and Harry got nothing for competition, we got much fun and Penang's nice food ! :D

john's lim competition

ouhhh...finally both competition and exam over dy! hooray!
Talk about the competition,It's JOHN LIM 's who organize the competition called : crystal latin standard ballroom competition...( forgot the full name =_="") Anyway, This is our 1st time enter a competition without preparation at all.....why?

1st, both of us having exam
2nd, we made decision to participate last min, din prepare yet
3th, we just got our rumba routine to participate in rumba in Pre Amature event 1 week
ago.
4th, we din aim in this competition.

so yesterday was abit kelam kabut, haha. I admit I am not good at tango's timing, coz I still very new in tango. But Harry is very good in all dance timing . haihz, need to gah yao dy!

about yesterday competition, it is abit...no system, so many couples pack in a dance floor, they din't seperate us into heats, normally should be seperate into 2 heats with that huge numbers of couples. Then in the end, all the couples bang to each other easily. Got one couple fell onto the floor during standard novice, eveyrone like shouting coz of shock!
And one thing that all of the competitors not sastify is , we pay for the entry fee --- RM 150 so expensive, but we cannot go in to watch during day eevnt. we just can go in when we compete, and must leave the floor and the hall after finish competing in our categories.. ><
Thier program cannot end on time, coz they have alot inner problems..the result very late also cannot come out. Therefore, the novice semi final , and some beginner's event and some others event have to delay to night event. All the competitors have to wait for so long outside the hall. They work uneffectively. Normally novice dance is waltz and quickstep, but dunno why theirs is waltz and tango. I and Harry are still very new in dancing tango, i even out timing, sigh...sorry ya dear, i will work hard on it!
i am very nervous on that day, coz i have no confidence at all, coz not enough preparation. I just hope i can dance normally inside the dance floor, don't jatuh maruah already sastified. haha.... Harry keep calming down me, he say he can see that i am tention. :-s

One unfair thing about the competition is.... Novice can join beginner, and amature can come down to join pre am and novice, how to fight? But anyway, for me still ok lar. Coz rite, even without amature coming down to compete in novice and pre am rite, i still don't think we can get into final...people got such many years experiance and so geng..... me and harry is just like small character there. haha~~
Yeah, we din won any prize, but some experiance. :)
Our friends got go for nite event, but due to the next day exam, me and Harry go back after day event...so sad...but after the nite event, they said it is not that good, haven;t reach the quality....

After exam and this comeptition, I had set a schedule target for myself, 1st, i want to change my standing strength and leg strength correctly in 2 weeks time... then i want to improve my sharpness. Next, my straightness of leg, then my hip, then my expression.....alot of work ~~~~ gambatte lar... i will work hard together with my dear..

Recent update

It has been really long since last time i update my blog. Maybe you are wondering am i still dancing? Yeah, I am still dancing....

We got 6th placing in A&C compeition Ballroom Novice event. What a bonus for us! :D
last time after A&C competition, we rest for a little while, then continue dancing. People said when u rest too much, the passion will be gone. Dunno is it happen to both of us now as I can't feel my patner's passion anymore. Last time I used to dance hard as everyday I felt my patner's passion and the hardworking of him. Well, financial problem actually made us can't really focus much on dancing. Haihz...

I still love dancing...really love . Well, I have left nothing to focus on....Now my life is all dancing only...I really can't imagine if there is one day I need to give up on dancing. What will I become? I no longer go back to what I have used to belongs previously. Every time I think of it, I shivered, oh God, it would be the end of my life! (=_=""")

Somehow recently I am very down....I found that I had forgot the feeling of happy, forgot the way to smile. I think my face is gonna to be very very ugly and fierce.
:-s Ish, what had happen? There is some changes in our studio recently. Our group competitor class had combined with another competitor class; Derek and Stephany decided to stop dancing for some time, dunno when will they be coming back; Friendship between Brenda and us seems like different from previously.

Uncle Alex and Carmen are treating us very good, felt guilty and ashamed on myself that I din practice hard. Last time we use to be improve very fast and look importance in every competition, now.......few days ago we even forgot our routine.
:( very sad very sad.............

Dunno when can get rid of these symptoms ler??? I still remember Harry said Penang we aim for Pre Am event. I want to become a good dancer. I told myself, not to waste time anymore in studio, practice whenever got chance! Now I have to appreciate got Harry fetch me to studio, next time it won't be that easy for me to go to studio coz I have to take bus and change different transports a few times only can get to there..somemore take 2++ hours. :(( I am stressful about financial problem but if I make use all the time I have in studio I am not wasting the money isn't it? So work hard work hard.. gambatte kah yee!

Come to enjoy the world championship!

Here is the news about the international standard latin ballroom championship...me on newspaper as well! :D
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Me and Harry, cha cha cha

Me, dancing the cha cha cha

Badly sick


sick already...badly sick....cough and got lots of phlegm inside mylung...feel very pain in my lung...
not enough oxygen to dance...~~~~~~~very suferring...
how???
competition is just next week~~ how am i going to dance like this???
help~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I am joining novice and pre-amature!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
work hard and gambatte to kahyee!

Competition is coming!

Event lauching for competition.

guy performers

Girl performers

it has been a long time i never update my blog. I am still dancing,busy dancing, busy preparing for competition and also busy teaching dancing.

Ouhya, Harry and I had become instructor in A&C studio. So we got a lot of chance to learn more things and also more chance to go studio to practise. So far for this stage , we havent earn much money yet for to cover our spending. I guess it is too much to cover and pay our debt. Let me tell you how much i owe A&C currently---------------> RM 1,800.00!!!!!!!! and this amount will keep increasing until the day i am able to earn money to pay back. Anyway, I am teaching not for the sake of money.

You must be wondering, what debt is that? i roughly list it down there and you can see:

group class (per month) RM 180 x 3
private lesson (per hour) RM 120 X alot alot!
dancing shoes (per pair) RM 180 X luckily 1 pair only
Latin costume (1 piece) RM 800
ballroom costume (1 piece) RM 1,300

and alot more other things such as competition fees, accessories, petrol, toll , hotel fees ,~~~ pening pening. I have such an expensive hobby!!!!!!

Anyway, I am very happy that i got my proper costume for competition. For latin costume, it is in light blue color with curl end. I never know that light blue suit me so much that i look good in it. It is not very sexy..and i prefer that coz i no need to worry much when i dance. For ballroom costume, Carmen told me that she design it for me one...it is very nice...white and blend with pink color. I look elegant on it. :D
Harry also got his costume. but he not as happy as me . he also got his tail coat dy...hehe..look smart in that tail coat.

For this competition, me and Harry cannot join beginner anymore as last time we had won prize. We now participate in Novice. It is a very tough stage as there will be alot of experiance dancer in this stage. Some couple had dance for over 7 years in this stage. We are still very new , and 1st timer to novice stage~~~~~~~~~~ scare scare~~~~~
Alot of techniques we need to improve, practise practise and practise. I not sure whether now we are up to novice standard, but for one thing i am sure is, i have improve alot and i will do my best!
During this preparation stage, I really experiance alot of things, sweet and sour.... sweet when we meet friends in studio, practise together with them, enjoying dancing with my dear and got improvement....sour when our opinion different and quarel...........:(
Anyway, that is a learning process.....and we will try to solve the problems we met.

So anyone interest to go watching the competition??

Date : 22th of July 2007 (Sunday)
Time : from 9 am to 4 pm
Venue : ShangriLa hotel, Kuala Lumpur
Ticket : RM 60

Over 600 competitors from over 30 countries are participating the competition!
Biggest international standard latin ballroom competition in Malaysia!

Here is some photos for the event launching:

Dancing the waltz (performance)
From the left : Me and Harry, Wee Hong and Meng Wai

gabriel and su yen performing cha cha cha

me and harry (cha cha cha) . don't get it wrong, this is not my competition costume, this is my performance costume.

group photos

wish me luck ya :D