HotLinerz's Dance-Log

Karnival Rakyat Selangor

LOL, never would I imagine I’d be taking part in a line dance competition! But after watching our performance during DAP Women’s Day LD party, we were encouraged to join a LD competition organised by the local council MBPJ in conjuction with Karnival Rakyat (People’s Carnival). Since it required almost no extra efforts (or so we thought!), we thought alright, let’s do it and recycle our performance! (and hope to win some cash to cover our costumes costs!)

The competition was to be held just a week after the performance (Sun, 15 Mar 2009), exactly 7 days. As in my earlier post, the only time which we could all practice was Saturday mornings for 1 hr or so. However this time round, Maggie could not join us as she’s moving house, while Desmond had to be at work on that Saturday morning. As Maggie couldn’t join us, we had to restructure our formation but can’t actually do it properly as Desmond wasn’t there with us! We also unofficially had Wendee Chen as our team manager as she put in the registration forms for us and informed us of the competition. 🙂

Not only that, we had some Latin couple dancing in our routine which had to be scraped off, as it’s a LD competition! And again, Desmond was involved in that … So, it’s just 6 of us restructuring our formation and positioning for 7 dancers. Practice? Haha, almost non existent as by the time we got all settled, it’s noon and we all had to go! I had then relayed the changes via phone to Desmond. Thank Alexander Graham Bell for that!

ChinaTown KL

Later in the evening, the 3 of us ladies, drove to ChinaTown (Petaling Street) in search of the Butterfly drape top which Cindy and I wore during last week’s performance. The other girls liked it and thought we should all be in uniform since it’s a competition. But we walked up and down Petaling Street to no avail, none of the shops has the stock any longer as these tops were bought about a year back. We then decided to get 5 similar tops for the girls at least to be uniformed. But… those tops that were available in a quantity of at least 5, were NOT NICE, and those that were nice, were NOT available in 5 pieces!

We walked in and out several shops, some frequenting it for more than 3 times, to ‘stock check’ in case we can find the same top, hopefully, 2 in Shop A, 2 in Shop B and 1 in Shop C. LOL. It then started to rain and our legs began to ache. Poor Jocelyn wasn’t even feeling well as the flu virus was attacking. But she, being the ultimate shopaholic, bought so many other stuffs! LOL. I just lost count…! We left ChinaTown empty handed (of the costumes) and drove dejectedly back to Subang. It was then we decided to hop into Summit Subang to try our last chance. And there we found something NICE and available in 5 pieces! What a wasted trip to Chinatown!

We all went home extremely tired. Supposed to meet at the venue the next day at 11am as we wanted to mark our steps first and show Desmond the steps physically. Competitors shd be there by 12pm.

We gathered at A&W adjacent to the venue. As most of us hadn’t had breakfast, so it was breakfast at A&W. And while munching down those fries and gulping down the root beer, we ran through some steps/formation/arm movements with Desmond, with the music blarring from my handphone.

Group pic

We then moved to the venue. It had rained the day earlier and the venue was Dataran PJ – a large field where cricketers/footballers practice in the evenings and on weekends. Thus, the ground was kinda muddy. The ‘stage’ where we’re supposed to dance on was a small space on the field covered by 6 x 2 plywood boards. Go figure…

Our team drew 2nd pole position in a pool of 6 teams. First team was a group of Cowgirls in vests and cowboy hats and a pistol to match! Can’t remember much what they did as we were quite tensed, but their ending pose was to fire their pistols and the rubber sucker ‘bullet’ flew out. Creative!

Then it was our turn and we went onto the planks. Not easy to dance especially with our smooth NC2S dances, we can’t even turn/twirl properly.

Finale pose

Thus our steps r not too uniformed as each of us struggled to keep balanced on the planks atop uneven grounds below. Likewise, when team Cindai came in, it’s very noticeble that they were struggling with the floor and the space too. We quickly adapt and thus JB Summertime, Cha Cha Conchita and Dhoom Dhoom were better executed. In fact, Cha Cha Conchita was very well and uniformly executed, payback for the boohoo we did during the previous Sunday!

After our turn, there were a kids team (age abt 10-12) doing Mony Mony. They were so cute! After that, there were a teenagers team doing Part Time Lover who were pretty impressive too. Both teams are under Lane Lee and are frequent LD competitors. Then there was another group of middle-aged ladies dancing A-go-go to a chinese song. Lastly was another group of ladies in green tshirt, doing Southern Delight. So there were a total of 6 teams competing.

Receiving prize from Menteri Besar Selangor - Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim

The competition ended at about 1pm but we had to wait till 4.30 pm (after all the speeches) to know the results. We won the 3rd prize, winning RM300 and a hamper of junkfood. 1st and 2nd place went to the frequent competitor teams, the kids and the teenagers. There was a little bit of ‘drama’ after we collected our prize which amused us a great deal, but no, I’ll leave that out of this post! 😛

The moment we left Dataran PJ with our winnings, the sky broke open and the rain poured cats and dogs.

And so how do we split our cash prize? We’re having a get-together again for some great seafood this weekend to celebrate our win. What else is heavenly besides dancing? FOOD! 😛

At PJ Seafood Restaurant