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I'm addicted to this now, maybe its the cute chicks, maybe its the dancin' or as quoted from my friend, maybe its the legs XD

Advance Salsa Class

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Capoeira

I was working at the Melody Markets today and one of the performances of the night is a Capoeira showcase. I don't get it, I just don't see it as a martial art cause they don't actually fight and I can't call it a dance either cause they don't really dance to the music.. I don't get it...

Afa's Facts about Salsa

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La Cita

My friend Jess, who I know from dancing classes and also performed with me in the Australian Dance Festival, is taking a 6 month leave to the US tomorrow so there was a farewell party tonight to Lindt Cafe for dinner and then to La Cita to club.

I didn't have time to have dinner at Lindt Cafe so I only went to the dance club afterwards.

La Cita is a restaurant and a two level bar with dance floors and since it was thursday night, entry is free with level 2 focus on to Latin/Salsa that starts from 8:30pm and level 1 starts from 9:30pm with mainly Live Latin Band.

It was so much fun I can't really explain it, I still feeling like dancing now (Saturday night XD). There was only a few faults, one upstairs was always so full so I wasn't able to fully salsa, two downstairs was alright except it was open to outside where alot of people smoked, three finished early (1:30am) and I was told I was dressed too casual so I had to burrow a button shirt from Jess's friend.

'I was thinking of dressing more formal in the morning but then decided not to'

So, Tuesday night = Establishment Hotel, Thursday night = La Cita XD

Salsa Night

Every tuesday night at Establishment Bar is Salsa night and I went there with my dancing friends but unfortunately I had to leave early. Starts off at 8pm where the "teachers" basically begins the night off with some basics then after a few rounds of tought dancing, you'd be now left to keep the night going on your own. Since its salsa, you'd be either partnering with friends or any strangers. I left at 9:30 but from what I've heard, peak-hour is about 11pm where the club just fills up what little spaces are left.

This was my first time to a Salsa club and overall it was alot of fun, I would have liked to have stayed much longer but I guess till next time.

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Blogging Back

'Woot.. Exams over.. now time ti relax till the results come out LOL'

Ok here's are some major thing that happened during my absent

On June 13th I attended to the Australian Dance Festival which mainly consisted of night performance, whole day of workshops, stalls selling stuff and after party.

Night performance was great, I was performing a contemporary dance piece.I thought we were OK because during practice our timing and everything was right but at the show we were abit off. I blame stage fright.

Workshop started from 10am - 4pm, hour after hour of classes totalling 5. I attended;
Anthony Ikin's Acrobatic Techniques, which open to me trying to free hand cartwheel. 'still can't though'
Paul White's Advance Contemporary, which was good, nothing exactly to comment about
Rhiannon Villareal's Hip Hop, which was a very girly dance piece
Marko Panzic's Intermediate Lyrical, which was epic, liked it alot
JD's Hip Hop, which was more manly than Rhiannon's.. lol
I didn't buy anything in the stalls, it was all chick stuff XD

After Party was fun, I need to do hip hop just to get that freestyle dancing. I'm pretty amazed how salsa dancers can freestyle salsa aswell.

From June 2-4 was E3 and it was amazing with so many gaming announcements. My favorites were PSP Go, the new more portable PSP and I like it; Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, which was announced to be the true sequel to Snake Eater, finally, a real MSG game on the PSP; and finally The Last Guardian, just aw.

The 1/1 gundam statue in japan was completed on 9th June, yes..

Signing Off, for a while..

Ok, the examination timetables has been released and I was then hit with the face of reality that there isn't much time left to study/catch up.

In reaction, this will be my last post till 24th June which is the day of my last exam.
'yeh I'm going to post right after the exam.. maybe...'
'if I'm posting from now till 24th June, it means I'm procrastinating'

But before I go, here are some things I was going to post over the next few days

Movie: Star Trek

Over the past month, I've been anticipating Star Trek, Terminator Salvation, Transformers: ROTF and Where the Wild Things Are. No I have not seen it yet nor am I a Star Trek fanboy but watching the trailers makes me very hyped about the movie because it looks like such a 'good epic thriller movie'. I'll be seeing it soon but I won't review it not because I'll be on hiatus but I don't feel like reviewing new release movies. DragonBall was an acception because it was such a fail.

TV: Beautiful Cooking 2

Hong Kong's TVB has aired the second season to the sucessful reality-ish show Beautiful Cooking. Think Iron Chef with Cooking Mama and Dancing with the Star. Its a family friendly comedy show where female celebrities cook meals for a round of judges and two-thirds of the time the cooking is just so bad its funny.
Got to point this out.. The judges have like maid helpers through the show but they changed the girls this season with like super models which I didn't like, season one they were cutie girls, now they're just.. well.. lady's 'yeh I notice these things... its healthy'

Slice Of Life: Australian Dance Festival

ADF is a brand new festival starting this year and hopefully for many more years to come where you can meet and gather together with many dancers across Australia.
There's going to be 2 days of dance workshop where you can attend and try out the various of styles offered.
There will be exhibits from dance schools, dance retailers and services which support dancers.
Also there's going to be 5 shows to watch over the 3 days with 'It Takes Two' I assume focusing on paired dancing, 'All Things Contemporary' which consists of mainstream dance styles from Hip Hop to Contemporary and 'A Celebration of Cultures' which I think is like the asian/indian/brazilian dances.
The other two shows are on saturday and sunday afternoon with under 16 year olds.

The tickets seems abit confusing at least to me.. so its..
$35-45 for tickets to the shows individually
$200 for a day pass to go to the workshop and both shows
$275 for a full pass which is day pass but both days
'yeh the math doesn't add up'
'so you can't go to the workshop unless you get the day/full pass'
'There's also an after party each night so hhmm, whats a party with dancers going to be like.. dance off's??'

I have exams on the 15th and 16th June so I won't be able to attend all three days
I am performing in the dance festival in the 'All Things Contemporary' so I got a Performer Pass which is basically Full Pass with extra goodies. Because of that, I am only going on Saturday.

For more information go to
http://www.australiandancefestival.com.au/

So till next time, peace out
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