summer party '05

yesterday saw me and my capoeira group in sentosa for some performances for a family day by some company..
it was raining so heavily when i left for harbourfront that i thought the performance would be rained out. but luckily, it stopped raining when i arrived there.
so frustrations and glitches which should be made better:
1, the performance was at 4pm, but why did mestre ask us to meet at 130pm? so they can have lunch, which he did not mention, and the rest of us? sit around and see them eat! which is a completely waste of our time! if not that lina and i went to the train station to wait for the rest of those who were performing, i would have died from boredom..
2, there were 2 performances instead of 1, which was what all of us had thought, until joe broke it out to us. i, and few others, were quite disatisfied that such information wasn't told to us in the first place..

but oh well, such little unhappiness aside, the performance was rather good, but i must admit that the ground was very rough to play the roda.. my feet were both sore from the abrasion.. the audience were very impressed by our moves, but quite reserved when invited to come forward for a little workshop..

it ended around 430pm, the next performance was at 715pm.. yes, very long gap..
so we decided to check out the event itself, i think it is a very big company to hold such a big family day with so many performances, including wendi koh, our local rock singer.. there were also the belly dancers; mr mic, the snake charmer (haha); the safri boys from africa, their performance was the most outdstanding by my standard; a percussion group; a large play area for the kids, massage area, tarot cards reading corner, bar, food corners, blown-up rock climbing area for the kids.. just so numerous to spell each out..

we grabbed some food, i think lots of them.. and after ogling at the belly dancers, they have such nice.. waists.. we headed for the beach for some fun roda and stunts..
i can officially announce that i hate doing roda on sand just because you get sand in you if you fall, and sand on everyone else if you do a kick or a jump.. just too irritating.. so we decided to do specified moves and stunts..

2nd performance was done on a smaller stage, to much displeasure to our mestre, but we had not much options..
we did a very cautious roda, nothing too fanciful and high, fearing we might clashed into the musical instruments behind us, or fall down the stage in the front.. oh well..

it ended very well, but i wasn't really in the mood for the responses.. i just want to get home and rest.. i had a bad running nose that day and i just want to meet my bed.. haha.. but overall, i like doing capoeira performance, anticipating the next one and the next.. well, till then, i will train hard..

cheers