Packed Weekend Packed Ads !!!!

What a hectic weekend….reached KL on Friday 3.30am, slept for few hours, then cooked and cleaned the house whole day. The next day, went to Klang for ‘Bak Kut Teh breakfast’ and met some friends, then to shopping. I bought many fashion clothes from fashion shops.  Yeahhh!!!!!!! I like women dresses, tops, bottoms and I went bankrupt :( !!!.  Evening time visited  my cousins at Wangsa Maju for buffet dinner. Sunday morning went to her wedding ceremony, then rushed  back to Taman Midah’s house with all relatives and headed to Six Happiness Restaurant at Selayang for wedding lunch at 1pm, drove back to Kedah again at 4.30pm. Great arrangement for  the wedding lunch so I drove home on the same day. I thoroughly enjoyed quite a good days of *free* time even though I was tied up with a lot of stuff and things to do.  Of course, with work, I still always try to find time and spend time with my family, they are one thing I will never neglect.

I am paying attention to 19 November, mind wanders off to see what I can prepare from now, what can be tackle, how to prevent myself to left out something.  Now, its much terrible when I  know that I am  running short of time and there is nothing much I can do and I feel like I needed more time to do it. Well, at least now, everything is still under control.

Arabesque Belly Dance Centre and me have  been featured again in the Chinese local newspaper, this time is for 4^th annual gala show and Mercedes Workshop.  And also : TICKETS ARE NOW READY for pickup! Collect or book yours or call 012-4895395 or email us at annie_arbq@yahoo.com .  And  the early bird rate is over, all workshop are back to normal price.  

We have a packed weekend coming up! We have to works very hard consistently from tomorrow, a long period of time and  no time to give your  body a rest until 16th. Then we're going to have a break from rehearsals to rest and recharge before heading to Sentosa Regency Hotel’s for our last  stage rehearsals. Woohoo… I am happy with your progress, and I am so proud of all of you!  

 

 

 

It's A Great Day Again!!

It's a great day for Arabesque Belly Dance Centre again! After a long and tired  day at  2nd BDFI Taiping Open Dance Championship, my little girl Grace Heng walked off with a gold  medal (Champion) and Sarah won 4th placing in Belly Dance Novice Open. Grace also participated in Latin Dance Competition. She also won the Champion in Ballroom Dancing Solo (under 12 category) and Latin Dance was at 8th placing. 

Champion & 4th placing in Belly Dance Novice Open

And at Studio, the performers for 4th Annual Gala Show”  went through full hours of  rehearsals everyday. All of you have been working very hard since August. In spite of your positive attitude, I can see how exhausted most of you are, and some of you are falling sick and still coming for rehearsals. Thank you  everyone, for your continuous hard work and commitment. And I am  amazed and touched by the care and support you show each other. Feel very proud of all of you! Because of this, we will have a 3 days BREAK from rehearsals on 28th, 29th & 30th and I will going to Kuala Lumpur to attend my cousin’s wedding! We will have our costume rehearsal on 3rd of November and  plan our lighting on the stage!  

 

Here are important dates to jot into your diaries :-

Full costume rehearsal in studio :

3rd November 2011 / Thursday  6.30pm -10pm

On the Stage rehearsal :

11th November 2011 / Friday 11am – 3pm

18th November 2011 / Friday 11am – 3pm

2nd BDFI Taiping Open Dance Championship

I am going to the 2nd BDFI Taiping Open Dance Championship tomorrow - 22 October 2011!   The competition will  be held at Persatuan Ong Si Thye Guan, Taiping, Perak, Malaysia.  This  is the  2^nd year  joint organizers - Mr Lim Poh Hu & Ms Shirley Hun, put together a championship again.  I take my hat of to Shirley & Mr Lim for taking this action and  managed to keep things together and organise  no matter what.  2 of my students participating in belly dance novice open category. Good luck to all contestants!!!

Mercedes Nieto's Workshop & Show

As always ... Beautiful!! !Mercedes Nieto is one of the great belly dancer  in the new generation!! She is a passionate artist. I  love her expression, movement, emotions, and the best part is that she danced with energy and joy,  flow is an incredible honor to watch. I enjoyed each second of her dance. Mercedes Nieto's costumes are very unique.   I really like the above costume, the top with the necklace hanging and shining pants under a skirt that seems to hang off her hips. Look stunning in a person.  I love that costume,. I really appreciate the one who designed  her costumes. 

I have  been busy preparing and searching the costume,  and honing our gala show  and workshop everything. Alor Setar workshop still open for early bird rate register,  Kuala Lumpur workshops are still open but filling up fast. 4 weeks to go…. Mercedes promised  will bring the most special workshop subjects for you and I am sure everyone will not forget these weekends. Yay! It will be such an amazing and special weekend! Please register soon to make sure you get a space. it is gonna be great workshop!  

Banner for publicity done!  Woohoo… Contacted he videographer/photographer, they  are charging me a different price compare to my previous event. This week rehearsals has been fantastic. Each day brought something new, although there are times that some disagreement and arguing  between the dancers, it isn’t a bad thing. I am okay to disagree on certain things but it’s important to be open to new ideas and new experiences, be open minded about it. Trying new things can help everyone grow together as a team work and get things done.  It is important to examine how I conduct myself during arguments. Yippe! I am thankful than we have been working hard for this. My  goal is to make every happy and proud on the stage on that night  when the videographer/photographer are taking shots of the show.!

Finally receive Mercedes flight schedule, soon I will be super busy when Mercedes arrive! This week we received our first  costume, So happy,  the costume look great and all my dancers are happy with the colors. Meanwhile, I've to find the  date for  costume  rehearsals shortly.

Stay tune! 

Fantasy Oriental Night (highlight) Video

I was very excited when I finally got this video. Finally got the DVD on the Fantasy Oriental Night 2011!!! 

Thanks to everyone who came out to Fantasy Oriental Night 2011! Thanks to all the performers, awesome performances !! You did rock the stage t!!!! And a super big thank-you for all audience who came to support Fantasy Oriental Night,  I  hope you enjoyed the show :)!  

Here is the highlight of that night event....Enjoy it. If you want to order, please email me at annie_arbq@yahoo.com

A Little Things ....Activities not exactly dance related.

I  attended  my company family day yesterday, it was compulsory attendance.  I think the most excited one was the  lucky draw with exciting prizes. Many  staffs  walked away with fabulous prizes. I got  a smallest one, a gold medal for sport activities & coffee cups and saucers set for lucky draw prize, not too bad though!  Whoops…I was totally knocked out last night.

 Bukahry's Staff - from several departments

Activities - Contest Making Ketupat

Hmmm…. preparing for the 4^th annual gala show event  has taken a lot of commitment,  I do get a little down during my busy schedule, my mind became gradually disillusioned by negative external influences.  I felt that running as a dance teacher of my dance business is quite challenging,  especially not to negatively set an atmosphere of problems whenever I am in the studio. 

I noticed that my chronological of event  appears to be going backward in time. Wow, has it really be that long since I last update? Holy cow! I have to keep consistent in the backward chronological order of events.  I really have to do is put focus on  own personal meditation daily, keep myself stay motivated  and excited all the time, that is  my responsibility to keep upbeat, happy and encouraging as I am the one who set the tone. I must trust myself !!!  Having say that, it doesn’t matter what I do, as long as I am  doing something that expresses my passion, whenever there’s belly dance world, and there’s my world! Then I will excel and I  gain satisfaction. 

Anyway, now that we are down to the wire with this annual show  and practices are going to be even MORE hectic and longer than usual, I've reschedule new intake class in December 2011.

4th Annual Exotic Raqs Sharqi Gala Show,

My dream :  Mercedes Nieto Workshop &  4th Annual Exotic Raqs Sharqi Gala Show, it became a reality, finally I want it a gala show!!! 

 

 

Hey all…. be ready,  I feel like I get tense, my dancers get tense, all my new dancers have bit of stage fright, but they  work really really hard to practice and practice! 

I know is that I'm really set on making a good impression, especially among other belly dancers who can be your toughest critics.  I am super willing to support any of  my dancers  that gets out on that stage. I feel that the act of putting yourself forward and giving of yourself as a dancer deserves respect and support. I am target to sell 40 tables. We have sold out the front roll tickets (19 tables) and 2nd roll of 8 tables. Hurray...more are coming!!!  

The end result is we do our best shows, and more importantly, we want to  have fun and have a good memory!

My Busy October !!!

Busy busy busy….. I’m happy to be flipping the calendar page. It is worth remembering that I actually don't mind getting back to work so much,  it always gave me a sweet memory on  Fantasy oriental night! I love the photos taken by the photographer – Joson Oh, and whenever I see this,  it makes me ridiculously happy. 

Me & Serkan Tutar

Serkan Tutar & Veil

Finale

Interact Audience

Short Chero for Finale

My Kids - Raks Assaya (Cane Dance)

Finale - Rock it  Together

I have almost forgotten to post my topics. I had an extremely busy week and wasn’t online most of the time. Usually, my weekends are not that much different from my weekdays—it's work, work, work and dance dance dance.  After all, it's almost time to start gearing for  November show and workshop.  This month is another busy month!

8^th October  2011  -  Tribal Festival Hard Rock Cafe Kuala Lumpur

15^th  & 16^th October 2011 – Sandra Workshop in KLPac.

21^st – 23^rd October 2011 - Wael Mansour Workshops and Master Class

22^nd  October 2011 –  Judging  2nd Taiping Open Dance Championship 2011

27^th October 2011 -  The Fitness Mom Contest, Alor Setar

28^th  October 2011 – Belly Dance Party  at Park Avenue Sg. Petani  

30^th October 2011 – My cousin wedding at Wangsa Maju.

Whew! What a wonderfully busy month!