~~Arabesque Belly Dance~~: February 2012

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Upcoming News

Greetings to all my lovely students, dancers and friends!!! I hope that 2012 will be a rewarding and successful year for you.

This post is jam packed with news and activities. We have brand new adult belly dance class start in February and registrations for classes are still open. Contact me directly if you are interested

25 & 26 February 2012 – I am attending Belynder Azhaar Workshop in KLPac. Hosted by Amethyst Chew.

1 March 2012 - I am travel to Vietnam. My flight ticket was issued from AirAsia tickets during promotional period. I have no detail where and what to look for in Ho Chi Minh city yet. ;P anyway, will do some research online!

May 2012 (date to be confirmed) World Belly Dance Day 2012 in Penang – As, usual, we will perform in a group dance. Since we all have beautiful costumes, I really hope my students can come out and support the charity event.

June 9 – 20 , 2012 – Oriental Dream Turkey Tour - Here is some information about Oriental Dream. For further information please email to me. Welcome all belly dancers/students to join. There are still some details to be added but I thought I'd get this much out anyway, make sure the dates are marked in your diary.

MODF 2012 Competition

25 August 2012 – Kuala Lumpur Times Square Hotel

16 September 2012 – Taping, Perak

21 September 2012, Fridays – ALL ATTENTION!!!! Serkan Tutar Show will be in Alor Setar, Star City Hotel. We will perform again!! Belly dancers, another beautiful stage for us to dance! Our adult classes for "SHOW at Star City" are in full force! Our 1^st class to get back your shimmies & giggles on 12^th February 2012, 6.30pm.

21 – 23 September 2012 Saturday / Sunday – Show and 3 workshops with Serkan Tutar in Alor Setar, details will be announced!

29 – 30 September 2012 Saturday / Sunday – 4 workshops with Serkan Tutar in KLPac, Kuala Lumpur.

1 – 2 December 2012 – Mercedes Nieto will be Back in Kuala Lumpur!!! Details of Workshop and Show will be announced soon!!!

I'm excited to get back into it after such a long break! Cant wait to start the class and get back to our routine exercise and dance.

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Chinese New Year 2012

This post will be about my Chinese New Year Week!

The week seems pass so fast and the Chinese New Year seems over now but I am still lazy and no energy to call up here and there to read on other blogger's postings or spend time doing work. BTW, I think I ate too many mandarin oranges and caused extra gas in my tummy.

Well, it has been a quiet CNY for me I didn't really go anywhere except spent time with my entire family. I didn't really go out to crowded places. Anyway, I felt quiet relax as well as family bonding over the past week…so most of time my house was in noisy sound, eating, drinking, playing, gambling….Cant imagine how my family member be able to sleep in this noisy environment! .

It'll soon be Chap Goh Meh, which is the same as Chinese Valentine's Day. The 15th day of Chinese New Year which is the "fifteenth night" in Hokkien dialect, is just two days away. As usual, Our Arabesque Kids performed on Chap Goh Meh festival last night. It was held almost 3 days earlier than the actual date (Chap Goh Meh). We were a bit late when we arrive at the Menara Telekom Tower Alor Setar.. The first thing attracted to me was the LED backdrop, very bright with the dragon in red! I took the photo of the backdrop with my camera, but the result of photo was not good, The 2^nd thing was - really surprised to see stink bugs surrounding, flied every where, my body and head…so darn annoying! Luckily the kids performance in just a 5 minutes music, we all left the place quickly because of the stink bugs.

So it looks like I will have a few days free from running around until Sunday and then CNY 2012 just about wrapped up for me already. Here are some random pics I took during CNY and Chap Goh Meh Festival. And some CNY photo I stole from my sis's album :p). And since this is a CNY post, I have to post up those CNY photos or else I would not have memories of my 2012 CNY when I’m 80 :D