Capoeira

last night was great with nigel, ee lin, renee, rachel, kelvin and mei xian.

basically the night was food, of vegetables, mashed potato, fried chicken mountain, and friggin whole body of lamb. we ate, chatted and waited for the show to start. before that we went into the monash library and got stunned by how nice it was there.

  the night started with maculele, the dancers in grass skirts doing the tribal dance with sticks. i heard for the first time real and live authentic maculele music, involing drums, congo and the guy singing the maculele song. the story of maculele was that they were all dancing the dance, and one person causes some commotion, and happens to kill one of the people, everyone scorns him, but they end up dancing together with the dead guy in the middle, and then leave the stage. the witchdocter comes and rattles her dead man concoction around him for awhile, then lets him drink it, then she leaves. he stumbles up alive, and suddenly is full of more strength and start jumping and dancing again. the end.

 later was the capoeira. which the bantus people came. they danced to the beat, exchanged people by others coming it and staring the person he wants to duel. exchanging kicks and doing ground moves, they dueled and spun and handstanded. it was amazing watching them. such grace and core body strength in a powerful concoction of dance and martial arts. it was even better when the president and a guy with dreadlocks came out. they did fancy and advance moves that stunned the crowd. how i wish i could do those. the dreadlocks guy had so much arm strength, that he started his cartwheel or Au but just stayed in a handstand. the president could do some crazy jumping kicking moves too. there was this girl who had these nice toned muscles, even bigger than mine! at the end, they asked the crowd to go up and try to do capoeira too, which was embarrassing, haha. but they had fun. i got to see shafiq in action, the malay dude who had huge muscles.

later on in the night, they got some samba girls to dance. then they opened up the floor for everyone to dance along with their samba beat. after a long session of it, they ended it but started with clubbing songs. and at that time, things got fun as we all danced and moved along with the familiar popular tunes. i went crazy when they played 'club cant handle me right now' as i went into a dancing frenzy and breakdanced whatever i could with the music. ah, i had a little spotlight for myself that time :). . exhilarating. . . all the rest had a good time too, swaying and moving with the music.

  the night went on until 12.30 or so. later we went to play lame games and tell lame jokes. we also chilled at the mamak stall and chatted will 2.30 or so. ah, it was a fun night. totally unexpectedly good