Taylors' Dance Arena 2008!!

Taylors' Dance Arena 2008 was the first biggest event held in Taylors by Taylors' students!! I did not know about this event until 3 days ago kah tim told me to blog about this event. I went to check it out on the notice board and notice all the big sponsors. This is gonna be big.

In the afternoon the stage was already set up. The stage alone with the lightnings are amazing and huge. It looks like some kind of outdoor club.

When we (me, hazel and wen harn) arrived taylors' they said that the gate is only open by 7.15pm but the ticket says 6pm. We were kinda pissed off by their timing until we heard the sound test was really loud and solid. We were so excited!!


Since we haven't ate our lunch, we decided to go to asia cafe to have our dinner. We saw many fimiliar faces in asia cafe.

hazel

rui ting

Everyone was watching the Malaysia VS Korean in the Beijing Olympics for badminton. The atmosphere of the crowd was really tense and 'kan cheong'. Everytime Chong Wei scored 1 point, the crowd cheers loudly as if chong wei can hear us from beijing. When the korean scored, the crowd 'booed' him.

look at their tense faces

malaysia won!!! I was expecting everyone to stand up. Sigh

Malaysia won!!! Finally Chong Wei got into the finals. Wish that he could get a gold medal for malaysia and we can have a day off!

It's time to go in. I cannot believe they actually hired bouncers to guard the entrance. They make this event such a big deal. Everyone was so packed and so hot at the entrance and no one could get in. Argh!!! They only allow 5 by 5 to enter, how sucky is that.

it took us like 20 minutes to get in

the schedule for the night

10 teams battling for the grand prize

me and hazel

I saw Liang was getting ready for the night because he is going to be the emcee. After a short conversation with him, we realised that we both are in the same church and same cell. What a coincidence. xD. By the way, Liang is currently a popular malaysian aritst.

liang and me

me, hui li, xin yee and leanne

The environment was really dark and smoky. Suddenly I saw a really familiar face of my long lost friend and I called her name. She just don't know who am I and just ignored me. I called her name twice and she finally remembered me!! She apologised to me badly because she cannot regonise me and just ignored me for a while.

I'm glad to see her.

hui xian and me

Now, let's get to business. The event was started with liang as the emcee introducing the event along with all the sponsors for this event.

Liang as the emcee for the night

These are the judges for the competition. Well, I don't really remember their names but I do remember Chris in the yellow shirt. The rest I'm not sure who they are. xD. Sorry.


The battle begins with 'Hazard Minors'. They are just some kids from high school shuffling on stage. This is college not high school. Shuffling won't impress us.

The worst part is that, they have a real fat boy in the middle shuffling and he looks like he was just bouncing on stage. The crowd booed them badly. They thought dancing is just about shuffling, they are wrong!

hazard minors

In conclusion, they sucked big time. Sorry kiddos.

The next team was Zero Degrees Celsius. They are a team of 6 girls. They seemed small to me. I assumed they are from high school too. But guess what? They are pretty impressive and the crowd cheered loudly for them. Their team actually hyped up the whole crowd after the disappointment from hazard minors.

One thing you have to look closely in the team is their clothing. Look the first 3 pictures I took and guess how many shirts they took off during their dance.

first it's white jacket

then it's red top

lastly it's green and yellow

What are they going to take off next after everything?

After having a short conversation with 1 of the dancers in zero degrees celsius. I realised that they are all 18 years old. I guess my hypothesis were wrong. Sorry guys. Well, the girl on the pyramid seemed really impressive and it gives me the impression that she is a cheerleader. Cheerleading and dancing do blend together. xD




The second team was Explosion OST. Their dance is basically very classic and has a few ballet elements. I really love their dance but I don't get it. Why they did not won anything. Since I like their team so much, I'm gonna post extra pictures of them. xD

Explosion OST

This is a video of their practice. It's the only way to watch their full dance.





Now is the goodies give a way slot. Liang was giving away 3 free T-shirts and let's see how desperate people are for free goodies.


They were asked to dance with Liang.

Liang looked so happy and proud

now he's trying to be a pole

This girl in black was dancing her ass out and enjoying herself at the same time. Maybe she wants the shirt badly.



The crowd and Liang was really impressed and finally she won it.


Dance Arena invited Prem and Jules from fly FM to the event to be the co-emcees for the night. Even though I'm a loyal listener of JJ and Rudy from Hitz.FM, they are still pretty cool and entertaining emcees.

liang, prem and jules

Next team was Dua Coopang. Although their name sounds like a malay name but all the dancers were chinese. I like their spirit when they dance. They were so in the mood to give their best shot.

Dua Coopang

This dance team is called Two Left Feet. I got nothing much to comment about their dancing. The photos might explain everything.

Two Left Feet

it looks like he doesn't want to get off her leg

Since it's a college dance arena. There sure is some 18sx dance on stage (18sx doesn't refer to nude dancing). Well this group showed the crowd what they are really made of. They are Glosz.

Glosz (looks like the girl in mini skirt can't wait to show off her ass)

Well, I can't possibly post up all 10 dancing teams here. So I'm gonna cut off a few parts which is not really entertaining.

Next we have.........Cookie Monster!!! The name cookie monster is really cute. They combined many elements in their dance which I don't really know because me myself is not a dancer at all. I'm a pure lousy dancer and I can't dance.

Cookie Monster

Fly FM DJ, Prem and Jules was giving away 2 return tickets from thailand either for a couple or a single male and female. The crowd insisted on giving away the tickets to a single male and female. Both the winners better thank the crowd if they got hooked up. Who knows?

These are the 7 bachelors trying to grab a return ticket from thailand.


Their challenge was that whoever dance the like dexter the most wins. Dexter is from smk subang utama and he is a great break dancer. He is kind enough to give those dancers the easy move.

Mali

After the challenge, bryan and mali had a battle against each other for the ticket. the result was pretty obvious. Bryan got trashed badly by mali. Well, he did his best. Mali is going thailand.

Now lets see who's going to be mali's girl.

jia wei showing off her dance movement

these girls really are hype, wonder what might happen their pants tore?

' I don't need a man' says her shirt.

The winner for the challenge was the girl in black pants. She really can dance and showed something that cannot be shown in public. Lucky mali. xD


Now, I present you, Taylors' dance team, Sins!! The performance dance by Sins was more of a story of a girl leaving his man.Their story line actually impressed 1 of the judge. He said he was touched by the story. May be he gone the dance reminded of his past.









Finally 10 teams are done and the competition is over. It's time for the judge to decided who's going home with rm2000++ cash.

In the mean time, Liang has a game for the crowd. He pulled up a few girls along with 2 guys on stage to entertain the crowd while the judge was deciding. Practically the girls have to dance on stage which some of them don't know how to dance. Pity them.

unlucky hazel on stage, thanks to me.xD

The 2 guys aren't as lucky as the girl. They have to do push ups with 3 girls sitting on them each. This wasn't so hard. Hey, they get to experience this once in their life time. I wish I were them. By the way, notice that the middle girl on their right was wearing a mini skirt.

She actually flashed off her undies. Many female photographers instead of male photographers quickly snap her undies. One of them was the girl who won the trip to thailand.


It's price giving ceremony time now. All the team were holding their hands tight because the result are about be out. Before Liang gave away the result, everyone was shouting like mad and cheering for their favourites. This is getting sweet.

ying xian and jia wei

Third prize goes to ' Two Left Feet'!!


Second Prize goes to ' Dua Coopang '.


And the champion for tonight's dance arena 2008 is ' Cookie Monster ' !!!

They deserve it

Now is the time everybody is waiting for. All the way from Miami, DJ of Euphoria in sunway lagoon resort. He is Patrick Oliver! He's gonna be the DJ for the dance floor till 12am. Everybody just jumped up the stage and start dancing all the way till midnight.

Patrick Oliver

I would like to thank wen harn and his brother, wen hoi for borrowing me his Nikon DSLR for the night. Without them, my blog wouldn't have these HD pictures. Thanks wen harn and wen hoi.

And not to forget, I would like to thank En Lin for helping me taking some photos along with the editing features. Thank En Lin.

By the way, I only post the videos that are eligible to be in my blog and sorry for all the short videos because I did not prepare a bigger memory card for recording videos.

p.s: readers, please thank lisa for asking me to record some videos of the dance because I wouldn't thought of taking videos. xD.

p.s: dancers from cookie monster, explosion ost, zero degrees celcius, dua coopang. Do email me your contacts (msn) or drop by your contacts in the comments for future blogging events. Thanks.