Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Whee! LOL, poor YX's getting fatigued by this period of frantic party-going. We went to Deb's house today to meet up with the Lindy people today, kinda like a pizza party. OMG, her house is sooo scary - 16 floors up! And she has 5 HUGE cats (one of which looks like he's bigger than Brownie) that roam the kitchen.
So, we had pizza and drinks and spent the night watching the old Lindy Hop Ensemble archive videos. All the stuff from 10 years ago etc. Hmmm .. little did we even guess what the real purpose of this party was, hah.
Just as Yx and I announced that we really had to leave, Debs and Xinyi produced this lovely cake, wow!
Ah. The induction into LHE. It's kinda odd. Some years ago, when I first started off learning the basics of Lindy, the LHE were like The Gods. Joining them was not even fathomable at that time, and I wondered if I'd ever be good enough. But when tonight came, I felt really weird. Dunno if Yx felt the same too, but I had slight reservations at that time.
Firstly because I'm already at a pretty nasty crossroads in my life right now, and there's this element of fear that I will disappoint - but yet on the other hand, regular exercise would really be very good for me. And partly too, because I couldn't help but feel very strongly that the LHE would have been great if they had stuck to their original feel that I saw in those 10-year-old tapes. Yx and I were never the types who could entertain dancing Lindy to anything but authentic Lindy music. Somehow, the nature and spirit of the dance can never shine through, however astounding the choreography may be. But yet - and it's not only the LHE - a lot of people are starting to dance Lindy to other forms of music, the most abominable of which would be pop music. I really did enjoy their old routines very, very much indeed, including our all-time most-hated Big Apple. IMHO, the dance is quite enjoyable enough and inherently funny without injecting even more clownishness into it.
In any case, we were given the very nice LHE T-shirts, haha ... although YX got the design that I wanted! To think that this all started when Yx saw this flyer for a Lindy Hop Basics course at YIH 5 years ago .. Anyway, time for shameless plugging now, lol -
Here's LHE's website! We were pleasantly surprised and really pleased that the current Chairpeople of the NUS Lindy Club have handed down their position to a really enthusiastic pair of people. Here's wishing them luck for the next year (and hopefully more!) to come, we'll try to help out in terms of training as much as we can. After all, the new Chair must be able to dance well, right? Yx, we're both so old. These people are 2 generations down already, and we're still stuck on their backs like soddy newspapers. Reminds me of our Club Dinosaur, are we like that already?!? =p
Was
utterly embarrassed when KC had to take measurements of my waist ("what waist??") and thigh girth for new costumes. Yx, time for drastic measures.
Right, off to try and do the tank hood, blearghh. Or perhaps I should give it a rest tonight?
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