Malaysian Salsa Festival 2006 Part 1


It was a BLAST!!! 4D3N of hardcore salsa... ... Malaysia's first international salsa festival and i was there :D!!! sretching from the 4th till the 7th of august at the beach side resorts of Impiana and Suria at sunny Cherating, it was a weekend end filled with international performances, workshops ranging from son( another kinda dance) to introduction to lifts, tricks and aerials and nightly salsa parties!!!

Yes i know that this set me back by $414.95 but IT WAS WORTH EVERY SINGLE CENT!!!!! Seriously no regrets going for it man....hahaha

Well here's a little bit of what went on during the festival. To those who didn't go, TOO BAD!!!!! wahahahahha


DAY 1

It started relatively early for me. The bus was scheduled to leave from neil road at 8am to JB where we would change onto another bus to head for sunny cherating. I met alot of union regulars there. It seemed that union square was goin to be transplanted to cherating...hahaha
Anyways, jinn and shirley were to be my room mates for this trip. I know that it was last minute but thanks for inviting me nevertheless:)

Young looks like that when he has to wake up at 6am in the morning to catch a 8am bus.

When we got onto the coach at JB bound for Cherating, we realised that there was something amiss. It seemed that the bus driver was a fan of jay chow. He was swerving the coach while constanly overtaking other hapless vehicles on the 2 laned road. Talk about intial D man...wahahaha. I guess i was lucky to be alive.

The driver was a closet Ah Beng.... Disco lights on the freakin coach?!?!?!?

Anways, it was a bloooooodddddyyy loooooonnnngggg ride. We left neil raod at about 8.30am and got to cherating at about 5pm!!! Freakin 8.5 hr ride!!!!!! along the way we had 3 rest stops cos our bladders were just that small...hahahaha

My retarded travel companion

Malaysia for you

Big green sleeping mass

When we got there, we were too late for the bachata worksop by gupson.... oh wells... We proceeded to walk around, bumped into even more familiar faces, cam whored abit and waited for dinner.

Beach side setting

Coconut trees and more coconut trees

The usual suspects

Orangey Joyce

Gary, nicole and me

We took a walk around the place to get orientated. I loved the nice beach and constant sea breeze.... Ahhhhhhhh... all so relaxing. Perfect setting to hold a salsa festival man...hahahah

Lazy beach side

Prestine beach

Crystal clear waters

Captain Young

Human tripod

Cool salseros

So who's seducing who?

Met salsa sam along the way and had a chat to chat up wif him. Apparently after our previous SALSA NUTS trip to kl, we left quite an impression. After we left, he said that a couple of events were named like salsa nuits lunch, salsa nuts this salsa nuts that. It seems that the phrase " Salsa nuts" was very catchy adn many parties of people started to use it. Well done guys :) We have left our mark...hahahahha Btw, throughout the rest of the days at cherating i was pleasantly suprised that some people actually remembered me from KL... awwww...hahahah

Salsa Sam!!! He's really a nice guy :)

Shirley and THE man

Since it was a beach side resort, all the meal settings were that of an exotic beach side theme. Overall, the food for the whole duration wasn't all that mindblowing but it wasn't that bad either. That night, we had a bbq buffet. Lotsa lamb, chicken, sausages, fishes and prawns.

Prewwwty lights to set the ambience

Firery pit...

... that produced these heap of glorious BBQed meat

JJ group settling down for dinner

Bryan looks happy... must have been the dinner...hahaha

1 interesting thing to not that other than breakfast, there was free flow of ice kachang for every meal. 4 days of ice kachang... shiok...hahaha

Jerry looks so happy becos of his seat is strategically close to the ice kachang stall

After dinner, it was of to watch the performances. The first night saw acts from En Motion, LADC ( i felt they did a great job. Good work guys!!!), Bailattelo Dance Academy from Switzerland, Paradizo Dance from new york and many others. These performances very highly energetic and awesome.... truely WORLD CLASS ones.... I was starting to get my money worth.

Gary and Nicole

LADC peeps

Aerial salsa

SB7 roxs!!!

After that, it was the first of the indoor dance party.... Music was piped from 11pm till around 3am. The music that was played was great!!! Very groovy indeed... So unlike the boring generic crap we get at union.... blah!@#!... We'll it was great, got to dance wif many babes of differing levels. I really enjoyed myself.

Getting it on

It's gettin hot in here

Ok, this will be all for now... Am too lazy to blog out the rest ( and the blog entry will be too long if i did anyways) ...hahhaha... Stay tuned for more exciting salsa action, babes and all, from the malaysian salsa festival!!!