Finally, I’ve managed to find some time to sit down here again to create another post in this blog. I’m assuming that you all would like to know how did the dance competition turned out to be. To tell you the truth, it wasn’t what I’ve expected.
First and foremost, Lai Kuan and I didn’t practice much due to work commitments. We’ve only started practicing the day before the competition. That day is also the day we finalize the routine while adding new moves to it from the result of 1 week of research done before. Well you must be thinking that we are carving our own coffin for our funeral. Yes, I thought so too! In fact, I was really sure that we will not win given the preparation that we did. It was almost next to none. After our weekly dance class, our teacher asked us to dance for the class and we did. By the end of the dance, the whole class was so excited. Even more excited than we are. Anyway, our teacher gave us some constructive criticism which I appreciate a lot and it shows that he cares. After that, we practice for about an hour before we went home to get a good rest before the competition the next day.
The next afternoon, I met up with Lai Kuan at the LRT station and we both went to the competition venue together. After registering ourselves, we went through the steps few more times because our practice session the day before was not enough. Feeling nervous, we messed up the steps during the rehearsal. Also during the competition, we were, or at least I am so overwhelmed by the whole environment that I had a mental block and we screwed up the routine again but we managed to recover and dance till the music ends. From that point onwards, we knew that we stand a slim chance of winning although we didn’t know how others fare. The competition ended at 4.30pm.Lai Kuan, few other friends and I went out for a short lunch because both of us didn’t have our lunch yet. Frankly speaking, I don’t even have mood to eat but I ate anyway because I have to. We went back to the venue at 5.45pm and watched line dancing till 7.30pm. Shortly after that, the competition result was announced. Finalist in my division was called to the dance floor for the award giving ceremony. We went anyway with no hopes of getting any medals.
They started with 3rd placing first. Then came to 2nd placing. My former dance teacher, William announced, ‘The second placing goes to…. Dianne Teoh and Moo Lai Kuan!’. Instantly, both of us looked at each other, couldn’t believe that we were silver medalist. I looked back at my teacher and my classmates and they can’t stop smiling… so did Lai Kuan and I…LOL. What a perfect way to end the day. After winning silver after a non stellar performance, I wondered if the gold could have been easily won if we didn’t screw up our routine during the competition. Maybe.. but silver is good enough for starters.
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