Professor Parabolica from my Grupo Senzala, will be returning to Penang to conduct another workshop in February!
The confirmed details are: Date: 4th & 5th February 2012 (Sat & Sun) Time: 10am-1pm for both days Venue: Let's Dance Studio (Penang, Malaysia) Fees: RM75 (30.78SGD)
Most of us were busy traveling, working or returning home (probably devouring all the homecooked food he or she can before returning), but at the back of our minds, I am sure the berimbau was still playing and there hiding in your room, you managed to sneak some gingas and other movimentos with the mirror reflection.
Now that the holidays have ended, it's time to get serious again and train even more! We will post up our Welcome Tea details soon. For now, our trainings are back to normal.
A new year, new semester, & a new set of challenges and exciting adventures waiting to happen!
Are you bored of learning the same rhythms again and again? You think your instrument skills are wearing out soon? Check out these guys:
Honda
He is a japanese student studying Chinese and Tourist Management in Shanghai and is part of the Madinga Group there. He is currently touring South East Asia to learn its history as well as to experience it (:
Berimbau Blues
This is some crazy shit. But! With practice, you guys can play like him too!
Well for Redang, we will be taking a VIP coach with lots of leg room. We will have a hell alot of time to have fun there! Let me introduce to you the Laguna Redang Resort that we will be staying at. Firstly, it is just beside the sea...literally. The view is beautiful, we will be staying in Quad Sharing rooms.
We will be eating a sumptuous spread of asian delicacies as well as western meals served by chefs. We will be able to snorkel in crystal clear blue waters where some people have sighted sea turtles and Groupers the size of an attabaque.
For those who dive, for an additional cost, we can rent diving equipment and dive at the many dive spots too! There are massage services, Banana Boat fun, Fishing trips and much more fun! Just visit this website
Details of the trip: Date: 28 - 31st May 2009 Cost: $350 per pax ( It will be lower if we can get more people, about 18 people or more ) Transport: Paid for , by coach
If you are interested talk to TK ( Bambu ) or Leslie. You can sms me or email me if you are interested (:
There is a change in our training timings this Semester. Please take note. The change is only for Tuesdays. These are the new timings
Time: 7 pm - 9 pm ( We will most likely end earlier, its only our booking time, and we definitely WILL end earlier when its nearing the exams)
Location: SRC Dance Studio
Please take note.
On a side note, I'm helping the clinic i work for to find subjects to hypnotize. Wanna try getting hypnotized? We will pay you $20 for 20 mins of your time and we won't make you do stupid things but just relax (: . SMS me or email me at ihypno@gmail.com to register. First come first serve!
Skool is starting in about a week's time! Our first unofficial traning starts on Tuesday (13th Jan) at the usual timing and usual place. Thursday (15 Jan) will be our first official training and will be our welcome tea as well. Every one is welcome!
To readers who are not part of the club, feel free to come and give it a try. If you are too shy, just take a look. Its free! Refreshments will be provided
Nus Capoeira Club Welcome Tea 09! Date: 15th Jan 09 Thursday Time: 7 - 9 pm Venu: MPSH 4 Attire: Barefoot and exercise clothes Cost: Free AH FREEE AH!!!! Anything else to bring: Your waterbottle and an open mind
*Please register by sending us a mail or an sms stating your Name and Matric number Looking forward to the new year and new moves ahead!
Hello hello, in case you haven't been clued in yet, Alif and Aisha are GETTING MARRIED! It's this Saturday, 20 December 08, 4-8pm at Cairnhill Community Club, Newton MRT.
To those of you who missed dinner, well, that's 'choo baad! But here are some funny videos that were bandied about. Give your own in the comments section!
Hello NUS Capo people! While miserably mugging, remember that it is still important to eat, lest you starve before your finals!
And what better way to eat than with your equally miserable friends?! After all, misery loves company!
Tentatively, the NUS Capo dinner is set on 18th November 08, Tuesday evening. Not okay with the date? Let us know! Meanwhile, do vote on the venue. You can vote for more than one place. Want to suggest another place? Let us know!
Don't worry, you can change your vote later!
Love love, -EW
It looks like we're having it at Botak Jones on Tuesday night. Sorry, Dadi lovers (myself included), maybe next time. Since everyone is busy studying, we shall make it a hard 7.30 pm. If you come later, don't expect people to still be there! Those who have to mug can leave after they've swallowed their grub. Those who want to stay and chat and play a little roda outside Botak Jones can also do so.
Please leave your vote in the poll whether you want tuesday class or not. If you guys want the class,hopefully I can pass the T-shirts to you all because the guy has promised me that he will send the T-shirts to me by monday with a compensation cash voucher.
This is a clip from Kung Fu Hustle. It's the international English-dubbed version. I find so many great lessons in capoeira, like this post's title, in this movie.
And this is a fan vid.
Yes, I have wasted your time. As in the roda, as in Life. :P
-EW
PS: Please leave in the comments your favourite capoeira quotes from the movie (or any movie!). Remember to add 'As in the roda, as in Life.' at the back!
In the underground period of Capoeira, capoeiristas referred to each other by--and probably were only known through--nicknames to avoid police persecution. These are referred to as apelidos (appellations) or nomes de guerre (names of war).
Technically, the capoeira teacher who baptises you (with the floor, not with water) will name you, but sometimes your style is so distinct, you earn it all on your own. So congratulations! Some of you are already earning your nomes de guerre! So, for starters:
Angeline: Ginga Baixa (Ginga Low) Swee Lan: Palma no Chão (Hand on the Floor) Yi Hao: Pilar (Pillar, Post) Mona: Queixada Matador (Killer Queixada) Amanda: Chutada Alta (High Kicker)
Heheheheh....
For your information:
Ting Kuang: Bambu (The Long One) Pek Hong: Wolverine (Wolverine) [Kidding! But he was almost called that! His real name is Caburé, a kind of pygmy owl. I can't remember why] Ian: Cabeça (Head) [Actually, Mestra Mara wanted to call him 'Intelligente'. The other masters wanted to call him something much less glamourous, so they settled for 'Head' instead]. Jia Min: Piaba (Death's Smile)
Some of you may have, in your gullibility, consumed a slice or two of carrot cake. Well click on it and weep, people, because one slice is 583 Calories! Yup, as a sedentary student, you only require 2000 (ladies) or 2400 (gents). That was a WHOLE MEAL you warfed down your throats! You might not feel it at first, but three years down the road when you are running after that infrequent bus 95, your heart will give up the ghost and you'll just keel over and die. Looks like you had better not skip classes anymore. You'd better go down to Sundays' Sentosa rodas as well.
After a year or two in capoeira (or any human endeavour for that matter), you will encounter someone who will tell you what capoeira is. And really, one fine day, you'll have to decide for yourself what it is.
But today, I'm going to tell you what it is.
In capoeira there will always be people who have been in it longer than you. They are more knowledgeable; they can do fancy things. Because they are obviously superior, we should kowtow at their feet and respect--nay, worship--them. We should idolise and pedestalise (yes, I made that word up--that's what Arts majors do) them. They can do no wrong, for they are superior in capoeira, and are therefore superior human beings. If they are upset, it must be because we, as inferior human beings, are at fault. We must be to blame.
Yes, it's quite ridiculous when it's written down, isn't it? But I bet it didn't seem so when it was a latent background semi-formed thought.
Do you worship these people?
Impressive crazy skills, no doubt, but a skill is a skill is a skill. Just because you want to learn it doesn't make a master of that skill worship-worthy; it just means that you ought not to upset that person if you want him to teach you.
And you'd be surprised how full of sh*t people can be, in any human endeavour. Does a Ph.D make your professor a better human being? No. Even if it's legit, all it means is that he's spent more time studying than you. You don't look up to him because of his title. You're nice to him because he controls your grades. And just maybe, if you're lucky, he's a nice human being who cares about your growth in his discipline, and he does things beyond what is necessary to help you.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying we should judge people by how useful they are. We should use people depending on how useful they are, certainly (come on, admit it!), but perhaps we should judge people's humanity by how much they acknowledge it in others.
Sorry the the late update, been really busy. Anyways, the saturday BBQ was Great! A big thank you to Aisha and Aliph for the wonderful food and helping us to get the location. A big thank you to the girls who came early and helped skewer and prepare the food. I'm sure every on enjoyed the food, even I did...both the well cooked ones and the overly well cooked ones. A big thank you to myself for starting the fire hahaha.
It was great to see the rest of the family from HQ and SMU. Though our numbers in total were not very large, we had loads of fun. Here are some of the pictures, the rest are in the facebook group (:. Love Love
Aren't you tired of hearing the same songs OVER AND OVER again?!?!? Want to show the seniors "who the real maestro--not to be confused with 'mestre'--is"?! (to those in the know, that was a classic line from 'Only the Strong')
Then submit your song-post in the comments section! It could be a webpage with the lyrics (hopefully with audio file), a streaming video (just tell us from when to when on the timescale), a roda in which the song is sung, perhaps even just a chorus typed phonetically because you don't know the song title.
The condition (yes, there's always one, isn't there?) is that you must master the soloist's part. We'll try to help you if we can (or pretend to if we can't). Then we'll forcefeed everyone else the coro ('chorus') and wala! Instant Maestro/a!
NB: This is not homework (sweet Betsy, the last thing capoeira is is wooooorrrrk, but if you've found a song that you like and would like to share it, please do. Don't worry, this will be a recurring blogpost we'll move up once in a while, so you can find (or stumble upon) a song at your own pace.
Its Mugging Time! Yey! Time to hit those books after hitting Capoeira sessions. Well for those of you who are stressed I highly recommend South Park/Simpsons/ Family Guy/ American Dad to de-stress. This is a study tip site (:
Ok, if you have headaches or neck aches from diving in those books; this is a rejuvenating massage:
Or! You could try Hypnotherapy to relieve stress! I've tried it and boy does it do wonders hehehe. Ok now, I know you're studying really hard, but do the two polls on the side bar regarding Tuesday Sessions please pretty please!
For those who have not replied me in the mail regarding your T-shirts and committee and BBQ, hurry up and do so!
Love Love
Bambu (:
-ps, I have hamsters to adopt, 2 babies right now hurry and reply me if you want them
