Sunday, April 23, 2006

There seems to be many wu bea kias around lately. I really want to shout out, “KANNINABEICHAOCHEEBYELA,LANJIAOBINS~!” firstly, I think it’s the illers, the self proclaimed best hiphop group in Singapore. I must say that I have seen many of their performances. From the lee jeans show along orchard road to the latest being the krumping showcase at esplanade, I really don know whether to say that they are good or not. I don know, I really don agree with their concept on hiphop dancing, the 7 elements that they have been talking about since ages ago had always been the talking point for a long time. And the consensus that everyone came to is that it is crap. I’m very sure that if they were to explain their 7 elements of hiphop to the originators of this unique culture, there were to be only two outcomes, one, they would laugh their ass off, the second being that they will truly feel insulted for there are people who changed what they have created and redefining what hiphop truly is. For I believe that no matter how far the culture may evolve, everyone calling themselves part of a culture should learn about its roots and history. Not that I’m ignoring them saying that they live hiphop and breathe hiphop, but I feel insulted hearing them say that when they have no regards to the origins. In fact I remember practicing with Wilson light years back at tampines dome, it was actually the only time I felt that someone that good would be someone representing us bboys in the future. Until he told alex that the way he do his flares, he will never get them. and something about red being hiphop and black being something else, that’s why hes always dressed in red and black and he said something about his red and black shoes representing hiphop and how he has 6 pairs of them at home cause he will never outgrow his passion for hiphop. Then I saw him at years later at the orchard road with the illers performing. What caught my attention first was that their ‘mc’ announced that they are the best crew in Singapore and I simply had to stay and watch. Till I left halfway feeling cheated as an audience that I’m being led to believe that they are the best in Singapore. Plus I was rather puzzled at how Wilson had deproved. Hmmm, then I watched the youth thingy on u channel and heard him saying that he practice 3 hours a day, he writes down his ideas and moves that he created over this years that he have been ‘breaking’ (at least he got that right, he’s not bboying) and I heard him saying that he doesn’t do the easy stuff. And they show clips of him breaking at home and I see him doing handstand, sixstep to tombstone, normal windmills. No respect for you man. You are exactly the cause why people interested in bboying come and ask to learn powermoves with no basics, wanting to learn airflares with no knowledge of toprock, footwork and freezes. And you are the reason why people don appreciate the importance of getting their basics right and how it is that the simplest move like sixstep and toprock are the hardest to master. I really don know. Maybe its just me. I’m the poseur in this all. But I do know that I’m a bboy. And please do not insult what bboying really is.

The next person that I’m really upset about is alex. The other day at the library, I think I really saw through you. The first was when u took out the other person’s laptop plug and used the socket. Your excuse was that that one was nearer to yours. I mean the other one was just next to that socket and it so happens that it was faulty. Come on man, I’m sure that you tested that socket and had full knowledge that it was faulty. But that wasn’t just it. When that guy came back and realized that the other plug was missing and asked if u removed his plug and u said yes, I was waiting for you to return him his socket and you didn’t. and then I prompted you to return him his socket and you gave me that look to tell me to let it go, in the end, that poor guy and his girlfriend had to go look for another place to sit when they were the first one to reach the place. Then you realized that u couldn’t use your laptop cause your wireless connection couldn’t work. You just went straight to rapheal and asked him to give up his laptop to you, so that u could do your computing. It pained me to see rapheal upset the way he was. He had to go to the computer lab to watch webcast, do physics online, maths online lab when he had bought his laptop and the worst thing was that the comp lab was full. In the end, he wasted his day in the library, while you were completing your work and giving us that smug look that you had completed your work. I really don give a fuck if I don do well, but I do give a fuck if a good friend of mine was feeling down. At the end of the day, you even lend rapheal’s laptop to ur fren and came back to use your laptop and chased rapheal who was using ur laptop away so that you can use. I really feel like standing up and shouting you selfish bastard, then I realized just what category of people you belonged to. The type that wouldn’t give a damn to other people’s feelings as long as you get what you want, if someone had to sacrifice for you to succeed, it must be the other person, if it has to be you, you would pull someone down with you. I mean I’m really quite scared of what you are capable of doing. Rapheal is a much closer fren to you than I am. Yet u treat him like dirt every other day in order to get whatever you want. What are you going to do to me one day if I stood in your way? Are you going to “please please” your way? I’m going to suppress that urge to slap your face I swear. And you are a Christian for Christ’s sake. That’s why I never wanted to be a Christian, cause I almost never see a Christian do what they preach. Yes, compartmentalism in sociology’s words. In layman terms, being a Christian only when in a church. I ask, why bother? Sorry, bro, I’m really very disappointed, I expected much more from a person like you. Oh well, dog eat dog world everywhere we go. Just that you are a god damn rottweiler.

Lastly, I think CDS is full of shit. Stumbled on their website while searching for floorskills and I’m kinda glad that they mentioned that they are breakdancing not bboying. And them saying that inertia bite shits from korea is a joke. But at least they got one thing rte. They really have no knowledge. And its funny how they are giving breakdancing lessons. But for one thing, they are really original, but that shld be due to them having nothing. The website reads that they will be training hard to prove to the rest that they are good. That’s one thing that I’m will be looking forward to happening after their so many years in breaking.

Watched circle kings dvd yesterday at norbin’s place. All the bboys were dope like hell. It seems that it has become very distinct, who’s the real ones following the beat and freestyling and who are the ones doing routines and not connecting with the music. Looks like the game has been stepped up to the next level. I really feel like going over to new york to see the scene and understand more of the culture and meeting ken swift in person. Then, somehow, darling managed to get alieness blueprint dvd from her fren and the dvd is a classic. There is just so many basics moves to learn and all the concepts about the original bboying, so I’m really very thankful to technology for bridging the gap between countries and people worlds apart. Because of all this, I get to learn things from kenswift, alieness, teknyc and so many other bboys out there that are keeping it real. Hope some day I will be able to join them in their league. Saw in some website that its massive monkee’s 7 year anniversary event in may in seattle. This is just one of those many things that I wish I can go and learn from the masters themselves. Till then, I’m still stuck with all the stupid exams that are seriously wasting my time studying for them. in the words of my friend, ‘we really kenna own by the paper.’ Lol, bloody gamer. I would really rather say, ‘I tio burn by the papers, haha.’ But oh well, 2 papers down. 5 more to go. Till this Friday then.

Last thing, thanks to felix for organizing the bboy night at MOS every Thursday, really glad that there is a real platform for us to improve, plus got free entry, hoho~
gilbert at 9:59 PM [comment]

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