Not Lost.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Hey Everyone. I'm still here! Surprise surprise. I don't know what's happening here anymore but i don't intend to find out either. Frankly i'm too tired to. Been working and everything plus the SYF commitments! My babies got a Silver. It's really really good actually. The journey was a very tough one. I still remember the first time i saw the dance and how i thought it was no where near SYF standard and all. But on Tuesday, after watching the dance at its best, i realised these girls deserve getting a gold. They came so far! The first time i went back to see the entire group, i remember nhot all of them were cooperative and i even remember trying my level best not to appear bitchy towards them because my main goal was to push them to getting a gold. To me, it didn't matter if i got along with them or not. Just as long as they got that award. As the practices continued, I realised that i was wrong to think that way. Sounds cheesy? It's the truth. Each one of them taught me something new and i made a genuine effort to get along with them. Kudos to Darshni and Nanthini who i admit, were pretty loose with their steps at first but managed to pefect everything over a weekened. And there's Gowri, who kept going ahead of count at some parts but somehow, perfected the entire thing on stage! I'm not going to put down all the names but really, all of you girls improved tremendously. Whoever said that the chinese and malay dancers who didn't have any background etc etc were special because they managed to prove themselves and all, should just go to hell. Out of my 14 girls, 3 had prior dance experience. THREE. The other 11 dancers were first timers with no classical training whatsoever. To me, the judges had no right to value the non-indian dancers over the untrained indian dancers. They are on par and should be given equal if not more credit. Sri Devi and Girish proved that the Central judging for SYF was actually a very biased one and honestly, if they did not have biased views, every school would have been awarded with a Gold or Gold with honours don't you think? It's not a competition. It's a festival and the schools present their items and get graded with COP, Bronze, Silver, Gold and Gold with honours. It isn't a competition. You aren't competing with other schools. In my opinion, the judges are the ones pitting the schools against each other and even worse, judging the others based on the established ones with previous gold certs. The only true deserving GWH group last night was NJC. RJC didn't deserve theirs. I believe the judges were somewhat blinded when the girls fell on stage? They must have been surely. And AJC's Silver? Was it a personal attack? Because they certainly didn't deserve anything less than a gold. But then again, what i say here isn't going to make a difference. Hopefully things will change in time to come. Back to Innova. Of course the day wasn't complete without the usual drama. Thanabal the LIAR almost screwed the experience for the girls. Thank god the parents were on my side seriously. If anyone was scolding him more than me, it was them. Serves him right. Oh plus some of our dear girls were oggling over the boys. Serves them right when they didn't get what they wanted. I'm not talking about my dance babies btw. They had plenty of admirers. And after, i had a little malay girl run up to me and ask me to take down the number of a very charming little someone. Haha. Good looking and from what i saw, pretty funny. And he's like reading this now because he wants me to tell him when i'm done. Hello Prasad! (:
So yeah. I don't want to go into detail. Let's just say, I had a very good day. Ended it off with our project meeting at the cc. Love the girls and Shawn i swear. Haha. okay everyone. I'm going to go off and use my lappy right now and then dinner! see you lovelies at night.
LoveLots,
Ragini(:
