Before the year 2013 ends

oh hello there! i miss you simply gracious.. :))

Before this year 2013 ends let me post the dances i missed to blog here due to "busyness" as always..weeehhh...on another way around...the truth is because of ..............l.a.z.i.n.e.s.s. :))) laziness! well, at times i am like that...that's me..:))

so what did i miss posting here???

starting with, the ROAD TRIP 2013 with our dance "OVERCOMER" of Mandisa on every place where we stopped. that was really fun! memorable time with friends.. i did try editing it to combine all the videos taken from all the places but yah sorry it isn't good, but...but ...but...just allow me to post..okay? :)))

huahin beach

and this is in the deep south of Thailand...

Next on the row was the dance "Lord You are Good" last November in the church.. we were asked to perform one dance during the advance Christmas Celebration of the 5 churches here in Hatyai and was held also in Cornerstone Church.

December was full-packed with practice and presentations in the different places we went to.

Started with Dec. 7 morning @ Namnoi Community.

Dec. 7 afternoon @ Ranot Community

Dec. 8 afternoon @ Banharn Community

Dec. 13 @ Banpruh Community

Dec. 14 @ Hatyai Convention Center for the Joint Christmas Celebration of 5 Churches here in Hatyai.
we presented 2 dances, "Joy to the World -Tambourine Dance" and "Lord You Are Good Dance"

Lord You are Good, ending part

Lord You Are Good, Tambourine part

Joy To the World Costume- a pose before the event started

They're the guest singers from Bangkok on that event...had a chance to take a pose on their tarp..grateful that we able to perform with them at that night.

had our dinner before the event started and had our pose :)))

the thai dancers: Plew, Nafia, Wann & Plume...so blessed with the life of these young people

A pose with one of the singers after the event

In all the communities that we visited, we all had the same presentations.
1. Joy to the World
2. A skit - My Name is forgiven followed with our dance "Hello My Name Is" by Matthew West
3. Our Dance "Overcomer" by Mandisa
4. Feliznavidad Dance which we taught to the kids

some vidsss... Joy to the world at Ranot

Feliznavidad

"My name is forgiven" & "hello My Name Is" at Banpruh

Dec. 14 @ the same place- Hatyai Convention Center

The  Eksilah Dance Team was invited to present a Philippine Folk Dance in a Charity Show for Haiyan Victims. As a Filipino, I am thankful that i had been a part of this event as to extend a little help to our kababayans who suffered from the strongest typhoon-Haiyan/Yolanda. We decided to present Salidumay and ended it with "Kuradang" a famous folk dance in Visayas-the middle part of the Philippines where the typhoon Haiyan occurred.

Salidumay Costume

Kuradang Costume

A pose with the other dancers and with the Emcee of the event

here's the video of all the dances presented on that night...we were the first who presented.

Dec. 22 Christmas Celebration @ Cornerstone Chapel Hadyai
we presented " Mary Did you Know Dance"

Dec. 25 @ one of the schools in Songkhla

with the elementary pupils

talking with the kinder pupils

we only presented one dance in this school, only the Joy to the World..here's the video of it..

Dec. 29 YES CHRISTMAS and New Years Party!

Time to go to church!!!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

OVERCOMER Dance Tutorial

Problems and trials are unavoidable part in life. Broken relationship, death of loved ones, losing jobs, natural disaster or any other unpleasant scenario that happen to us are all circumstances in life. We might question God why is it happening. And this line, "why me" may cross to our minds. yep, painful and difficult to face it. We might have negative responses to it.. we may say unfair....and we may say i surrender..i give up.... But the reality is, we have the control to how would we react in all of these to make us a better person...to make us stronger...to turn things which are best for us.. We cannot change the past but we have the chance to make things right for the future.

1 Thessalonians 5:18  give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

It isn't easy i know, but we can overcome all of these circumstances in life as we trust and cooperate to God's plan for us.

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

1 Peter 5:7 says, Cast all your cares upon Him for He cares for you!

Yes, He does care for us more than how we do care for ourselves....

So whatever situation you are having right now, have HOPE! You can overcome cause we are always victorious in Jesus name!

Time to dance.... :)) and declare that we are all "overcomers"!

OVERCOMER song of Mandisa sums it up....Don't Quit , Don't give in.... You're an overcomer!

here's the dance tutorial... :))

here's the whole dance with music...

we did have our second practice after the Sunday worship...having fun while practicing..:))

God bless!

"This is the Day" Tambourine Dance Tutorial

Glad to be back in Tambourine Dance mode again!

 i was asked by a friend from the Philippines to have a simple tambourine dance tutorial for her students which they can use as an opening salvo for a thanksgiving celebration in school. this is the school were i worked for 9 years as a math teacher way back in the Philippines before i came here in Thailand.The school that i am talking about is my beloved Enfant Cheri Study Centre, Inc. They will celebrate its 21st founding anniversary this month of October! I am grateful for a chance to share a little help in this celebration. They will only have a week to practice for this dance so i was asked to make this dance very simple for grade school students! :))

So here it is, 4 STROKES for the whole dance...  ;)

-intro(1x)
-Isaiah (revised) (2x)
-intro action(1x)
-Isaiah (2x)
-Genesis (2x)
-Proclamation (2x)
-intro action(1x)
-Isaiah (2x)
-Genesis (2x)
-Proclamation (2x)
-Dancing (2x)
-Intro action (1x)
-clapping (1x)
-bridge action (4x)
-Circle formation (1 1/2x)
-Proclamation (2x)
-Intro action (1x)
the end... :))

Here's the whole dance with music!

OVERCOMER Dance

Yahoooooo!!! just so excited to be back on my blog post...

Need to overcome my boredom in creating dances nowadays....just felt so weak again and seems everything is so tiring.. i thank  GOd for reminding me after hearing this song n KLOVE! :) "OVERCOMER" by Mandisa.

As i ponder on this song, i realized that i did overcome a lot of trials in life and that is because God was there and is always there for me, holding me up high!

My prayer that "YOU" who could watch this dance will be blessed and be reminded that YOU are an OVERCOMER! Don't QUIT... DON'T GIVE IN! JESUS is there for you...

Here's the first video attempt for this dance... try to make the tutorial of this later with the other girls!

got some probs on this vid, it won't play in mobile...mmh..hope someone could tell me how to make this available in mobile..can't view this in my ipad..:((

Anyway God bless everyone!

August Flashback!

For us(Eksilah Dance Team), August is the busiest month so far for this year 2013. Full-packed Sched made us more energetic to dig deeper to our passion.

As i recall,

3 years ago, at the same month, i did a  hulking decision in my life that made me disconnected to this kind of "busyness". That "disconnection" led me to a realization that "I am happy when I am busy"_ busy to give Him glory! Now that I am reconnected by God's grace,  I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to be working again to the pipeline that He really meant for me. Indeed, only by His Grace!

August 2013,

God has really proven how amazingly He holds and loves us that even if how hard we try to let go,  He never gives up on us!

Flashback to the full-packed sched on this month.

1st Sunday ,

We celebrated the 9th Anniversary of Cornerstone Chapel Hadyai - a blissful celebration with a theme "Forever Grateful", declaring God's faithfulness and greatness to His people.

Part of this celebration is our dance "Today is the Day" which is originally sung by Lincoln Brewster. But, this time we dance this with the version of thai.

Here's the video of this dance..

we also had the dance for that song "Forever God is Faithful". This is the dance that we never had a general practice for everyone who participated..lol.. so you know already the result but then still it was fun! :)))

2nd Sunday,

Celebrating the Mother's Day here in Thailand.

 And as a tribute to all the mothers, we had this thai dance taught by the thai dancers in our team, Wann & Nafia. I don't understand the lyrics, i was even confused with dance steps and felt awkward in moving, but seriously, I enjoyed this dance and thankful that i able to wear a thai costume at last! :)

Here's the video! 

(psst... we did practice twice only, as in the song was played twice only a night before the final performance..hehehhe..:) 

(okay fine, i admit....i am the Best in Cheating in this dance..... haahahha)

3rd week, 

the team attended thePlan13 in Penang, Malaysia. Certainly soooooo blessed in that conference. God has taught and reminded me a lot of things. Really it was a refreshing... really an awesome gathering... Thankful that God has used people so we can join to that conference!

We were asked to perform a Malay dance which was part of the production or the opening part of the said conference. We were nervous cause it was our first time to have a Malay Dance and the fact that in front of us were mostly Malaysians. But thank God, we did it! :) mmh sorry don't have the video of this though...
but here's during our practice in the house..

(actually this dance tutorial was made for Faith for she was "out of town" again during our rehearsal..:D)

Aside from that Malay Dance, we were asked to give an exposition of Genesis 37:1-23. Honestly, got a hard time of understanding what it is.. :)) another first time for us... to present this passage in the Bible through dance...........the story of Joseph the Dreamer! yeh...i heard this story since i was a kid in our Sunday School with my mom as our teacher!weeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhh...... A day and a night of headache... had brainstorming with the girls..til we ended sleeping all in bed and hoping to have an idea on what to do through our dreams! when we woke up on the next day, did try to recall if we dreamed something but nothing ..hahhahh...then we prayed and surely, God is the God of wisdom and He gave this idea to us. 

Here it is...a spontaneous dance presentation of Genesis 37:1-24. 

the music on the last part in this presentation wasn't the correct version of the song, you could see the confusion at the middle of that dance and  that was my fault coz i didn't check it before we performed..another lesson learned.. :)) but i guess it was still okay though coz we managed to finish the dance still!...hehehhh... Praise God!

4th Sunday,

we had our YES-Hatyai August (Youth Empowerment Service-youth gathering in our church). Actually we supposed to dance this- "Hello My Name Is" by Matthew West.

But, since we were busy in our work (our students joined an inter-school competition), so we ran out of time to have a practice... hoping to dance this next time.

Some pics to remember..

9th Anniversary of Cornerstone Chapel Hadyai

"Today is the Day" dance costume

"Forever God is Faithful" dance uniform ..:))

Taken after the celebration

Mother's Day Celebration

Thai Costume

From the left: Josephine, Grace, Plew,Wann, Yvonne, Nafia, Joy, Karisse, & Rose

just a pose after we danced..:))

thePlan.... in Penang, Malaysia 

.....all pics---credit to thePlan13 Photographers

Malay Dance Costume

Grateful that the 5 of us had been part on this event. Hoping that the other members of the dance team could join next time.

With Auntie Lilian-the head of the Creative Arts Team and with Ate Janet!  Blessings to these kind and humble women of God! 

Genesis 37:1-23 Exposition

Samantha- the very beautiful and talented daughter of Ate Janet and Kuya Peter, on her split in the ending part of the performance. In such a young age, i see her passion in dancing. so glad that she joined in our dance!

In our Floral pants and Dance Team T-Shirt with Ate Janet our MANAGER...:)) i mean our mentor, supporter, make-up artist, photographer, videographer....etc... :) we are really blessed to know this beautiful lady in red!  

Last Minute Practice

YES-Hatyai August

after the Fellowship in YES

With Luccas- Our Brazilian friend whom we met in thePlan13 and who played the saxophone during the exposition. We are thankful that he shared his time in seeing us here in Hatyai. we are blessed to the life of this man!

AUGUST 2013 is a breakthrough indeed! THANK YOU LORD!!!!!!!

Glory and Praise to His name.....