January 2009 has been written to the history books. It’s gone. If you missed it, you missed one hell of a month. Welcome to February 2009.
Here in Kota Kinabalu time hasn’t stood still either (although sometimes it seems like it). Nope, time has flown past and Chinese New Year has come and gone. As a whole, I must say, the displays of Lion Dances around town has not inspired me, nor thrilled me. It’s not like I go around town attending all the Lion Dances, but you know, the ones I saw where, well, low grade.
There is an exception though, and that exception is the Chinese New Year Lion Dance at The Loft. It’s a bit of tradition already, as this was the 3rd Lion Dance I attended at The Loft, which is located on Kota Kinabalu’s Waterfront. I don’t know why, but they always seem to get the best Lion Dance troupe and boy, are those guys good.
Anyway, I wasn’t really prepared to capture this event on film, but I did have my Canon Ixus 85 handy, which although it ain’t no video-cam, it still managed to capture half decent video. OK, fine, in the low light it was actually pretty crap video, but I gave it a bit of gain in After Effects and at least you can appreciate some of the Lion Dance stunts. The audio isn’t bad, so far as the ku-ching-tak-ku-ching goes.
Enjoy the Chinese New year Lion Dance at The Loft, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
cheers for the generous right up….the guys are good because they were previously twice the world champions….p.s may i ask do i know you….possibly do if you attended 3 lion dances at the loft….cheers Colin