My Group Went For Burlesque… daw!

Every year, since I went to work for my aunt’s manpower agency, the staff goes crazy trying to think of gimmicks and what nots for their group for the Christmas Party presentation. Personally, I’ve sang (solo and choir-like) and danced hip hop and even kpop.

Twilight's casts in Jopman

But for last year’s Christmas Party, I have to admit that I was more stressed with our performance. What with combining the stress from work (we still had interviews scheduled for that month), stress & excitement from anticipating our family reunion (relatives from New Zealand, US and Malaysia invaded tita Josie & uncle Gilbert’s place and the cousins had an awesome time bonding in Manila & Cebu), and anxiety from thinking what would be a WINNER costume for the group entrance & the WINNING performance.

Last December 20,  2010, my group and I picked Twilight Saga for our themed costume. Since our characters tried to act human as much as possible, the only thing we could do to suit up as Edward, Bella, Jacob and James, etc. is to buy wigs, find the look alike clothes and put on more face powder & glitter to those playing vampires. From what we’ve seen of the costumes of the other 2 groups, we already know we’ll never beat the 300s and the Mulawins. We were in fact content to place third.

For our performance, we went old school with a little bit of sexy and tart by combining songs like All That Jazz (from Chicago The Movie), Lady Marmalade (from Moulin Rouge) and Santa Baby by the Pussy Cat Dolls. We really thought we had a chance at a first prize. Unfortunately, we only placed 2nd.

But placing 3rd and 2nd good enough, I guess. We raked in a total of 45k for both competitions.

Check out our photos here. Most of the shots taken by my husband is already posted in my FB.

Laurant (Uncle Bong), James (Stewart) & Rosalie (cousin Lyan) @ Jopman

All That Jazz intro

Singing & dancing that Jazz is no easy peat

Reggie, Arlene, Lyan & Irene as Santa's Baby

Hitting those high notes from Lady Marmalade is not as easy as we thought haha

Lady Marmalade for finale

Here’s the video of our performance (sing & dance portion)…