HAD Dance Concert 2008

What a night!

What a show!!

I attended the Soka Gakkai Malaysia (SGM)’s Hibiscus Artistic Dance (HAD) Concert entitled “24 Hours” on Saturday night, December 13, 2008 with my wife Soh Ai and two sons, Wai Jen and Wai Kei.

My other two sons, Wai Kit and Wai Yu, were among the performers of this magnificent Situation Comedy cum Musical Dance Show.

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Wai Kit is the guy chatting with the girls on the left pic and dancing in the middle of the pic below.

The storyline plot of this entertaining comedic drama was about a 24-year old youth Ah Mao who was portrayed as being rude to his divorced mother, unfriendly with his colleagues, frustrated with his workplace, intolerable with people around him and had just broken up with his girl-friend. He wanted to commit suicide after being drunk and was accidentally stabbed to death by the leader of a group of gangsters after provoking them.

Upon arrival in the "Diyu" or Hell, he pleaded with "Yanluo Wong" or the King of Hell to be given another 24 hours to be alive so to redeem the meaning of his life. The King granted and Ah Mao finally succeeded in reconciling with his mother, colleagues and girl-friend before returning to the Hell.

The dances choreographed were awesome and splendid. The monologue or dialogue in all sketches is humorous and hilarious to say the least. The performances were absolutely entertaining as manifested by the incessant applauses and laughter in the auditorium throughout the concert.

The King of Hell dancing to the delight of the audience

BRAVO to the HAD amateur performers who are mostly teenage members of the SGM! It was a huge success judging from the overwhelmingly positive response from the audiences.

Let’s look forward to their scaling even greater height in the days to come when they take to the stage to entertain a nationwide audience in conjunction with such functions of the SGM as Cultural Festivals!!


High School Musical's song was featured in one of the dance performances. How hot it was!

Ah Mao and his girl-friend.


Finale of the Concert

Wai Yu performed as a"Ghost" chasing after Ah Mao when the latter descended to Hell. Isn't he frightening, especially if you chance to meet him at night?

Wai Yu posing with his mother Soh Ai after the performance.

Wai Yu posing with Soh Ai and a friend Jane whose daughter was also a performer of the night (as shown dancing with a mask in the above first photo).

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(Footnote: All photos above were snapped by me.)