Aishah - Songkok Mereng

Dangdut Finally Ending?

I was at the private parking lot beside Seri Mutiara (SM) putting on my dangdut shoes - a pvc or soft plastic shoes - cheap but remarkably black and officious but the thin layer purposely and aesthetically dyed has peeled away but since it was dark at night no one should notice. However I had to put on socks if only to showcase their dangdutness and whilst doing so, I noticed Mikey, Prince and Veteran Steven not ten meters away. They too have arrived from driving around town with no specific destination and when I called before shooting to SM that they totally agree to join me. I told them that I had to go four stepping a couple of months - since - to reach at materials to update my dangdut blog and will only spend a few minutes inside to dance to be inspired and if they don't really fancy boogeing they can wait at Farouk's cafe del monsoon drain enjoying teh tarik and maggie goreng while I wiggle on the first floor of the dangdut establishment. They agree and are also willing to dance the inspirational tones along with. But Farouk was closed and of all days when it will always be on business nearly 24/7 - 365 days a year. Things were already looking ominous. I straight away went up the flight of stairs to the dangdut hall but found a sort of strangeness inside. It was empty as it can only be as proper dangduting started at only past midnight but I can sense something not so usual unlike my past visits. I found out the bit later that Mummy Annie has left the club for her recently established catering business. And the mummy replacing her, I had no inkling as to who she was. Was she a dancer or just an executive employed to be Mummy? Can she dance and with overall feel for the tunes? Has she romance for dangdut? Or that she can choose as to who to book to boogie with and a dangdut old timer such as me. My sentiments shot straight down and myself was left literally dangdut empty at that time. I was immediately downcast and I chose to leave SM the instant. With a heavy heart I suggested to Prince, Mikey and Steven that we proceeded to Extravaganza instead. But at Extravaganza also there wasn't the ambiance I was totally familiarized with. Dierdre has also left the club to be full time homemaker and mum at home plus to take care of hubby Elvis Rosly who has since recuperated nicely. There was this tomboyish lass answering that all the dancing girls can dance when I asked as to who can ( meaning those who can dance the dangdut salsa ala four step ) and Mummies when asked such would know what was being required and without mentioning specifics. Absolutely disheartened I went to join the boys for teh tarik outside. Seemingly as I perceived dangdut is gone for an evolved one but how evolved I can only guess. To me dangdut has already reached its end and has become final - intrinsically and extrinsically, and it has reached its farthest point and not exist anymore but the clubs are still around but the players have changed and me being a senior knows only the old people and when they left the scene I knew not what to do. But the new players may bring fresh dynamism to one which is already dead. Maybe I have to go check SM and Extravaganza and stay a bit longer innermost observing and feeling the music again. But deep inside I knew that contemporary sounds and current club folks will take over. A dangdut aficionado can only  reminisce..hohohohoho

Selendang Sayang - 2 by 2 & Liza Hanim

A First Post For The Year

I have been meaning to update the dangdut aficionado blog and the very first for the year but has been nought for ideas since so long not go meandering to a dangdut joint when innermost and four stepping a few tunes emanating from also a few of dance genres that I can arrive of materials to compose blog posts. Seemingly inside the very dangdut establishment that I can conjure disinterest things to suit my irrelevant stories upon my insignificant blog. Maybe that I am inconsequential also but what's not to take pride in unrelenting ego trips just to prove of existence whence existence itself can be unimportant except to family and work. Friends as per friends and everyday associates are difficult to attach any epithets as  Best Friends Forever, as friends can be busy with their day to day routines and concerns that they too will snigger at the ludicrousness of such cheesy nomenclatures. Only teenage girls bubbly enough to get excited about boys to tell to school buddies could be best described as BFF.or Best friends forever - what cheekiness. Even civic landscapes change much like change becoming the only dynamism left and death the sole certainty. Upon surface of the earth and observing and experiencing sun rays or moon glows that we give to mundane procedures that mark our journey on it till demise whence the aftermath of which remain conjectures and guesses to some but definitive to the faithful. Yet even agnostics and atheists need be buried and diminished into ashes so we need to visit places of worship to prepare acquaintances the very least to assist us in death when we are no longer aware and about. Howsoever,where do atheists and agnostics visit? The world now is unlike the time of The prophet SAW when companions love him more than anything else. Now people are so impersonal and the world's so detached that even the soul is a novelty. Soul is systemic to God and one without the other just dissipates so much so that everybody became soulless against all material imperatives that so determine our collective existence as per our concurrent beingness onto a decaying,decadent and lifeless system. And in that configuration we will be all reduced to total and virtual insignificance. Or in a way the nothingness of post modern or post post modern considerations when to not be somewhere agreed is nothingness and what can be more silly. He wasn't there because he was shitting in a toilet somewhere due to holiday stomach as the case may be. That's what western philosophy has come to be when God and soul is deleted. They showcase evolution and complex Darwinism that they lost footage in explaining the very notion that nothingness become nonsenseness. Whence all can be so easy with God and soul and infinity. Perchance all's modern and meta modern can still be viable and lovely when God and Soul is backdrop,background and back of mind.and much vibrant too. And what can all the above said be about dangdut? But dangdut stays amidst all dynamism and of friends and enemies not being forever and a lonely dangdut aficionado finds solace in dancing the dangdut,cha cha, joget and zapin in a dingy dangdut club somewhere along a rubbish strewn backstreet in old KayEl (Kuala Lumpur). Then again that's dangdut ego talking and nothing more. Dangdut's nothingness and nonsenseness...hohohohohohoho