This was a unique week! The Jade House Restaurant at 569 H Street, Chula Vista, had a Grand Opening Thursday (Nov 4th), as Vangie Mangune made good on her plans that she mentioned to us a couple weeks ago. It's a buffet dinner, dancing and karaoke for $10, Thursday night from 6PM-midnight. About 25 dancers showed up, including mostly a mixture of VIPs from the 32nd Street group, Forever Young, and Nina's Tuesday night line dancers.
Several of the attendees said they will regularly go there on Thursday nights because they can get their favorite music played and they can also sing karaoke. My partner in this e-mail group, Art Tennessee, said Thursday night at Jade House had all 5 things for a perfect night: buffet, beautiful women, beer, dancing to music with a beat, and karaoke. The night was similar to how things went at Jestoni and Manila-Tokyo, except on a smaller scale. As you can see in the photo album (by the way, the photo file titles substitute for photo captions), Jade House is not as fancy or as big as Lucky Star - the dance floor is somewhat bigger than what we use at Point Point Restaurant.
Wes Unger, the main dance instructor for the 32nd Street Dance Group, and his wife Lyn were there. Beth and her three beautiful kids, celebrating a day before Beth's birthday, were there Thursday night, too.
DJ RT kept the place hopping with a mix of the ballroom and line dance songs that most of us are familiar with.
If you can, add next Thursday night Nov 11th at Jade House to your social agenda.
LINE DANCE TUESDAYS (free!) - Tuesday November 2nd, free line dance night at Point Point, was fun, with 17 of us dancing. Nina was busy planning a fiesta, as President of a Cavite association, so the rest of us had DJ duty, while Rei kept busy gathering signatures on a photo that will go in the fiesta brochure. There was extensive practice on both "Simplemente" and "Tennessee Waltz" line dances. In the photo album, you can see the dancers doing "Volare".
You can join the fun this coming Tuesday (November 9th) at Point Point Joint, 916 E. 8th Street, National City, 6:30-9:00, when Nina will again lead us through fun line dances.
WEDNESDAY FILIPINO NIGHT at Lucky Star Restaurant on November 3rd, saw attendance down to about 30 again. Rose was glamorously attired (see photo album) for her birthday party. Nena and JoJo were there, too. Luckily, Jun, Dione, Fred, and some other dancing guys were there so the lady dancers were not disappointed like the previous week - there were just fewer ladies this past week. But, conspicuously absent was DJ Eric!! Luckily, the manager let me play our dance CDs on their nice sound system, which is similar to the CD player sound system we used at the Jestoni Manila-Tokyo Club. AND, THERE WAS NO COVER CHARGE!! On the downside of the night, the manager asked us to close down at 9PM instead of 9:30. It's possible that the situation will be the same this coming Wednesday, but I guess no one will know for sure till Wednesday night.
What songs did well? Well, the few slow songs I had, like "I Have A Dream", "Memory", "The Right Thing We Do" waltz, etc, all got played twice. I got to play "La Ultima Noche" and "Porque Te Quiero" cha cha's that DJ Dwayne used to play with great success at the Jestoni Club. Of course, "Coco Jamboo" and "Tennessee Waltz" line dances were big. What surprised me was that almost everybody got up to dance to "Funky Town".
We're looking forward to this coming week's "Filipino Night". It will again be WEDNESDAY NIGHT (November 10th) in the LUCKY STAR RESTAURANT from who knows, maybe 6 to 9pm.
PHOTOS:
First of all, from Lucky Star "Filipino Night" Wednesday Nov 3rd, the folks are enjoying the "Simplemente" line dance.
Then, at Jade House "Grand Opening" of Thursday night dancing, we see Jun swinging Nitz to what seems to be a disco hustle song.
I put those plus 16 other photos from the past week in the Forever Young Group Photos section into the '2010 November' folder. For those of you who prefer the features of Google's Picasa Web Albums, and you who are non-Yahoo members, the November photos are also posted at
http://picasaweb.google.com/bertdonaldson/2010November#
You can download photos from both locations. Using another Picasa feature, you can order prints on-line out of a Picasa album from several print providers including Walgreens without the need to download & upload photo files to & from your computer. To see the photo file names in Picasa Web, left click on the 1st photo, then left click on 'more info' under 'Photo Information'.
FYI, this Yahoo Email Group's Home Page is at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/foreveryoungsd
UPCOMING DANCES:
Tuesday November 9th, 6:30-9pm, FREE line dancing at Point Point, 916 E. 8th St., Nat'l City
Wednesday November 10th, what time? 6:30-9:00pm? Filipino Night at Lucky Star, 3893 54th St., San Diego. Maybe no cover charge again this week, but when DJ Eric is there it's a $6 cover charge and 1 drink minimum.
Friday November 12th, Rotary Club Thanksgiving Jamming Session dinner-dance, Southwest Masonic Lodge, 1140 B Avenue, National City. 6PM-Midnight.
Saturday, November 13, 2010, 6:30-11:30PM,
Iloilo Association of San Diego County Inc. Jam Session
Loma Verde Recreation Center
1420 Loma Lane, Chula Vista
$20 donation. DJ: Mar Delavin.
Saturday, November 13, 2010, 7-11PM,
It Takes 2 Dance Party with dance lesson from 7-8PM.
Infinity Dance, 4428 Convoy Street.
$7. DJ: Jonathan Lee 858-336-8000
Saturday, November 20, 2010, 6-11PM
"Jam Session" Food & Dance for San Diego Classic Lions Club. at Loma Verde Rec Center, 1420 Loma Lane, Chula Vista. $15. DJ
For tickets: Remy at 619-288-4507 or 619-474-8858
Saturday, December 11th, 5-11PM. Wilroc Christmas Party Dinner-Dance. Southwest Masonic Lodge, 1140 B Avenue, National City. DJ: Marlon of Las Vegas. $20. For tickets: Jun Ancho, 619-518-5315
Saturday, December 18th, 5:30-1AM (dinner at 7PM). 32nd Street Dance Group Holiday Celebration dinner dance. Fiesta Hall, 1770 Palm Avenue, Imperial Beach. DJ: Ron Cacha. No tickets at the door. $35. Tickets: Edith Donaldson, 619-224-3095.
WEEKLY DANCING EVENTS:
(I do not regularly go to most of these. Other than those above, I wouldn't know if the event is cancelled on any particular day.)
Sundays mid-day, Filipino-American Senior-Junior Golden Years Association, dancing and food, at K-P Hall, 200 E. Plaza Blvd., National City. $7. Dancing more-or-less from noon till 3pm, featuring Harana Band and recorded dance music during breaks.
Sundays late afternoon, Ballroom & Swing Dance Club, National City Middle School, 1701 D Avenue, Nat'l City. Ballroom & line dance lessons & practice, plus snacks & coffee for $7. Nelson & Tess, 619-817-9992
Tuesdays - Point Point, see above.
Wednesdays - Lucky Star, see above.
Wednesday karaoke and some dancing 9pm-1am at Jasmine Restaurant on Convoy Street, hosted by Kristina, the Filipina karaoke queen.
Thursdays - Jade House, see above.
Fridays mid-day, roughly 10am-2pm, Fil-Am Veterans Assn and Senior Center, 2926 Market St., food, dancing and karaoke for around $6.
Friday night dancing: These 3 begin variously between 7 or 8pm, usually with dance lessons early, and dancing till about 11pm: (1) the 32nd Street Dance Group on the Naval Station. (2) the Poway Group ("The Dance Place") dances mostly ballroom at the Growing Place Montessori School, 13242 Pomerado Road, Poway. $8. Contact (858) 748-5790. (3) the RMX Group dances mostly ballroom in Studio FX, 9499 Kearny Villa Road near Mira Mar Road; $8; contact is Esta at 858-386-2789. And, there's a 4th one: (4) Red Hot Line Dancers. They dance line dances for FREE every Friday in the senior center at 8460 Mira Mesa Blvd., from 7-9pm. Contact is Rose Mata at 858-204-7454.
Monday-Friday, roughly 9am-noon, Tooma Park Seniors, dance, eat, etc., under a cabana at Bay Terraces Park, 7449 Tooma Street, San Diego.
Till we dance again, Bert
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