Showing posts with label Malaysia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malaysia. Show all posts

17 April 2008

Chapter 6: Malaysia C Walk Legend

Written on February 2008



I think when people heard about Jack’s Stuff. Mostly, they will recall about music, MTV, photography… and CWALK! There was one time that Benjamin and I went to Centerpoint, KK. He heard some people looking at me, saying “Look! The CWalk guy!”, “Jack’s Stuff!”, “CWalk!”
















The Crip Walk, or C-Walk, is a steady movement of the feet used to spell out gang-related symbols and images. It originated in the early 1970s in Compton, a poor suburb of Los Angeles, California, popularly referenced in rap lyrics. What began as a symbolic movement of the feet in the early 1980s, soon inspired a hip-hop dance in the late 1990s. This style of dance today is known as the Crip Walk.

A common practice for Crip members is to use the C-Walk to celebrate the initiation of a new member. It is also largely believed that the C-Walk was used as a warning to other gangs of a future attack by the Crips, or as a signal in a robbery. For example, the lookout would stand outside of the store and act as surveillance, while the robbers would lay in wait and await the signal: the C-Walk. Allegedly, Crips would also C-Walk after shooting or killing a rival gang memberin celebration.

The Clown Walk (also known as the C-Walk) refers to a modern dance style, usually done to hip hop music. It is a variation of the Crip walk, a gang related dance. Clown Walking, however, was created to distance the relationship between the dance style and the Crips gang. Another variation of Clown Walking is Crown walking, which focuses mostly on flow rather than speed and flash.

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Why do I still CWalk then? There are a lot of people who complain and rebuke me for CWalk culture… I don’t care how they think. I do it in a right way. CWalk is for passion and fun.

Everyone must believe one truth. All creations come from Jesus, even CWalk! I am saying to the Christians now. Remember! All Creations worship Jesus. Amen.

I don’t adapt in the Gangster culture, or anything evil. I just wanted to CWalk for the Glory of God.










How does it happen that I started my CWalk?
I know a dance called Shuffle. Tono is one of my youths in Labuan. Currently, he studies in Singapore. Before he left for studies, he showed me Shuffle dance in youtube because he is a shuffler. If you type “Shuffle Malaysia” in youtube, you will know how it looks like. After watching the shuffle, Tono saw a video named “CWalk”. Then he checked on the video. That’s how I get to know CWalk in the first place.












Tono said that CWalk is really cool. And many people had failed to CWalk because the footworks are very complicated. He himself is a shuffler, but he prefers CWalk. Then I asked him a question, “Anyone does CWalk in Malaysia?” He replied, “No… I see no video of Malaysia CWalk in youtube.”

In my mind, I prayed to Jesus, “Lord, I want this CWalk to be a legend in Malaysia
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Let me be the first one who starts a video about CWalk Legend in Malaysia. Let me be the light of the world through CWalk. I wanna make a difference and glorify Your Holy name through CWalk.”

I said to Tono that I would like to try CWalk. He said this to me, “Jack, this is going to be tough. It takes a long time to master it.” Then I said to Jesus, “By one month, I will master the footwork of CWalk in the name of Jesus. May the Lord help me!”

I know one day in Malaysia, CWalk will be very famous. Many people will start to CWalk. If I don’t start CWalking now, it would be too late to catch up with the new generation. After that one month, I went to a new place called Tawau. In Tawau, no one knows about CWalk. I did my CWalk practices where no one was around. Accidentally, someone saw my CWalk. And that’s how the people in Tawau started their CWalk journey.

















CWalk in KK. Click the link below...
Jack’s Stuff C Walk in KK.


Many people had known me through CWalk. They will acknowledge me as a Christian.
I am in the success of seeking the Greater Glory of God. No one understands, but Jesus is the only one who knows my heart.

Let His name be widespread throughout Malaysia in my CWalk video. His name is to be lifted up high forever! Amen!

CWalk is one of the ways of life. You must CWalk into a level where everyone can feel the groove and relaxation in your CWalk. Make sure everyone can see every step of our footwork, yet they can’t learn from seeing it. This is what I called professional CWalk. My CWalk is Crown Walk.

28 January 2008

Chapter 5: Not an Ordinary Life

Written on 28 January

















In these few days, I had been observing how the people lived in their lives. The people had been repeating their life daily or weekly. And they were contented with it.

I felt that (in my opnion) this is not what I want. To me, this is meaningless. I do not want to live like an ordinary person – keep on repeating the daily lifestyle.

A person who always knows how to expose himself into the world will definitely find his purpose of life. As for me, I am a person who likes to learn new things and expose myself into different world.

Though we might have skills/talents (music, video, art design, cooking… etc),we at least travel around to expose into other places.

For example, I have a gift of multimedia. And I worked in a Malaysia company. Am I going to stay like that for the rest of my life which repeated the life again and again?





Daily Routine: Wake up, Breakfast, Go to work, Wait for Boss to give tasks, Do video, Lunch, Surf the net, Msn, Tea Break, Talk rumors and gossip, Time to go home, Shower, Dinner, Watch TV, Hang out with friends, sleep.

This is a waste of time. It is like a computer. Come on! We are humans. I do not want this. I wanna be an extraordinary person. A person who wanna be extraordinary will always cherish time to expose new areas (go to other countries and try lifestyle there, or find things that you never learn or expose before). This is what I called LIFE.












I have a friend. He is Benjamin. We knew each other during a English Youth Camp. After that, he was inspired by the brand “Jack’s Stuff”. And my C Walk attracted him till now. And now we are like brothers. Even his sister Yolanda is very nice to me.











He loves to cook. I believe everyone recognizes him as a good chef already. He used to launch a food stall in Kota Kinabalu (Central of Sabah, Malaysia). I heard that he earned good money. He is only 20 years old in Year 2008. As compared to the society, he is actually already a successful person. However, he closed down the food stall. And people complained that he should not close down.

Then he explained to me, “Jack, this is not the life that I want. I want to learn more and expose more into the world. I will NEVER want to stay in Malaysia forever. Though my food stall earned good money, this is not what I want. It is meaningless. I will be going to Taiwan for exposure.”


His thought is exactly the same as mine. I wanna do something greater for the Glory of God.


I want to have an extraordinary life
but not everyone will understand. I wanna do something different in church for the Glory of God.