KIDS THESE DAYS PART II

It just keeps getting better. THIS was what she had last year, this year my niece's birthday cake is what we could only dream of last time. It can be such a reality these days.


I'm very weary everytime when it comes to this time of the year cos Aunty here always exhaust all ideas of what to give, because they have what seems to be a mini Toysr'us at home. Luckily I saw this cotton candy making machine. Hope it works!

SO PRETTY!

I have been shopping & spending lately and that's not good. My previous work/gigging schedules left me little time to shop and that's why I usually go on a shopping frenzy only when I was on holidays. Otherwise I shopped only when I needed specific stuff.

But the truth it........now that I've officially left the company of approximately 10 years (yes, I have resigned! surprise? ) and before moving on to my next phase, I finally found myself having some time to shop! (Dear event companies......I have NOT STOPPED performing, so please continue to call me ok?)

And today after a show at the Raffles City Convention, I found these.

I bought them from Grace Wong of Nitty Gritty who personally sews them. You should see the details, they are really fine & delicately made.

I have lots to update, but feeling so lazy. Yes I'm effectively on an ORD mood if you know what i mean :)

POUTY TOUCHY FEELY ME

I used to hate doing the touchy feely thingy previously when i started learning pole dancing. I used to be envious of how some of my course-mates did so nicely (like WG...hahaha, yes, you). But now that I'm more confident on the pole, I'm less conscious about it, in fact I think I quite enjoy it! :)

Anyway, to digress (totally unrelated)

Have you heard of how dogs howl eeriely when they supposedly see "something"? That evening when I sent Ah Boy ( my dear sweet adopted dog) back to his home, out of a sudden, about 20 others dogs from the home started howling in unison, like some kind of a cultic thing. Ah Boy was petrified and I had to calm him. I tell you it was the most freakish thing lor! Eeww

SUZIE IS A LUCKY GAL!

Us at last night's Oosh show! HahahaBesides being a magnate to younger men (:D :D :D), Suzie is also so lucky to have great friends.

This is one of the many gifts Suzie has received from Sinlady (this a Paul Ropp shorts). Thanks, I love love it

This is a gift from Wildgoose she bought from Tokyo. Yes, it's sitting nicely on my belly now, WG.
And recently, and finally, I managed to shop for myself a handbag. I've been using the same one for past many years until the straps are split.

I finally made the effort to change when recently a fellow worker commented that I'm a frugal person.....ok got the hint, time for a change, so I went to Tangs when it recently had the 12% rebate (see I'm indeed frugal) and bought myself this
Guess what bag is this?

hahah, didn't know there is a Paris Hilton handbag! I feel so bimbotic.

I was a high class podium dancer...

.....last night.

It was an event themed "Shibuya" for a company that markets mainly high-end stationaries at Oosh (Dempsey).

The client wanted stylish podium dancers and have specifically instructed that we dress like those models at CyberJapan (the models/dancers are usually very chic, even if they are wearing lingerie, they are so overly embellished that they don't appear raunchy.)

Funny how in partcular they sent us this picture and instructed us to dress like this!

Obviously Suzie DOES NOT look anything like the above model, so the best I could do was this:

sorry the original video is much clearer than this, I think youtube has lowered resolution conversion due to its popularity. I shall start search for clearer platforms.

Notice nowadays I always have a watermark imprint of website or some form of identification? That's because my earlier videos without have been copied and uploaded everywhere, and usually under the heading "Sexy Asian Dancer"! Quite flattering, not no thanks

Living up his name....

Did I tell you Ah Boy was fondly known as "Satay Dog" when we first knew him?
This video shows you he still lives up to it! Lol...

Btw, these clips were captured by my Sony Cybershot DSC-T200 8.1 megapixels, super steady shot. (ahem, let me do some selling since they have chosen my blog to advertise) It has a cool touch screen function, and together with the 2GB Memory stick Pro Duo, I can store many many videos & images. For clear & convenient way of capturing your live, check out the advertisement on the right. The original video is a lot more clearer before loading up; inevitably the conversion has affected the clarity.

The value of pole skills (not)

Today an agency called me again, in fact this is the 3rd time they called in 3 weeks, probably after checking rates elsewhere

They needed someone to round up a group of pole performers to pose for an ad, like, the next day. After at least half a day of negotiating the requirmements, including looks, costumes & what not, they asked if we could be paid with copies of the pictures!?!?! Duh? Furthermore, the deal was there will be no credits and names, because after all, this IS a paid job (huh, with pit-chures????). And...and what more, costumes our own! Hmm....not at all a lucrative deal.

Being a pole-fessional, it was quite difficult for me accept the barter, no matter how pretty the pictures! I compromised on a small small rate, just so that everyone could have some fun working with a reputable agency, and hopefully pocket some transport money or get compensated for taking time off from regular work.

Despite the compromise, I didn't land the assignment. But that's not the point!

The pont is, to those who agreed to their terms, may I tell you that they allegedly pay the "award winning" photographer THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS , that's why there's nothing left for the pole models! But ah well, at least the pictures are guaranteed to be good!

Another point I need to mention is, if they agree to pay us that peanut package, then no pictures hor! Pictures given ONLY if no monetary transaction! Ha!

He's famous now

Thanks to Ms Researcher for the tip. Woo-Hoo, he's famous now!

Anyway I've removed the original post. No need now, since you can read all about it here .

HEADSTANDS!

Now that we've gotten a series of handstand variations, I'm getting the team to try some headstands


The getting into this pose is really quite pretty....wait.... let us perfect already than show you video.

Anyway, thanks hot jasmine (our latest addition to the cool pole fanatic) for the photo

Found matching tops!

I work fast mah! Haha, :)

Rant:

On a sombre note, I'm a little downcast. Something I'm embarking on just seems to have unending obstacles........sometimes I can't help but ask myself why am I doing this? I just hope that I'll see light soon! Sigh! Tomorow holiday, I just wanna chill!

Me so ingenius

Can you see that I'm wearing 2 skirts? Lol!

Why is this, you may ask. You see I was shopping for more costumes for the Pole-holics performers. Found the skirts but no matching tops. So I thought I would go to Arab Street to purchase the same silver tweed material to make tops.

Just to make sure it will go well, I tried on the skirt as top. It actually turned out quite well :D

The Pole-holics Race Queens ready to............

va va vroom......roar..

thanks for bookings or enquiries, keep them coming ok?

Oh, we even have a little promotional video

I have addtional activity on Sunday............

Come Sundays, besides taking Ah Boy for his weekly jog in parks, feast & all, I just found an additional chill out activity.

After sending Boy back to his base, friend asked if I knew there is a fishing pond a short drivie away from Boy's home. I insisted going to take a look, and it ended with me trying "prawning" for an hour!

All smiles for camera at first.

Bored after 20-mins, no catch.

Then someone gave me some 'live' baits and my luck changed.....hahaha. Biting Biting....sorry picture blurry as I was fighting to bring it up!

There! hahaha. It's huge ok, but I know you can't see it on the pciture! At the end of the hour, caught 3 (almost 4, but i guy didn't "shang diao") for 12 bucks, haha could have bought them from market.

Better still, I gave them away to a nice uncle, who helped me when one of the prawn tried to clamp me with its pincer..

Heehee.....so fun, additional activity...........I gonna be so busy on Sundays!

continue from last post

stumbled upon comparisons between Ms Janina & last year Ms teen USA


Then saw this spoof, though a little mean and morbid, but somewhat hilraious...

just for laughs, don't take it too seriously

SHE'S ONLY SEVENTEEEEEEN...

This is so cute I have to highjack this video from Alvinology's blog.


she won leh!

WHAT DA........

I'm very busy now trying to handle a zillion things, I'm gasping for air BUT i NEED to b*tch cos I'm so fuming!

I just had a conversation with an event company, they have an overseas MC assignment of which I might not be able to fulfill due to to other pending bookings locally. Event Company ask me for an alternative in the event I can't do. I recommended this other fellow veteran female entertainer, who is largely managed by her husband/manager. I have little dealings with them but we are generally cordial when we bump into each other at events.

I called the husband/manager to enquire her availbility & rates of working outside Singapore on the said date. First I was met with a rather unappreciative "NOT AVAILABLE".......next thing he said : "Ming, you have been checking her rates and never use her. ARE YOU JUST COMPARING RATES WITH HER?"

You know the chinese saying "wu ming huo chi"....i.e. the fume rises out of nowhere.....that was my exact sentiment. Anyway I've never spoken to him for over a year! The last was when I had an event and I DID engage her service!

Sometimes not worth being gracious, next time I can't do I'll just say "Sorry can't do, no reccomendation!"

Grrrrowl! (p.s thoughts added later....more b*tching....being nice to my Ah Boy so much rewarding than being nice to these human...hahahahaha"

I'm such a hardcore!

By who? By2 !

You read? They are on the front cover of today's Newpaper.

If you missed, you can read here

As a performer myself, several reasons why I would be interested in the article......

1. I knew these girls. These girls were like me, started out as gig performers albeit they started way....way... earlier & younger. I recall seeing them, together with their parents at events, mostly at Family day events when they were just half this age.

2. Their dedicated parents provided them all kinds of lessons and preparations one can concievably imagine.....hip hop dance, singing, violn, dance, gymnastics.....so their performances were amazingly "variety" in nature.

3. I'm happy that the parents' efforts paid off, because it was clear where they were steering the girls towards. Secretly, I'm sure many people are jeolous, I would be if I were at that age. It was like a case of an Asian making of a Britney Spears or Christina aguilera unfolding. Just hope they end up more like the latter than the former.

But I won't blame people who are not in my line to understand. So to the blog author, this was my comment :

"As an (old) artiste myself, I applaud the parents for it. I know it does not sound right but really such opporuntities don't come by often or at all (I never had, that's why I'm still only a gig performer at some grand old age). That is if the girls are really ready for it. I happen to know the girls and the mum and they were really dedicated in steering towards this. Whether right or wrong only the girls will know at later part of the lives."

All was forgiven

As if my mood was not foul enough yesterday (something I am embarking on not going quite well), friend had to select dinner place at this uber crowded place called Seng Kee or something at East Coast Rd (they don't need further advertisment so go check it out yourself).

We couldn't understand why ever so often this place starts filling up from 5pm. Last night we thought we were extremely lucky to find a small table until the downpour created a small mayhem with everyone squeezing under the limited canopies.

Our food had not arrived yet so I kept pleading to just go to the next door empty kopi tiam to finish a simple dinner & go. But friend was adament to try the food to ease the curiosity.

So, this was last night's menu : Crab Mee-suah on banana leave, double boil chicken herbal soup, kai-lan

We ended up there again tonight, and tonight's menu: Blachan French Bean, Salted Veg duck soup, Ortah (already sank my teeth) and Deep fried prawn roll with mayonnaise (furthest).

Need I say more?

POLE POSITION

We are no ordinary Race Queens, we only take the POLE POSITION. We have the costumes, we have the pole, and we have the Formula!

For performance enquiries, email me at suziew@singnet.com.sg

It's good (better) to be a pet

My Ah-Boy's co-sponsor friend currently drives an old car.......really old. So old there's soon no more COE to renew; so old that even his best friend "insults" it and family menbers refer to it as his "Fellali", so old it does not matter that Ah Boy poo-ed & pee-ed at the back seat on his first trip from the AVA to the vet (maybe that's why Ah Boy now sits so "zhai" (steady) in the car cos he knows it's his territory!...hahaha......but no no, he doesn't poo pee anymore.

Friend while currently shopping for a replacement car, his consideration is all and only about Ah Boy! He was particularly impressed with one model that the back seat can be pulled foward to be slotted into the leg space. He felt that was excellent for Ah Boy so there'll be no way Ah Boy can be jolted to slip into that space (as he sometimes still would), Ah Boy will have more space to walk about at the back and without the car seat cushions, Ah Boy can have more stability!

So thoughtful! Ah Boy so loved!

But to those who thought his current car trashy, friend has this to say "Oi! My car drives like a car ok, now all the modern cars when you step on it, it's like stepping on a sewing machine!" Hahaha, funny remark!

Ah Boy goes 街街

For non-chinese readers, 街街 (pronounced 'gai gai') literally means "street street" in cantonese..i.e. strolling on streets.

Ah boy was a rescued stray and is now living in a pet villa sponsored by me & friend. Imagine he was literally a kampung dog who knew nothing about shower, getting into a car nor pet behaviour. His only instinct then was to hunt for leftover food & run to nearest shelter at nightfall or when the weather turned nasty. He had no home, never been a pet. Read all previous posts about Ah Boy here, here and here.

Now Ah boy is a healthy, loving dog and loves to go out, just like any other pets (previously he refused to get into a car and when he did, he'd fall all over the back seat....poor thing). If this story touches you, go and adopt/sponsor a dog, make a donation or just go visit them at the Pet Villa (animal lovers' league) 61, Pair Ris Farmway 3.

GOT A GIFT TODAY................

I suppose for, "loyalty"...............please tell me what would you do if it's something so.o.o.o expensive & it's something you won't use or put on?

SUZIE WONG WITH SHORT FRINGE....

Kind of loving it for now, but who knows for how long......cause ultimately I DO like the sexier look with long fringe.

Previously......................................

I told you in the last post that I NEVER had short fringe for like over 20 years. As you can see from my past pictures they are either left handing down or clip to the side. Tonight is the first show after the new hair cut.

I think it appeals to different people. All I know was after performing for a huge fleet of taxi men and uncles tonight, as I was departing, some of them called out & waved "Suzie.......suzie". Some even stood up and with hands like holding on a steering, they gamely offered "You need a taxi?" hahahaha, so cute!

(badly in need to feel) YOUNG AGAIN

You know recently when i posted this picture to tell you the story that I was often mistaken for some other ethnicity that i suddenly realised that Suzie has indeed aged (of course I know it all along but was in denial). That was hardly "the best" picture but if only you have known just how many I had deleted off and still..................

I have had rebonded hair for quite many years few years back and it did help to emit in whatever small way some youthfullness. Later I started to resent the rebonded look when every 20-something girl on the street was spotting the same look (no offense to those who rebond hair), so I started to perm my hair and when the curls wore off I let the natural waves took over thinking I could carry off the sultry look.

But the sad truth was, not only was it constantly messy, I dreaded the fact that no matter how I styled it, I just looked............OLD!

So tonight I decided to straighten the darn hair again and even decided to risk a bit of a fringe, something that I have not had for 20 odd years. I hated fringe because it irritates the eyes & you have to constantly trim it......................but sigh, what to do, but at least I think it does help to take (or hide) 3 or 4 years away.........

what you think?

Suzie at M.O.S

Had the chance to perform at the main areana of Ministry Of Sound, M.O.S. Clark Quay, one of Singapore's top night spot. (the few previous times were in the private function rooms, so not counted).

Only one word.......happening!

The HANDSPRING! Finally

After months of trying this move, I finally got it. Must be because of the pilates Linna made us do today! Haha....

I am so so so so so elated! This is like the real handspring. Previously what i did was somewhat fake, like this....you see, previously, I had one leg still leaning on the pole. The real thing is the body and limbs are completeky OFF the pole, which means to say the strength is entirely on your arms, abs and lots of core. don't believe, watch the video.

I didn't get into the move gracefully, I know. But, it's a freaking difficult move, so I'm euphoric already. It's the ultimate move for us polers! You get major respect for achieveing this. Anyway there are many variations, so I stil need to practise really hard.

Besides this, I am embarking on something fabulous (almost life-changing...no I'm NOT getting married) and I must say everything has been turning out rather nicely for me so far. Forgive me friends I can't tell you so much now, but i promise to unveil more when time is right. But i just can't contain my excitment.

Pole-holics CNY party

When we, the pole girls (& guys) got together for chinese new year, we feast, we sang, we watched a Stephen Chow movie together (Chow Sing Sing, we ALL LOVE YOU), we did all except pole dance....Haha....

Watch our goofing bit!

From Woodlands to Tampines to Tuas

Suzie was singing them Chinese New Year tunes "Gong xi gong xi gond xi ni", apart from the usual dinners. I wish it will be like that every year.

I thank God for a busy and good start. I heard that this year the 4 greatest zodiac signs to benefit from rat are the Ox, Dragon, Monkey & Snake. I'm one of them! "HUAT AR"....hahaha

Lonely Valentine's Day

While every conceivable couple is probably snuggling up somewhere or dining in some fancy restaurant, I was all alone eating pasta and sipping camomile tea at pastamania Funan, after a much-needed facial. Somemore can read newspaper and even bought myself a present at THIS FASHION SALE..hahaha...so glam!Not sulking, just that I have either been gigging or poling, and will be for the next few days, so tonight while there is no pole class since Linna is away, I quickly made an urgent appointment for facial . My facial lady sternly warned "Miss Leong! The last time you were here was October"....wah! no wonder the biiigg biiigg pores!) Anyway it was extremely quiet and peaceful at facial, I mean, who would choose to go facial today right?

So friends, happy valentine's day.

My family, so artistic

The last time you watched my fabulous mum

This time round, I proudly present my NIECE

Suzie the non-chinese!

After an afternoon luncheon event, I went to ta-bao (packet) "chap chai peng" (mixed veg rice) at a near-by hawker centre before heading back to the office.

It was close to 4pm and famished so I must have exuded some kind of "chirpiness" when merrily placing my orders. I remembered I said something like "Fan da-bao" (packed rice in box), "fan bu yong jiang duo" (less rice), "ji, ru dan & shi chuan cai" (chicken, soya egg & sze chuan veg).

At the end of it, the hawker commented "Wa, ni hua yu jiang de zhe me hao" (your spoken mandarin so good). I was thnking to myself "what you talking about, I just hosted a chinese new year luncheon which I conducted 40% of it in mandarin).

"Ni shi na li ren" (which part of the world you from). Then it don on me she thought I wasn't chinese. To cut the long story short, she refused to believe I am "ben di ren" (local chinese).

Think my sis will find stories like this very familiar.Lol

Dealing with the calories

After 2 days of chinese new year binging, Suzie feels a dire need to sweat out those calories.

So woke up this morning, 3rd day of CNY (near afternoon actually) to work it out on the pole. Did this short short routine about 3 times, ah......feel much better, can feast some more tonight at sis's place :D (anyway sis, my routine will probably look something like this if your thing is on).

Pardon the attempt to do the slow part, cos I'm no ballerina, so I know it doesn't look too graceful

7 changes 1 event

My record, I think, 7 changes in 1 night

You're probably thinking, only 6 what! The 7th one is Suzie Wong in cheong sam, of which I don't think i need to show you by now.

Oh btw, in case you wondering, what am I doing with that silly pink hair in picture #2, er...I was suppose to be "ang mo", lousy attempt eh! heehee

GONG XI FA CAI

I was thinking how to wish all of you, my dear friends......

Hey! It's the year of the rat, isn't it?

Here's wishing all 鼠年快樂 新春愉快，

家家平安

Everybody 2008 鼠來寶

"Huat ar!"

(psst .....researcher.....anything looks familiar? :p)

POLE-FESSIONALISM

The themometer showed this when i pulled it out if the mouth.I panicked! Downed some paracetamol and many other stuff and went ahead with the pole show tonight. I did it because of a nice colleague. He had offered to tell the client to remove my show and refund the money to them. He said it's not worth it if I injure myself. I told him "no" I would do the show for him, and I did. Even receive accolades from the client.

Actually it felt quite good after sweating it out :)

A visit from Ah Boy

I was hit by a very bad viral infection today. It crippled me so badly I couldn't get out of bed to go church, nor have my meals/shower, and worse of all I had to skip my weekly visit to Ah Boy. That disappointed me as I have been looking forward whole week. Friend proceeded without me.

At mid-afternoon, I was woken by friend who said "Guess who is her to visit you"!

I jumped out of bed and exclaimed "AH BOY!"

"Ah boy, lying on my floor"

Aww...that was the sweetest thing. This must be the 1st time boy is in an apartment ever, as he seemed uncertain about the surroundings. Regardless, he was still very very loving. I sayang-ed him, fed him before he had to be brought back.

Hope (I must) recover tomorow as I have to perform pole!

Measure of FAME

WARNING : NO MINORS SHOULD BE NEAR YOU WHEN YOU READING THIS POST

While Hollywood has its Walk of Fame or Madam Tussaud, HK has its own measure of popularity, I think.

You know how recently there has been rife scandals of Edison Chen (Hong Kong actor) & partners and if you are like me, have no time to follow, you can sort-of read the summarised version here.

Out of curiousity (it's true), I visited the links posted on this site, and soon i found my way to another site that read "HONG KONG PORNSTARS PICTURES" . While many of them (most) are obviously doctored and some look really ridiculous & ludicrous, you can't help but to wonder why people bother to go through the trouble to do that, i.e. match their expressions to "superimposed" poses.

But one thing for sure, (as I shared my thoughts with friend), you've got to be famous to be in that list!

Disclaimer : Visit the links at your own risk, especially the last one. writer cannot guarantee that the sites are harmless, but so far nothing has happened to my computer yet!

THE little RED DRESS

I remember telling you about the online purchase of this little red dress last year.
Since receiving it, I have not had an occasion to wear it. Last evening, I was supposed to host an event as "Suzie Wong". I promised the client a traditional qi pao (or "cheong sam") ensemble as it was supposed to be a chinese new year thingy.

After going through my wardrobe, I decided to don on this. But to play safe, I brought along my qi paos (not one, but several) to change out if I sense the client's disapproval (I have been warned that clients are wholesome and no-nonsense people) But surprisingly and thankfully, clients loved it and they ordered me to remain in this dress throughout the event.

So this is the thing about Suzie, whether you like my fashion sense, when I am delivering a job, I make it a point to wear appropriate clothes, shoes, hair & full make-up. To some, I may be out of date. But I cannot understand the younger generation. Yesterday afternoon I was singing at another event when i spotted this young, pretty, slim, leggy female mc in tight jeans, flip flop (I know it is suppose to be very fashionable, but I'd wear it only on casual), she had documents sticking out of her back pocket, and she was chewing gum throughout. Don't get me wrong, she may be very cool in the eyes of your audience (and she was a relativey good mc at that young age), but it's just something suzie won't wear even when hosting in casual a family-day sort of event. In that sense, I'm so like my mum!