31st Dec

I woke up with a bad throat and I scrambled to get the clinic's number as I needed a quick fix since it's gonna be heavy usage (of the throat) tonight.

I panicked as this long-time clinic I've been patronising since a teenager was closing in an hour's time and is usually very very crowded, with patients spilling out to the void deck.

After hanging up the phone upon checking operations hour since it's last day of the year and everyone's on half day, I zipped down to the clinic as quickly as possible, but to my surprise & relief, there were only 3 waiting patients including me. Happily, I was in and out of the place in half and hour.

Later I told spider friend how lucky I was, first time I went to the clinic half empty, his reply "of course what, nobody needs MC today! Everyone's well (to party)!" Hahahaha...He's damn funny and damn right la

been busy!

so no time to update...

I've been wanting to upload my birthday bash pictures, but the enthusaistic photographer took about one thousand four hundred pictures ranging from 1.5MBto 3.2MB and I have a hard time selecting let alone resizing them down to loadable pics.

So be patient!

It was a month of pole draught, few classes and pole practices as everyone has other agendas-- some like me, working extra hard or some, but others like Daniel, playing hard, he's on a month-long leave--disgusting.

So it was really refreshing when we had our "farewell 2008" pole practice last night. Good to know that I've gotten even stronger



Have a blessed new year, everyone! See u in 2009

I want hair like that!

but dun think it's achievable.....especially if i dun like the maintaining bit

The first (and possibly only).....

.....xmas card I received this year.

Sure there were those received corporately or virtually, but personal one? This has got to be the first hard-copy one. Thanks Faerieimps, really sweet of you.

Ah Boy then and now

This was the first time Ah Boy travelled in the little red car...when he was rescued from AVA . He stuck out his head not to enjoy the view, he had wanted to escape as he had no clue what was going on. Midway through the journey, lone driver had to get off the car and wind up window ( you probably ask....yes it was manual :p)

Now, we can fully depress windows and Ah Boy enjoys having his bridge carressed by the breeze.

Counting down to X'mas

Every year goes by so quickly hor! scary!

Suzie is thankful...

....for the job of event companies, for their task in negotiating with clients and giving us(performance artistes) the jobs.

Today, clearly one event company couldn't quite handle the task and thought it was better to set up a meeting between the end client, my dance choreographer and myself to discuss details. We usually would not acede to such requests before confirming the assignment, had we (dancer and me) not been *bracing ourselves for the potential (further) economic downturn* that may affect the number of events we can participate in.

It must have been a long time since I last had to deal with arrogant clients. I don't understand clients who think that just because they are paying for 'some dancers and singers', they are paying some less cleverer people than say an accoutant, lawyer or a banker? The reason why we are dancers, singers, musician, model.etc simply because we have a skill or talent that you may not possess, or even if you do, you have no guts to make a career out of it. SO, when someone else does, please respect that they too need to be compensated for it...their time, skill, practices, & rehearsals...in a nutshell honing that skill! We are not making tons of commission selling Lehman bonds to retirees, we suffer bad throats and injure ligaments from our crafts ok!

It's one thing about negotiation and the other thing about talking down to you. At one point I wanted to wring some necks, but 'loon' (swallow) , why? because of **

Anyway sorry for the rant, I just PMS!!! #%&*

That being said, not all clients are like that, some are really sweet. Tomorow 2 of them buying me my birthday lunch. ....for that, I'm gonna chill!

Suzie the Gangsta Girl

Bought this outfit sometime back but never quite won it. Having a chance soon, and heng (luckily) today happen to see this pin-stripe hat at Top shop to complete my Gangsta girl look! But cost me almost fifty bucks! Heart Pain! But nice!

Can't help but to post up this picture to show you I still got nice (albeit short) legs. Not bad for a 40-year old.......so POLE FITNESS "wan shui" (mandarin for "long live!"...) Yay! (Sorry this pic got the "kiam puck" (slap-worthy) face

Birthday Bash - Part II

I'm completely chuffed & delighted with all the pressies I received this year for ME recent birthday bash. Everyone was so considerate and gave really lovely things. I'll try to feature everything altho I may have missed out some stuff because I actually opened the presents several days after, given that the bash was on a monday night and the next few days were swamped with work and assignments.

So please pardon me if you dun see it/them here. In fact I have to apologise that after a few days, some of the tags came off the packaging and I dun know who gave me what, but importantly, you came and that's most important!

So here they are, I've divided them into categories :

THE USEFULs (All-time safe bet, won't go wrong)

HONG BAOs , everyone needs this!

The handphone strap with my name is from Kai, an ex-colleague. It's photographed with the hong baos to make the hong baos look er....more artistic..lol

Blue tooth ear piece

.giver probably regard me a dangerous driver, so need some aid...:P

Champagnes & Wines

Just wondering if these people know I don't drink, but you certainly making someone else really happy! Haha

BEAUTY, THERAPY & FASHION

Paul Ropp Sling Bag, Bracelet and ear rings---Nice

Green is either Sinlady's favourite colour or so she thinks I like it. BUT she's right (besides pink, but I know you think pink is too boring...heehee) .

After a series of green mini skirts (you can see one of them here) she had gotten for me each time she made a trip to Paul Ropp, this time she completes the collection with a very cool green sling bag, a chunky green bracelet and a pair of ear rings with green stones.....yes came complete with the porcelain hand. I started wearing the ear-rings and already a compliment from the male cashier at star-bucks...steady la, must be very nice! Luv them all, thanks

Mac eye-shadow, Swaroski heart-shaped Pendant and Pierre Cardin watch.

Love them, useful stuff, and already starting using eye shadow for shows.

Shower set, body sprays lotions, moisturizers.

Excellent for my sporty life-style and body lotions/moisturizers--just what a 40-year old need...LOTS!

A fully-lined cocktail dress...

Brenda is so feminie she loves picking up pretty dresses like that for me. Last year she picked up this black top for me.

DOUBLE HAPPINESS

I received 2x of these-- 2 x Robinson's voucher, Princess gave me not one but TWO payot face powders! Wa, can use long long time..heehee and Gi gave me 2x vouchers for foot-reflex...........wa, can press feet until shiok shiok!

Glittery baret

A show-girl's accesory must have bling bling one

The black bag completes the baret look. Oh I got some bouquet of flowers too.

SOME INTERESTING STUFF

This candle holder now forms part of the decoration of my studio. The giver, Edwin insists that statue resembles me! I wish I'm that slender and lanky!

Idy is so sweet to spot this pole dancing cuff links and got them for me. You tilt them in different angle and actually see the girls dancing! Interesting eh! I think she got it from the net, right Idy? Because I really wanted them when I saw them! Thanks


Er....who gave me this LING-A-REE ah?


Last but not least, the good souls of DnM took pains to piece this piece of art for me---40 condoms, accompanied with the message, for another 40 more good years!

The cake is a present from students, thanks Kelly for coordinating it...BUTTER CREAM! But i only had time for a small slide :(

Anyway, some of the photos are ready, so Part III of the birthday bash will be PICTURES.....................

Also got tiara, medal and a nice pen from Celestine and a couple of lunches and dinners, one even printed a redemption voucher with expiry date..hahaha...but like I said the best part was you all made it! THANKS SO MUCH

The Studio has other functions....

as a warehouse...............

Comes in useful when we needed to (urgently) pack goodie bags for an event!

Suzie and team hard at work to try to get these completely packed by THREE A.M.! This is what i really call team-building.

Oh anyway, please don't get fooled...it's usually a beautiful, clean studio with 6 poles...and don't forget to register yourself for a free trial this coming Monday, 8 Dec (public holiday) at 5pm.....3 more days to register

Birthday Bash - Part 1

The party had started at the Studio.

Pole gals lovingly planned a little surprise for me before & after class. That was before we made our way to the event venue, which was just opposite the studio.



Thank you girls! So nice!

Part II post will be about the GIFTS! Stay tuned

Wow! It's over

....and I'm way too tired to talk about it right now. Hey but someone's already blogged about it! Thanks Aelgtoer. So glad you came..kiss kiss!

I'm sorry if I have been such a bad host and not get to talk to you, but I hope you all caught up with one another well tonight! That's what an event is all about, chance to catch up!

Anyway thank you for gifts and presence......i hope u all had fun. I loved everything about it, except the constant reminder from the darn venue to lower the volume...bleah :P

Special Moment with my Boys

Today's my actual birthday, but my party's tomorow. You people coming tomorow are equally dear to me, but I devoted to spend this day with the 2 current loves-of-my-life!

I so gonna make this picture into a greeting card or something!

Today shall be...

the last day of being thirty-something!

Asian Pole Summit

My performance



sorry, I did say I was gonna perform with HIM, but he decided against it 2 days ago! That caused quite a few hearts to be broken!

And HERE are the pictures

-------------------------added later---------------------------

here's the VIDEO of the winner of the Asian Pole Summit

Ken Lee

and Ken Lee got really big, bigger than william hung

Oh and btw, response has been really encouraging! I'm so looking forward to jam with all you people!

It's been decided!

He's gonna be soooo busy if......

.......all the ladies in class wanna try this move!

Haha, Daniel, better take RED BULL!

Anyway, stress, in no time he'll overtakes the Shi-fu (master)

Anyway, catch us performing next week 27th Nov 08 at the Arena.....not sure time yet. But if you do miss us, I'm sure we gonna encore this at the

BIRTHDAY BASH CUM POLE on 1st Dec

Here's the video of some practices

1st ACRO POLATES POLE JAM

SL, WG, EDPJ and FARIEIMPS, you're all on the list k?

FREE TRIAL CLASS ON 8 DECEMBER 2008

(it's a Public Holiday--Hari Raya Haji) from 5pm to 6pm. Call 6334 2382 or 9787 6876 or simply email me at ming@polefessional.com.sg or suziew@singnet.com.sg to register.

WWW.POLEFESSIONAL.COM.SG

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Acro Polates

SUZIE IS...............

BRUISED, BATTERED AND INJURED from the pole shows over the weekend! owwwww!

But thankfully, the guys were helpful and I had KELLY for 2 of the shows:

Nothing much......

to update cos have been and will be busy this week. So just some pictures for now, and hope will have more to offer next week.

This happens to be my current favourite pair of pants, as you can see I wore the same for the last vampish show. Had it for a while but discovered it's so nice only during these 2 shows.

I wanna be a Vamp, not Vampire!

It has been a while since I was involved in a Halloween party. So last night, the organizers had requested for us to dress and look as ghoulish as possible.

When I arrived I was worried with what I have because the organizers had hired costumes and make-up artists to make them look "hell" and what I though was my "smokey" look terribly paled in comparison to them.
So I had the artist touch me up, but I really really didn't want to look as hideous as the rest so I kept reminding him (the artist) that I want to be a pretty witch...in other words, I want to be a Vamp, not Vampire.

So first came the liquid scar.

Then the darkening of the lip liner and some syrrup blood dripping from corner of mouth.Ok, that's all I was going to afford!

Not bad, think I still look quite hot! heehee

By mid event, some of the details were gone! At the end of the show, I had to "peel" off the "scar" ouch!

In contrast, this was how Rico, my co-host looked!

Who says Pole Fitness Can't Be Relaxing? Lol!

Eunice is my co-instructor...haha...somemore the reflection in the 2nd picture machiam like *ding* achieve enlightenment like that! Also I created another new marketing video, I think it's quite nice la, you can catch a bare-bodied hunk in there (if that's not good enough reason to watch it) and it's only 1 and half min

BODY IMAGE & THE CHINESE THERAPIST

Enticed by the promise the eye detox will relief tiredness of the orbital region, I went to give it a try even though I am fully aware walking out of the place without purchasing a package is near impossible. But I was willing if they treatment proved helpful.

I was attended by a soft-spoken therapist, Mandy, whom from her accent, I can easily identify as a therapist from China. She did a great job and before I knew it, I did not just sign up the eye detox, but was also coaxed into purchasing a "LD" package (took me a while to understand her "Ella Tdi" meant "Lymphatic Drainage") which I thought, was really quite calming and soothing. It felt great after as I walked out of the basement unit at Cuppage Plaza.

This morning I was there for a treatment #2 and was attended by the same therapist. With her girlishly sweet voice, she first ran me through the steps like "cleansing", "exfoliating" etc.....I igonored as I wanted to rest, PLUS I had wanted to escape the possibility of her hard-selling further treatments/products, and I was right, she was saying some ampoule...blah blah would be good for me....I didn't reply, pretending to be asleep.

Since I was NOT really sleeping, I noticed that she had skipped a large number of steps in the lympahtic drainage procedures. Before I knew it, she said it was over!!!!!

So I responded in Mandarin..."Over? How come you didn't do the.......(I used my hands to gesticulate a certain zig-zag movements that she did the first time on my forehead).....sheepishly and in quick defense, she replied "Have! you were sleeping!", and she broke out a nervous laughter.

I replied coldly "oh! hmm......Don't know how come I still feel very heavy on my forehead hor". She quickly sat down again and massaged my head with a towel and pretended to help me ease my headache"...lol

It's time like that that you wish you can tell them you work for CASE or something! And I need to think of another method to escape the hard-selling tactic without going into the "sleeping mode"

Eat Your Heart Out Guys, It's Lara Croft

I was taking my Boy out for his usual Sunday walk at Pasir Ris. As I have not fully recovered, I decided not to walk too much but just parked ourselves at a cafe to enjoy the breeze and sip my afternoon tea.

Just in front of the beach I observed a group of people taking videos and pictures of a pretty brunette in diving/swim wear and I just passed it off as a fashion shoot.

Then i suddenly occured to me that the newest Lara Croft, Alison Carroll is in town to promote some gaming thing X08.

So I checked with the minder and I was right. Although I was no big fan of gaming, I DO like Lara Croft, way back from the time when Angelina Jolie took the role, so I seized the opportunity to ask for a picture taken with her, even though I know I look sh*t (I was still ill remember?) She gamely obliged, and she was very sweet about it. I liked her already....

She even posed solo for me. She's all smiley (and very friendly) when we are chatting but when come to posing, she will cut this "mean" look.

Later she came over to chat more and she was even so sweet to talk to Ah Boy. Unfortuntately for Ah Boy, he's still not used to strangers and even snarled a little. OMG! For that Ms gorgeous had to apologize.. oops, and I responded "Ah Boy..this is Lara Croft you know!"....haha, as if he would understand.

But Alison, for being so kind, you have Suzie as your new fan and I shall be looking out for you!
Anyway here's a video of my new hero.


Sexy Tomb Raider Lara Croft Video - Funny video clips are a click away