weird encounter

Last evening, we had 3 classes back to back. In between handling registrations and transitions, the studio received a call from a lady who spoke funny english, seeking directions to the studio. She had wanted to board a taxi immediately to come and attend a class (she said she read about us and couldn't wait).

As i was busy, my colleague handled the call and gave directions. My colleague said she was fickle a while said coming now, then changing her mind & said she would come tomorow, until finally she called again to say she was at Bugis and would get here in a cab; for info, Bugis to my studio is only 7mins walk away and we told her that! To prove that she was in a cab, she passed the phone to can driver!

She arrived and loudly announced that she was here to observe how we conduct our classes. I explained that our basic classes had commenced and the next one would be an intermediate level, which would start in about half an hour. She asked about our entire week's sechdule and told me she wanted watch every class of the week before deciding. I told her that would not be necessary, besides the fact some are repetition, she should only observe whatever level she felt she was fit for, since she claimed she had learned the dance form in China before, the country she hailed.

Sometime through observing the class, she demanded that Eunice or I, the former who was conducting a class at that point, exhibit our level of pole skills to her. I told her she could go to our website to watch any amount of videos we had uploaded and it is not appropriate for me to interrupt the class that way. She asked why not as they do this in China. I also told over here, we exercise making appointments, & during the appointment, I would be more than happy to demonstrate for her to decide if i am a worthy instructor. Then she harped on the "sincerity" thing which by now I just wanted her out!

Unyielded, I told my colleague to set up the computer and log on to youtube to show her videos. While I was in the office, I did not realise that she had barged in between the transition of 2 classes to ask Eunice for a demonstration. So rude! Eunice, my ever obliging instructor demonstrated some inverts and this woman "invigilated" her moves with arms crossed. I quickly told the intermediate students to fill and studio and took the opportunity to lead her to my colleague who spent the next half an hour "entertaining" her with videos and chit chat. It helped that my male colleague is quite good-looking la, and I'm sure she was "seduced" into leaving the studio for good when he (my colleague) said he was leaving for the day soon! haha...

Before she left, she told us to give her an assessment and see which level she should join....I told "ya ya, we will call you (dun call us)"!

Today I asked my good-looking colleague what should we do if she were to call again ....colleague #2 and I joked that perhaps all these while, she was trying to get our good-looking colleague to "assess" her...hahahahaha

fancy dancing in this?

Eunice ordered online a size 7 but it's actually more a size 6. 5 1/2 inch clear platforms and black shiny patent with side zipper. Very chic and smoking hot. If interested please email her

Ah Boy's progress

Nice phrase to use

I was bo liao enough to google the infamous "shut up and sit down" and it threw up more than 13 pages of results!

More bo liao was when i was having a 'friendly' argument (oxymoron) with spider friend about who does more domestic work, and i found myself losing, I yelped "SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN" and we both ended up laughing uncontrollably!

A Sad love story

Quote from THE STRAITS TIMES MAY 9 2009

" A week ago, Farrah said to me 'Am I going to make it?' I said 'Yes, you'll make it. And if you don't, I'll go with you'" O'neal on Fawcett

does reading this bring a tear to you, like it did to me?

Anyway to digress, but not to anything cheerier I have been having really weird dreams lately. One of them was quite morbid.

Few nights ago I dreamt I was caught in a gunfire attack of some sort.......I dreamt that spider friend was separated from me and suddenly from afar I heard him instructing me to lie low amidst the many bodies and play dead. I did that and even found some cloth to cover and shield me, all these while I could hear the gunshots and wondering when it would hit me......thankfully no one kicked me in my sleep or I would have dreamt that i got hit! haha...some consolation there eh?

Serial Video Uploader

A few weeks ago, youtube suspended not one, but two of my accounts, i.e. all those videos which took me years to upload...poof....GONE! When I clicked on those links or searched the account names, it either showed up nothing or announced "this account is suspended"

I thought that weird as if they had found anything wrongful with my account or my videos, they would write and advise why and how to stay out of trouble. But to suspend both very different accounts and with different videos? I couldn't help but suspect that it could be some jealous souls who envied the success of some of my videos made a prank or something.

Convinced that that would be the case, I decided not to investigate with youtube, but instead wasted no time in registering new accounts and started some franctic uploading again. To play safe, i even uploaded onto other video portals.

Several weeks later while watching others' videos, I tried my luck searching again and was surprised that my accounts were reinstated! Everything was there! Videos, photos, everything!

Happily I told spider friend "eh, you know what? youtube returned my accounts. Make me waste time registering new ones and uploading them all over"

Spider friend replied " That's why! they suspend you and you upload again. They can't stop you, might as well just let you continue!"

Wallau, I sound so serial!

Suzie has really talented students

For those who have not watched this on facebook, check out our pole practice video last night. I know some of you may be sick of my pole videos, but this one is different....for this video is NOT about me (only)!


First check out celestine's combo...I'm so proud of her as she started out this sport to overcome her fear of "dropping back". She even had problems with a backhook spin in the beginning....Look at her now in less than a year.....we (Eunice and I) are so very proud of you.

Then in the extreme I have the other kind of talented students....natural comedienne.. keep watching til the end....... (Note to Meow: yes I have learnt the song & ready to perform, I even have ready backup dancers...so bring on the music...hahaha)

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Ah Boy at the Beach

it was meant to be a STROLL!



such a beach bump :)

Additional Pole Dance Basic Class

Due to additional and last min enquiries, Acro Polates may start another new basic class on 11 May 9pm-10pm. A free trial precedes that on 4 May 7pm-8pm, both class and free trialsubject to minimum participants.

Those interested, please register with online, call Ming at 6334 2382 or send email to her.

Also current fellow Acro Polateasers, do take note of the slight changes of May's class schedules

updated later......

I've become so good at self-taken pictures. Set the camera to 10 secs, run to pole, pose, hold, click!

and if you have time, watch the last part of this video, it's quite funny (people thinking of signing up classes, don't get worried about the stunts in the video, these are very advance moves, beginner moves are just spins and lot easier moves and really fun)

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All to ourselves

Mum's birthday is mostly celebrated quite lavishly with full course chinese dinners and with lots of friends, family and her opera students jamboree-ing with her.

But this year she opted for quiet cosy dinners, divisively attended with different smaller groups of people. While this afternoon she met my sister for lunch, I decided to buy her dinner at a nearby chinese restaurant called 福臨門 (Fu Lin Men) since I had to rush back for pole classes right after. My niece did not turn up due to school work load so I asked my 2 other team mates over and there were in total 5 of us.
Throughout the one and half hours we were there, we were the ONLY patrons in the restaurant, not kidding. We enjoyed the best service ever, undivided attention from the restaurant crew and when it was time to light the candles and sing happy birthday, we had the restaurant entourage singing along!

I thought I had become "boring"!

Now that I have finally efiled (thanks to Meow) , i realize I no longer just file as an "individual", I have to account for a business entity as well.

Previously as an 'individual", i realised I can blog anything, rant, scold, b*tch about anything I want. Of late, I thought I have become boring, nothing much to blog, giving excuses that perhaps I am devoting too much time to facebook. But, the truth is, now that I have a business and I represent that business, I actually have a reputation to uphold.....translate to mentally scanning what I can say or blog! Isn't that sad?

I can no longer openly express my displeasure, dislike disapproval for someone or something. Human, especially women can be very petty and of late I have encountered pettiness of the most STUPID kind and from the most unexpected person, but..again, now i can't say it here, as she could be a client, a student, a close confidante, etc etc........sigh (but if you want to know, can, over coffee...heehee)

Even sometimes some casual comments can be misconstrued as something else......so I'd rather just...be quiet...here I can only show you success stories, my videos, my show pictures...or , or...totally unrelated lame stuff that may make someone's day...like the following (contribution of of my dear sister )

Entitled : ALWAYS CHECK YOUR CHILD'S HOMEWORK

This was a homework drawing assignment turned in by a little girl to her teacher

( Here's the reply that the teacher received the following day )

Dear Mrs. Jones, I wish to clarify that I am not now, nor have I ever been, an exotic dancer. I work at Home Depot and I told my daughter how hectic it was last week before the blizzard hit. I told her we sold out every single shovel we had, and then I found one more in the back room, and that several people were fighting over who would get it. Her picture doesn't show me dancing around a pole. It's supposed to depict me selling the last snow shovel we had at Home Depot. From now on I will remember to check her homework more thoroughly before she turns it in.

Sincerely,Mrs. Smith

Am I suppose to find this amuzing?

Suzie as 老娘惹

ME in one event

How do you like my 娘惹 get-up?

Ah this is more like me



Suzie goofing in the background...what else?



I had paid hundreds for this outfit and only remember to wear it a second time


woo-hoo...nimble audience

Oh just realised something. The outfits all had shades of pink...wasn't deliberate!

Acro Polates in Media

Thanks to the magazine Beauty Cosmedica, they gave Acro Polates a 2-page feature in their Mar-Apr issue

Previously circulated only to hair and beauty salons, Beauty Cosmedica which is published by COLOUR SYMPHONY PTE LTD is now available at selected newsstand. I got my copies at Borders.

I love how freaky this pic looks

FREE Beginner Pole Trial Class

THIS FRIDAY 10 APRIL 2009 (GOOD FRIDAY) AT

ACRO POLATES POLE FITNESS STUDIO:

1pm to 2pm -Free Pole Trial Class.

2pm to 4pm-Pole Practice

Needs Registration

Suzie enjoys the compliments on her physique

I couldn't care less it they are from the PRC masseuse who are just saying for the sake of winning my business, but it is quite another when it comes from this burly Javanese makchik masseuse who gave me a much needed kneed and commented "wa miss, your body very sor-lid"... :)

But I must say, having lost some body fluids and fats (hopefully) after battling 2 weeks of flu (since return from Guangzhou), I do feel quite lean and tone and I'm loving it. I hope I don't return to my food craving days so quickly!

In fact these are some of the comments on facebook after I loaded my Studio's new Racer top and shorts.

KS at 4:02am April 2
I want to be like you when I grow up.

Suzie Wong at 4:12am April 2
hahaha sweetie! i was posing & picking a picture for publicty of our top and shorts, thought these were too unfeminine! but i posted them up to remind myself I had those definition...sometime they will probably disappear because I am indeed 'not young' anymore

SM at 4:49am April 2
I love the shorts!

LP at 9:31am April 2
Ming, with these pics you want people to look at the shorts?

JG at 9:47am April 2
*drool*

JG at 9:49am April 2
err... I meant the muscles...:p

RS at 10:37am April 2
You put people like me to shame!

Eunice on SPINNY POLE

Eunice Sim, instructor of Acro Polates Pole Fitness will be conducting a module of "Intro to Spinny Pole" In June.
May's topic will be "Exploring Shoulder Mount".

Watch Eunice's beautiful demonstration on the spinny pole



Read here for our entire schedule plus find out how to reach the POLE-FESSIONAL CLUB level