I popped over to my in-laws' place earlier to pick up a hair dryer that my mom-in-law kindly gave us. And coincidentally, there was this performance thingy going on... Radin Mas Community Day, I think - a bit like getai you know, where a stage and tentages are set up on the basketball court. Since my in-laws stay on the third floor in the block next to the basketball courts, we got a pretty good earful (and somewhat obstructed view) of the performance.
I ignored the performance for the most part as I didn't quite understand the hokkien songs and I was more interested in trying to wheedle Ad's grandmother into teaching me how to make kueh bangkit. She's a terror - but such a dear. So, anyway, the performance didn't really interest me until some woman started singing the Hot Stuff song - you know, the song that goes Lookin' for some hot stuff baby this evenin' I need some hot stuff baby tonight - and that really made me sit up and listen. Ad was next to me and he said, "That's the same person that was singing the hokkien songs earlier," and I was like WOW! She sounded pretty good - very different from the getai style which she was using to sing those hokkien songs earlier.
At this point, we looked out the window and from the silhouettes, we figured she was doing some kind of pole dance. So the bunch of us scurried downstairs but unfortunately, missed the Hot Stuff. What we saw, though, was this woman dressed in a sports cropped top and tight tights. Her next song was interesting - another hokkien one, and she was doing acrobatic bits on the pole that was set up in the middle of the stage - the "pole dance", I suppose.
But I was really impressed with her performance. Hey, this isn't some bar-top dancing chick we're talking about. This is some aunty, older than I am, abs pretty nicely defined (but I can't say the same for the rest of her body.. ahem), and although her pole dance veers more towards the acrobatic than the sensual, at least she can climb up the pole! Oh and her voice - man! Not common in a Chinese - an Asian powerhouse.
I think the Amazing Aunty is going to be my inspiration for my post-partum weight loss program.
