I swear that if you wanna be a pole dancer, the best place to train is, the train. No pun intended there. And I AM talking about our very own clean and efficient MRT trains here! No need to waste money and go Batam or enroll in some stupid dance crash courses.

'cause almost everytime when I take the trains, without fail, I'd see children swinging 'round and 'round the poles. and although I have limited knowledge on how pole dancers REALLY are, I must say that the children must have done a better job than the pros!

You see there was this once when I was inside the train and... I saw this small, cute, little girl putting her legs in between the poles and sliding down gracefully before standing up to swing a few rounds around the pole.

Of course I was brought back down to Earth when she suddenly screamed "MUMMMMMYYY!!!" at the end of her few seconds of fame.

But of course with all due respect to pole dancers, children need not actually aspire to be like them. My point here is that, the children were having so much fun playing with the poles! The sweet and sincere smile on their face, bringing heart-felt smiles to weary passengers indirectly. I mean isn't that what entertainment suppose to be? From the bottom of your heart?

So I really wonder why pole dancers have to act sexy and bitchy when they do their routine. (Okay, I admit here that I HAVE SEEN them but only on the TV screens, which is futher filtered by Mediacorp so as to prevent further soiling of the MRT poles.)

Is it because the expectations are high and people are paying to watch you?


You know what, I'm beginning to realise now that some things... are just priceless.