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If you are my dance student, you know this is the way l end the class of the day, but it is slightly different between jazz and belly dance, jazz students just doing the bow, whereas belly dance students will make a turn and bow. And, they suppose to say : Thank you teacher, good bye teacher......

I did this when l was a student for ballet and Chinese dance, l think this is a nice way to end the class so l use it in my jazz and belly dance class as well. My kids students like this and they always shout ' thank you teacher, goodbye teacher' to me, l love to hear that. Today when finished teaching a belly dance class, the whole class just turned and bow, without words, except Elain. Elain then complained to the classmates of their silence. Hey you know this happens in almost all of my adults dance classes, it is difficult for them to say the words out, why ah?

In workout class, we will clap to end the class, the claps are for both instructor and students, we clap to cheer for the hard work we have just done, but until today, l still see some students just turn and go, why is that so difficult to give an applaud to the instructor and herself? Do you know clapping will help to burn fat too?

To me, it is a courtesy and respect to say thank you and good bye, and frankly, l hate to see the students just turn and go, l don't feel respect!

Please shout and clap for the instructor, your classmates and yourself, life is full of excitement isn't it? If you always hide your excitement, you can never enjoy your life. if you are not excited of the class, then why are you here?

I am so happy to see our belly dancers mix around, dance and chat together......We did all the routines from beginner to advance, everybody burned a lot that evening. And l taught them a simple tribal dance, this is the first experience of tribal for most of them l believe......

You can see how the ladies enjoyed themselves.....

We received many phone calls to ask whether Zero opens today, yes we open, it is not a public holiday of Zero,  none of my staffs or instructors have to vote for the election at Permatang Pauh, and l believe only very small quantity of our members have to go for the vote. In fact, l don't understand why the government declared this holiday, this has caused trouble to many companies, but of course all employees are happy today.

We are having the Merdeka's promotion from today till 14th of September, please make sure you are informed on this, you know, everytime after the promotion, some members will compain that they are not informed.....this is funny actually, we have big notice on studio [but people don't read notice usually huh], we promote it on the website and advertise on newspaper, nowadays, we try to sent email to all members....ok think l have to stand at the entrance and 'lelong' the promotion ha ha....but if l do that, people will ignore me still la, l know.......

Anyway, after watching the Olympic, do you feel proud as you are also doing a 'sport', l do, l feel proud that l have never given up to workout and dance, or in another word, l will never stop moving my body, and sincerely, my pity to all who can move but never wanted to start exercise. [hey including my staffs, sigh......] 

Philosopher Bertrand Russell said : Everytime l talk to a savant l feel quite sure that  happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when l talk with my garderner, l am convinced of the opposite.

Exercise helps our body to produce more endorphins which allow our mind to create a happy feeling, most of all, it is about your health, you yourself are the one who decide to maintain or 'kill' your health.

This month we have enough suffer from the last minute notice of our workout instructors. this week another 2 cases, one of them sick and another one sprained her back, sigh.....yesterday Lilian, Emily and l joked that we should go to pray for all our instructors.....

Anybody interested to open a fitness studio, read my blog first, if you think you can stand all these 'heart attack' stuffs only you take the first action, or just forget about it!

This is my studio, l should stand by for all classes in the studio. But, if you know how tough l have to practise for my choreographies and performance, you know this is really hard for me. This afternoon l was not feeling well, so l did not practise much, l thought l should have more time to practise tomorrow, but, suddenly a call up, l have to replace class at 5:30pm. Ya it is only one hour, but l am stuck. I planned to do 2 partly choreographies and to complete another one tomorrow, the one hour time is important for me as l can take this one hour for a break before my another class at 6:40pm. I know it is hard for people to understand the strenuous of practising, sometimes, when l complete a choreography, l have to repeat the dance 20 times in one day, to polish and remember the dance. Yesterday, my knees started to 'complain' and l could not even squat down now!

hey not a complain, just to share and blaarr......

It is time for me to train up more workout instructors. In fact we have many potential candidates from our workout students, in fact some of them are more fit than me ha ha, but they do not have confidence to be trainned, this is really wasted. Hey if you have the 'thought' before, don't extinguish the flame, if you don't try when you are still young, you will sure regret when you are old.......

Sometimes to be regretful or not is in our control right?

Oh my God! I put on weight again, l need to lose another 5kg!

I remember when l came back from Turkey, l was in my ideal weight, hey in one and a half month time only, l think l have put on at least 3kg! Why? hee hee l ate a lot, and have too many gathering lately la.[another lunch gathering tomorrow with a good friend of mine who is going to study art in Taiwan]

I read an article of stress today, and l found this : we will gain weight under stress, as when we are stressful, our body will produce fat automatically. A friend of mine told me before, our tummy will grow under stress! Hey scary isn't it?

As common sense, we thought, people should lose weight under stress, we never heard of 'fat' under stress right? hmm....this is a controversial question.....

To me, gain weight under stress is not strange, because l eat to release my stress! I will satisfy my appetite with chocolate , ice-cream or spicy food when l am stressful.....hey very bad example ha ha.....luckily l exercise a lot, or l am sure l will be a super overweight  lady!

I am stressful of my thousand choreographies recently, sigh......my brain is almost crazy liao, l practise my new choreographies everyday then eat a lot after my practice! Ha ha have to control now, my fat analysis asked me to lose another 5 kg!

5kg, let's go!

If you read my blog,  you know l always comment on Penang people, and l know, people will sure feed back to me on this one day, and here it is.

I think, my English is not good, hence my blog making some people missunderstanding. I did tell this here: I am also Penang 'lang', l commented on Penang people so much because- 'l care'. Don't think l will comment too much on Thai, Australian or even Chinese. I teach kids and adults, and l think l have seen how Penang's parents influent their kids with typical Penang lang's attitude.

Example 1: One of my workout mom asked her daughter, my dance student to throw rubbish to the drain, l told her: Don't you think you should not teach your kid this way? She said: Cheh! Everybody throws rubbish into drain in Penang la!

Of course not everybody throwing rubbish into drain in Penang, but where is the rubbish from?

Example 2: I always like to make fun and communicate with my students in class, but everytime when l ask: 'Are you ok?'......no answer, 'Do you have any question?'.....no answer, 'Can l continue next step?'.....no answer. This happens in my kids class as well [those above 10 years old, Penang kids are still very 'brave' when they are below 10]

I did tell my kids students, why can't you express your feeling? If l choose you to lead the dance, why you want to run away? Don't you think you should feel happy and proud on this?.....no answer and no action.

I always have to announce news to my students, and as usual, it is always no answer and no feed back. I did tell this here, if my belly dance students support the hafla that l organize, l don't have to hard sell the hafla everytime. Of course many of them supporting the event, but another half of them just don't give any feedback to me everytime. One of my students from KL just asked me this question last month: Why Penang people's life so boring? Why they don't hang around with classmates? Why it is so difficult for them to accept new friend?

I did share this topic with some of my friends too, they told me, they were trained not to trust people easily, therefore they will not make friend with people in short time. Some of my students even told me this, when they first started learning dance from me and l approached them, they thought l have motive and automatically, they guard against me, and it takes years for them to open their hearts to me!

My friends from media line and business line complain a lot of Penang lang's attitude to me too, because they approach many different kind of Penang people in their domain, but the complains are about the same.

This is majority of Penang lang's character, but of course not all Penang lang like this. And l know, l also have Penang 'lang' s attitude sometimes, to me, l will remind myself not to act this way again when l realize it. I think only with 'aware' and ' alert', we are able to improve. But of course, if you feel so comfortable with Penang's environment and majority of Penang people's attitude, l have to congratulate to you, because l know you are a happy citizen in Penang, Penang needs you.

When Penang was listed as World Herritage, l was so happy and l really wish this will awake Penang 'lang' 's love on culture and environment. Will we?

Thank you Mr/Ms Liberal who has given me a great comment on my last blog, l wanted to write this blog for quite some times but there are always too many other topics to share. I was not affected by the rumors of course, l am too busy with my thousand choreographies recently, but l am stressful of whether to tell the reasons of the changers to our workout members, we don't do this usually unless they ask. In fact, we prefer our instructors to tell their students themselves, but sometimes, some students miss the conversation.

To me, this place is where l can share what l have experienced, l just told the experience and my feeling, but this does not mean l am affected with what l have experienced or listened. if l am affected easily, l can't 'tahan' till today.....l just blaar you know, hey l thought people like to read what l blaar because this is real me, or should l just share of happiness only in the future?

Liberal, you are right, l am a very sensitive lady, because l am a dancer and choreographer, 'sensitive' happens to all artists :-)

If people think what Conny has today is all about 'luck' only---thank you, that means l am not hardworking enough in running my career, l will work harder or l scare if my luck disappears one day, l will disappear too......

Eh, l still want to workout and dance, and sharing through teaching la......

Ever since l started The Zero, some people like to comment this to me: Conny, you are so lucky!

You are so lucky ! See, you have many good instructors with you!

You are so lucky! See, many students support you from the time Zero was borned!

You are so lucky! See, you have many good dancers with you, they are so faithful to you!

Thank you for telling me this. Yes, l am so lucky! I always cherish my luck in this line, with sweat, effort, heart and time........

The thing is, when those people telling me this, l don't feel the sincerity from them, instead, sometimes l feel they told me this to affect my confidence! They are trying to tell me, what l gain today is not from my hard work and competency, but just because l am so lucky!

Do you think all my instructors, students and dancers are blind? Will they support a person without leadership, patience, hard work and good personality?

Will you support a person who has luck only but doing nothing?

Lately, l am stressful with rumors from some of my workout members, l think, l have to make a clarification here.

Some of our workout instructors have changes on their schedule. As a trainner and principal, l have never stopped any instrcutor from teaching or cancel their class without reason [why should l do this?]. But some workout members don't understand this, they thought l am the one who made changes to their schedule, they accused me on this by words or email........Hence, l have to let know the reason of the changes or replacemant openly here.

Ee liz---She sprained her shoulders about two months ago, she wished to cut down classes in order to take more rest, also, to teach late class is inconvenient to her as she has to fetch her kids. Therefore, she cut down her classes.

Min Yik---She has to give extra tuition to her UPSR students lately, that 's why she has many replacement, she told us this should be end from next month.

Michelle---She went back to her hometown in Klang to visit her great grand mom few months ago, she wanted to stop teaching that time because she could not plan when to come back, as her great grand mom was sick. She is now back to Penang but has just started her own business, she is tight up now but she can still help us to replace class sometimes.

Cindy---Our poor Cindy fell down from staircase last month and need to take a one month rest.

Is that clear? Do you know when our instructors want to stop teaching or looking for replacement, we actually stress and headache? We have to call around all instrcutors to look for help......the most terrible is, when the instructor cannot make it to the class last minute, or just giving us a one day notice, how do we get replacement in such short time? To me, l will try my best not to cancel class, but, if l have class at the same time, and nobody is able to replace, this is the only choice l have to make! Sometimes, l might not have class at the same time, but l have 4 hours private lessons before, and three classes continuous after. At this situation, l am not able to replace class as well, l will be exhausted! But, in my life of teaching, l exhausted many time already la......

My instrcutors are all good and co-operative, they will not stop teaching or looking for replacement without reason too, l have good relationship with them as many of them are also my good friends besides colleagues. We can work together well because we appreciate each other. Please stop making incorrect imagination if you did.

My dancers as well. l am lucky to have them, but they are lucky to have me as their teacher too. Don't you think they will follow me if l have nothing to teach them? They will be good friends to me if l am a cruel and selfish teacher? They will stay with me still if l torture them or trying to earn money from them only? Do you know how many choreographies l have to make when everytime we organize a hafla? Do you know how patient l have to be when training my performers just because l want them to be on stage? All these, because we all love the art, we are close and willing to sacrifice to each other because we appreciate each other in this art, isn't this amazing? I don't understand why some people just like to tell nonsense which nobody will agree!

Cindy just told me some women's mouths are like machine gun, ha ha..... l really agree with her. Women, your beautiful lips are for smiling, kissing, singing and telling good words, this makes you the most beautiful lady in the world.........And the opposite way is just ugly.......

You know, l always have this myth in mind: Why some workout students are very hardworking to attend classes, but they don't seem losing weight?

Do you have this myth on your body as well?

In fact, l should not say this is a myth to me, as l actually know the answer!

You know, sometimes instructors have to close one eye while conducting class, there are people 'dreaming' in the class always, even l shout 'put in your energy! More impact! chu lat dam pok [hokkien]' many times in class, but there are people ignoring me always........

And some, they seem to work very hard in class, but don't know which part of muscle to control, even l shout 'concentrate on your abs! Work on your legs! Twist your body! Move your body don't only move your hands!', people ignore me still........

You know when we instructors have gathering, this is the topic we always share : Eh why ah? I don't understand what they are doing in the class.....even l approach her to show the exercise next to her, she is still like that......what is the problem?

I will tell you what is the problem in this 'burn fat effectively in one hour' training on next Saturday 3pm in Zero!

'The exercise knowldege', is the main problem of these people. We must ' know how' instead if to follow blindly. But you know, we Penang people are always like that, we rather listen to the rumors then to search answer from professional, sometimes l wonder what's wrong with our education, if you are always like that, look at your kids, they follow you, never go for 'facts' but just listening to nonsense. One of the reasons that l noticed is, people are too stingy to pay for knowledge, they will tell you: Don't need one la, l just follow will do....why do l have to spend extra money to attend another training?

That is why, the response of this training is not very good up to today.......expected la, because we charge RM10 for this training........

Hey you know, l accumulated my professional knowledge with sweat, time, money and effort, and you just pay RM10 to own them, isn't this too cheap?

if you want to know how to burn fat effectively? What is the best way of burning fat for those over weight? Why you can't lose weight? Why we must do exercise to lose weight? How to do workout in class properly and how to follow the instructions......

Come join us in this training, come on it is only RM10, you simply spend it in Mcdonald! Pay for the answers in order to save money by workout effectively, instead of continue paying to classes but no result, isn't it?

And, don't 'guess' the answers from me, as l said, l accumulated my workout knowledge with sweat and effort, don't judge my professional.

I wish l can go back Istanbul one day, but can't tell......there are many other places l want to go, just too many, so......let see whether l have fate with Turkey or not.......

The last place in Istanbul l want to share is---Hagia Sophia Museum, this is one of the most impressive and important building ever constructed. It served as a church for ca.1000years, a mosque for ca.500 years and finally a museum since 1935......You should not miss this museum if you go Istanbul, it is very unique, sole and special.....

Eh, not my tummy huh, it is the pant's ribbon la.......

To me, the specialty of Istanbul is, it combines the elements of Europe, Middle East and a little bit of Asia, most of all, people there are very friendly and passionate, you can feel their warm welcome everywhere, l really enjoy myself as a tourist there, thank you to all Turkish l met, you guys make my trip memorable........

My interview was published on the Corporate Journey of this month, page 26 to page 31, sorry for those who can't read mandarin, the interview is about how l started Zero Fitness Dance Studio, my passion and love towards my career and how l developed this 'baby'.......thank you to the writer and the magazine for the great interview, l hope if one day they interview me again, l have something new and greater to show them!

By the way, there is a small error on the interview, l have not started learning belly dancing when l started Zero , it was one year later actually. The name of my studio- Zero is from my own understanding of this digit, and one of my interpretations of zero happens to be corresponding with the meaning of zero in Egypt, which is infinity....ha ha, may be this is fate, belly dancing has to be something important in my life.....