When I grow up.

I am not sure whether it is the age or whether the clubbing scene has seriously deteriorated but I do not really enjoy clubbing as much as I used to. I used to club every week without fail during my days at SP and the army, but now, I think I would prefer to go to a place with seats.

However, if there is one thing that never fails to amaze me in clubs, it will be the club's patrons. I mean, I am not a good dancer. I am not even an okay dancer. And knowing that dancing is not my best feature, I tend to try to be discreet at the dance floor and make as little movement as possible.

With the guys at Powerhouse, it is a different story. It is like all of them took some "confidence-boosting" pills that give these really, really bad dancers courage to step up to the podium and dance their nights away. Well, thanks for entertaining me I guess.

I remember one guy from about a month ago, he was dancing on the podium, shaking his head and feeling the music. No, I made a mistake. The only thing he did on the podium was shake his head. He was shaking his head from left to right, to left to right. At one point, I was afraid his head will dislodge from his neck and roll off the podium due to the sheer intensity of his head-shaking.

It does not take a great dancer to know that this type of dance moves although not the worst, but seriously, to do that on the podium? One might think that he wants a career as an extra in a Bollywood production. If that is indeed what he wants, kudos to him, he is one step nearer to his dream.

And last week, to my delight, there were two entertainers in Powerhouse. The first one was on the podium letting his hands do the dancing, with sleek snake-like movements, his hands look set to seduce anyone and everyone on the dance floor. Maybe not, but he caught my attention at least. It got me thinking, why is he doing that? Then I realized, he probably wanted to be a magician when he grew up.

The other one was another classic, so much so that I wished I had his dancing on video. This guy was showcasing all his killer dance moves. His dance moves could literally kill. I am pretty sure most of you had caught "Ip Man" by now. You know how Ip Man amazingly hit his opponents with the very fast fist move. Well, this guy did that on the podium, but about 50 times slower. Well, the idea was there, and you cannot fault a guy who wanted to emulate his idol.

So, these are the people who are keeping me from dying out of boredom in clubs. To all three of you and hopefully more to come, I salute you!

Edit - Happy Lunar New Year to all. May good wealth and good health follow you and your family all year round.

Fear.

I wanted to find out if there was an official phobia for my fear of flying insects and I chanced upon something interesting. I was googling for it and one of the results that appeared was this.

I don't know how this became the best answer until I saw the second of only two responses.

"buy a cd with bug sounds lay on your floor have a friend get a feather close your eyes and turn on the cd have your friend tickle u with a feather and imagine your in a fiels suronded by bugs try it be optimistic" (Exact quote, too lazy to print screen.)

HUH? I can safely assume there is no cure for my fear of flying insects.

More about this phobia of mine, I don't understand why I should tolerate and appreciate flying insects when most of them are extremely hateful creatures. They hover around you and makes you swat the air like an idiot.

Also, they like to fly straight at your face which I can never understand why. Once, an insect flew straight into the throat of my friend when he was talking, he had no choice but to swallow it. (True story.)

Most hateful creature is the golden beetle that hovers around the lights and thus making a very irritating sound. My friends told me that it is called a "kim ku". They have weird hairy legs that give you a shock when it lands on your shoulders. Other notable contenders are bees and wasps.

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Another result that showed was a phobia list site and that is where I stumbled on some interesting trivia. (Sorry if you have these phobias. I don't mean to offend.)

"Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth."
They have a name for a fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth but not a name for fear of flying insects? That's just weird.

"Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women."
Seriously?

"Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words."
What an irony!

"Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia- Fear of money."
Come and be my friend!