Painting NYC red...

Had my virgin clubbing experience in New York City last night and it was fun if you minus the minor hiccups in between. It was enjoyable mainly because of the cool and fun company I had in ed, cg, sl, val, kat, Leon, XT, fer and the gang from Upenn that came to NY to visit ed. We had a grand total of 16 people!

We started the night off with a visit to the beautiful Boutique Hotel - Hotel Gansevoort. It is located in the Meatpacking District of New York City. For those who watch SATC, this will be the familiar area that many of the clubbing and bar scenes were filmed. Back to Hotel Gansevoort, the penthouse of the hotel has been converted to a bustling rooftop bar and you can see many well dressed people just drinking cocktails and socialising. Also, it has an overlooking view of the Hudson river which looks really tranquil at night. It was rather windy up there and it has this calming and soothing effect as the wind blows over your face as if nature is caressing and tickling you. It definitely can make you fall asleep right there. The place was packed with people because it is fashion week in new york. I had a Mojito and just chatted with the rest until cg asked me to accompany him to fetch fer from downstairs. Thats when I had to queue all over again and encounter two drunk/high middle age ladies who made me and fer take pictures of her..haha one of them just kept shouting " Look at these F****** whores whenever she looks at the pictures we've taken.haha. It was rather amusing actually... For those who are interested, here's the link to the hotel http://www.hotelgansevoort.com/

Next stop, we tried going to a club across the road. Didn't catch the name of the place because we didn't go inside in the end. They were pretty strict with the IDs and even though we wanted to open bottles, they still wanted to check the IDs of everyone. We had a couple of underaged people with us. So oh well, we decided to look for another club to spend our money..haha.. So off we go, whisking off in taxis to this club called Duvet that is located at 6 avenue and 21 st. Here's a link that describes the club http://www.opentable.com/rest_profile.aspx?rid=3718
The one thing I learn about NY clubbing is that women are valuable. Haha, the more ladies you have with you, the cheaper and easier it is to gain access to many of the clubs. Now I will learn to appreciate all my female friends more..haha.. The club had pretty nice decor with many satin beds around and people could sit, cuddle, dance on all these beds..Apparently, people were making out on the bed but I didn't see...haha I heard it from sl..haha..The music was ok, wasn't fantastic..Alcohol wasn't really cheap and we didn't have much drinks. I only had a beer and 1 whisky shot. Guess its the company that matters..haha..was quite concidental to meet tim whom I last seen when we were in BMT together. Looks like he is enjoying himself tremendously at NYU. anyway, sl and I concluded that we are getting older..haha, although the two of us did manage to outlast everyone else..^5 sl..haha..but it was quite funny when sl hopped over and told me that some dodgy man grabbed her and wanted to dance with her..haha, should blame the rest of the guys..all disappeared for smoking breaks..not enough guys to look after everyone..anyway, so the rest of the night was spent dancing with sl. Made a few new friends who were friends of friends..haha..but clubbing is never a good place to chat with people..music was just too loud. after I think about 3 - 4 hours, we decided to leave the club and go for supper.

Final stop: K town! had korean food for supper..walked about 10 blocks from our clubbing place.had a nice chat with sl along the way, talked abt her plans for the future and other random stuff. all the best for your plans yah! :) I am sure you can make it work out. As for the food at the korean place, cg and I shared some pan fried rice cake thing which didnt taste very good. Maybe it just isn't to our taste. But the beef and tofu at the sides were good though. Shall go find out whats the place called from one of the other guys..might visit another one day. After that, we all split up and took cabs back to where we were staying..haha very up north of manhattan. Second night in a row that I reached home beyond 4am..haha guess I am really starting to live the life of a New Yorker.

Thanks everyone for the great night. Next time we should have our drinks at home before going down to the clubs! Look forward to the next time..haha hopefully my wallet can sustain my spending :) andre, I will jio you next time! sorry about this time, I'll buy you a drink next time to make up. Maybe this weekend :)

Current status: Enjoying life to the fullest!