Happy New Year!!

1. New Year's Eve

Received an sms from jevin at 8pm, "hey r u going anywhere later??" so somehow we got victor too and by 9:15pm the 3 of us were at jurong east mrt station. took the train to orchard.

reached around 10pm. jevin wanted a drink, so we headed to paragon's Starbucks to have some... coffee. victor recommended the peppermint mocha, which costs $6.80. damn ex, but well worth the price i think. very sweet.
slacked there until about closing time which was 11:40pm, having men's talk and snapping photos.

2. New Year

jevin still felt thirsty, so we went to the 7-11 which was the only store open in paragon at that hour. by this time the departmental stores' entrances were being blockaded by security guards and policemen. anyway jevin got some vodka orange, vic got long island tea and i got a Carlsberg. then we squeezed amongst the crowds watching innocent bystanders being sprayed with by foam.

the foam people come in groups of four and five, there were the hardcore people who would be out for war and sprayed... and sprayed.

Didn't know there were so many... dark people around in orchard. damn, the ratio was probably 1:1 around 12am, and 2:1 (2 dark people to others) at 1am.

we chilled for a while at paragon having our drinks, then crossed over to ngee ann city where we stood on one of the pedestals watching the throngs of partygoers move past and spotting the occasional chio bu hanging on their boyfriend's shoulders. also present was the (not-so) occasional person (usually an ah neh) being caught by the police. dunno for what, maybe harrassment.

ha. serve them right for being so irritating to spray chiobus. think that sparked off equally spirited responses from their boyfriends, who sprayed them back. so we can have groups of ah nehs and punks spraying each other with loads of foam. damn interesting to watch.. haha.

the "mat"s (malay punks) were more courteous with their foam, they only sprayed it on their brethern. not too bad. irritating were those assholes who just bought a can for fun, then aimed the aerosol in the air and "anyhow shoot". kenaed some "collateral damage".

3. The Bash

1am came and soon the streets of Orchard were being emptied out, leaving only, u guessed it, the ah nehs. Reason? cos most of the kuaier people were heading home after getting their countdown underway. then the rest, usually including those people dressed to kill and ladies dressed to seduce, were heading for the clubs or otherwise - the most visible bash in orchard - this open air dance floor that Dawn was promoting on msn.

about 1am we were also preparing to go home.. but this promoter came out of nowhere and said, "wanna go inside (the bash)? free entry!!"

WOW!! free entry sia!! entry costs $35 btw. quite a deal.

then when we reached the entry point, they said we had to buy a drink, at $10. And they have 1 for 1 offer on drinks so one drink is $5 ea. not too bad...

then jevin was quite hesitant about going inside cos he made a new year resolution not to go clubbing anymore!! haha so i and victor stayed around the reception area and "persuaded" him to go in.. haha made more tempting with every sexily-dressed girl that walked past us to go into the party...

after much persuasion.. he finally relented... hehe so three young guys went in to mingle amongst the throngs of chiobus!! woo hoo!!

4. Knock out

first drink i took was a vodka orange. ok the three of us downed the poison quickly and went to the dance floor. we were in heaven, haha...

about 15-20mins into the party i couldn't stand the flashing lights. the music was ok, it was the loudness in any club. but there were too many lights coming from different directions. i couldn't find a spot on the dance floor without any lights - a prerequisite for my survival there.

ok quitted the area and went somewhere around the makeshift toilet area to "let my eyes rest". what crap. saw alot of couples there... esp the ladies who were dressed to kill. arrrggghhhh couldn't stand it anymore.

grrr, what am i doing in a bash, not dancing, and without someone some female companionship?! felt damn buay song, went to get the remaining two drinks of bourbon coke.

sat by myself drinking the "coke-with-medicine-taste". very fast, it was gone. tot about all my female friends, wished i could have someone to talk to right now, tot about her, if she would be at my side like all the rest here it would be great, tot about how vic and jevin were having new-found fun inside with the gals...

a zillion thoughts flashed through my mind, with it, many zillion thoughts more. looked over at the next bench and saw the couple smooching after a good workout on the dance floor. damn then asked why i'm not on the dance floor instead being resigned to watch people from afar...

haha. maybe god gave me epilepsy so that i could avoid dance floors, so that i would not mix with all those "bu-san-bu-si" girls and find a "good" gal... but all the good gals nowadays also pia dance floors so what's the point haha. anyway they said that if u go for relationships during clubbing wun last long anyway.

but then... desire lurks at every moment... the devil lures constantly... haha. whatever.

after the first bourbon coke, ok i thought, well should i get on with another bourbon coke or give the drink to the guys? well damn, lets get the second cup to jev and vic, then found out, oh shit, i can't control my limbs. can't walk straight. swimming. the three dimensions of the world has suddenly taken on an amorphous form.

managed to hobble my way over to the steps of ngee ann city. when i wanted to sit down, "pom!" and my bottom crashed onto the hard stone, spilling some of the drink in my hand. then by reflex, by body straightened and the next thing i know, i was looking at the night sky. oddly though, the world still seems clear, even though i feel semi-paralysed.

i dunno how many chiobus walked past me before victor and jevin came to my rescue (i smsed them: hey come help, i'm drunk). though after making sure i was ok they went back to the dance floor again.. haiz..

could not stand the blaring music and glaring lights, so by 3am i retreated to somewhere near the main entrance of ngee ann city, where the organisers were letting people in. amazingly a kind soul from one of them asked me "are you ok?" i didn't even talk, just hand-signaled back to him...

saw a few more thousand chiobus walked past, most of them in full consciousness, a few in a druken stupor like me, as i sat immobilised near the entrance. hmm. saw a grossly fat guy (sheikh haikel??) with some ohmygodandsupersexydressedinsolittle chio dancers after they have finished their gig as they prepared to walk out of the complex. wooooo hoooooooo!!!

about 3:45 am victor and jevin came for me again... this time we quitted the place, thank god. though they seemed a bit reluctant.. haha

went to the nearest macs and bought a large milo. jevin said the reason i got so drunk is because i drunk beer first, "the efferverscence is absorbed faster than liquid alcohol", guess the alcohol molecules must have diffused into the gas layer and went into my stomach at lightning speed.

took taxi home. first signs of hangover are beginning to take over: headache, nausea, soberness. cursed all the alcohol molecules that had crossed the blood-brain barrier and were wreaking havoc, covering the gyri and stuck in the sulci of my cerebral cortex. everything seems very solid, but i still feel abit paralysed.

reached home at 4:45am. drunk water and tried to sleep, but then woke up and puked. i shall not describe the mess in the toilet bowl, just to say it reeked of bourbon coke. felt better. climbed into bed and slept at 5:15 am.

happy new year, folks.