slosh down the pepper!

An eye-opener O_O

Celebrated a colleague's twenty-second birthday on the twentieth on the fifth floor of City Plaza. It was one of those sleazy-looking KTV that faces the carpark. JT, D and me arrived at ten plus and stood outside the brightly-lit 'establishment', waiting for one of the guys who arrived earlier to bring us in. It wasn't difficult to understand JT's concern that we shouldn't barge in on our own if possible. KTV hostesses with thick make up and yet still can't hide their actual age of late thirties to forties were seen entertaining male customers who seemed happy to exchange flirty comments and challenges to gulp down glasses of hard liqour. My colleague JW appeared to be one of them :p

The room was pretty big and spacious. It comes equiped with two televisions (strange) and an aircon that blew so strongly that within half hour, I was already shivering. The table was filled with glasses, two tubs of ice, one bottle of liquor, two bottles of mineral water and two cylinders of non-alcoholic drinks. I stared hard at one of the cylinder containing a yellowish liquid with bubbles at the top. I thought it was beer, it looked like one. JW saw my eyeballs almost popping out and hurriedly said it was green tea. JT must have thought that I dis-believe JW and further 'convinced' me that it was merely green tea.

It was a first for me seeing hard liquor being mixed with green tea or coke. I always thought only stuff like vodka get mixed with soft drinks. Anyway, amongst all I have tried, the coke mixture still tasted the best.

Three disparate groups in their own world most of the time: AN & GA (half) were hogging the mikes; JT, JW, AL, & GA (half) busied themselves with some form of dice game; D, WG, E, H, A and me were blabbering away, walking in and out taking shawl, answering phone calls, fiddling with the phone with dunno-what.

Apparently, there was some kind of rule amongst the cheong-sters. Every birthday is celebrated with liquor, either in a club/pub/ktv which serves liqour. Every one attending the party is supposed to at least drink a class of liqour as a form of respect to the birthday star. Before you leave the party, each one is supposed to toast with the birthday star, "ta" (read: dry) they called it. Yet strangly, WG still asked JT if she wants another glass after the "ta" glass.

I think JT got a little too high. After a few glasses (eventhou she promised herself to drink only 1 glass) her voice turned hoarse, and she had asked for more alcohol. I guessed if she didn't have to fulfil the cinderella curse of returning home by 12midnight, she probably will get drunk with the boys.

D's friend failed to turn up. Hai, we gotta take a cab home. Overall still pretty tolerable and enjoyable. Maybe cos' I only turned up for 1.5 hours. Maybe cos' it was all free (except the transport) :p

ps: D told me not to wear the same tee out tomorrow. Yup, fullof cigarette smell. I am glad she reminded me.

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It's a thin line between creating false memories and truly forgetting what actually had happened. [Proof]

posted by slingwoof @ 1/24/2006 03:14:00 AM