Friday Night- 6.8 USA
Time for our weekly Friday night Recap-
Excitement was late in starting this Friday. We made it to Carnegie's in Wan Chai around 9:45, in plenty of time to take advantage of $10 Coronas (a deal that lasts until 11). There was some international crowd there, not the most usual crowd, but the ladies' man Jesse was there as well as the triangle of the guy that seems to like Alli and the guy with a gf that Alli likes. Drama. My Seattle boy Michael was there so it was cool. The music in Carnegie's is awful. Its like they have one person's IPod on shuffle every night. Same songs every time. And whoever's IPod this is they have an affinity for Shania Twain and cliche American pop circa 1970-1985. So you know all the words, and you can certainly dance to it, but after about an hour you start wanting to bore holes in your eardrums.
On this note though I'd like to make a statement about elitism. I used to think I was sort of an elitist about my music, or film and my fashion. I'm giving it up. Its what makes college students pretentious and annoying. I now aspire to have decent taste. I want to know what's good and what's crap, but never have to complain about it. Since I've been here I've not been in a single bar, club or restaurant where the music or atmosphere wasn't lamented and its irritating. At some point we have to admit that we're in HK where an appreciation for contemporary American music may not exist. So just be happy you aren't listening to canto-pop.
Anyway, after the cheap drinks were gone, around 12, a change of venue was neccessary. This caused a big split because the laid-back intellectual types wanted to go to Old China Hand which is sort of a English pub type of place, very dim and quiet with big tables and huge glasses of beer. Those of us who feel ourselves too young and beautiful to hang out in the same place as 50-year-old visiting businessmen and a plethora of philippino hookers were left to find somewhere else to go. There was a lot of dawdling but Anna, her Austrian buddy Michael, Hannah and I managed to get back to Lan Kwai Fong.
There I finally met Bed, the South Carolinian! It was amazing. He's the exact definition of Southern Cute and was wearing boat shoes and a Rusty Wallace baseball cap. He said y'all and asked what we were fixin' to do. He picked me out for a yankee immediately. (The canadians think I have a southern accent... who knows.) Anyway Ben and I are family now, because I love him for being so southern.
So after some touring and some kebabs, I ended up at Lux with the Canadian Law boys who I've named Big-E, Mikey, and Jimbo. They were with this girl, Jennie, they picked up a few days ago who speaks Cantonese. So we hung at Lux, danced a bit (Jimbo is quite the dancer for a funky white boy), drank a bit, and I impressed the boys with my ability to regurgitate lines from Anchorman. We stayed until we were asked to leave (apparently on Fridays they close at 3:30 and if you are still sipping your drinks at 4 they get snippy. Its that kind of place. The guy who asked us to leave was 5'6", 130lbs and wearing a pink pinstriped shirt. There was really no way he was getting the respect of 3 sizable mounties.)
Eventually we left and went somewhere for fishballs and wantons then headed home. Not the most fun I've ever had, but I didn't have to see anyone throw up and I got to wear my fishnet stockings and sleeves all over Wan Chai and Lan Kwai Fong. Plus I'm now in with the Canadians who seem like a fun crowd.
On a whole other topic, this afternoon Alli and I were making lunch and found Bend It Like Beckham on TV in english. Made my whole afternoon.
Fishballs for all-
Abby
Excitement was late in starting this Friday. We made it to Carnegie's in Wan Chai around 9:45, in plenty of time to take advantage of $10 Coronas (a deal that lasts until 11). There was some international crowd there, not the most usual crowd, but the ladies' man Jesse was there as well as the triangle of the guy that seems to like Alli and the guy with a gf that Alli likes. Drama. My Seattle boy Michael was there so it was cool. The music in Carnegie's is awful. Its like they have one person's IPod on shuffle every night. Same songs every time. And whoever's IPod this is they have an affinity for Shania Twain and cliche American pop circa 1970-1985. So you know all the words, and you can certainly dance to it, but after about an hour you start wanting to bore holes in your eardrums.
On this note though I'd like to make a statement about elitism. I used to think I was sort of an elitist about my music, or film and my fashion. I'm giving it up. Its what makes college students pretentious and annoying. I now aspire to have decent taste. I want to know what's good and what's crap, but never have to complain about it. Since I've been here I've not been in a single bar, club or restaurant where the music or atmosphere wasn't lamented and its irritating. At some point we have to admit that we're in HK where an appreciation for contemporary American music may not exist. So just be happy you aren't listening to canto-pop.
Anyway, after the cheap drinks were gone, around 12, a change of venue was neccessary. This caused a big split because the laid-back intellectual types wanted to go to Old China Hand which is sort of a English pub type of place, very dim and quiet with big tables and huge glasses of beer. Those of us who feel ourselves too young and beautiful to hang out in the same place as 50-year-old visiting businessmen and a plethora of philippino hookers were left to find somewhere else to go. There was a lot of dawdling but Anna, her Austrian buddy Michael, Hannah and I managed to get back to Lan Kwai Fong.
There I finally met Bed, the South Carolinian! It was amazing. He's the exact definition of Southern Cute and was wearing boat shoes and a Rusty Wallace baseball cap. He said y'all and asked what we were fixin' to do. He picked me out for a yankee immediately. (The canadians think I have a southern accent... who knows.) Anyway Ben and I are family now, because I love him for being so southern.
So after some touring and some kebabs, I ended up at Lux with the Canadian Law boys who I've named Big-E, Mikey, and Jimbo. They were with this girl, Jennie, they picked up a few days ago who speaks Cantonese. So we hung at Lux, danced a bit (Jimbo is quite the dancer for a funky white boy), drank a bit, and I impressed the boys with my ability to regurgitate lines from Anchorman. We stayed until we were asked to leave (apparently on Fridays they close at 3:30 and if you are still sipping your drinks at 4 they get snippy. Its that kind of place. The guy who asked us to leave was 5'6", 130lbs and wearing a pink pinstriped shirt. There was really no way he was getting the respect of 3 sizable mounties.)
Eventually we left and went somewhere for fishballs and wantons then headed home. Not the most fun I've ever had, but I didn't have to see anyone throw up and I got to wear my fishnet stockings and sleeves all over Wan Chai and Lan Kwai Fong. Plus I'm now in with the Canadians who seem like a fun crowd.
On a whole other topic, this afternoon Alli and I were making lunch and found Bend It Like Beckham on TV in english. Made my whole afternoon.
Fishballs for all-
Abby
posted by Abby-Wan Kenobi at 11:19 PM
2 Comments:
Commenting is so easy. You should do it every time you read. :)
Commenting is easy - like did you get your homework done? Does HKU have anything like a LIBRARY? How are the Mounties doing academically? Just Wondering, love ya!
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