Monday, December 22, 2003

Today sebas together took Jamie, dot n me to Clarke quay to see live jazz bands performing. Supposed to meet his fren at ard 8pm but we were a too early so we took the train to Raffles' city n decided to walk through boat quay. Passed by Fullerton, decided to drop in n take a look-see and use their restrooms. When i went in, it was "Waahh.." Nice posh place all lit up for x'mas, polished marble flooring, wif a large indoor koi-filled pond n a revolving door. =P Oh n they haf nice transparent glass wash basins n a sofa in the restroom.

The walk through boat quay was great, wif the cooling breeze blowing in my face and the calm rippling of the water waves. It's a different feeling in when u're there in the morn. I decided tt i wanna go back to sit n stone someday.

The first pub we went to was called 'Crazy Elephant'. The performing area had this picture of an elephant as the backdrop n i had this deja vu feeling tt i've seen this scene b4. How perculiar. Jamie ordered a jug of coconuty-alcoholic-wif 7-up drink i cannot remember the name but it was not bad, tasted sweet n din haf the strong smell of alcohol in it. The band consists of middle aged angmoh peeps wif a cute younger drummer and were playing songs tt had country-blues kinda feel. After 4-5 songs I got bored. =P The female vocalist was not bad but the songs felt kinda similar. The 2 guys were still staring intently at the guitarist. -_-a It's not tt i dun wanna join in the intent staring but
1. my view was blocked by some japanese pple
2. i'm getting bored(n i'm not the only one jamie n dot were bored too)
3. i dun reallie get wad they're so fascinated abt
left that place without sebas' fren cos apparently he was gonna perform there later. Heard tt his fren's father's fren owns the pub. I dun reallie care man. His fren is reallie -_- it's a long explaination, this will b a story for another time.

Next stop, was Harry's bar at the other side of the river. That was wad we went for man, jazz. Piano, bass, drum set, guitar... All throughout the songs, sebas aka music directory was telling me abt the players, improvisation n stuff. Mmmm ok... I think i sorta get it. It's cool how they use their creativity to come up wif the solos just by following the chords, everthing was so impromptu. A black lady, heard tt she was also performing at the Reagent Hotel, sang a few no.s. Wow... I feel abit suaku, but i've neva heard singers like tt upclose. Her lung power was stupendous. ok exaggeration. =P

After tt we proceeded back home. Whilst waiting for the Night Rider this taxi pulled up n the driver said "no midnite charge" After discussion we hopped on the taxi. N the driver was made conversation wif us. He was asking abt the pubs n clubbing, n he told us tt he was over one of the clubs along Mhd Sultan wif his daughter the other day dancing. woah hip uncle. He was asking abt ladies nite cos he was thinking of going to 'Angel' (err.. i think so) the next time wif his wife n daughter. Woahh hip auntie too. Luckily Jamie was there to entertain all his queries cos she's the veteren n the rest of us were clueless. Noticed tt the uncle wasn't wearing any safety belt. -_- Den he asked abt the soccer match b/w man U n i-dunoe-who which was ongoing. He den made a phone call to ask abt the match score wif the help of sebas dialing the no. for him, mind u, he wasn't using a ear piece. Next he speeded like nobody's business. The thingie tt makes a tinkling sound when a taxi goes abv a certain speed limit, was like background count rate read by a GM tube, always present. Frm my position i could see the speedometer n he did a 150km/h. I made sure i had my safety belt on man. Gd thing abt it was reached home quite early round 1.30am. Took a nice warm shower, I totally reeked of smoke n i think my hair still faintly smells of it till now. =(

by tab at 3:06 AM |