Clubbing.

Didn’t do anything too constructive today because apparently the web service provider is not entirely willing to cooperate with us fully for the website that I’m building. So I was pretty much lazing around in the office throughout the day, apart from helping Lily with some word document (like inserting the hanyu pinyin for the Chinese words into the document) and helping Lee Tong to sort some hotel bookings out.

The whole gang here at DJY was discussing about going clubbing and so we did today, together with Edwin’s German friend who’s called Martin. We went to South Maoming Road, where a lot of pubs, clubs and bars are located. I read in an article saying that the club called ‘Babyface’ is a nice place to be at, so we popped by the place despite the 40 RMB entrance fee. I guess the place must be great because it was totally jam-packed with people, so much so that I hardly have any space to move. Basically Babyface is like a typical club in Mohamad Sultan Road, not too classy with its music, but attract a lot of people nonetheless. I couldn’t really figure out what they were playing in there, cos it wasn’t like the clubs in Singapore where you can identify what genre of music they play after a couple of tracks. I somehow have the feeling that the DJ plays whatever is around his turntable. After staying inside there for about 10 minutes, we came out and moved onto another pub called Blue Frog. That pub is like what you’ll get at the Raffles Place side of Boat Quay, where the foreigners are. We went there and had a couple of drinks. I had a Long Island Tea and a Run & Cola. I think both drinks were quite decent, and the 80 RMB I paid in total for the two drinks were about reasonable as far as I’m concerned. We had a very nice chat inside the pub, and some memories of Mambo came rushing in because we were talking about clubbing in Singapore.

After the whole clubbing session, I really began to miss Zouk a lot. It’s not as if the people here don’t club – in fact they club much harder than the average Singaporean, and the people who go clubbing seem to belong to a more mature crowd (at least that’s what South Maoming Road is giving me the impression), but somehow I think the DJing is still not up to standard yet. They tend to play the same track for way too long, and the way they mix the music isn’t exactly brilliant. I don’t know how bad they’ll feel about themselves if they see people like Tony Tay and Andrew Chow in action. Definitely much room for improvement. But then again, this whole clubbing culture isn’t still very much in-built among the Shanghainese, so I guess a good Chinese DJ would emerge somewhere sometime in the future.

It’s the weekends, finally. At last a chance to sleep a bit longer. My alarm clock kinda failed me for the past two days, so it’s nice to know that you don’t have to depend on it.

Have a great weekend.