We went out on the 19th to have a "pre-exam" party for Vanessa's friend Sai. She got a table at Volar and we all went down a bit earlier to avoid the push to sit, drink, and dance. I was introduced to Sai's and Vanessa's friend Mabel, owner of the shop
Pink Martini(Shop 02, G/F Bartlock Centre, 3 Yiu Wa Street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, 2574 1498). Mabel runs the shop with her younger brother, the designer for the store. When I went the first time I was with Cherie who told me about how she admired the shop before she opened up her own little boutique, Lollipop. We chatted that night and tried to get her drunk, she mentioned something about usually yelling profanities when she's drunk, but we didn't seem to get her drunk enough.
Tuesday we had a little dinner party for Tiffany. Her birthday was actually the day before, but due to commitments to her family we decided to hold her dinner the next day. I really fretted over all the aspects of this dinner. Tiffany's only request was that we have Japanese food that night. I asked my Japanese tennis companions about restaurant recommendations. Vanessa and I walked around checking out shops and looking at menus. In the end I settled on a restaurant Shigiyaさん recommended called Kichi (吉, 6/F., Tern Plaza, No. 5 Cmeron Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon H.K., 2368 0000). The atmosphere wasn't too bad, though we had a little problem with dripping air conditioner water. The food tasted great, but the service was lacking. They didn't allow us to take pictures of the food either. Sandra brought a cake from
Cova, but we were scared off by the $150 HKD cake serving charge and decided to take that money and go for drinks nearby wear we could cut the cake and enjoy a drink as well.
Tiffany isn't the easiest person to buy a gift for. I've given her several gifts in the past, none of which I've seen her use. Since coming to Hong Kong she has definitely been more experimental in terms of fashion and looks. While searching for a present I managed to find a white thin belt at
Diesel that I thought suited her perfectly. With the colours she usually wears I thought the belt would compliment her nicely so I called up my friend at Diesel to see if I could use her staff discount (it was a new season item).
Everyone seemed happy with the end result, and we had an enjoyable evening celebrating it with a close friend.
Wednesday Gloria called me up after work to go see a shooting for a short film that she was helping with. The other day she had asked me to try on clothes for some actor, because she was choosing clothes from one of their sponsors. On paper the guy had nearly exactly the same specifications as me. Height and bust size were suppose to be identical so I was really interested to see who this actor was. It turns out the measurements were more like guide lines in this particular case. They were shooting in some residential place near Tung Chung. Because they had to keep the noise down they had all the windows closed and the air conditioner was turned off. The room was incredibly hot. I spent most of my time chatting in the hallway with the female lead, Peggy, Gloria, and the artistic adviser Rocky. We were randomly talking about martial arts and I mentioned Fred's name. I didn't know his Chinese name so I called him up and he ended up chatting away with Rocky, whom he knew already from
TVB.
Labels: Birthdays, Friends, Hong Kong
The night before the
junk trip I went out to Causeway Bay to wish Jenn a happy birthday. She celebrated it with friends, many of whom I remember from her own massive junk trip a while back. Since I was out and I got a call from Diana and Ted who were out as well, we decided to meet up and I took them over to Volar in Central. On my way there I ran into Cathy on the mini-bus. She sat right behind me actually and decided to call me to see if that was really me sitting in the front. Volar has been a pain recently to get into, because of the sheer amount of people viciously pushing to get up to the bouncers. Once inside I ran into Vincent and his friends and we danced and hung out for a while. I had a pleasant surprised when
two pretty girls that I know got up on the stage to dance for us. I managed to snap a picture for them.
After about an hour of sleep I grabbed my gear and headed down to Central to meet up with Maria and Vanessa. Vanessa ordered Nepalese food from a place near Soho called Lovely Corner. Mr. Sing packaged up the food nicely for us and even offered us some of his spicy tea. We jumped into a taxi and got the food down to the Central pier on time. The weather looked like pretty bad, but we got onto the boat and tried to keep our spirits up.
Actually it turned out quite well. The water was perfect for people who wanted to learn how to wake board. Sharon surprised us all by being the super star wake boarder of the group. She managed to help me fixed some of my wave jumping problems. We had a lot of competent wake boarders that day actually. Jenn, Monique, and Ricky managed to make it on board after a night of partying. They're always a lot of fun to be around. We had a little "murder" game towards the end of the trip and Jenn's cousin Danielle turned out the be the super deceptive murderer of the group. Some of us, me, were always accused of being the murderer. Even by our own loved ones.
The food was good, the company was good, and we all made a lot of new friends. I big success in my book.
Labels: Friends, Hong Kong, Sports
I received a call yesterday from the editor at
JUICE magazine to see if I had time to help cover an event at California (G/F, California Tower, 30-32 D’Aguilar St, LKF, Central, 2521 1345.) in Lan Kwai Fong. It was apparently
the finals in Hong Kong for the
DMC World DJ Championship 2007. They just needed someone to take a few shots of the event and especially of the winner of the night,
DJ Tin Ho. After the event we braved the rain and rushed over to Club No. 9 to catch a little bit of their anniversary party. I don't go out clubbing so much these days. I like it when there's more of a focus to go out.
Labels: Clubbing, Friends, Hong Kong
I went clubbing on Saturday, which it seems like I haven't done for a few weeks. There was no real purpose to it except to get out. I'm not working these days so I've been limiting the amount of socializing that I do.
Saturday we ended up at Pi, the No. 9. Vanessa's tennis buddy, Kelvin, is leaving HK so we spent the night partying with him and his large group of female friends. Kelvin's pretty easy to get along with so I asked them both to join me Sunday to play tennis.
There wasn't a lot of people out Sunday playing tennis. The people that I've introduced to the group have apparently been labeled as "my group". We had some good practice that day. It was interesting watching Vanessa beat down Uchidaさん at tennis. She literally knocked his racket out of his hands. She's been helping me improve my form so that I'm not such an embarrassment.
Sunday was also Sandra's birthday, but we ended up with
a little get together on Monday instead. I had intentionally planned out out this way, based on Vanessa's recommendation, to take advantage of the
2 for 1 Super Mondays deals. We ended up with a nice dinner at
Madisons with Tiff, Gloria, Kazue, Ronny, and our surprise guest
Alvin. Flora helped me pick up the Christian Dior
Summer Play Pink Essentials (263) lip gloss/die. You feel the happiest giving a present when the person tells you that they wanted to buy it themselves.
It has been gloomy and raining lately here in Hong Kong. Vanessa and I are a bit worried because she has a junk trip planned for this Sunday. I'm guessing this is partially due to the
Typhoon that hit Japan. Hopefully things turn out okay.
Labels: Birthdays, Friends, Hong Kong
