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New Year 2008 - Hong Kong

Happy New Year 2008! Actually New Yeas Eve was a lesson in frustration. The thing that makes Hong Kong so great for partying is also it's downfall at times; too many options. I'm not saying that I have too many options. It just seems that everyone else has too many options, and they always try to keep their options open until the last moment.

After the frustrations of Christmas Eve and Christmas day I was hoping we would be more organized as a group about finding a spot where we could count down together. After all isn't NYE about counting down with friends? After Christmas Priscilla ended up going to Osaka to visit Natsumi. I introduced them to my friend Takeshi virtually via email, and apparently they ended up hanging out quite a bit. Which was good for Takeshi and good for them. Prior to her leaving we talked about possibly having our friends gather at the New Years Eve party at Adrenaline Bar & Lounge, mainly because it is one of my favourite night spots in Hong Kong. I just don't go there that often.

My only firm plan that night was a house party at Christine's place. She had just recently renovated and it was her chance to unveil her clean and tidy Hello Kitty apartment. It was a fun night with catered food. I got to meet some of her friends, and to see Alan (who was already drunk coming into the party), Joyce, and Lynda again.

I spent half of dinner making calls to people and keeping Priscilla awake trying to find out what our plan was and to see if everyone would be able to party together. It just wasn't going to happen, by the time we had a plan to meet at Causeway Bay, Henry House, I had about 40 minutes to get down there. Aaron and Leon already ditched to spend New Years Eve with some other of their friends in Lan Kwai Fong. I figured it really wasn't worth the hassle of rushing off to a spot, trying to beat the clock to count down with some friends, when I'm already surrounded by friends in a warm a comfy house watching the fireworks on TV. I heard it was the first time they had fireworks at the IFC 2 tower.

Afterwards I actually ended up in Lan Kwai Fong. I was suppose to meet up with everyone, but my cell phone ran out of battery due to the excessive amount of SMSing that night. Like always the mobile networks were flooded with messages. I sent my messages out about 4 minutes before midnight, but people were getting them about 30 min or more afterwards. I was getting messages well into the next day from some of my friends.

I took a brief walk around LKF and ended up meeting up with Joyce and Daniel to go to Club No.9. I was already doing pretty well that night keeping my expenses down, and luckily because of Joyce's friend Gary we managed to get in without incurring additional expenses. There wasn't a lot of people inside surprisingly, and we all seemed a little tired so we ended up calling it a night early.

It was freezing heading home, the temperature has been pretty cold the last couple of days in Hong Kong. I hope everyone has a better year in 2008.

Labels: Clubbing, Friends, Hong Kong

posted by Tempest7 @ 17:34