Girl Friend Weekend Day 2: London

Went clubbing in Leicester Square with my girl friends for our second night. Originally, we plan to go to Oxygen but after seeing the whole place, we left. The people looked too casual and we didn't like the vibe. They lack toilet too and the toilet in the main bar is not too presentable - broken tiles on the floor. With my lack of planning, we ended up in Zoo bar where Doris went the previous week with her girl friend. She said the music and crowd is okay and the place isn't that expensive. SOLD!

Love it! Saw this on our way to Leicester Square.

Miss Ailema and Donna. We were both wearing body con dresses that night.

Doris, Ailema and Donna. Darlene took our photo.

Doris and Donna pre-dancing. We each had double shots of vodka before we left Doris' place. :)

Donna and her money maker. Hahaha!

Ailema, Darlene, Doris and Donna also known as Alex, Mel, Bianca and Cassie. We gotta have pseudo name every time we go out in case someone we aren't interested in hit on us. LOL!

Strike a pose girls! I was wearing an 8 quid dress from Oasis, Donna got hers from Warehouse and Doris' dress is from Oasis as well.

I know you love this photo. This was taken while she was dancing. FIERCE!

Oh God! Boring pose. This was also taken while I'm dancing and I look boringgggg!

Pre-Pole photos. Yes, we aimed for the pole AGAIN.

Post dancing photo.

Possibly one of the best night out with my girl friends. So much things happened that night and so much creepy guys as well. We are still learning the art of subtle rejection. Reviewing the events of the night, we came up with these funny stories:

1. We aimed for the pole and was able to get up on a Saturday night. Everything is possible if you set your mind into it. LOL!

2. While dancing on pole, group of guys moved in front of us, they were shouting and laughing, we weren't interested on any of them so we carried on dancing and ignore them.

3. During our dance breaks, I saw a Pringle Vending Machine and tried buying one. I later learnt that a coin was stuck on the slot. After giving up, a guy tried chatting up with me. I made small chat with him and went straight to my girl friends. His friend later approached me and told me that his friend thought I'm very attractive and if I can dance with his friend later. I said yes thinking he will give up. That was a very juvenile approach! I like a confident guy and who is courageous enough to ask me to dance. We were in a club for F**** sake. After 30 mins or so, the actual guy came back and ask if I can dance with him. I took my friends along with me. I saw another red flag, he didn't take my hand in a crowded dance floor and he almost lost me. I like a guy who can lead me and who wears the pants in the relationship. When we finally was able to dance, we weren't chatting at all. I have to come up with questions. He didn't even ask for my name. I asked for his, He said Sasan and he's from Iran. Told him that my name is Alex.

4. Thought Sasan gave up but everytime we went to the dance floor, he and his friends followed us. C-R-E-E-P-Y!!!

5. While sitting on a long side chairs(kinda like a sofa only steel) a guy tried sitting in between Donna and Doris. We were trying to reject him subtly but he is too persistent so before he found his spot, I took Donna to the dance floor and Doris and Darlene followed.

6. What do you do when dance with your girl friends in a small circle and people try to dance with you? We move cause we weren't interested. When a guy/s is/are pushy, we say NO straight to their face.

7. Doris got a peck in the forehead once again by a random passing stranger. She made a face of disgust. PRICELESS!

8. When we see that a guy is about to approach us, we make ourselves busy by chatting or laughing. At one point, I was speaking with Doris and wasn't giving enough love to Donna she said, Please talk to me, I don't wanna end up talking to the creepy guy who is eye balling her.

9. We learn not to make eye contact unless we are interested with the guy.

10. We laughed at the non-stop salsa dancer on the pole.

11. We laughed at the stupid people and their dresses. We make fun of people who looked like filos or celebs. One looked like Batista, one with Elvis sideburns and one who looks like a reporter. They were not in their costumes, mind you.

12. We laughed at the black guy who got a boner.

Such a fun night I tell you. We got home at 4AM cold, hungry and bare feet. High heels pain! Think Donna suffered the most.

Bank Holiday Weekend

Day 1: Reading Festival

Remember my blog about queueing for hours for festival tickets? This is what it was for! We started late as my friend Melay couldn't leave work early and I don't want to go alone as it is my first time to go to festival here in the UK. To be honest, I didn't know what to expect. I have this idea that the place is packed with drunk, drugged and crazy people but it was tamer than I thought. Getting in is easy, we showed our thrice, one for letting us in cause we have tickets, then another for checking if the ticket is valid and third for double checking if the ticket is a resale and if the rip on the ticket match. On the fourth time, we have to exchange our tickets for a wristband. We were surprised once inside, they have tents set up - totally expected cause people camped for 3-5 days on site, generous amount of loos, ferris wheel, stalls everywhere from clothes, foods, memorabilias and to camping equipments! Yes, you can camp out, not bring anything and buy everything on the spot. It will cost you loads of pounds though! Once on the stage site, we were faced with another queue where the marshalls check for untampered wristbands. They have stages set up in the ground but we only saw 3 of them, Introducing Stage, NME/Radio 1 and Mainstage. Noone was performing on the Main Stage when we got there so we went to the next best, NME stage where Friendly Fires was performing. They rocked the house and everyone was enjoying them play! We left with enough time to buy a pint of cider and just before the Kaiser Chiefs performance. I was a bit disappointed with their set. I was actually looking forward for them to play. Aside from the bad sound system(it goes from loud to soft to loud again), it felt like the band didn't enjoy themselves. Sorry Kaiser Chiefs Fans. They sang Oh My God I Can't Believe It as their last song and left. With band break, me and my friend thought that the crowd will clear up so we can move to the front and have a better view of the Main Act for the night - Kings of Leon but the crowd had piled up! They were thinking the same thing that we were thinking! Hahaha! I think I must have gotten the full experience. One Kings of Leon first few songs, I was showered with a pint of drink. It hit me directly in the eye and with contact lens on, it burnt! I gotten over of the pain quickly and focused all my attention to the band. Next thing you know, you had pee on you. Someone threw pee on the crowd. They couldn't wait to go and filled their cider cup with pee. Can I also add that I got elbowed in the cheek? The crowd went wild when one of the songs were played and everyone was dancing/slamming on each other. Me and my friend had to dance with our hand on our faces as to not get hit again. :P One of the guys got hit and he strangle the guy who hit him. He also told him not to touch him again. The guy on my right was high and couldn't handle himself. The people around tried helping him but they all got pissed off with him at the end and had a fight with him. Ohhh, festival fun! Kings of Leon set lasted for 1.5 hours and the festival ended at 11:30PM. I know, too early but in the UK you have to have permits on everything plus there are loads of houses in the vicinity.

Before the Keiser Chiefs Performance. I was fully made up cause I went to see Ate Macy. It was her last day at Lancome and they haven't got any customers that day. We made full use of the time(and make up) and did 2 make up tests.

Reading Festival Main Stage. This is the only good pic that I got cause this is still minutes away from the actual performance.

Me and my friend Melay with our ciders.

Left side cider face, right side piss face, smudge make up. Think puke will complete it all. Yikes!

That's how I looked like that night. My disposable 2 quid shoe from Primark in case it gets muddy.

Day 2: MJ Tribute Concert

It should have been MJ's 51st bday. When my friend Petal asked if I wanted to see MJ's Tribute concert in Jazz Cafe, I said yes immediately. We agreed to meet early so we can both have dinner. We went to a Carribean Restaurant called the Mango Room where we both have Camden's Famous Meal - a curried goat and we had rice with black eyed peas and a mocktail each. To be honest, I don't know what a black eyed peas is so I had to ask Petal and the waiter to explain what it looked like. :P It was a lovely dinner complete with girly gossips. LOL! After dinner, we met up with P&J(they are on a credit crunch). I got ID'd on the door as usual and was lucky to be allowed in. He was like, your bday quick. Now, I don't perform well under pressure so I was scared that I would forget my bday or something.

The concert didn't start on time,online it says, door opens at 7PM and we assume that it will start at half 7. We were all tired from standing esp me with my usual KILLER HEELS so when Phil sat on the floor, I couldn't help myself but sat on his knees. Didn't last long though. I don't want him to break his knees cause of my weight! LOL! Photo of P&J.

Petal and Me.

P&P. Phil and Petal. We took few photos while killing time. Jen went to the loo before we started taking photos.

They had different performers that night who is at one point have direct connection with MJ. He is one of them. Most of them are from America BTW. I especially love when one of them did a reggae rendition of MJ's song. Reggae as most of you know is one of my fave music genre. For some reason, her song brought me to one of my happiest memories. 2 hours is worth the wait. We had to leave early though as we need to catch the train back to Reading.

Day 3: Vishal's Wedding

When I learn that my friend Luke is going to Vishal's Wedding, I asked him if I could go. First, I like weddings(I'm that cheesy) and second, I want to see an Indian Wedding. To be honest, I was lost with the wedding. I didn't know what was going on and why people were chatting instead of watching the wedding itself. If that was my wedding, I'll be disappointed with my guests. Guess they saw so much weddings, it wasn't that special to them.

I asked someone what's going on, he said, they were chanting so the groom will come out of the car and go to the ceremony. Lovely Saris don't you think?

Me and my good friend Luke. He was back in England for a week. Sorry for the bad photo sexy babes, you didn't smile in time. :P

Think that would serve as a offering to the bride. They were holding Saris on closer inspection.

That's Vishal on the chair.

His wife in Red. Auspiscious Wedding Colour for Indians. I wish you could see how intricate the detail in the dress was. It was embellished with crystals and beads, I think. Look wasn't able to take good photo when people are carrying her to the ceremony stage.

We left at 5:30, 5 hours after the ceremony started. We then head to a pub called Bald Faced Stag(Don't ask me why. Pubs here got weird names!) where we each had a drink. Everyone was full at this point apart from Graham who skipped lunch. After a drink, we went to Angel and to another pub called Nags Head. Luke informed me that Nags are horses. Thanks sexy! After few drinks, we head to Ridizio Rico where we had all you can eat meat. We were lucky, we were served at least 10 different meats in the span of 15 minutes and everyone was struggling to down the food at that time. Luke skipped dinner though. Poor guy wasn't feeling too well.

While having a meat break, me and Luke took photos. I took photo of him and he took stupid photo of me in his mobile. Thanks sexy for rescuing me from my high heels. Loved the fireman lift!

Repost - 80s Costume Party

I only have 7 weeks left in the UK. I am determined to go with a bang. I am planning endless leaving dos until the UK gets sick of me and the UK border force takes me direct to the airport. Anyway, one of them is an 80s costume party with my college friends. They got one 80s bar in Reading. I told them that we should dress up. Any Ideas? I can only tolerate the flash dance costume - black leotards and loose shirt. I am too boring I know. I still have a month to buy my 80s outfit. HELPPPP!!!

UPDATES:

So we are not going Full on 80s now. No offense to 80s lover but I can't stand neon colours even if it's for the name of fun. So I altered the outfit to modernised 80s. Here are my take:

Photos taken from style.com - Balmain Collection

Potential Outfits:

1. All Black - Black Leggings(or Jeggings), Killer Black Heels, Black top and a Sequined Jacket.

2. Embellished Dress. I saw loads on high street but beyond what my budget permits.

3. Acid Wash Jeans, High Heels, T-shirt and Embellished Jacket.

I will be all over the high street tom. Wish me luck! :)

24th Bday is my passport to being wild

Loving her Gladiator Heels!

Donna wearing a Topshop Playsuit, H&M belt and New Look Gladiator Heels

My Crazy Girlfriends!

Darlene wearing Dorothy Perkins Dress and New Look shoes and Doris(in Fuschia) wearing New Look and Unbranded shoes

The Free Champagne!

STRIP HIM!

Free Drinks made us crazy

CHEERS!

YES!

My body shot turn

Lick it Good!

FACT: I went drinking for 3 days. The photos above were from the second day. First day was Donna's bday, Second day was mine and Third day was broken hearted Donna day.

I wasn't scared about turning 24. In fact, I look forward to it cause I made it a point to celebrate this year. Mind you, it wasn't normal for me to have parties cause I hate being centre of everyone's attention so I broke my celebration into 3 just like my list said, Dinner and Clubbing, Trip Abroad(on my next blog) and Paintball.

I was happy on my 24th. Me, my friends and my family went on a dinner and we went clubbing. It fell on a Wednesday so entrance is free and drinks are cheaper than usual. We had one tequilla each and proceeded to 2 rounds of tequilla body shots. Rai then got us cocktail drinks, Me and Donna got Mai Tai on the first round, Darlene and Doris got Long Island. I tried Doris and I must add that I LOVE THE LONG ISLAND COCKTAIL. Taste like Iced Tea. :-P So on my next cocktail, I got Long Island then we had champagne and I forgot the rest. It was a fun and crazy night. :)

vodka tricked me!

Who gets hang over over 3 Vodka Lemonades? I AM! I woke up this morning with 9 hours of sleep feeling so horrible! How can my trusted friend Vodka trick me like this when it knows that I have a party to attend to tonight?! Crazy mind working again.

I discovered things about me last night.

1. I can't converse with people that I don't hang out with on a regular basis. I can only listen to them talk, comment for a bit or laugh at their jokes but I can't seem to fit in. What's wrong with me? I haven't figured that out. I spoke with few friends about this and they can emphatise with my sentiments.

2. I am more comfortable hanging out with the Filos.

3. I want to get all and experience all. I'm a serial double-booker.

4. I love Partying and Going Out with people that I know.


Someone needs to enrol herself in socialising class, don't you think so?