Thursday, January 01, 2009

NYE @ A971 & Helipad

This would be one of my craziest NYE celebration to date.....given the fact that I normally would just reside at home and do the countdown with Gurmit Singh on tv..

We (Charlie, dennis x2, yh,xl and myself) started with dinner at this Thai restaurant alongside boat quay. Had our fill and decided to find a place to chill out....
Timbre was our first choice given the location....no seats
Helipad was our next choice.....got our free cover before 10pm....but no action
Cafe Iguana was third........no seats
Brewerkz was next in line since it is right beside........no seats
finally we found a place between Cafe Iguana and Brewerkz called A971 Cafe......pretty decent place....and had 1-4-1 drinks....so yaaay.....

First round was some delectable cocktails which has some japanese twist in it
then....we decided to open a bottle of Wolfschmidt Vodka so that we can down it with silly games like pick the smallest card, Indian poker and its derivatives





















Charlie loving his vodka

















Indian poker and xl is already red after her cocktail

















Lots of tongue actions during the night

















Picture taken after we did our countdown with 1/8 of the fireworks









Vodka apparently wasn't enough so we ordered a round of cabernet and by that time I was swaggering a little but still conscious......far from drunk...........lol......and xl is progressively getting redder and redder.....she forbids me to post some photos of her and I will just leave it as that....haha..

After our wine and when everybody was a little euphoric, we decided to return to Helipad and party a little bit......I really can't remember much except us dancing, yh slapping a caucasian and some dude introducing himself......other than that everything was a blur.....

















One of the rare shots we have as a group in the club

When everything was all over, I was slightly more sober and I could not freaking hail a cab for the life of me.........Clarke quay had people littered all over waiting for cabs........so I decided to walk a little bit further......City hall.....no cabs.......raffles hotel.......no cabs......bras basah......no cabs.......parkview square.....no cabs.......Actually there were cabs...just that all of them were on call....so smart me decided to call for a cab.....and service was unavailable....I had no idea what was going on so I just continued walking and I finally hailed a cab at lavender.......It took me an hour walk to get a cab.....a first definitely....

But nonetheless it was one hell of a NYE to welcome 2009......no more Gurmit Singh for me anymore..