February 3, 2007

  • In the PRC VIP

    After 3 weeks in the city I have finally ventured out to a club on friday.

    I met a coworker that went to school and lived in montreal for 8 years.
    He took me out to his friend's club on friday night. Apparently it just opened up recently.
    The club is a midsized club with 2 floors.
    1st floor is the club and the 2nd floor is the VIP.

    I met the owner of the club outside and his staff led us up to the VIP. The music playing was hip hop, r&b mainly from north america but a few songs from korea and china. Basically top 40 with some asia pop feel. Since my coworker is in his 30s he doesn't really know music. A Fruit platter and a massive bottle of Hennessy was setup with an assortment of mixers. Bottled tea is mainly used to mix the drinks. Each VIP Table has their own hostess. She lights your cigarettes, mixes the drinks and pours shots for you. My coworker told me that there is an employee that works that who's sole purpose is to bring single females up to the VIP to introduce them to single men. In china it doesn't matter if you have looks. Money and power is what matter. I saw tons of balling but mad ugly chinamen there with a train of females just hanging out with them.

    So after playing dice for 2 hours i was feeling pretty buzzed. The music stops and a band goes on. But they perform hip hop songs. You have no idea how terrible Dr Dre's The Next Episode sounds karaoked by a mainlander. Dancing to urban music is NOT a strong point for the locals at this club.

    The fashion at the club was basically high end brand name everything. This was a balling club. Admission is expensive compared to salaries here so only the rich can afford to come.

    The owner was a really nice guy but has that san-gai aura. Can't really say that much more about that.

    Overall the experience was nice. Everything was on the house. Now thats REAL VIP. I didn't realize how drunk i was until i started stumbling around leaving the club almost tripping down the stairs.

    Next week i'm suppose to head out with a big group of coworkers to another club. Pretty interested to compare an affordable local club to this baller club.

    on another note...everyday i see someone that looks identical to someone back home. i guess with 2 billion chinese in the world it makes sense that a few people here and there might have a few lookalikes...

    Margaret sent me pics of her visit to Dave's house:
    My GOD DAUGHTER ISABEL:-

    she's going to be a handful. found a fanban honda jacket for her the other day....hehehe

    anyways...time for bed