Base Lounge

Base Lounge

101 Lt. Bourke St.

(Chinatown)

My first clubbing experience in Australia! Later go take Ang Pao (Red Packet). Through the right connections.. (Thanks Carolyn!).. we booked a private room so I could get in for free! Since we got a prvate room, we got VIP treatment so no need to queue to enter! Phew... super long queue... almost half as long as MOS (MOS queue is extremely long.. so half is bad enough already) on a Sat night haha..

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Base Lounge is an Asian Club located in Chinatown, Melbourne. Judging by the crowd, I can tell it's one of the more popular joints. The whole club was spawling with Asians.. Not a single caucasian! They play RNB mainly - English songs of course! The DJs (got a few) were not too bad.. but could be better. Mixing in parts from another song like the words 'Sexy Back' from the song 'Sexy Back' was nice.. but I feel that it doesnt really blend in well with the tempo of the song... DJs themselves also seem to be having more fun on the platform than us haha..

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The club was so Asian in the sense that it has private rooms much like KTV booths were we could sit inside and play... DICE! Yay.. my first time playing dice in a club! Kinda weird at first but later on, it was quite fun. Because there were only 5 of us and one full bottle of Chivas, we had to play drinking games to finish them up. Out of the 5 of us.. only 3 of us could drink.. *pukey time*.

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Upon entry they 'branded' us like cows.. not with UV sensitive stamps but with traditional black ink stamps.

We started out with some drinking games..

And then we decided to explore the club..

Below is a low quality pic (VLC Snapshot) of the bar counter..

Then.. going to the dance floor..

(where is Jackie looking at?)

Then.. we headed back to the room for a break...

Where Ah Ma got her Lucky Break... (05 x '1' on the Dice)

MUCH more drinking and socialising..

Back to the dance floor..

The Base Lounge Crowd:

The place was sprawling with.... GUYS. Although the music was alright, people just seem to be standing around the dance floor doing nothing. There were some girls who could dance and were really showing off their moves.. to the extent that they were grinding each other.. 3 girls.. can u imagine! Room for one more?

Apart from that, very few guys were dancing.. many were just standing on the dance floor gawking at the dancing girls.. Come on' mates! We have more than enough bouncers already... no need extra.. lah. '

'Bouncers' are sill ok... It's those guys who like to 'rub' into people around them that really pisses me off.. I'm cool with it... but can u please rub a girl INSTEAD OF ME?

It was still early though at that time.. around 12.30am.. Clearly.. this crowd needed more booze.

So we headed back to our cosy room to get suppress more of our cerebellum (the part of the brain controlling voluntary muscle coordination and movement).

WHAT! ME again!

*guzzles down* the remnants of my 4th Chivas Green Tea.

With inhibition at 50%.. I was finally having fun!! SO back to the dance floor! Woohoo!

We continued dancing.. this time I was really making fluid movements (thanks to inhibition of my cerebellum)

Then this guy with a bunch of roses approached us and gave each girl a Rose

...on the Dance floor!

I've nv seen anything like this before! Roses while dancing haha.. I looked around and most girls were holding roses in thier hands too. Not all girls though.. think he 'accidentally' missed out those looking like John Travolta in HairSpray.

Then it was back to the cosy room where the girls posed with their Roses..

Which is Nicer? The Roses or ME?

Hehe.. *hic* .. I.. *hic* ..also.. *hic hic* got.. ROSESsss! *slurred speech*

BY then I was quit wasted.. down to my 5th glass and a half.

Then I cant remember the sequence now.. I think we went back to the dance floor one last time.. It was nearly 4am now. The crowd was mostly gone.. but there was this super enthu short guy aka 'Shorty' who was still dancing like noone business. We went down for a while and he self-invited himself into our group and began dancing with.. the girls! Eeew..

So we went back to the room.. rested a while, got our things together and left.. It was 4plus now.. so we walked home from there.. Jackie could still cycle home! (Drink Riding!)

The journey home was long and arduous.. I ended up puking on the corner of The Verve.. (Pictures of the Verve coming soon! We went there for Rock Climbing)

Yay! Home sweet home! Nearly 5 am

Karaoke Mania! @ KBox

Biggest Opto Outing Ever!

This event is arguably the biggest Opto gathering ever! Grand total of 11 people!! So happening! First was dinner at Singapore Chom Chom, a poor, albeit novel imitation of the real Singapore Chomp Chomp is Serangoon Gardens. Dinner -1900 hrs

KBox

52 La Trobe Street Tel. 9663 9663

Darn! I thought I could escape K since coming here.. I was wrong!

Despite the happy outlook... I was DYING inside...

I was the only guy.. (Since 2000 hrs)

..Until Ben arrived! (2130 hrs)

(above) Full strength less Vivien... (2200 hrs)

My Aussie Premiere!

I finally 'broke' after 23oo hrs..

K is a great way to socialise:

Rachel: Come on girls, let's act Cool! :

Err.. why is Amy acting 'Ku' (cry) ?..

Let's try that again..

That's better... (but only Rachel acting cool)

Ah Ma also acting cool..

Jasmine and Rachel singing together..

By now.. most of us were very tired... Endurance K time...

By 0300 hours.. some of us were half dead..

...NOT!!!

Eventually we stayed on to 0400 hrs.. late into the wee hours of the morning! Reached home at 4.40 am... slept by 5.15 am.. Wow! Next day go clubbing!

My Belated B'day Pressies!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEREMIAH!

with love from Singapore

Yay! I finally received my pressies! :

THANKS TO Xiaoping:

I really loved the 2 silk ties, Mindustrie Polo T, Matrix Calculator, SONY ERICSSON W660i and the entire bunch of notes!

Thanks to Ah Kiang Su Su (Uncle Gordon) for making everything possible!

Thanks to SIA for flying my uncle here!

Thanks Mum and Dad!!

I love the pressie u you both gave me!

Thanks friends for coming with me to receive my pressies!

Hehe.. Special thanks to Ben and Hayden for showing up too!

Jasmine's Bday Series 1: Nando's and Brunetti's

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JASMINE!

Our Dearest 'Ah Ma'

We had planned this (in secret) all along! To surprise Jasmine the weekend before her actual birthday. Our friend, Luke even had to miss his badminton training just for this special event! Jasmine and Hao Na had clinic practice till 5.30pm that day, so they met up with us at Melbourne Central, Nando's.

Nando's

MELBOURNE CENTRAL

309 Melbourne Central,

Melbourne 3000

03 9654 9888

A pleasantly surprised Jasmine upon receiving her special Bday Card:

She was happy.. until...

...she opened the card..

It reads.. HAPPY B'day AH MA!!!

Next was her pressie presentation ceremony:

We gave her her all time favourite 'Ah Ma' bag (bottom left) and 'Ah Ma' Scarf...

...complete with 'Ah Ma' Undergarments (Granny Panties)! *Eeew!*

Next, we proceeded with the feast after much (delaying and) fanfare..

This was what we ate:

Nando's Chicken with medium spicyness and low spicyness, fries and chicken Ribs!

JJ Rating: 3/5 - food was quite alright! The spices they use are damn 'shiok'. Real Peri-Peri Peppers. Medium is just right (maybe too spicy for some girls). I loved the fries! When you order 'Ribs', don't expect pork ribs, it's a chicken shop. Expect tiny bite-sized chicken ribs, rather unique! Service could be better though..

BRUNETTI

Brunetti City Square Café - Gelateria - Creperia
214 Flinders Lane
Melbourne VIC 3000

This was where we went after meeting up with my uncle at Crown Casino. That's where I received my belated bday pressies! From Crown, we took a nice stroll down to Flinders where we dropped by at Brunetti! This Brunetti has much lesser selection of cakes and tarts and lacks the cosy atmosphere of the Lygon Branch, but it's a nice place to celebrate.. under the stars!

Looks a little like a Glasshouse..

We asked for a B'day Candle..

That's a huge candle!

A sample of what we ate:

We had to pose quickly for these photos! The sparkler was dying down fast!

After sending Xiao Luke off, we headed home.. Time for fun with Ah Ma new clothes!

Surprisingly, the Granny's looked quite good on us!