Last Night at Zouk

By "last night" I mean, yesterday night. Not that I am never going there anymore.

Got into velvet using the free entry promo from citi(shitty)bank.

We (some of the usual + ys) wanted to check if moet was having promo (like cheap + one-for-one). Nope. Wasn't.

(skip to the blue portion....this is a boring entry with no point)

We sorted decided to gather at members' bar instead. It was still pleasantly roomy when we were in there but soon the crowd grew....and somehow, some people in members', beautiful as they might be (surgically enhanced, cosmetically overloaded or *surprise surprise* natural), think that they are supremely important, more important than others and lose their civility and courtesy at the door. But, it's the same elsewhere in the club, members' bar notwithstanding.

met a number of VS guys. quite sizeable...ys, yf and i are vs. so was nelson who was amongst the crowd...met my no there, he is from there as well. actually, there are quite a number of vs guys in my ship. considering the officer corps, from CO, XO, Ops O, Comms O, WEO, WO and NO, there are 4 vs guys. what's with vs and the navy? there are another 3 more vs guys in the squadron. amazing. and we are all within the same 4 year band...sec 1-4. so....anyway...back to zouk.

Back at Zouk......

We were at members and saw this group of "very happy" men and "normal happy" men and a number of mediacorpses starlets/celebrities. very yawn actually. except ann kok. she is so petite and looks so shy while queueing up for the ladies. ken also join in the queue. and when ken returned, he had this to say. That ann kok entered the toilet v vacated which he used after. So exciting. So maybe I must scream that cynthia koh stubbed out her cigarettes in the ash tray in front of me (wow). Should have recovered the butt, put it up on ebay or yahoo auction. Oh and maybe I should say that she brushed past behind me (so exciting!) and was eyeing me the whole night! (what a lie!).

Anyway....the main reason I am blogging about this "sojourn" in members' bar at Zouk is this:

I bought a bottle of absolut vodka. Everybody knows it is from Sweden. Like lousy sven goran eriksson and flat packed ikea.

So before that the "supervisor" of bar no. 5 (members' bar) was telling ys and i about the three different price range for vodka. three categories: house pour, quality and premium. the premium varietal he mentioned was grey goose.

so i said, orh, the french one. supervisor said, actually it is from poland. I was bewildered. that is a very rare grey goose. maybe during winter, instead of flying south, it flew east. or fuck, this grey goose got it's bearings all wrong.

no point arguing. grey goose 100% from france, that's why it is so freaking regarded and expensive. but fucking seriously. vodka, as the name suggests (russian i think, voda), means water. because it looks like water, and there is minimal after taste. although it's high in alcohol content. the only thing polish about grey goose is the cap. it's a cork cap, just like chopin and belvedere, which are the actual premium vodka from poland.

to zouk: think it's time to educate your supervisors. especially at the members' bar. or hire me lah....

there is a little bit of story in vodka drinking over the last decade that is lost on many people who drink "premium" vodka. grey goose, belvedere, chopin were all introduced into North America in 1996/7. mainly because of the "sophistication, sex and stylish" factors being marketted by these vodka brands. the main culprit is grey goose. it's a marketting idea pushed forward by an american (cannot remember who) who wanted a "premum" vodka for the "hoodwinked".

If you can't tell your shiraz apart from your sauvignon, like me, please.....it's worse when it comes to vodka. Any vodka is ok.


But Grey Goose is still from France. I hope they win the world cup. Not the goose. The cocks. les bleu coq. Or is it coq de bleu? whatever. facque.