Hurt me, did you really think that I could trust you?
Stop me, I couldn't get away from you.
I wanna know why I lose control
You're my desire, you're the sunshine of my soul.
Damn Lush 99.5, where the hell can I find this song on CD? Getting the mp3 is impossible.
Flashback, one week ago -
Friday the 17th
Ben, Lei-Shi-Li and I are at Han's before our much-delayed Star Wars screening. Ben is shooting his mouth off loud as usual, but he forgets that we aren't in Taiwan anymore. People understand English, mate. So methinks the lanky lady in the little black number and her compatriot 5m away from us must not have been too pleased with our table's comments. (Ben: "Shit, why do ugly guys always get the hot chicks? This place is a living testament to that!")
Saturday the 18th
11:00am. I don't feel like going for the meeting. I'm having a stomachache. I shall not go, I decide. One phone call from the President kicks my butt and I'm going 130km/h. And there are still people later than me. Right.
Candice, bored with army talk on the left and OGL-buddy talk on the right, enlightens me on the reality of London law I gave up for the American Dream. KCL ain't that bad after all, despite being in a dumpster of a shitty little building, huh? And UCL, too. If I had better grades, just maybe things would have been different? Who knows. Unfortunately, later it's her chic Beemer versus my miserly Saab - the cool characters opted for the lady's car (which is actually hot as hell after being parked in the sun), while ZL and Dennis opted to let me take 'em to The Ship for the yummy 鱼 片 noodles.
Fast forward to 3pm, Jervois Lodge. Charles Tan declares: "Ummm, we've got a situation. Shengwu's not coming for dinner because of duty, Crystal's got work, Suching's not coming if neither Arts personnel are coming for want of familiarity, and Denise and Nattie are bailing too!" Gee, that seems to be about half the guest list, isn't it? I thought we were working on the premise of getting strangers in touch. So much for good guest planning, we were left with Charles, Kokwei, Chris & Teresa with Shineik, Ruijie and Yixian incoming. (I note that I didn't put any effort into this planning. I thought Charles and co. would be able to deal with it)
It strikes me that I should try to salvage the situation by balancing the gender ratio at least. Suching seems to be the most likely candidate for success since she's not actually busy; I contact Cuixian, Dalglish and the abovementioned working Arts people - to no avail. (Stupid Law BBQ.) Oh, well, scratch that plan. How?
Flashback to a few hours ago - Dennis reads a message in a car from Huang Jian: "Dear friends, Yanling is bored and wants to go out, blah blah blah." Discussion on where to club follows, but they seem to concur on just nua-ing before clubbing. Now, I think: Why not come to my home for dinner and nua? Eureka!
Well, my idea for restoring the balance fails; Yanling is the only girl to arrive. Oh well - as if that's not good enough. I'm just worried that Teresa's feeling massively out of place. The food was well taken care of, though, so I forgave the bad HR. See the monstrously devilish chocolate cake below.
The dinner wraps up much earlier than expected - I invited exactly 2 people interested in social drinking, and to top that off I gave them stale beer. If that's not enough to put anyone off I don't know what will, I can't believe I made such a terrible mistake! Sigh.
Fortunately, I was smart enough to think of following Dennis and Yanling to Rouge (with a super extra trip to send Jian to his freaking karaoke). I was misled into thinking the whole bunch of people in Yanling's other group were all from Purdue (therefore if Purdue = wow! for the eyes, then BU = ZOMG!!!1111)
ZL, Jon and I were sad fucks though. I couldn't drink much thanks to the stupid car, and ZL and Jon were somewhere else instead of Zouk/dbl O. I wonder if Dennis enjoyed himself.
Sunday the 19th
The first salsa lesson. MAD SHIT! I've got bad rhythm and so does everyone else! And that Rachel, she seems so pro already, why bother signing up for beginners course har?
And the dream ended, I woke up in ATC and life goes on. Bleah.
posted by Brian @ 9:53 PM
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