The Weekend that Never Ended...
Yes, yes, yes this weekend has been one of those weekends when you don't know where you are or what day it is. Well we did have a three day weekend but we went out on Thursday night. It wasn't your regular Thursday night outing. We went to Osaka and pulled an all nighter. We went to a drum and bass club to regain our youth and the perception that we are not getting old.
We got to Osaka around 9 and decided to chill and grab a bite to eat at Wendy’s. Doesn’t sound all too great but they had coke and we had Jack Daniels. Our all-nighter guide Matthew Konopka, being more experienced in the all night party scene advised that club drinks would be too expensive especially if we stay there for 5 hours or so. So we decided to get the alcohol flowing before we got there. After several tall cups of Jack and Coke we headed for the club.
The place we went to was called the UnderGround. It was a nice and decent looking club that had many bars, waiters, and acid-trippin’ people. It was a nice place, reminded me of the Wave if they cleaned the place up a little like Zanzabar. Anyway we found a both to take over for the whole night and decided to get our one drink per entry. At the bar we found out that the drinks were only 500 yen! That meant that we could drink the whole night away and it would just be like drinking back home at the club.
The night after that was a usual club night, people taking respective breaks from dancing, checking out girls that were scantily clad, acid trippin’ people, and yelling into each others’ ears. They even had a DJ named Marco Bailey. Supposedly he’s a popular DJ. I think he was the only Caucasian dude there next to our friend Konopka. And then the downfall of Chris began…
I felt really sick and there are a few reasons that I would like to blame for my stomach doing flips that night after 3…
1- Not eating dinner/starchy foods before a night of alcohol.
2- Not being able to take a nap before an all nighter.
3- Drinking beer on a train on an empty stomach.
4- When given a choice to eat dinner, I decided to eat Wendy’s ultra greasy bacon cheeseburger meal with chili cheese fries.
5- After the initial beer beverage drinking Jack and Coke. “Beer before liquor never sicker, liquor before beer all in the clear.
6- Drinking an uncountable number of gin and tonics.
So naturally the next thing to do is throw up, your only choice to feeling better. So everyone was getting a little bored with the club so we decided to go to a bar a chill until the first train was available. On the way there, I threw up in a storm drain. Don’t you think its weird that the whole time you’re drinking you don’t want to throw up but when you do you ask yourself why you hadn’t done that earlier? After wandering around the shady back streets of Osaka we get to a bar called Nudic. I personally thought it was a nice cozy bar where the bartender spoke English and was very friendly. Krystal on the other hand thought the bar was just a sleazy as the streets due to the secret room people kept going in and out of and a lady bartender that decided to where garters with her shorts and knee high socks.
Naturally around 5-5:30 people started to get cranky. We left the bar and headed to the station to start out long trip back home. By the time we got home it was about 7 and only thing I had strength for was a shower. And we crashed….
When we woke up it was about 4:30 in the afternoon and vegged the rest of the night. We made beef stew and mac salad which was really good. It reminded me of home, even if it were only for a little while. That night we watched Master and Commander, the one with Russell Crowe. And went to sleep again…
When we woke up Saturday morning we thought to ourselves that the weekend is still here and that we should not take it for granted. Saturday day, we meet up with Krystal’s cousin Makoto and went to lunch. We went to a restaurant that had a Japanese garden with very teishokus. Krystal’s cousin never having gone around Kyoto wanted to see more gardens so we went to Nijo Castle. It wasn’t as great as the first time we went in the Fall because of the leaves and they seemed to have blocked off a lot of paths that were available to walk through last time. But Makoto seemed to enjoy it nevertheless and we had salvaged our afternoon doing something physical.
But the day was not over yet. We got a call to go to Karaoke with our friend Pat, William, Michiyo, Kieran, and Konopka. It’s always entertaining with Konopka singing Starship, Journey, Huey Lewis, and Foreigner. Man was born to be a lounge singer. But we turned down the invitation to go party at the Kebab place and headed home.
So its Sunday, the weekend that had no end is starting to coming back to reality. Tomorrow is work and a new week, a full week. I guess every now and then you need to break out and remind yourself to party. And we all know that regular weekends are too short to really party so KUDOS to all who took advantage of the long ass weekend and lived it up.
BROKE IT DOWN… HARD!
We got to Osaka around 9 and decided to chill and grab a bite to eat at Wendy’s. Doesn’t sound all too great but they had coke and we had Jack Daniels. Our all-nighter guide Matthew Konopka, being more experienced in the all night party scene advised that club drinks would be too expensive especially if we stay there for 5 hours or so. So we decided to get the alcohol flowing before we got there. After several tall cups of Jack and Coke we headed for the club.
The place we went to was called the UnderGround. It was a nice and decent looking club that had many bars, waiters, and acid-trippin’ people. It was a nice place, reminded me of the Wave if they cleaned the place up a little like Zanzabar. Anyway we found a both to take over for the whole night and decided to get our one drink per entry. At the bar we found out that the drinks were only 500 yen! That meant that we could drink the whole night away and it would just be like drinking back home at the club.
The night after that was a usual club night, people taking respective breaks from dancing, checking out girls that were scantily clad, acid trippin’ people, and yelling into each others’ ears. They even had a DJ named Marco Bailey. Supposedly he’s a popular DJ. I think he was the only Caucasian dude there next to our friend Konopka. And then the downfall of Chris began…
I felt really sick and there are a few reasons that I would like to blame for my stomach doing flips that night after 3…
1- Not eating dinner/starchy foods before a night of alcohol.
2- Not being able to take a nap before an all nighter.
3- Drinking beer on a train on an empty stomach.
4- When given a choice to eat dinner, I decided to eat Wendy’s ultra greasy bacon cheeseburger meal with chili cheese fries.
5- After the initial beer beverage drinking Jack and Coke. “Beer before liquor never sicker, liquor before beer all in the clear.
6- Drinking an uncountable number of gin and tonics.
So naturally the next thing to do is throw up, your only choice to feeling better. So everyone was getting a little bored with the club so we decided to go to a bar a chill until the first train was available. On the way there, I threw up in a storm drain. Don’t you think its weird that the whole time you’re drinking you don’t want to throw up but when you do you ask yourself why you hadn’t done that earlier? After wandering around the shady back streets of Osaka we get to a bar called Nudic. I personally thought it was a nice cozy bar where the bartender spoke English and was very friendly. Krystal on the other hand thought the bar was just a sleazy as the streets due to the secret room people kept going in and out of and a lady bartender that decided to where garters with her shorts and knee high socks.
Naturally around 5-5:30 people started to get cranky. We left the bar and headed to the station to start out long trip back home. By the time we got home it was about 7 and only thing I had strength for was a shower. And we crashed….
When we woke up it was about 4:30 in the afternoon and vegged the rest of the night. We made beef stew and mac salad which was really good. It reminded me of home, even if it were only for a little while. That night we watched Master and Commander, the one with Russell Crowe. And went to sleep again…
When we woke up Saturday morning we thought to ourselves that the weekend is still here and that we should not take it for granted. Saturday day, we meet up with Krystal’s cousin Makoto and went to lunch. We went to a restaurant that had a Japanese garden with very teishokus. Krystal’s cousin never having gone around Kyoto wanted to see more gardens so we went to Nijo Castle. It wasn’t as great as the first time we went in the Fall because of the leaves and they seemed to have blocked off a lot of paths that were available to walk through last time. But Makoto seemed to enjoy it nevertheless and we had salvaged our afternoon doing something physical.
But the day was not over yet. We got a call to go to Karaoke with our friend Pat, William, Michiyo, Kieran, and Konopka. It’s always entertaining with Konopka singing Starship, Journey, Huey Lewis, and Foreigner. Man was born to be a lounge singer. But we turned down the invitation to go party at the Kebab place and headed home.
So its Sunday, the weekend that had no end is starting to coming back to reality. Tomorrow is work and a new week, a full week. I guess every now and then you need to break out and remind yourself to party. And we all know that regular weekends are too short to really party so KUDOS to all who took advantage of the long ass weekend and lived it up.
BROKE IT DOWN… HARD!
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