五日十月二００七年：金曜日

-Edited, thought of another point and threw it in... :) -

For a short and sweet version please go to ccymie's blog :)

Well.. I think the title is clear enough? Yesterday I went clubbing for… the second time in Malaysia. Can’t really consider the first time I clubbed in zouk Malaysia… cause well I was still Cinderella during that time and left early, and also I couldn’t dance at all at that time, compared to now haha…

Anyway the reason for this post was cause a friend asked me what is the difference between clubbing here and the United Kingdom. So thinking about it, I guess a penny for my thoughts here :p

To the people in the UK, and Malaysia, well read with an open mind, in case further down this post I criticize the clubs in both country. Which is actually definite to happen haha…

First a short introduction as to where I went and with whom. So yesterday I went to a club in KL called Maisons (hope I got the name right), and whom did I go with? Well with huey, satoshi kun, xian ai and 3 of her friends, so that was 7 of us. And after that I met Horng Yang there. Well actually among the friends that I asked he was one of them, but he came separately with his own friends.

Also, met some old schoolmates there, met the blur wei hao (from scouts ;p – explanation for cheese, there were two wei haos in my year back at high school, so the wei hao that we both know is just wei hao and the other one is called “blur” wei hao ;p), we also met Kevin song and chun hao, both were mine and satoshi’s classmate in form one.

Meeting old classmates and schoolmates there, haha and according to horng yang, sau man and Christina ng were there as well, I didn’t meet either, cause well I especially didn’t one to see one of them, and the other one, well I just didn’t see her…

Well, besides meeting old friends, we just got a table some drinks and off to the dance floor till the smoke overwhelmed me, and we left at about 2.15am as we were all tired.

So now that I’m done with that, let’s see, the difference between Malaysian clubs and UK clubs…

Number one I would say the cigarette smoke!!! Ergghhh I hate the smell, and as I am also sensitive/allergic. Causing all sorts of reactions from my body. Most of all causing me difficulties in breathing, leaving me feeling nauseated, coughing, stuck with a headache… (mixed with alcohol, the effects are worse on me…) and the list goes on and on… arggh the smell even stayed in my hair after I showered, but that’s usual…

But well on the other hand, the clubs in the UK were only smoke free after the 1st of July 2007, so actually before that I was clubbing in a place full of smoke as well, but I feel that Malaysians are worse smokers.. The whole place was literally filled with smoke, compared to the clubs that I went to in the UK.

Mango bar wasn’t that smokey, and neither was the student union. Though revolution was quite smokey due to the fact that they had shishas there… but the club in leeds was the best as that was after the smoking ban, at least my allergies aren’t that bad anymore, and I could take a few hours of the smoke, with me constantly drinking water. So, I guess on this round the clubs in the UK wins…

The second thing, is just as important as the first one to me, actually I think it’s very important which made me a little paranoid bout clubbing in Malaysia, but I guess due to our Malaysian society, which is more conservative, and I guess we respect women more here than in the UK, in some sense I felt that I was slightly more safer to club here.

Reason? Well the whole night last night, my ass was not harassed. In the UK unless I was accompanied by a guy friend wherever I went, and/or if I was walking around the club alone, let’s say to look for friends or something, my ass usually gets harassed, which is a real pain, because, well I don’t like to be touched without permission, and well, who gives permission to people to touch their butts? = .=’ [apparently a friend in the UK disputed this fact saying that it's a compliment that they touched my ass.. o_0']

And well guys in Malaysia are more gentlemanly as well, they let you pass and all, most of the time without laying a finger on you, [97% of the time..] so that made me feel kind of safer when I was walking around the club alone looking for my other friends. Also guys in Malaysia don’t simply grab and separate you from your friends to make you dance with them, and at the same time harass you. So this is a plus point for Malaysian clubs I guess.

On another note, the stepping on my feet and pushing [though not much pushing, people here are more courteous than in UK, people here give way - so polite :) ] me around is still as rampant here as it was in the UK, but my attitude is still the same. I finally got pissed after I got stepped on one too many times, that the poor unsuspecting guy in front of me who stepped on me, felt my wrath as I shoved him, my short temper is still the same haha, to get through the crowds when I’m pissed I get kind of rough and push my way through haha… basically I become a bitch when pissed… haha >:p

i don't know whether was it because it was ladies night or what, but those guys who were not dancing but just ogling at girls dancing were a real pain cause they were taking up space, if you ain't dancing, don't hog the dance floor, we are already cramped enough = =' they were the reason it was so hard to walk through...thus resulting in me getting stepped on and losing my temper.. and well guys in the UK they don't do things like that such as ogle....ok... i mean some do, but at least dance with the girls or something... and don't ogle so bloody openly... or do it from the sides... well come to think of it the word "ogle" is kind of harsh, so basically i will say they were staring...

Next issue will be the music, the club that I went to yesterday only played R & B and I’m sure most of you know that I don’t like that genre, though I can still dance to it, once I get the beat. But the songs sucks, even the clubs in the UK plays better R & B, and at least they don’t repeat, there were some songs which were repeated at least three times yesterday… and where was Shakira???!! There was no Shakira…. Arghhh … stupid…

Hmmm~ what else? Oh yes, the crowd was insane, never have I been to a club where you can’t even walk… yesterday’s crowd was mad, it was so packed that you could hardly move, and wherever you dance you get pushed, and it’s so crammed that you could hardly move, what more dance… according to horng yang it’s because it’s ladies night… but I wouldn’t know, since I don’t club… till I got to the UK. even if i club in malaysia, because of the prices i think i will only go if it's ladies night, so i guess it will make no difference as i still wouldn't be able to tell the difference..haha

actually it could have been the same in the UK, but i didn't realise it that much, as i was kind of protected i guess, by the guys, Aansan, Dave, Rory..etc... but still protected by them or not.. the dance floor there wasn't that crammed, as said above, it's atributed to the staring guys, and well why is the dance area so small? get rid of all those bloody tables la... taking up space only.... small club really...

And that same crowd made the place so hot and stuffy, and I felt like I was being slowly suffocated, what with the smoke and all, we didn’t have such problems in the UK…. The lay out and the design of the club is somewhat similar to the UK, the club we went to yesterday, to me is considered small (been to bigger clubs ;p even the union had a bigger dance floor.. and i m not talking about 360..360 is definitely bigger, i'm talking about the dance area in cafe mondail..), so maybe that’s why it’s so stuffy, what with that amount of people in there.

I guess that it could also be the timing as well, in the UK people start dancing around 10.30-11pm, and it just gets hotter (more happening) from then on, and well, it’s as if people take turns dancing and drinking so it doesn’t ever feel that stuffy or crowded (at least you could still move!!), in the clubs in the UK. Malaysians on the other hand seems to be interested only in drinking, and only start dancing after 12… either that or they are shy, and need to get themselves drunk or high first before hitting the dance floor.. Which to me is kind of stupid (the interested in drinking part..)… Cause well I go to clubs to dance, if you want to drink, go to a bar… that’s what UK people do…

also you don't need alcohol to dance wert.. so i guess malaysians are just shyer than the brits, and well we feel pai seh, if we just go out n start dancing when tehre is no crowd, we don't have such problem in the UK cause people will be already there dancing, and we just join in..

Besides that, another thing is price, in the UK cause of the currency one does not really feel like one is spending a lot, as it costs like usually £3-4 to enter a club and drinks may cost you a minimum of £5 (depending on how much you drink it could be less than that as well). But once converted, actually Malaysian clubs are still cheaper, but unfortunately we don’t get much variety as Malaysian clubs goes by bottles, the price also includes how many bottles you open, so that’s the downside, I couldn’t drink what I wanted, but we just had to finish the whole bottle of whatever we got, which was by the way Bacardi Limon… (tastes nice with limejuice though haha, though I would have liked vodka and lime juice instead, it would be the closest I can get to my vodka and lemonade… wonder if they actually have archers and lemonade in the club??)

Workers at the club we went to seem friendly, constantly smiling at us.. I felt super weird cause the one in the UK doesn’t really do that (service with a smile? )… But as we were leaving the bouncer at the exit was an ass.

One obvious difference for clubbing in Malaysia and UK is no coats :p haha in the UK whenever we went out, even though it was summer it could get chilly at night, so we needed coats/jackets, and it gets problematic on where to put your coat as my friends in the UK are all dancers as well, and it was definite that we would hit the dance floor. So I guess Malaysians save a little money on that aspect, that we don’t have to put coats in the cloakroom haha but on a side note, we’ve not experienced losing our coats when we just dumped them at a table… ;p

I can’t think of any more differences but this last one, which is about the allocation of tables. In the UK we can just choose where we want to sit to drink or whatever, but apparently in yesterday’s club, the tables had to be reserved in advance, and well you are designated a table, so we got a table with no chairs and were standing for the whole night. That sucked big time, as we didn’t have a place to sit when we were tired of dancing, such a pain, and I felt that it was stupid as well… reserved my ass!!

So… that’s all I can think of the differences between clubbing in both countries, it all has it’s pro and cons, but personally I prefer clubbing in the UK, no smoke :p and well the harassment can be avoided by getting a trusted guy friend to accompany me, [*Thinks of Aansan and Dave… miss those two guys, especially as my dance partners when we are out clubbing :) (Aansan… where are you?? :p)*] but dancing with huey and ai kun was fun too, and it looks like xian ai picked up some new moves from somewhere hehe..

My feet still hurts from getting trampled on =.=’ should have been more of a bitch and trampled back at others?? Haha I’m evil, but not that evil.. >:p

-Oracl3-