I missed my 9am class this morning. Shit, it’s the second seminar I missed this time.
I’m going to Birmingham with Frederick and Charles tomorrow. Gonna take some pictures!
– 11:29PMCelebrating Halloween in the UK is a great experience. Even the television shows are affected. They were showing The Simpsons Halloween Special on TV and even Halloween Costumes dressed contestants in the Weakest Link.
I totally forgot that kids would be running around collecting candies on Halloween. I was cursing loudly when I heard the doorbell rang because the door wasn’t locked. As I open the door, I was surprised to see a kid wearing a witch costume screaming “trick or treat!”
I was totally unprepared for it and I combed the house for candies. I remembered that I still have some expired biscuits (they were really good biscuits but I couldn’t finish them) I gave the kid a whole bunch of it. Hope he wont get diarrhoea tomorrow.
Muay Thai classes will be held every Thursday starting from this week. The classes were full of people again (unlike Sunday classes, the class was virtually dead). The usual regulars returned. I partnered with Toby, the guy who I partnered last Sunday. He’s quite humble unlike some of the arrogant British I know. At the end of the night, we made a profit of 150 pounds. Scotty held a small meeting after the classes. Basically, it’s more of a Giles, Simon and Scotty meeting. Fiona and I never said anything. All we did was just nod and agree. Anyway, there wasn’t anything to disagree or talk about. Everything is running smoothly and we’re making a huge profit. I guess no one is complaining.
The Muay Thai Society held a small social at Cavendish again. Fiona and Scotty handed me 2 drink coupons. I got to drink 2 bottles of Vodka for free. However, the social wasn’t really great. It was just Fiona, Scotty and Giles. I didn’t see anyone from the club. Probably everyone had his or her own plans.
I left Cavendish after I finished my drinks and headed to Kingdom (club).
I didn’t dress up as anything this year (last year Khai Fei and I dressed up as the 2 Musketeers). But it seemed that almost everybody on the streets was wearing some costume. There was this guy who dressed up as Ali G and even acted like him. Another guy who painted himself green wore a ripped t-shirt. He looks exactly like the incredible hulk. Alex dressed up as a transvestite in Japanese kimono. He won the prize for guy’s best costume.
Kingdom is a shitty club. They play R&B music all night long. I stayed in the VIP room (MASSOC booked the VIP room for everybody), drinking free drinks (Chee Feng and Frederick bought me drinks), eating free food (MASSOC provided free food), took photos and chatted all night long.
The Chinese society joined the event as well. They purposely called MASSOC to book 50 tickets for its members.
I bumped into Choi Man (BBC from my Japanese class) and chatted with her for a while. We tried conversing in Japanese but it didn’t turn out well and we ended up speaking Cantonese. Apparently she knows David (another BBC who I bumped in Malaysia in a Pet Shop). Both of them are from Nottingham. What a small world!
Yong Chun, as usual, was drunk. He was running around kissing guys again. While his sidekick, Chee Ling was fine in the beginning. But after couple of hours, she started running around kissing girls.
Frederick dressed up as Obi Wan Kenobi and even borrowed a light sabre from Jonathan. Everybody was playing with the light sabre the whole night. There was this black guy who was telling me that in the US, there’s a light sabre that could be detached and assemble (??) and looks exactly like the one they had in the movies. I went like “oh really?, Oh I see?, Wow!” throughout the conversation. The fellow left as soon as he finishes his sentence. hehe
While Frederick and I were walking back to Frederick’s car, a group of British guys said. “hey is that Luke Skywalker? Is that Darth Vader? No! It’s Obiwan Kenobi!” And they started chanting “Obi Wan Kenobi, Obi Wan Kenobi, Obi Wan Kenobi” throughout the streets we were walking on.
It was a good night despite the lousy music. I don’t understand why people can dance to pop music with heavy bass. I spend the whole night talking to people and consequently got to know them better.
A great Halloween night!
– 7:25PM
Hi Xes! 😀 Looking forward to your Birmingham pictures! 🙂
LOL about being unprepared for Halloween (do you really think the kids will get the runs?). The second time I moved to L.A. it was right around Halloween and I answered the door and had NOTHING, not even money to pass out. So the kids got mad at me and I apologised and then they came back and planted a little fizzy bomb in front of my door. *sigh*
heheheheheheehthere was once a friend of mine was also unprepared for it, he didnt have any thing to give to the kids. he went to the kitchen and gave them some kiwi fruit.