There was a group of about eight or ten of us by that stage of the night, and the No Doubt best of compilation was playing in the background, quietly, as we bought a round - mmm, Stella Artois - and settled into the comfy fake leather chairs. Late out on a weeknight, low level pop music in the background, a fuzzy warmish glow to the lighting, at the time of the evening when people are looking at their watches, wondering whether to head up to their rooms. The staff wondering when the last stragglers will head off - there were about three or five people quietly talking to each other, or looking into their drinks.
And our group wandered in. Seriously, I kid you not, two of the high up managers had a best of three competition at arm wrestling, and being very noisy about it. I rolled my eyes, leaned over to NBO and whispered for this time of night there's too much testosterone in the air. I was one of those people looking at their watches, because last train was about fifteen minutes away, and I did NOT want to get a taxi out. About ten minutes earlier I had been contemplating splitting one with NBO - she lives in the general same direction as I do - but after seeing the arm wrestling show, I wanted no further part in the evening LOL. NBO said she would be staying with a friend in town for the night, so I finished off my Stella and bailed.
And I saw something that I never thought I would see in Central station, McDonald's actually closed - so much for that late night snack idea I had earlier LOL. Had a pack of chips out of the vending machine instead, and caught the last train. Got home at about twenty past midnight, on a school night, LOL and I didn't turn into a pumpkin.
The next morning, the guys at work who sit around me said did you have a good time nudge nudge wink wink - they were insinuating that I had to be drunk to be up dancing like I was. I was not drunk, I had about two beers before going into the ballroom, during the mingling time, and probably about three or four wines over the course of three or four hours, and water apart from that - I had been a good boy alcohol wise, and is it my fault if I just like to dance (oh god, I sound like a character off Saturday Night Fever or Dirty Dancing now - nobody puts baby in the corner indeed LOL).
And after work on Friday it was another socialising opportunity, LGI was leaving work and heading off to Vancouver to do a Canadian working holiday. She was flying out on Sunday, and had only started to pack on the Thursday apparently. Started off at RG's in the Valley, a few of LGI's friends, outnumbered at that stage by workmates, including KRE, KMI, NBO, MGR, LMA, PMA, PFO and LBU. Tucked away in another corner of the bar was KPH, who is leaving, but only to be part of the sales team for the company, along with KWE and KWA. Good to see the seperation of groups into former site A and former site B still alive and well - I was with site Aers, as it were, when the smaller group, where I had originally come from, was site B. Well we are all one team now, in the same location, but sometimes you wouldn't know it.
KWA was off to see an army boy who had just come back from Iraq, and I managed to convince KWE and KPH to come out to the larger group. I got talking to PFO's other half and his friend, NFO and MOK, very interesting boys, very different in viewpoint to most, umm no make that any other people I have ever talked to in Brisbane. Very much boys boys, and they like to go on raves and pick up women and that sort of thing - well MOK at least, with NFO being a taken, or hmm semi-taken guy. I was pretty quiet around them, just more absorbing information and stuff, when I was around them, was very much the social butterfly.
LOL, got into a conversation with KRE and KMI (both girls) about which are better, natural or fake - chests, we were talking. Real of course, but we couldn't say that because that would make SSU right, and the girls wouldn't want that because he can be a bit obnoxious at times. Especially with women the topic of conversation.
And then discussed with CBI the story that I had gotten from JLA who sits behind me of what happened later on Thursday night - ATO, CBI and a couple of friends had kicked on from the work function, and were in a bar in Roma Street when they gave JLA a call to pick them up at 1.30 in the morning - ATO is his other half. He caught a cab in his pyjamas to pick them up, but one of the group had attacked a barman and bouncer and the cops had been called in - not ATO or CBI, another of the group, who they 'didn't know that well'. Anyways, JLA had to get out of the cab in his pyjamas, mollify the cops, get the girls into the cab, which took about half an hour. That's what I said to V the other day that I go out for, to get funny stories LOL, well I could have stayed in the office all the last week and got that story, but going out surely I can get more myself perhaps.
Talked to PMA about coming across to her team and how she found one of the team leaders on the floor, who isn't leading the merged team from next week. KRE really let her hair down on Friday night, saw another side to her that I didn't know existed - but to clarify, is a good friend more akin to a sister than anything along any particular other path. But was good to see the socialising side of her.
We kicked on to The Beat, for some dancing. By this stage I was being responsible again and drinking water - fucking $4.50 for a bottle though, that woke me up more than actually having the drink LOL. But yeah, dancing there, to umm Spice Girls Stop Right Now is the one that I can remember eek. There were a few other songs we danced to, but then LGI had a bad turn, something she had taken and she needed some fresh air. MGR, LMA, NBO, PFO and I stayed in the bar, but I was feeling tired and started looking at my watch - maybe I should have been on the beer or bourbon instead LOL.
After about fifteen minutes, LMA sent me outside to find the others, KRE, KMI, LBU and LGI were sitting at the side of the pavement about five yards from the entrance, LGI was looking all weepy and wiped and stuff. Apparently she had had some pill or other, and she hadn't had a positive reaction to it. KMI offered me a cigarette, mmm, smokes while socialising, that's the way (uh huh uh huh) I like it (uh huh uh huh). LGI headed off home, apparently there would be an after after party or something on the Sunday, but I hugged her and said send us an email - more brains used than my usual goodbye speech LOL.
If we had gone back into the club it would have been some exorbitant cost, so we bailed the others out - I was looking at my watch again, LBU said the new plan was to get some pizza and then head to the Wickham for more drinking, but I was up for the first part but not the second. Off to the lovely New York Slice for BBQ chicken this week, and then bailed, leaving LBU, KMI, KRE and NBO, the latter of which, again, like the night before, was undecided as to stay or go.
Got to the train station, and five minutes after I got there, NBO turned up, she had decided to bail. The night before she had ended up getting a cab rather than staying in town, umm last train is there for a reason LOL - and the 24 hour weekend trains aren't starting in Brisbane until next month apparently. Had a good talk to NBO on the train home, she was having her sister visit next week, the plan being to show her a good time. Got home at about quarter to two Saturday morning.
Didn't get up to much at all yesterday, playing one of those empire building games on the computer for most of it.
Today I went out to see a movie and have a hair cut. Said to the hairdresser I had no idea what I wanted my hair to look at, what could he do with it, and yes, I was OK with gel being put in or something. So I have mussed up kinda spikey hair at the moment, apparently the transition from the number three sides to the top of my hair is well textured. And I got wax to keep the look going if I so wish - when I put my glasses back on to see what it looked like I went oh in my head, not wanting to hurt the hairdresser's feelings, but on a second third and fourth look, it looks OK, just different to what I'm used to.
Bought the first CD I have got in like at least a year today - She Will Have Her Way, The Songs Of Tim And Neil Finn. Aussie and Kiwi women cover Split Enz, Crowded House and Finn Brother songs - and because it only started on sale today, the first release copies have a second CD with the originals on it. Best of both worlds LOL. And when you hear the lyrics of these Finn songs, and how good they are, you wonder how on earth Crazy Frog, Kleine Crocodile and Akon can be on the charts at all. That damned Lonely chipmunk song grr.
The movie I saw was Little Fish, an Aussie movie about recovering heroin addicts in Cabramatta (West Sydney, Tigers rugby league country). Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving and Sam Neill were the banner actors in the piece, and brilliant brilliant acting, but as for the plot hmm, felt like I was watching a two hour Australia Story documentary about how rotten the suburbs are than a movie. Very difficult to tell whether I liked it or not - it was certainly very watchable, but in a car crash can't look away kind of way. And what is it with the thick goatie look, no no no Hugo and Martin (Henderson). As an Aussie movie, I did prefer Look Both Ways the other week.
Oh, and I don't think that I mentioned that I watched Wedding Crashers last weekend, good in a dumb fun kind of way, not as good as Something About Mary.
On the way home on the bus, the sky looked like it had been whipped to the lightest of froths with the cloud patterns showing. Who was the great British landscape painter, who always did good skies? Sergeant or something? Anyways, it looked like a great piece of art, and I was intending on getting the camera out for it, didn't happen though. There will be other lovely skies later on I am sure.
And a funny thing tonight - we had family bonding time in front of Australian Idol. Yes, sad but true, my parents, my sister and I were watching Aussie Idol, and not only that, afterwards we listened to a bit of Eric Clapton and Cream, because my sister has never heard the original version of Layla - scary but true. All she has known was the lame unplugged version LOL. Now, not that original Layla is my fave song of the man, but I don't think she had heard any of that era of Clapton either. Oh, and how does Clapton count as a supergroup anyhows? The usual lame ass interpretations of songs on the show, and even worse than usual lame ass 'judging' - how the fuck can Kyle say We Will Rock You needed more of an instrumental at the start? It's the way the song is Monkey Boy...
Later peeps
Pauly
And our group wandered in. Seriously, I kid you not, two of the high up managers had a best of three competition at arm wrestling, and being very noisy about it. I rolled my eyes, leaned over to NBO and whispered for this time of night there's too much testosterone in the air. I was one of those people looking at their watches, because last train was about fifteen minutes away, and I did NOT want to get a taxi out. About ten minutes earlier I had been contemplating splitting one with NBO - she lives in the general same direction as I do - but after seeing the arm wrestling show, I wanted no further part in the evening LOL. NBO said she would be staying with a friend in town for the night, so I finished off my Stella and bailed.
And I saw something that I never thought I would see in Central station, McDonald's actually closed - so much for that late night snack idea I had earlier LOL. Had a pack of chips out of the vending machine instead, and caught the last train. Got home at about twenty past midnight, on a school night, LOL and I didn't turn into a pumpkin.
The next morning, the guys at work who sit around me said did you have a good time nudge nudge wink wink - they were insinuating that I had to be drunk to be up dancing like I was. I was not drunk, I had about two beers before going into the ballroom, during the mingling time, and probably about three or four wines over the course of three or four hours, and water apart from that - I had been a good boy alcohol wise, and is it my fault if I just like to dance (oh god, I sound like a character off Saturday Night Fever or Dirty Dancing now - nobody puts baby in the corner indeed LOL).
And after work on Friday it was another socialising opportunity, LGI was leaving work and heading off to Vancouver to do a Canadian working holiday. She was flying out on Sunday, and had only started to pack on the Thursday apparently. Started off at RG's in the Valley, a few of LGI's friends, outnumbered at that stage by workmates, including KRE, KMI, NBO, MGR, LMA, PMA, PFO and LBU. Tucked away in another corner of the bar was KPH, who is leaving, but only to be part of the sales team for the company, along with KWE and KWA. Good to see the seperation of groups into former site A and former site B still alive and well - I was with site Aers, as it were, when the smaller group, where I had originally come from, was site B. Well we are all one team now, in the same location, but sometimes you wouldn't know it.
KWA was off to see an army boy who had just come back from Iraq, and I managed to convince KWE and KPH to come out to the larger group. I got talking to PFO's other half and his friend, NFO and MOK, very interesting boys, very different in viewpoint to most, umm no make that any other people I have ever talked to in Brisbane. Very much boys boys, and they like to go on raves and pick up women and that sort of thing - well MOK at least, with NFO being a taken, or hmm semi-taken guy. I was pretty quiet around them, just more absorbing information and stuff, when I was around them, was very much the social butterfly.
LOL, got into a conversation with KRE and KMI (both girls) about which are better, natural or fake - chests, we were talking. Real of course, but we couldn't say that because that would make SSU right, and the girls wouldn't want that because he can be a bit obnoxious at times. Especially with women the topic of conversation.
And then discussed with CBI the story that I had gotten from JLA who sits behind me of what happened later on Thursday night - ATO, CBI and a couple of friends had kicked on from the work function, and were in a bar in Roma Street when they gave JLA a call to pick them up at 1.30 in the morning - ATO is his other half. He caught a cab in his pyjamas to pick them up, but one of the group had attacked a barman and bouncer and the cops had been called in - not ATO or CBI, another of the group, who they 'didn't know that well'. Anyways, JLA had to get out of the cab in his pyjamas, mollify the cops, get the girls into the cab, which took about half an hour. That's what I said to V the other day that I go out for, to get funny stories LOL, well I could have stayed in the office all the last week and got that story, but going out surely I can get more myself perhaps.
Talked to PMA about coming across to her team and how she found one of the team leaders on the floor, who isn't leading the merged team from next week. KRE really let her hair down on Friday night, saw another side to her that I didn't know existed - but to clarify, is a good friend more akin to a sister than anything along any particular other path. But was good to see the socialising side of her.
We kicked on to The Beat, for some dancing. By this stage I was being responsible again and drinking water - fucking $4.50 for a bottle though, that woke me up more than actually having the drink LOL. But yeah, dancing there, to umm Spice Girls Stop Right Now is the one that I can remember eek. There were a few other songs we danced to, but then LGI had a bad turn, something she had taken and she needed some fresh air. MGR, LMA, NBO, PFO and I stayed in the bar, but I was feeling tired and started looking at my watch - maybe I should have been on the beer or bourbon instead LOL.
After about fifteen minutes, LMA sent me outside to find the others, KRE, KMI, LBU and LGI were sitting at the side of the pavement about five yards from the entrance, LGI was looking all weepy and wiped and stuff. Apparently she had had some pill or other, and she hadn't had a positive reaction to it. KMI offered me a cigarette, mmm, smokes while socialising, that's the way (uh huh uh huh) I like it (uh huh uh huh). LGI headed off home, apparently there would be an after after party or something on the Sunday, but I hugged her and said send us an email - more brains used than my usual goodbye speech LOL.
If we had gone back into the club it would have been some exorbitant cost, so we bailed the others out - I was looking at my watch again, LBU said the new plan was to get some pizza and then head to the Wickham for more drinking, but I was up for the first part but not the second. Off to the lovely New York Slice for BBQ chicken this week, and then bailed, leaving LBU, KMI, KRE and NBO, the latter of which, again, like the night before, was undecided as to stay or go.
Got to the train station, and five minutes after I got there, NBO turned up, she had decided to bail. The night before she had ended up getting a cab rather than staying in town, umm last train is there for a reason LOL - and the 24 hour weekend trains aren't starting in Brisbane until next month apparently. Had a good talk to NBO on the train home, she was having her sister visit next week, the plan being to show her a good time. Got home at about quarter to two Saturday morning.
Didn't get up to much at all yesterday, playing one of those empire building games on the computer for most of it.
Today I went out to see a movie and have a hair cut. Said to the hairdresser I had no idea what I wanted my hair to look at, what could he do with it, and yes, I was OK with gel being put in or something. So I have mussed up kinda spikey hair at the moment, apparently the transition from the number three sides to the top of my hair is well textured. And I got wax to keep the look going if I so wish - when I put my glasses back on to see what it looked like I went oh in my head, not wanting to hurt the hairdresser's feelings, but on a second third and fourth look, it looks OK, just different to what I'm used to.
Bought the first CD I have got in like at least a year today - She Will Have Her Way, The Songs Of Tim And Neil Finn. Aussie and Kiwi women cover Split Enz, Crowded House and Finn Brother songs - and because it only started on sale today, the first release copies have a second CD with the originals on it. Best of both worlds LOL. And when you hear the lyrics of these Finn songs, and how good they are, you wonder how on earth Crazy Frog, Kleine Crocodile and Akon can be on the charts at all. That damned Lonely chipmunk song grr.
The movie I saw was Little Fish, an Aussie movie about recovering heroin addicts in Cabramatta (West Sydney, Tigers rugby league country). Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving and Sam Neill were the banner actors in the piece, and brilliant brilliant acting, but as for the plot hmm, felt like I was watching a two hour Australia Story documentary about how rotten the suburbs are than a movie. Very difficult to tell whether I liked it or not - it was certainly very watchable, but in a car crash can't look away kind of way. And what is it with the thick goatie look, no no no Hugo and Martin (Henderson). As an Aussie movie, I did prefer Look Both Ways the other week.
Oh, and I don't think that I mentioned that I watched Wedding Crashers last weekend, good in a dumb fun kind of way, not as good as Something About Mary.
On the way home on the bus, the sky looked like it had been whipped to the lightest of froths with the cloud patterns showing. Who was the great British landscape painter, who always did good skies? Sergeant or something? Anyways, it looked like a great piece of art, and I was intending on getting the camera out for it, didn't happen though. There will be other lovely skies later on I am sure.
And a funny thing tonight - we had family bonding time in front of Australian Idol. Yes, sad but true, my parents, my sister and I were watching Aussie Idol, and not only that, afterwards we listened to a bit of Eric Clapton and Cream, because my sister has never heard the original version of Layla - scary but true. All she has known was the lame unplugged version LOL. Now, not that original Layla is my fave song of the man, but I don't think she had heard any of that era of Clapton either. Oh, and how does Clapton count as a supergroup anyhows? The usual lame ass interpretations of songs on the show, and even worse than usual lame ass 'judging' - how the fuck can Kyle say We Will Rock You needed more of an instrumental at the start? It's the way the song is Monkey Boy...
Later peeps
Pauly
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