Eleven-Eleven.

I am overwhelmed. Again. Good? Bad? I'd say it's a good experience! Thanks
to all who took the time to come to this private function. Some people asked
me why the party? My birthday? No. Main reason is to network. Was it a
success?

I'll let you be the judge. :)

There's probably too many to talk about the party and I couldn't be bothered
to structure this post. I'll just let it all out at one go, adding some
little scenes along the way.

Saturday: my day started pretty early. 11am. Went to pick up glasses I hired
from Mt Albert. 50 glasses. 2 bowls. Came back to city for haircut.

Yes you heard me. Haircut. After so long it's about time for one. Went to Top Hair Design and this Chinese dude with bleached hair attended to me. Gave me the best hair style he can imagine. Well at least that's what he thought.

All I wanted was a good, short hairstyle and a colourant that covers my snow mountain like grey hair. Hair style wise: I love it. Hair color: shocking. Not that it's THAT shocking: If I was back in uni days I wouldn't have given a fuck about it but hey i'm working now and what he did to my hair was crazily absurd. Screaming light brown!

Damage had been done. I had no time to do anything about it.

Had a call from Warren and we went around looking for this thing called 'Grenaldine syrup'. never heard of it before but we managed to find one at one of the liquor stores in Ponsonby.

3pm. We had lunch at Ponsonby Foodcourt, stopped by at Lee Outlet for a quick peek to check out if there's any good brown pants for Warren then came home to drop off the stuff for the party.

Gotta thank Warren for helping out so far.

Heather came up all the way from Welly for this party should also be thanked. One helluva party animal I should say :T. Carol and Jeng picked her up from the airport and spent the rest of the afternoon making sure the place was up and running for the night.

Thanks to Jeng, Carol and Heather.

Went to church at 5pm.

Had a quick shower, made sure everything's ready and went to Mt Albert Memorial for Aud and Bronson's drum thing, picked up Jacq and Miho along the way.

What is it actually? I have no idea but apparently the hall's full of familiar faces. Thought it was supposed to start at 7.30pm but when we went there they didn't start till 9pm? Didn't manage to watch it myself as my thing's supposed to start at 10pm! So Miho followed me home and apparently Michelle and her cousin Janet have already arrived! Talking about early-comers eh? haha! extremely early i'd say.

The 'bartenders' for the night, Emily and Jonno, arrived at 9.30pm with all the equipments and in no time got it all set up before the party.

Thanks thanks thanks to you two. You two rox. Big time.

Party started off a bit slowly but by 10.30pm I think almost half of the people arrived. A tequila shot at entrance was enough to get the adrenalin pumping.

90% of the people I know over the past few months in the great Auckland came to attend this. It was an awesome feeling. Two things that needed to be sorted, alcohol and parking, got sorted just in time for the party.

*Anyone has a photo of the parking space outside the house? I only have an image of it in my brain but not in the real world photography. It was one of the images I regret not having taken. (guess we won't have this scene again for some time eh? pls pls share ur photos!)

Bottles and bottles of tequila downed within the short time period. Guests were getting noisier and noisier. Even the speaker from my pc playing 'Come to Me' by P.Diddy couldn't cover the noise.

When the alcohol in you reached a certain level telling you to slow down on the drinks, you gotta listen to it. I did. Some didn't.

That's when the drama started.

My unit is a linked townhouse comprising three floors. Ground floor = garage, first floor = living + kitchen; and second floor = master + second bdrm. basically it's a drama from living room onwards till the toilet upstairs! haha!

from the 'flushing' of the toilet, 'pouring' over the staircase and living room floors, all the way to the 'christening' of the balcony. It was a shocker.

from this party we could tell that alcohol without control is a killer. Don't worry that you ain't getting any money back from the party cos you will. $10 a person is a real bargain. But there's no point drinking all you can when you could be having fun just by being half drunk? :) Moreover, drinking your sorrows away could be done in a controlled manner: drink half this week, continue with the second half the following week. Isn't it better that way?

There's no point downing the whole bottle of Johnnie/JD/Chivas yourself when you could share the fun with a few sober ones. It's always better when everyone's in the same state of alert rather than seeing one or two complete drunks in the sober crowd.

It was a massive turnout. Ended at 1.30am. Why? Cos I said so?

Noise control? *wink wink*

All went separate ways. Some stayed back due to alcohol overdose.

I'd like to apologise to those who were waiting at either Kiss Bar, The Met, or Sixth Sense. Sorry to keep you all waiting but I'm pretty sure you enjoyed yourselves for the rest of the night. All the required dress code paid off eh?

The evening ended at Kiss Bar for 2 hours. Outside the bar to be exact.

Here I'd like to thank Nick for being super nice to us, being the most sober guy that night, driving carloads of people to and fro the place.

Too bad when we were supposed to leave the bar for home his car broke down on us. Took AA around 1.5 hrs to arrive.

Some friends crashed at my place till the morning after.

I slept for only 2 hrs. Maybe I was the second most sober soul that night? Or the third one? Jengis had been very helpful. haha.

To make sure everyone had a refreshed mind for Sunday we went for Yumcha at Grand Harbour. A quiet but essential one.

House clean up started after that and ended around 5pm.

Thanks to Jeng and Carol for renting the Rug Doctor.

Thanks to Warren for being 'smarshing'ly helpful in cleaning up.

This Sunday ended very early for me. very very early. I think i slept at 9.30pm....

I think my included txt's have almost run out now. and it's still 2 weeks away... I'd like to say it loud and clear here in place of the txt form:

"thanks for coming to the party. wouldn't be that fun with one less ppl like u. u r one essential element of the party and thx for that!"

11/11.

Dial 111 for 111. Nick Said. Help in any kind accepted. haha.

All in all I have learnt one thing: Maybe quality is greater than quantity.

I'd like to thank you all for coming. It means a great deal to me. It's an honour to have you here. It's definitely the biggest I've ever organised.

Will I have one more?

What do you think?

Quality vs Quantity. Both can be achieved, only with controlled quantity. Be it numbers (of invitee) or alcohol (dosage).

What's the use of dress code? What's the use of car parking? What's the use of $10? Why 'drink all you want' when you can share it amongst your friends? :)

You do the math.

House party. Success? Tell me about it.

Maybe it was the night when we were supposed to launch this soc called.... ACG. Maybe not. yet. or maybe everyone's already in the soc?......

PHOTOS: Thanks to D.T. for being so professional in photography.

Don't be disappointed when you can't see any photos in this post because the photo album in the process of compiling. Be very very disappointed when you don't share your photos. Everyone of them constitute an important part of the night and I want to make sure all photos (including yours) are with me before I post them all up. contact me to contribute in any kind.

Let the memory stay on. We're all part of it. Share it.

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Disclaimer:
People ask me if i'm upset or anything. To be honest I'm expecting this already it's part of a party anyway. No offence taken and no offence directed towards any individual. :) You guys made it all possible. Else, Auckland would have been boring.

Last words for the party: Send me ALL the photos you have taken from the party. Burn them into a cd or whatever. I have an external harddrive and I'd be happy to drive all the way to Hamilton to grab them off you if you have.

Any comments/rants/words/bitchings.. welcome!

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