HAPPY YEAR NEW!!!!!!!!

New Year’s Eve was a real blur for me.

And a blast!

The evening started off slow…got slower…and then suddenly went into a drunken overdrive! Praneeth and I met up with Shanty, Vanga, Suchit, Vani and Indrani at City Hall. From there we proceeded to New York, New York for an atrocious and heavy dinner. I’ve been to New York, New York before. And the impression I had about it from my last visit was pretty accurate. The place sucks! Its a wannabe NYDC, with really shitty food for a rather high price. Anyway…after that Praneeth, Shanty and I headed to Clarke Quay to meet up with my EEE club friends.

Clarke Quay was packed!

Was supposed to meet up with the EEE club gang in a club called The Arena. We reached there at around 11:40 pm . Naturally there was a fucking long queue to get in. So Shanty and I unanimously decided to go to 7-11 to atleast get SOMETHING to drink at midnight. Praneeth decided to stay near a large screen showing the festivities.

That was the last time we saw Praneeth ever again.

I mean, until 5:30am when I was getting off the cab wasted. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

Shanty and I got 4 bottles of Sol from 7-11 (3$ each!!)and just when we were leaving…2008 ended in Singapore. So like true bewdas we opened our bottles (with our very own Batman bottle opener mind you) and drank our way into 2009!

When we came back to the place we had left Praneeth, he was gone. We searched all over for him and even tried to call, but all the phone lines were jammed. After searching for some time I left an SMS for him. Unfortunately even that couldn’t be sent. Anyway, we walked around for a while, finished another beer and then decided to just fuck it and join the line to enter The Arena. Despite the long queue it actually only took us 10 minutes to get in. Entry was fucking 48$!!!! Bloody ripoff. The place was absolutely crowded. There was hardly any space to walk, so we just pushed our way through to the bar to get more drinks.

Had a double shot of whiskey…Shanty had 4 lol. He also dropped his glass on the floor, so we were pretty much walking on broken glass for quite a while. Had another drink then decided to get the fuck outta there because there was no space and there were black dudes up on the stage who were neither singing rap nor hip-hop. In fact God only knows what the fuck they were doing. The only reason my eyes were even on the stage was because of the super sexy girls there!

After Arena, Shanty and I decided to get even more hammered, so we went to everybody’s favourite bar, Cafe Iguana! Now for the first time, I saw people dancing in Iguana! They had removed all the tables inside and turned it into a dance floor. Shanty and I had 5 shots of Tequila each. In a row!! I have NEVER had that many Tequila shots in a row. While going outside, Shanty lit up a cigarette, so I thought to myself…wtf..its 2009…time for new things. So I asked for a smoke too. This was the first time I had a full cigarette and not just a few puffs. I’m not gonna say that I liked it, but I chained smoked 2 more right after…so go figure. According to Shanty it looked pretty natural on me..lol. Thanks for the compliments Shanty and the good influence !!

Met up with EEE club ppl on the bridge. Met Anubhav, Sabrina, Sonja, Prof Subzi (Eric),Wendi and her girlfriend! Last to last week it was her boyfriend I met. EEE Club truly is very diverse . We were joined shortly by Mingming and his girlfriend as well. By that time I was a bit high. Apparently I hugged everyone. Then I drank Sonja’s Tequila.

After that Shanty and I drank straight from poor Anubhav’s Tequila bottle. I think I must’ve chugged down atleast 150 ml in one gulp. That pretty much sealed my fate for the rest of the night.

Headed again to Cafe Iguana. I was pretty drunk by then but I’m told that I had even more drinks in Iguana! I have absolutely no recollection of that. I also tried my best to set up Agastya and Sabrina (Agas is in India btw ). You can thank me later man ! That’s about all I remember. Next thing I know…I’m puking my guts out into the Singapore river.

So that leaves a lot of unanswered questions. I shall cover those in the following FAQ/Random statistics/Lessons learnt section:

• What happened next in Iguana?

Well…last thing I remember was trying to matchmake Sabrina and Agas. I also vaguely remember stumbling and somehow reaching the toilet to take a pee. Then I was at the toilet for a second time with Shanty, who was trying to get me to puke. I apparently greeted a lot of people on their way to the toilet and wished everyone a Happy New Year (how thoughtful of me)! After that, I came back to the table and somehow in my inebriated state dodged a few personal questions…lol. At one point, I am told that I suddenly stood up and shouted, “I AM CUPID!!!!”.

After that, I think I ended up puking in the river. Shortly followed by Eric who also puked into the river.

• Any more drunken escapades?

Of course! Here is a list I’ve compiled so far (not from my memory but from what other people told me):

1. Hugging everyone on the bridge when I met them.
2. Normal shouting and dancing.
3. Matchmaking
4. Shouting in Iguana, “I AM CUPID!!”
5. Random conversations with the waiter who was serving us.
6. Random conversations with people on the way when I went to pee.
7. Greeting everyone at the toilet for a second time and wishing them a Happy New Year.
8. Drunken blabbering at the table.
9. Personal confessions which people aren’t telling me about and I can’t remember myself.
10. Puking into the Singapore river.
11. Sleeping on the roadside.
12. Almost being carried away by 2 strange guys who were stopped by Eric/Shanty…dunno which one of them…but thank God for that!
13. Mumbling nonsense and making weird sounds when I was lying stoned on the sidewalk.
14. I clearly remember Shanty saying “This is going in my blog”, and me saying, “Please be kind!”
15. Eric and I having drunken conversations on God only knows what!
16. Being escorted or rather carried to the cab back home.
17. Me initially being handed an empty burger wrapper from 7-11 to puke in…WTF!
18. Me declaring aloud the cab number to make a point. What point? And why? No clue.
19. Opening the cab window to puke but instead enjoying the fresh air.
20. Shouting my address aloud and accurately despite being fucking stoned!
21. Getting off the cab at Eunos at 5:30 am and declaring to Praneeth, ” This is me! And this is plastic bag from 7-11 for me to puke in !!!” I totally forgot this one, Praneeth told me later.

If I remember any more incidents I’ll add them here

• What happened to Mr. Praneeth Namburi just before 2008 ended in Singapore?

As you can recall, Mr. Namburi had decided not to join me and Shanty to go to 7-11 to get the beers just before midnight.

Reason?

He didn’t want to spend the start of 2009 in a 7-11. Big mistake.
What happened was, Mr. Namburi decided to stay back and just before the countdown, he went towards the center of Clarke Quay area to get a closer look at the stage. He left an SMS for us, but what Praneeth did not realize (since he has never been out on NYE to Clarke Quay) was a very basic fact that all phone lines get jammed on NYE at around that time. So his SMS never reached us…when we reached the corner Praneeth wasn’t there and the rest is history.

Apparently he searched all over for us and ended up going home alone in the MRT. Sorry for the sucky New Year’s experience man. We’ll make up for it in the coming weeks!

Oh…and also…while we were away, Praneeth was approached by a few hot drunk girls, one super hot Indian girl, one hot half European half Chinese girl with an American accent, one very beautiful Singaporean girl and an average looking girl to take a photo of them. As Praneeth describes them, they were totally high, totally hugging each other and they kept on shouting “woooooh…..” like a bunch of drunk sorority chicks. Praneeth, like a good boy, took their photo, returned their camera and didn’t do anything more.

Opportunity wasted!

• My drink tally for the night (in chronological order with fuzziness in the end):

1. 2 bottles of Sol beer
2. 2 shots of Whiskey
3. 1 shot of Malibu Rum
4. 5 shots of Tequila
5. One glass of Tequila + sprite from Sonja
6. Around 150 ml of Tequila (if not more) straight from the bottle in a gulp (like 5 shots I think?)
7. A few more shots of Tequila at Iguana (no recollection)
8. 3-4 glasses of Margaritas at Iguana (no recollection)
9. Electrol powder (oh wait…that was the morning after )

Shanty obviously had a lot more and only got tipsy.

• Did you see any more fucked up or interesting things?

Why else would this section even be here otherwise
1. Drunk Indian people dancing near the bridge. Gaaahhhh! Really disturbing sight!
2. While Shanty and I were in the queue for Arena we saw a pretty large woman totally sucking a poor guy’s face like there was no tomorrow. The guy tried to evade the licking and sucking (there is no way in hell that something like that can be called kissing) by trying to talk on his phone. But the woman just pulled the guy back towards her and sucked some more. Ewww.
3. Weird Indians doing a weird dance near the center stage!
4. Interestingly enough…in ALL that crowd, we ran into Malla, Gupta and Aman before the New Year countdown! Haha…nice surprise. Malla was drunk already! That really made me wanna go and find some drinks…fast!!
5. Hot Heineken girls near the Heineken clock that was counting down and stopped 3 minutes before it reached midnight, resulting in a lot of booing from the crowd .

• Lessons learnt :

1. Never overestimate your drinking capacity.
2. Always have friends nearby who don’t get drunk at all unless they have insanely high amounts of alcohol. a.k.a Shanty Poo! Dude thanks a lot man! You saved my ass big time! And Eric too! Literally in one case
3. Also, have friends around who didn’t drink as much as you did. Thank you Sonja!
4. If you don’t wanna end up talking about your personal life…don’t get drunk!
5. Don’t wear good clothes if you plan on getting high. Fortunately I donated all my puke into the river and onto the sidewalk. My clothes can thank me later. But better be safe than sorry next time ’round.
6. I AM CUPID!!!!!
7. Puke everything out in one go. Don’t leave anything for later.
8. Always comment about the cab driver’s license plate. There’s an important lesson to be learnt here kids. If only I can remember what.
9. Stale pizza on the next day doesn’t cure your hangover.
10. Don’t even think about alcohol the morning after. It’ll just make you wanna puke.
11. And most importantly…if 4 hot drunk girls with no boyfriends around ask you to take their photo on New Year’s Eve, do more.

So that’s about it. The night ended at 5:30 am with me being dropped off at Eunos and carried by Praneeth back to my room and me crashing within a few seconds. Shanty went cross country after that and dropped off Sonja at Yishun, Eric at Redhill and then himself at NTU. He managed to round up in cab fare an amount that is mostly unheard of in Singapore … S$76. And that too after some bargaining.

So that’s how my New Year’s Eve celebration went. Poo emerged as the guardian angel, I emerged as cupid, Sonja emerged with embarrassing photos on Facebook and Eric the great mysteriously holding back certain information for some unknown reasons.

Protector of the drunk. Sutta Knight

I’m sure Shanty’s version will add some more masala to the events that occurred on that night. Don’t believe everything he blogs!!!! Haha, just kidding .

And with that I’ll end my first entry in 2009 and quite possibly the longest one in my blog ever! Hopefully 2009 too will be as epic as New Year’s Eve was!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!

These are from Sonja’s Facebook album:

Eric and me after puking. My head was stuck between the stone slabs for God knows how long

My alter ego