Atom Club

No school on Wednesday (school holiday) and Thursday (replacement holiday for the previous Monday's Health Day), so Tuesday night, decided to follow Yuting (Taiwanese senior at Waseda) to go... clubbing! I guess there's a curiosity there since Japanese people can drink so much everyday without actually needing a reason for it - so it just left one to wonder what do they do when they go clubbing then? Back home, for me at least, clubbing is usually to drink and hang out with friends, and I only usually go for Hall bashes or as a gathering activity of some significance (ie, send someone off/ goodbye gathering thing).



So we went to Atom Club at Shibuya, which is apparently quite a well known club here. Perhaps because it is very cheap (1000yen before 12 midnight) and that allowed entry + 2 drinks. Rachel and I were a bit later than the pre-agreed 11pm and we ended up having to run from Shibuya to the club just to get in before midnight. What a sight we were - 6 nicely dressed girls running and clacketing around in heels (5 of them were wearing heels, I was wearing flats yay), and most people looked on rather bemusedly haha. 6 of us because we met 3 of Yuting's friends/dorm mates. There was C (short for Cirus I think; from Thailand), then Min (from Korea) and Ran/Lan (Japanese). Such an international mix eh.

Ran was explaining the club culture here to Rachel and I, and it turns out that clubs are frequent places for girls and boys to meet, ie, it's actually common to have guys come over and talk to girls (but not the other way around hrmph chauvinistic haha). So different from Singapore, where it seems like clubs are more for big group of friends to go and have fun, hang out, rather than a dating/meeting spot. Or at least for me anyway. Oh, but the alcoholic drinks here are certainly very cheap! 500 yen for most drinks! That's like 7-8sgd, almost 2/3 of the price in Singapore! And the first drink I had was pretty yummy - Brandy Mariana - saw it was by Calpis so I tried it heh. My subsequent two were not so pleasing to the palate.

We were planning to wait till the morning for the first train, but Min got her poor toenail stabbed into by a chair leg, and it was bleeding ferociously. She got sent to the hospital at Roppongi and the rest of us cabbed back so that her roommate could get back and fax her national health insurance card to her. Poor girl. Cab fare was not cheap -3000yen - but it was shared amongst the 5 of us so it turned out to be pretty okay.

Now that I've had the experience, probably won't be going for a while.
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In other matters, will be having the Reception for Singaporean Students @ the Embassy on Saturday, followed by dinner with Fujii-san on Sunday and Paddy's Halloween Party on Tuesday! Full week ahead vroom!