Clubbing

The staff club was full of exchange students that night. An overwhelming majority was from the Nordic countries -- swedes mostly, but also a remarkable number of norwegians and finns (who numbered nine I think).

After having cheap malaysian beer at the staff club for a couple of hours, we took a bunch of cabs all heading to St. James Powerhouse club. It was S$20 to get in, but you got two free drinks for the price. The club was kind of average-sized, maybe somewhat bigger than "On the rocks" in Helsinki but smaller than Royal Onnela anyway. They were playing varying international dance hits mostly and the atmosphere was good.

Saturday was the last day of the Hall 7 Freshman camp, which came to a head in the evening in a form of a party -- which the finns were also (kind of) invited to. This party was not about getting drunk, but they had some joke-ish games and music performances there, and a buffet-style dinner of course.

Sunday, then, was the national day of Singapore. And it's pretty big here. A huge crowd of people was gathering around the Marina area, some of them to see the parade and the fireworks, some (the finns especially) to drink beer in the park and have fun. After the moment of the declaration of independence, which is exactly at 8:22pm, our executive party chief Desmond gathered up the exchange students to take them to a nearby club.

People started to be somewhat drunk already, so only a few actually got to the club altogether. It was a two-floor club, S$28 to get in (including two free drinks), the first floor playing all kinds of dance, hip-hop, pop etc. and the upper floor being dedicated to house/trance music. I found the DJ actually being really good -- until like 3pm, when the volume was just getting unbearably high and starting to hurt ears. :)