Monday, October 29, 2007

Saturday: Spontaneous = Steve

I was not prepared for the day ahead.
Steve and I have been planning to go to IKEA for a while now. We finally got our chance last Saturday.
We met up at the train station near my house around 11.40 and our sojourn began.
I drove to the IKEA near my house. We were looking for closets for the poor man. He didnt have any.
We got to the IKEA but Steve couldn't find anything he liked. Weird moment came when a young girl was looking at me very intently as she crossed the room. Steve couldn't help but say, "looks like someone wants your digits". She was that blatant.
We didn't want to eat at IKEA so we thought of eating elsewhere. The thing about IKEA is that you enter the top part, all the furniture part and the ground floor is where everything else is. We went to IKEA thinking to buy Steve's closet and my candles, but of course, you can never just buy what you want at IKEA. We spent 3 hours there! We left IKEA at 3pm! Hungry and a bit more broke. Steve bought everything, a decanter, wine glasses, salt-pepper, oil-vinegar things, rugs, pans, EVERYTHING!
It was fun. We trooped over to Gulliver, my local mall and ate pizza! We shopped around and he got so amused by the €30 jacket. He had to check it out. It was shit quality but he considered it just because it was hip. so funny.
We headed over to my house coz I wanted him to check out something with my washing machine. The filter was stuck with soap and all, which is why the washing machine was leaking. I was so happy. Water that was stuck, flooded out.
Now for the unexpected part - I had to take Steve home because of the stuff he bought.
We were talking about the Wii which I've become curious about, turns out, he has it! I was so excited!
We got to his house around 6.30, he showed me the crib. We talked, and he let me train. I practised Tennis and it was a lot of fun! Around 7ish we played against each other. While we were playing, Steve was smoking a joint. I got really curious about it - so I asked if I could try it. He's so very willing. Except of course it tastes like ash, so I didn't like it. I probably didn't even do it properly. The Wii is very involving and at a certain point I even hit Steve's elbow! the poor guy!
He said it was just a matter of time as he could hear every now and then that my remote was passing by his ear.
We finished by 9pm and headed out to dinner. He's so in love with this Thai restaurant close to his house. When asked how far because I didn't want to drive anymore, he said we could walk but its a hassle, as its up another hill, we could take a bus but we would have to know the time or we could take his motorbike. I've never BEEN on one. So, I opted for the bike.
As it was my first time, Steve laid down the only rule "don't make abrupt movements" with that in mind, I remained as stiff as a board! The Thai Inn wasn't so bad, however it was really crowded. We finished dinner at 12!
I was ready to call it a night when Steve convinced me to hang out with his friends (girls) and just have a drink - although the original invitation was for drinks and clubbing!
I was undecided up until the last minute. I dropped Steve off, but since he was super late (totally my fault), I went to meet his friends and stay for a drink. I only had one double shot before we moved off to "the club" - La Maison. Before going in though, they had to light up. During all this, one of his girl friends was totally wasted and cabbed it home. It was around 2.30, the other friend was still hoping to go dancing, and Steve since the early afternoon has been going on and on about how he wanted to go dancing, i just tagged along. We couldn't get into La Maison, so we tried back to the area where they had lit up. The club had a dominatrix kind of theme, with red lights and waiters with half masks and whips. I got an awesome daiquri. The weird thing was, this place had crappy music and was showing hentai as entertainment. Yes, you read right. Hentai - japanese animated porn. The club closed shortly after our drinks so we tried our luck at La Maison. Unfortunately, it was really full. As we were walking away, there was another club near by, we went into that. It was already 3 am. We danced until 4ish then I took them home. By the time I made it to my house. It was 5am! and I was tipsy all over. I could barely coordinate myself. Needless to say, Sunday, I woke up at 5PM! (I actually woke up several times - I was so hung over, I just drank water and went back to sleep. I think it was the 2nd time I've ever had a hang over) Took a shower and watched Ratatouille with Kristine because I promised her we would. Slept and Monday was upon us again.
I had lots of fun, but I don't think I'd do that again any time soon.

3 comments:

Kari said...

ikea + pizza + video games + thai food + joints(?!?) = kari? is that you?

grace said...

:)
its funny. but i'm serious when i came up with the list of things i want to do before i turn 30 - and trying somethings out was one of them
:)
miss you kars

Anonymous said...

Hiya Rei! Sounds like a lot of fun. Addie is in my class right now in HSBC --- She is in for induction. We were both in a state of shock when we found out --- which was a couple of minutes right before the class started.

Miss you!