101 for New Year's Eve. Video's worth a thousand words. :)



More pictures at Flickr because I'm too lazy to type the same comments for the third time. :P

Hope everyone has a great 2008! ^^

Last night we (my sister and I) went clubbing with an old high school friend, Jon. Clubbing in Taiwan's fun, well, clubbing in general is fun if you have the right amount of alcohol, good music, and good company. :P But yesterday's was especially interesting due to a couple of first's ...

1. The clubs we go to normally play hip hop and trance music (in two separate rooms). I definitely always head to the hip hop because I can't stand trance, and hip hop is just easier to dance to (shake your butt! move your hips! sway from side to side!). Anyway, you never hear any rock, or as I call it, white people music (hah. hope that's not racist :P), which is my favorite kind of music, so it's always sad. The last time I heard white people music at a club was when we were at Rain in Vegas. They played some old school rock and that was awesome!!! Anyway, so last night the DJ actually played three Linkin Park songs, which were surprisingly good to dance to (well, the kind of dancing that is jumping up and down, headbanging, and screaming the lyrics at the top of your lungs). There were also a couple of other white people music songs, but I can't remember them anymore. Linkin Park made the biggest impression. That was cool; hopefully they'll play more of those kinds of songs in clubs from now on. :P

2. We were all dancing along when we got a surprise visit ... from the po-po (police lah). My first ever random check up by the police at clubs - I think they were checking for underage people and illegal substances? No idea. It's kind of hard to judge if a person is underage by the way they dress, though, considering how all the girls had tons of make up on and most were wearing skanky clothes. :P They didn't check my ID and I didn't see anybody else get their IDs checked, but we kinda stayed in the locker area for the most part, so maybe that's not where the underage/illegal substance using people hide. Eh. Anyway, there were like, a couple of police officers - I'd say ten? Maybe more. One good thing that came out of this random check up is they gave us free beer! WOOOT! Haha. :P Anyway, took a picture of the police when we were upstairs at our table.

3. I love to dance! Especially when I'm not entirely sober. And I dance kinda crazily when not sober and don't feel self-conscious when not sober. :P Anyway. The point is that I was dancing crazily on one of those podium thingies they have at the club and this random chick starts dancing with me. I'm like, hmm, ok. Why not. And then I leave because of the police visit. And then we go back afterwards and I'm back up on the podium dancing and the girl comes back! She's like, remember me? I was like, sure. Ok. And then she stuffed her business card in my shirt. Mmmyah. I was like, what? Okaaaay now. Run away. Fast. So I go and hide behind Jon. :P Anyway, so I check out her card later that night and apparently she's one of the people at an entertainment management company. Yah. And one of the things they manage is show girls. HAH. Does that mean she thought I'd make a good show girl? Did she not see my fat jiggling while dancing? HAHA. I just thought it was funny and interesting. I don't get hit on by guys at clubs, I just get business cards of chicks from management companies in my shirt. Interesting.

Anyway, so those were the firsts that occurred last night in relation to my clubbing experience. Good times! Other than that, got to meet some of Jon's sister's grad school friends from Nevada. One of the guys, Johnny, was super funny and a super crazy dancer. Never seen a guy so HIGH when it came to dancing at a club. But yah, met some people I'd heard a lot about, so that was interesting. :P Finally get to put faces to names. Also got to see some NEHS class of '07 kids. Yes, I said '07. They are four years younger than me. Aih. And one of them is attending UCLA right now, as a freshmen. Makes me feel SO OLD. :(

But yah, it was an interesting night - probably one of the latest I've been out in Taiwan. Normally we head back home at 2 or 3. Didn't get home till like 4 last night. Crazy.

Ah, I love clubbing. I just want to dance!!! *waves arms crazily*

... till the new year! Till 2008! Crazy. Five years ago I was still a senior in high school, finishing up and sending out my apps for college. Five years later, I'm back in Taiwan but working instead of studying. Crazy how five years can change so much, yet so little at the same time.

Speaking of the new year, I think it's time for some new year's resolutions because I have nothing else to do. :P So, in no particular order (except the order they come to mind), my resolutions for 2008:

1. Stop cussing so much - I think I've come to cuss a bit too much; I blame it on UCLA and all the cussing that happened during my time there. Once in a while it's ok, but I think I'm bordering on excessive, especially when I'm playing computer/video games.

2. Figure out what I want to do - This one's hard. Don't know if I'll actually be able to figure it out, but it'd be nice. Need to know what I want to do with my life! And maybe have a plan for at least the next 5 to 10 years.

3. Learn to drive - This shouldn't be too hard, I just need to get off my lazy ass and find a driving school.

4. Visit Belgium - I'm getting a little bit wanderlusty (as Picker puts it) and I want to go to a new country. The best one is probably Belgium because that's where my parents are at, so free lodging! and fooding! so it's all good. Just need to either quit my job or get some time off. Boo.

5. Lose weight - The same one every year. :P Never get it done. Too hard! Boo!



Mmmm, lets see if I can get any of this done. 加油! (Jia yo aka add oil!)