12:00pm Wake Up
Grocery run to Aldi and Coles, Keilor Downs. My birthday party with family is tmrw.
To Do / To Buy list
Shopping List:
Red capsicum
Slow cooked chips
French onion and gerkin dip
Sough dough bread (im hooked)
Soft drinks
Pads
Mushrooms
Tomatos
Boccichini cheese
Iceberg lettuce
Impulsive shopping list:
Silver glitter nail polish,
and I mean actual CHUNKS of glitter in the nail polish. Let's see how well this goes
1:30pm Dave picks me up
and we embark on our sheisha mission, our mission to seek out sheisha on the Corner of Bell and Sydney Road, Coburg. We entered this very ethnic shop, where the people stared at the only asians in the shop and spoke arabic. Hookah pipes lined the display window, there were buckets of exotic nuts and spices and candy unfamiliar to me. This was a little exciting. The sales man was a no-nonsense kinda guy. Dave bought mint, berry and grape flavours, coal and the plastic pipe covers so my sheisha wont be soaked in strangers saliva. All up, $38. If we got ripped it would have been on the pipe covers, I guess they were individually wrapped and he did give us a bottomless bag of em.
Time to run some errands with Dave. Off to burnside to buy a $106 computer chip to fix his broken fridge. Then to the Bargain Store down the road. I bought hair dye. I was hoping for purple, metallic purple but could only get 'burgundy' which is sort of purple in the cover. I bought 2 bcoz i have double the hair of a normal person. Thats right, I'm gonna dye my chest hairs as well.
We visited the Brotherhood of St. Laurance op shop and i picked up a red Banana Republic summer/spring dress for $8 with the intention of an Ebay resell when the weather warms up. We stopped by Salvos and this is the part where I go crazy. I bought a black leather Jag belt, 4 leather bags, 1 canvas purse bag and an eccentric black/bright green floral jumper - something very 80's. Dave couldn't believe it bought it, believe it bitch. This is actually a daring purchase. Would I really wear this?? Fuck it, I'll give it a go. Once I'm in the city wearing this no one will know or care who i am.
I'll wear this as a dress, black stockings if necessary. Black thigh high boots, chunky ass gold chain, hair in a bun, fake ass black lashes and my nails painted in that glitter silver. HARAJUKU!!
We were opting for a charcoal chicken meal in st. albans except parking in st. albans is a bitch especially after school has just finished. We gave up after 5 seconds after entering Alfreda Street and drove down to Hungry Jacks, Taylors Road. Dave used his 'free whopper voucher' and drank my drink which was FREE to refill. He pretty much had a free meal. MY burger was so good. So fresh. I havent had hungry jacks in ages. Yum.
Dave dropped me home and now I'm getting ready for this epic jwow bar hop with jwowers. I need to be up at 9am tmrw morning to be cooking food for this party. 11am is when I need to pick up the cake from Hoppers Crossing. Im gonna know what you 9am start party animals feel like.
French Montana ft. Currency - In The Sun
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Jwow Bar Hop
featuring Helen, James, Joel, Yao, Aaron, Shell, Ricky and the others Farell and Andrew that we met up with along the way.
New Jumper/dress & Studded cowboy boots
Waiting for the train and painting my nails
Match Bar
Drank: One apple cider.
It was 8:30pm and helen wasn't feeling too well. She looked pretty sick. We waited for the crew here at Match and I made two new friends, Shella and American Ricky, Ricky whom I nic-named the 'Jockey' for the night.
Order of Melbourne
Here we met up with MJ a.k.a. Michael Jordan (no shit). helen and I have promised him 3 Fridays in a row that we will visit him at the Order on our break time at Jwow but it's been too busy to go. So today was ze day. We climb about 4 flights of red painted stairs to our treasure, a bar where the bottles were illuminated with yellow lights, an evelated DJ stage pumping deep base dirty sounded hip hop, a floor to ceiling projection of 'FLASH GORDON' and.... Michael Jordan himself. He got us some tasty cloudy apple (yes i said CLOUDY) juice and vodka. We headed to the rooftop and continued our drinks there.
I really liked it here. It's a place that I will definitely come back to. Perhaps if jwow is still closed on Friday I will come back :)
The Order 'Uptown Groove' Poster
Bird necks as the taps.
Elaborate. Fancy.
Toff in Town
Helen had left by this point because she was feeling sick and she had lost her car keys, just yesterday she had lost most of her Jwow pay. I had eaten by second Hungry Jacks Whopper meal of the day. We reached The Toff, the half uneaten whopper burger was thrown into my backpack because the bouncers wouldn't've let me in. We meet up with Non, James' thai friend with a 19 letter surname. I dont remember the music they played at Toff, I remember the almost ridiculously deep bar bench and the asian bartender in a black one shoulder dress and red lipstick. I tried Joel's $20 Side Car cocktail, which was one of many 'new's' for this day. It was nice. I liked how they coated the inside of the cocktail glass with very fine white sugar. Mmmm sugar.
I didnt really enjoy it here because it was so packed. I felt uncomfortable and sweaty. I couldnt take my jumper/dress off because I had nothing underneath. People were pushing past us and I felt bad for taking up valuable real estate without buying a drink. It was too loud to talk. All i could think about was my uneaten whopper burger in my bag that I abruptly wrapped and thrown into my bag. Should I go to the toilet cubicles and eat it there?
Mantura
We had lost American Ricky Jockey at The Toff. Oops. Here we are at Mantura. By now I have decided that I won't drink too much, I needed to be up at 9am and I didnt have any money for these fancy cocktails that started off at $17. Joel, Non and James weren't interested in buying either so we left as quickly as we came.
Red Hummingbird
Drank: One shot of Frangelico
Here we go. Working the social oil, alcohol. This is a pretty little place. The young bartender had a stretched lobe piercing and a top hat with a feather sticking out. How appropriate for this bar. I liked the interior and the styling however a comfortable and logical placement of furniture was lacking. The downstairs part felt empty, and the upstairs/rooftop was too crowded. This joint is also a place where I'd come back to.
Non: Do you know this place used to be a..
Me: Strip club??
Non: Yes! I mean.. NO!
Mai Tai
We dropped by to say HERROW to Non's vietnamese friend. He had a black/white line drawing sleeve.
Sweatshop
Easily my favourite place of the night. It was hidden, down a flight of stairs in the basement, pass a bicycle and a wine cellar and behind an inconspicuous door. The walls were rendered brick, with handwritten continuous mubblings at eye level throughout the entire room which reminded me of prison. It was a small place, not overcrowded at all. I was really digging this place. I felt at home. The DJ was playing Jay Z, Talib Kweli, Jai Paul and who I recently discovered, Consequence.
Disperse -
The reluctant bartender made me mixed/cocktail shots for James, Non and I.
Me: I want something sweet and pleasant
Bartender: Something weak?
Me: No, with a bit of a kick.
Daiquiri. He charged me $5 for each shot. This is probably where I should have tipped him. It was my turn to shout. I bought a vodka and apple juice and 2x Appleton Rum 12 year old on the rocks with a slice of orange.
Bartender: Should we say $20 all up?
Me: YEHH!! Thanks!
I should have tipped him. Here we met up with Andrew + snobby friends who probably had enough to drink. I saw his facebook check ins at different bars since early afternoon.
Observing the typography
1806
Cocktail place behind the inconspicuous heavy wooden door. No obvious signage. I saw a simple '1806' on the shelter board... You would think its a strip club from the red verandah and red light bulbs. I didn't drink here. It was so fancy for me. These people need to lower their lighting and change their music, styles need to be consistent. Here we meet up with Farell and friends. One of his friends, Leonard looked like Andrew Bui, my attempted 'plus one' for Helen's work function. I showed Leonard a picture of Andrew Bui holding some icecream. They looked so much a like.
Leonard: What am I doing there??!
Supper Club
We were on a fancy pancy bar role. You wouldnt think it from the name but this place is/was/now fancy. The security guard attempted to seat us. This place is red carpeted, chestnut leather chairs, antique looking wooden round tables + chairs, and wooden/glass cabinets of expensive cigars. There were old school matches on the bar counter, the type you see on James Bond movies. The men here wore suits and tuxedo's with black bow ties, top hats with feathers in em. The ladies wore knee length black dresses, shoulders covered in fur and Melbourne Cup Day head pieces. They held bouquets over their shoulder and kissed each other to greet. Oh mannn.. Lemme hide in my corner. Yao's sloe gin on the rocks with lime cost $15. I'll just have water thanks.
Mel Poncha Korean Restaurant
We walked from one side of the city to the other side. My 2 inch heeled cowboy boots weren't proving to be practical. But it was all worth it because we had korean FRIED CHICKEN and POTATO WEDGES. Here we met up with Humphrey and korean friends. Nice people.
James' House
I was waiting around for phuong to finish up at China Bar. She was my ride home that night. I kicked back at James' 28degree heated apartment.
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