Mission: Party Hard

Day: Saturday
Date: April 08, 2006
Time: 2200 hrs
Team: Apy, P and Shu
Rendezvous Point: Roppongi
Mission Name: Party Hard

This is the first time Apy went to a pub in Japan in last 8 months. Its not that I don’t like to party but in a way, things never materialized before.

Shu came up with the plan. He did his home work and prepared a list of all the pubs that played good music. (Roppongi is famous for its night life). So, Mr. Know-it-all got a map along and started leading us to the first pub in the list. We, Apy and P, obediently followed him. After a long walk from the station, Shu realizes that it’s a wrong direction. Apy and P have a smile on their faces. ABOUT TURN. We start moving in the opposite (/*the right*/) direction and pub hunt is ON. After a lot of lefts, rights, just-around-the-corners and just-a-lil-aheads, we are standing in front of a pub. But guess what? It’s closed. (Apy and P still smiling but its turning into laughter) ABOUT TURN. On our way, we saw a board which had nice words written all over it. It was a gentlemen’s club and Apy and Shu were on their knees pleading in front of P to wait out there for some time while they went in to get a lap dance. But P was in no mood to compromise. Darn! So, after more of marching and a lot of shady jokes, shady comments, threats to leave P out and go to that club, and laughing our lungs out, we end up at a place called Hideout.

Pub 1, Hideout: Good music and less crowded. P likes it as she is not very comfortable with crowd. We order drinks and get on with the music. Apy and Shu start swinging with the music while P is just smiling away to glory. Shu is getting real comfortable with Victoria (the waitress). Suddenly, DJ plays a Punjabi remix number. Apy is like WHAT THE …….!!!(First, its Japan… and second, It is JAPAN. People don’t use English here and a Punjabi number in a nightclub freaked us out). After a couple of Johnny walkers, we decided to check out some other place.

Pub 2, Motown: Apy likes it. Good music. Good crowd. We switched to Jack Daniel’s. After a while, P is on the floor. (To make it more clear, ‘on the floor’ as in she decides to dance and not lying on the floor drunk. :P). So Apy and P are swaying with the music while Shu is off hunting. 3 hours past, Shu is still hunting and all three are drunk like a skunk. It’s time to leave. (Wait a minute… leave the pub not for home… it was jus 3:30AM)

Pub3, Impulse: Nice place with black lights (ultraviolet lights which make your teeth and eyes look really weird). All three drunkards are laughing away to glory as they look at each other. Shu is in love with this place as a girl is hitting on him. P doesn’t like it here as the music is too loud for her. So, we head out. (Better luck next time Shu)

Pub4, The Dollar Lounge: Music not good. They seemed to have fucked up Nirvana’s “Smells like Teen spirit”. They were playing a remix of it. Apy didn’t like it here. So, Shu had one shot and we were out again.

The night was wonderful, sat roadside and the talks were endless. It was dawn and we were sober so thought of coffee. Starbucks was nearby and luckily it was open. We rushed just to know that they were closing in 10 minutes. (10 minutes was a lot of time for people as hungry as us.) Anyways, got coffee and some sandwiches, hogged within 10 minutes and were thrown out after that.

Still, it was 1 more hour to go before the first train. We had no option but to wait and it was not bad at all. We were having a good time together. That’s a different story that we were not able to keep our eyes open.

So, after an hour Apy is on a train back with a smile on his face, thinking of all the non sense things that they did the whole night at different places, the goof ups, the shady jokes. One heck of a night it was.