Weekend in review:

Saturday

Pulser at Onyx proved to be more thumping than expected. The trance he was throwing down was definitely uplifting and driving, akin to the trance I'd expect to hear at festivals. Sadly, the warm-up DJ was useless, playing tribal-techno-house-what-not just before Pulser came on. I expected better of Onyx given that it's hosted some pretty big-name DJs in the trance scene recently, but apparently, the departure of several key members of its management team recently have affected not just the musicial quality of the residents, but also the warmth and friendliness of the overall place.

Despite the good music that Pulser was throwing down, I left at 3.15 am to go to Zouk to check out Christopher Lawrence, who was playing "underground trance bordering on house," not something you hear everyday, and something my friend who had just arrived at Onyx from Zouk said I should get a taste of. So off I went. I'm happy to say that CL was good (not as good as Pulser, but good nonetheless) and definitely different from the kind of trance I'm used to hearing my DJs play. His encore began quite early - at 4 am and ended before 5 am, leading my trance guru friend at Zouk to yell, "jiak juah!" (Hokkien for "eat snake", used to refer to people slacking on the job) at him several times while plying me with lots of Martell.

Friday

Very Xotic at Zouk was packed and the free flow was temporarily interrupted because the bar ran out of glasses. I didn't manage to catch much of the fashion show owing to the hordes of people and while I'm in no position to assess the quality of the exotic dancers, the audience seemed to be enjoying themselves. By all accounts, there were some complaints that the lap dances were too raunchy, but seeing as they (both the males and females) only took the caps and jackets off their costumes... I would have considered it too tame!

Do Yourself In was interesting, if not exactly my kind of music. It's rare for such a party to be held at any government-owned building so the event was understandably popular. T. had lots of friends there and I was grateful that a friend of mine had decided to follow me from Zouk to The Arts House because T. left me alone for much of the night, something I eventually blew up at him for, because if it hadn't been for him, I wouldn't have gone for the event in the first place. I apologised later for getting so angry, but the truth is, I'm still a little mad about it, because it's not the first time. I'm not a controlling girlfriend. At the very most, I'm a moderately medium-maintenance one. But if you're the one who wanted to go to an event, the least you can do is spend some time with me.