Just another Saturday in October

This afternoon my neighbours doorbell rang and then my doorbell rang 20 seconds later. This could only mean one of the following:
- bible bashers
- viagra salespeople
- my weekly delivery of chickens feet.
As I live in a first floor conversion flat I have developed a brilliant technique for screening unannounced front door guests by opening my window and screaming at the top of my lungs in a modern Romeo & Juliet stylee “who dat?”.
I knew within the first 10 seconds what these two semi-old biddies were after. Grasping church leaflets in their hands I was not impressed with their opening line. Before they could even get through their door-to-door script I interjected with a quick “thanks for calling by but I’m an agnostic”.
Expecting a good debate and/or their usual standard churchy response in the hope of trying to convert my agnostic belief, I was slightly surprised by their question “what does agnostic mean?” Seeing as I wasn’t going to get much entertainment mileage out of these two ladies I let my window shut.

Watched a Chinese American lesbian romantic comedy called Saving Face this afternoon. Some funny moments about this Chinese family of three generations. Unfortunately a lot of the gags I’ve already seen done before with Jewish-American / Italian comedies. Watching it done with Chinese cultural references I was expecting to see something I could relate to from my experiences. Maybe the people of China might disagree with my Hong Kong perspective of it. The dialogue of daughter answering back to her mother in English whilst her mother continuously spoke Chinese throughout the whole film didn’t work. The sentimentality of the film was predictable using that good ol’ conventional formula. Will definitely be keeping an eye out for Alice Wu’s next production.

Met up with Richard & Ashley at Swiss Cottage for Reinhard’s annual birthday house party. Was joined by the usual suspects from Big Britain minus the girls. His flat was packed to the brim full of German guys. Unfortunately we were not skilled or daring enough to locate the source of the coke floating about amongst the German network to compliment the champagne being served to us.

Found out at the party that Nick Nick is moving to Sydney for a couple of years in December time coz he's managed to get a nice cushy job out there. Looks like it’s time to upgrade Nick from B-list to A-list now….

Departed before the other lot as I had to leg it into town to meet up with Christophe & his friend from Vienna for a night of Saturday night clubbing at Heaven. It was during the journey into town that my body was telling me I had reached my alcohol intake threshold. Getting into the club via the guestlist didn’t prove to be too much of a problem but they have introduced this new rule of banning chewing gum being taken inside the club. How da fuck will they expect their clubbers to be able to gurn properly or even snog with a fresh breath?

After the club things went slightly downhill...!