zeus' playgound.
last night was the marketing booze cruise. due to unlucky timing of having a lab that is scheduled to finish at 5pm on the night of the cruise, it was impossible to rush home (on public transport during peak hour traffic), get dressed and to arrive in the city before 6.45pm. trang, who also had the same lab as myself had the same dilemma, but our problems were solved as we were offered a lift by alvin back to his house to get ready. alvin's house pretty much became a pit stop to get ready at, as over half of us ended up getting dressed there. everything rolled along smoothly and in no time we were out of the house. we attracted a number of stares (actually the boys did) where ever we happened to be at. i guess it was hard not to, with roy having a four metre long bright red material draped across his body which was dangling about loosely at his feet, and fred and alvin who wore matching togas, it was hard not to notice and hard not to stare. we met up with the rest of the group at southern cross station after a quick stop at hungry jacks and then ventured in the cold to the pier at which our boat was docked. we needn't feel paranoid about feeling like fools in our costumes because as we approached closer towards our boat, there was a long line of boys and girls all dressed up like us.

the theme of the cruise was: zeus' playground or ancient greece themed. upon boarding the boat, we were swarmed by many boys and girls dressed in togas. there were also a couple of warriors here and there, lots of ladies in pretty white dresses, one cupid, and a topless guy with purple fairy wings (errr?). so like i said, we need not had felt like fools, instead we settled in quite well.

the night started off very slow. had to wait in line for about ten minutes to get a drink while being pushed backwards and forwards. on top of that you had to try and avoid other people's drink from spilling on you. i ended up walking around the boat just once. it wasnt the most spectacular boat or anything, the female toilets were functioning (besides running out of toilet paper half way through the night) and the boat did not sink, so i was pretty happy with that. the night consisted of lining up for drinks here and then again (the line did die down), dancing, obtaining additional costume accessories that were not our own, more dancing, watching people's thongs break - peter and fred, some more dancing, failing to go into the male toilets with milly (to take a pee) because the line to the female toilets was soooo long but was stopped by a lady security guard, more dancing and taking care of a fellow friend that needed some help. time whizzed by and before we knew it, the boat was back docked at the pier. for some of us it was time to go home, but for most of us we headed off to watermark, the place at which the afterparty was held. the afterparty was less crowded, nevertheless we all still had energy pumping through us and danced, drank, sat down because we could move no more until it was time to go home. and i was back at uni today DOH.

at the after party