A Night Out in Singapore

After another busy week and a great Indonesian cultural night put on by the Indonesian class (hopefully someone will put up a post soon), quite a large group of us UNSW and SPS students thought it would be a good idea to hit the town and go clubbing. After the usual period of waiting around to decide what the plan was we decided to meet up somewhere in the city because some people needed to do some different things first.
Mike and I decided we would go into the city and play a few games of pool first because we were under the impression the girls would be a while.
To get into the city you can either take a cab or a bus then MRT. We decided to catch the bus because getting a taxi can be a hassle. 40 mins later we were at orchard road in the city. We hadn't' gotten very far into our search for a pool table when we were informed that everyone else was on their way to dbl O in Clarke Quay which is a fair way from orchard road. We had no choice but to try and get a taxi there.
We saw a taxi stand and queued there for 40 mins before we could get a taxi to the club. When we got to the club I was feeling excited. I had left our accommadation at PGP 2hrs ago and was finally going to do something fun for the night. My excitment soon turned to frustration however when we discovered that males had to be over 20 to enter this particular club. Mike was not allowed in so we had to wait a further 1/2 hour before all the others came out of the club.
The group was now quite large, about a dozen people. We then went looking for other night clubs around clarke quay that would admit under 20 year old guys. This prove a futile search as most of the clubs acutally had lower age limits of 23. We tried to figure out why the clubs have this (very annoying) policy. One theory was that the age was set so young men on leave from national service would not come in and cause havoc. The long and the short of it was that we didn't end up finding a club that we could all get into.
It was now 12.40 and we needed to decide what we were going to do before the sun came up. A group of six of us, after much deliberation, finally decided we would go salsa dancing in Chinatown. One of us, Jenny, is a salsa teacher and taught us all the basic moves. Jenny made the mistake of trying to teach us the "hard" way to do a double dome (pronounced doe-may). I don't know why she thought we could do it and it ended up in many collisions between the participants.
After finishing salsa at 3am we came back to PGP where we then decided to head to the same 24hr prata shop that we went to for breakfast on our first day here. After to 1/2 hour walk there we sat down and ate. After a banana and cheese prata and a blueberry ice drink it was finally time to head back home. It was 4.30 when we got back and some people wanted to go the sentosa island at 12 noon the next day. I decided that I needed some shut eye and gave that a miss.
So after many trails and tribulations we did end up having a good time on the night and many thanks to Jenny for introducing us the the world of salsa.