muse

as usual, the arrival of friday meant going out to the B & Girls... (i love having standing plans like that... it's so nice to be part of a 'community') i like the place, most of the time... it's good for conversation and a couple of drinks, but the beer makes me violently ill (damn the korean hite...the cheapest stuff here). so my friends Abbey and Kim suggested we go to the muse. it's a bar/restaurant a couple of blocks from the B&G and they serve real drinks - i.e. gin and tonic. they're way more expensive than the pints at B&G, but worth every penny. so i finally experienced another bar in gimhae - three down, who knows how many to go!

it was and even better idea since it was just us girls and we wouldn't have to hang out with CJ (creepy james - more on him later). so here we are, girls night out, at the muse.

ellie came along with us - she's the korean teacher that helped me get a cell phone:

the place was loads of fun! they have live music - these two phillipino bands:

this was was good, they had choreographed dancing, but they weren't as good as this one (sorry for the crap photo):

the singer on the left has the most incredible voice. we were chair dancing and clapping and screaming - it was almost like being at a concert! oh! the chait dancing - we had gotten up and started dacning but one of the staff members came and told us we weren't allowed to dance ! :( WTF?!?! so we chair danced for the rest of the night. anyway, the music was really good. of course, the gin and tonic that i got may have helped with the good time:

it was tasty, but yes, that is a peice of tomato... i've never seen that in a G&T before, very strange - and i took it out before drinking it. when we finished them (abbey got one too) we ordered more, but were told they were "out of the ingredients". we assumed they meant tonic, because how could they be out of gin?? for that matter, how could they be out of tonic? argh! what to do? so we ordered long island ice tea.

no tomato! they were really good - but i probably should have stopped at one... oh well, we learn something new all the time. it just tasted so good that it went down like, well, iced tea!

so, we were there, having a great time, when all of a sudden out of nowhere comes the reason (one of them anyway) that we weren't at the B&G with everyone else - Creepy James:

i hesitate to post the photo here, cause he makes my skin crawl... but see what i mean? doesn't he just look like a creep? but that's not the only reason i say it...

i met james a few weeks back at the B&G. he started talking to me and asked if i wanted to go to the WA bar with him. i thought, "why not?" and invited a few other ex-pats with us - thank god they came! so, CJ brought us all back to his apartment (half the size of mine) for a drink before going to the bar. kind of weird, but whatever... sometimes you just feel like sharing your world, right? so we left for the bar and as we were walking there he looks over at me and says, "so, are you going to come home and have sex with me?" imagine THAT accompanied by what you see above - ICK!!! my answer of course was no. but he didn't stop there. for the next hour it was "come home with me", "i know you want it", "i'm really good", etc... you get the point. every time, a flat out no. at one point i actually said in all seriousness (never have before) "what part of no don't you understand the N or the O?" he was like a four-year-old who wanted a new toy. then he tried to kiss me and i got mean - almost go up and left and if the others hadn't been there, i would have. thankfully, he finally got the hint and disappeared, leaving us, of course, with his bill. what a fuckwad. apparently this is something that he's done at the B&G and with other ex-pats - go out for a night of drinking and not pay his bill at the end. but then he'll brag to the guys that he went out and hired a couple of hookers for $400. starting to see why my skin crawls? anyway, he's always rude and crass, doesn't pay his bill, and really no one likes him. but he still comes out every weekend.

so, it sucked when we were out for girly night and the CJ showed up... i finally got really pissed off at him at the end of the night for being a cheapskate and told him to fuck off and that i never wanted him to talk to me again... he still didn't get it. whatever, this post is already too long...and i don't want to waste any more "breath" on him. just wanted to put it out there... if you ever see this guy, run, run as fast as you can...

still, he didn't ruin my night, we had a great time, i got to experience a new bar and drink some really tasty drinks... not to mention hangin' out with the girls... good times.

stay tuned for: my korean halloween... which will also mark my 100th post on this blog!