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We headed off to a potluck at a friend's, planning to eat, drink, and be merry, countdown to midnight, then head out to a dance club. Adrian didn't read the invite very carefully, though, so in addition to inviting a friend at the last minute to the potluck, he invited one of his straight clients to meet us at the club at 11pm. While I wasn't in the mood to leave the dinner early, I realized this guy lived 40 miles away and was coming up there just to meet us (or so I thought...turns out he met other friends first) and would be a straight boy alone in a gay club for the first time. Not good. Anyway, Adrian didn't pay attention to the time, so we ended up not leaving the dinner until about 11:15pm...unfortunate, considering we had to drive to the Metro, take the train into the city, then walk a couple blocks to the club. And when we got there -- despite having called in advance and being told they were still letting people in -- it seems that during our 45 minutes of travel the club had reached its capacity and they weren't letting anyone else inside. Adrian not having his client's mobile number, we turned and headed back to another bar a block away, arriving outside the bar as the clock struck midnight, watching the revelers inside through the windows.

Fortunately, soon after getting inside Adrian's client sent him a text...turns out he was also late and couldn't get inside either. Adrian found him and brought him back with us, and the four of us -- me, Adrian, his client, and his last-minute-invite friend -- hung out for an hour and a half until it was time to catch the last train home. It's unfortunate that instead of just getting to spend the evening with my friends, I spent them it with one of Adrian's clients and one of his friends, and at midnight I was on the outside looking in while others had fun. I have felt very disconnected from friends in the past few years, and my friendships here have taken a beating in the last 16 months. That ends in 2008. Watch and see.

(ps: who called me on New Year's Eve, right around midnight KL/SG/HK time? I had a bad signal and tried to move to a better spot but lost the call, and the number didn't register on my new phone, which doesn't have all my numbers loaded yet, so I couldn't call back)

Labels: Bars, Friends, Stuff