miyagi.sg | My Very Own Glob {Curiosa Felicitas}

It had been awhile since we’ve gone out after work with friends, and for some rea­son, we said yes to an invi­ta­tion to go out to a club / pub / one­ofthose­places.

Clarke Quay on a Fri­day night was always expected to be crowded, with MOS draw­ing their usual clien­tele who appear to spend more time in the queue than in the club proper.

But there’s a new place on Clarke Quay that’s really worth a visit, espe­cially if you’re a non-smoker. As a sign of things to come, The Pump Room is a no-smoking zone, which might seem a bit strange, espe­cially if you’re a smoker like myself.

But you know what? I didn’t end up going out­side to light up sev­eral times as I expected myself to. Maybe it was because the best cover band in Sin­ga­pore (Jive Talk­ing) was play­ing the best set I’ve heard since the last time I saw them play at Bar None.

Or maybe it was the decor, which really is quite nice — we sat at tables made of solid wood, and there were those funky optic fibre lights, pil­lars coated with what the man­ager tells us is the same mate­r­ial they use to make MRT seats. Which is really good to know, because if you end up with your butt against the pil­lar, it’ll at least be a famil­iar tac­tile expe­ri­ence. Or something.

Check it out here if you haven’t the time to get your ass to Clarke Quay. But you really should, lah.

iTunes is play­ing an ille­gal copy of House of Ris­ing Sun from the album “Roman­tic Col­lec­tion Vol. 1″ by Ani­mals of which I have the orig­i­nal CD.

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