eug turns 29

We went to macau this weekend for eug’s bday. It was so much fun. It was hodgepodge of our friends here but we all bonded over beyonce’s concert at the Venetian. Not that we’re huge fans, but it was a great show. I gotta give it to her, she’s a great performer. The production was amazing. There were side acts with different female musicians and dancers. The male dancers were especially badass. She sampled a lot and sang covers as well, which was a bit of a cheat to me, but kept it entertaining. And she saved irreplaceable for last. It was a great way to end the show. Her voice, while not as amazing as Christina Aguilera’s could really hold it’s own in that giant stadium.

We decided not to buy our return tix til that night which was initially considered a bad idea since the only ones left were 12:30 am and 7 am. We didn’t gamble much – eug lost $1500HK – oh well. After the concert we headed over to a club called sky 21. I woulda lasted longer if it were hip-hop, but dancing is dancing!

Around 3 am, eug, sarah and I headed to the pier to go on standby. We ended up sharing a cab with an older white australian guy who is a big-time slots machine guy. forget what he did exactly, but turned out he and sarah, who's from australia, knew someone in common. what a small world fer reals. anyways, we got to the pier only to find out that the return tix the venetian sold us were non-exchangeable! Luckily there was a scalper nearby and we were able to work out a deal with him. with 40 mins til the 4 am ferry, we headed over the .5 mile-long bridge in search of some food. We chowed down on our MSG-laden noodle soup with 15 mins to scurry back across the bridge in anticipation of whether or not we were sold scam tix. I guess we weren't because within minutes we were knocked out on the way back to HK. We finally made it to our beds around 6:30 am.

It was a great night. Lotsa just roaming around and going with the flow. It was a good thing that we got stuck with 7 am tix. Oh, to feel young and carefree.

i didn’t take too many pics and the ones from the concert were just not working out - but here they are…