A Pure Night out...hmmmmm, oh and fireworks

Ok then, I ended up going out on Saturday night to a nightclub/late bar called Pure, a cool place, well designed and hiphop the theme of the place. It's 3000yen in but it's all you can drink...yes, all you can drink for 20yoyos!! So I made the most of that. The evening started out confused and dazed as we couldn't find a bar to suit everyone's taste so splinter groups went their merry ways and a group of us hooked up in Pure later on. The places don't close until 5am so a long night looked certain.

Now to the club...picture Reardon's, add Japanese chicks looking for gaijin husbands, Japanese guys thinking they grew up in the hood, practising their rehearsed, dance-class taught hip-hop moves, western rejects looking for anything in a skirt and knowing they will pull as they are gaijin, twats from various countries (Oz, Canada, USA, Europe) knowing the score so acting like they're supermodels and you get a fair idea of what it was like...pretty damn dismal. Maybe it was the expectation of something different. Maybe it was the expectation of madness but their wasn't any. We couldn't take it anymore by 3ish so decided to get a cab home (trains stop at midnight) back to K. This really topped off the night....

Taxi drivers in Osaka at least, do not know their city. They haven't got a clue where anything is. What should have taken a 30-40 minute ride took well over the 70 minute mark. Consultations to the A-Z road map produced "shortcuts" which ended up being cul-de-sacs and the wrong road. If you are lost, to find one's way back to where one began, always turn in the same direction...so that is what he did. The dumb shmuck always turned right..so we ended up going in circles. We finally found somwhere we recognised and guided the big ship into port and finally home. An ordeal I will be slow in doing again. Maybe if the night was more slipstreamed and we knew what pub we were going to initially was decided, it may have been different. I guess we'll have to see next time...but it may be a while yet!!!

A mad night life, plenty of hostess bars, strip joints and gigillo's everywhere...certainly worth having a look

Anyway, didn't do much yesterday after that night out.

So where are the fireworks I hear you say, well this evening we were treated to a fireworks display for an hour, form the comfort of my desk. While working away a big fireworks display took place to mark the end of a mini-festival in Osaka. It was not as good as I had thought it would be, being in the region of fireworks supreme but it was pleasant nonetheless. Pity we weren't outside so we could hear it and actually look at them properly...they joys of work

I'm off to bed to read Harry Potter part 5 so I can start reading HP part 6...take it easy...

later

ps: will post photo of my bald head when i charge the battery to the camera...not fired yet!!