Adventures? I’ll give you ‘adventures’…
My friend N back home told me that he wants me to “have more adventures”.
So I told him about the following:
1. On Saturday night, I found myself drinking champagne in the VIP area of a nightclub with a) a guy who “owns” SE Asian streetwear culture (I think I understand what that means), in the way that one “owns” such things, as opposed to, say “owning” a car; and b) his friend, who seems to be the Malaysian, male, Paris Hilton.
At one point while I was talking to MMPH - or I, as I shall call him (as long as that isn’t too confusing, in terms of me not talking about I/me/myself. I’m sure you’ll cope) - he pointed out his bodyguards to me, who were inconspicuously dotted nearby. Well, relatively inconspicuously. They looked a little older, and slightly more bored , than the rest of the nightclub’s clientele. But then, looking bored is probably as de rigueur in a VIP area as drinking Moet. I don’t know. It was the first time I’ve done such a thing, and I felt like P Diddy.
2. On Sunday, someone I know out here called to offer me what can only be described as “protection” following last week’s nasty event. I think you’ll forgive me if I don’t go into details about this, but suffice it to say that the U word was used. The U word being the title of a film starring Kate Beckinsale.
*Gives wide-eyed stare*.
I have to say I am both comforted, and yet not, by their kind offer.
Now, are those adventures enough for you? Because I think they are for me.
March 5th, 2008 at 8.24pm
what, where there werewolves etc. It sounsd exciting though. Lovely. Did you get a look at their guns?
Did you know you share a birthday with Kate Beckinsale - spooky!
Or is it a bit stalkerish to know that?
March 5th, 2008 at 8.31pm
you mean: stalkerish of you? yes. of me? no. because I share her birthday, so one usually does know which celebs share one’s own birthday (doesn’t one?). We also share it with Kevin Spacey and Sandra Bullock, fact fans!
it was merely talk of the U word, btw. I didn’t actually see any guns. though just the talk of it felt like I was in, ooh, I dunno, a James Hawes novel…
March 5th, 2008 at 8.49pm
it did indeed sound somewhat Hawesian.
I have no idea with whom I share a birthday, so I therefore think you are a bit of a stalker too. How does one find out? Is there a website I can go to?
Mind you, according to that face-celeb recognition thing I look like both George Clooney (good) and Rupert Murdoch (not so), so the dates on the site for birthdays would be wrong too, probably.
March 5th, 2008 at 8.50pm
Funny that you look like Sandra Bullock too. I wonder if you are twins, separated at birth, like Arnie and Danny?
March 5th, 2008 at 9.42pm
I’m such a geek that I just looked up Kate Beckinsale. Sounds like a mighty silly film to me, that U one.
For anyone lost on the Hawesian thing, here’s a plot synopsis of a film of his book (Rhys and Tara were in it, but that’s all we’re allowed to say about the film RIP)
“Pete Thompson thinks he has it all. However, following the death of his father his close friend and accountant reveals the company he has been left is bust and the only way out is to do business with the Russian mafia. His life and heart are on the line when he leave to restore the fortunes of the family firm”
March 5th, 2008 at 9.50pm
yes, that sums it up really. And yes, the Hero is named after me. Rhys Ifans IS Peter Thompson!
March 5th, 2008 at 9.51pm
lucky man. Lucky me?
March 5th, 2008 at 9.59pm
Depends on who he’s currently going out with really.
March 5th, 2008 at 10.11pm
Wikipedia says u also share a birthday with Helen Mirren, Mick Jagger,Roger Taylor,Susan George and Stanley Kubrick so it must be true.
March 5th, 2008 at 10.37pm
Get this: Dr Johnson’s dictionary was born on my birthday. Sometimes life adds up. Also the Titanic hit an iceberg, it was the Hillsborough disaster and the Cambridge University boat sank. Oops. Ho hum. Oh no Jeffrey Archer?! Tell me it is not so. …
I’m still struggling with the male Paris Hilton thing. What would it look like?
March 6th, 2008 at 2.31am
John - ahh yes, I forgot Mick Jagger. as have hundreds of other women, no doubt.
Rachel - it looks like a Malaysian guy wearing streetwear.
March 6th, 2008 at 7.10am
Oh I was thinking it would be an hotel in high heels and vacuous grin, but with lots of small cats tripping him up. Streetwear is easy to read as Sweater I realise. Which is why I now have an idea of a Malaysian Chav in mind. And why I wasn’t good at languages REALLY. Have you lesarnt any Malay A?
March 6th, 2008 at 7.11am
learnt
March 6th, 2008 at 1.19pm
I guess a Malaysian Paris Hilton would have a small cat, as opposed to a chihuahua, as a pet, admittedly…
I’ve learned a few words in Malay, but not much (most people here speaking fluent English). including this one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreamann/2312360850/