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Clubbing: Gotham Penthouse – Clarke Quay

Last Saturday we decided to follow some German girls to a club called Gotham Penthouse. The club is located at Clark Quay in one of the houses on the 3rd floor.
They picked the club because it offers free flow vodka for ladies till late on Saturdays only for 15$ entrance fee. The guys, as usually in Singapore,are discriminated,:) so what they get for 15$ is one drink with a drop of bad quality vodka. If they want more, they have to pay 10$ for each next alcohol drop drowned in a small glass filled with juice.

We arrived there very early (somewhen around 10 I guess) and except from 2 or 3 local girls we were alone in the club. We decided not to give up (after paying 15$ we were determined to enjoy ourselves there, no matter what). We ordered our free drinks and looked around. Actually it is a pretty nice club with sofa areas for lounging behind the DJ’s console. One interesting thing are the 3 tanks with jellyfish on the walls! These jellyfish glow in the dark because neon light is flashed on them, creating a surreal and mystifying atmosphere.

The cool R&B and HipHop music was defenitely the best aspect of clubbing in Gotham. Only the DJ talked way too much, and drove us crazy advertising all promotions and upcoming events at the club.

So..summing the last Saturday Night Fever experience, Gotham is a good club for girls to warm up for a good price (:)) before moving to more trendy places. As far as the male part is concerned… they can wait outside if 10$ for a drink is too much … and then explore the trendy clubs with warmed up, happy ladies.

Clubbing: Paul van Dyk at Zouk Club Singapore

This night started very early. Some local friends of Matthias advised him to be very early at the Zouk club in order to avoid the very long queues for Germanys number one export, DJ Paul van Dyk. So we took a taxi at 10 o’clock and headed to the club. Already at that time the queues were very long, but we took a side entrance at the Phuture club, which actually leads to Zouk club. The entrance fee S$ 30 was extremly high for singaporian circumstances but at least there was one free drink included (usually you pay around S$ 20 and get 2 drinks for free).

After getting the stamp we decided to go to little india again. Maybe some of you read the story about the Taal club in little india .The indian food is very delicious so we walked right into the next small restaurant ond ordered some food. After eating we went to a very big shopping centre called Mustafa, which prides itself never to be closed. It was quarter to midnight and the it still was heavily crowded. It’s really in experience to go shoping in little india, but one should never miss it.

Back at the club at quarter to 1 we decided to go in and just walked “vip-style” to the re-entry. Inside the club it was so crowded that it was almost impossible to move. Paul van Dyk started at half past 1 one and masses went crazy.

Update:

Another night partying at Zouk Club Singapore. This week we checked-out the ladies night on Wednesday. It got pretty crowded around 11 pm because they have the one-for-one or 1 for 1 or 1-4-1 No matter how you call it, this really rocks. We bought some vodka-orange, 2 glasses for 10.50 S$, which is about 5 euros. You could also have two bi jugs for 42 S$ … not bad …

The music on wednesdays is very retro style. A lot of 80ies and 90ies, but as long as you are in a biggger group, you can have fun anyway. The was no entrance fee this day

Check out the ladies night on Wednesday at Zouk Club Singapore, it’ really worth it!

Clubbing in Little India

Most locals and tourists have no idea that there is something like “clubbing in Little India ” ( district of Singapore where most of the Indias live). Why is that? well, it is a completely different world compared to the “main, offical” part of the city. Not quite as safe and clean and “elegant shopping mall style” as the Singapore, that most people know. But, it does not mean, one should not visit this part of the town … as it turned out, it can be A LOT OF FUN — EXOTIC FUN so there is this club, Taal, that we visited yesterday. Matthias, our friend, who is absolutely devoted to discovering the most pure local places that Singapore has to offer, took us there.
It was already after midnight, and there was hardly anybody in the streets (apart from some Indian guys, sleeping peacefully in the streets after an exhausting day…). As we finally reached the club, it seemed to be the only “party” place in the area. Matthias has already mentioned, that Taal is veeeery “local” (meaning: no other german interns partying there ) and, as we found out very soon, he was right.
We were defenitely the only european faces in this bar, that played exotic indian live music, and all other guests (men only with 1 or 2 exceptions), kept staring at us at the beginning. But after a while they seemed to have accepted and even enioyed our presence.

They invited us to join them on the dancefloor and we accepted the invitation. The nice gentleman , who appreared to be the local showman started even playing some European music after a while, which made us feel almost like in old, good Stuttgart club well, maybe not quite, but after all, that was not why we decided to go clubbing in Singaporian Little India, did we?

Watch the movie we made on the Nokia 6230 – Bad quality but you will get a feeling of how it was at least Taal Club Dancing – Germans gone wild in little India