Rock on

Caught localbarboy at hideout last night.

Local music, karaoke-style! Excellent!
Was good to hear favourites by the Stoned Revivals, the Oddfellows, oh and the Padres, played live as well as songs from Serenaide (Girl From Katong!) and Astreal (Wallflower!).

Place was packed.

And then I get home and manage to catch the season finale of Rock Star. Have managed to see only bits and pieces of this show, cos I never remember when it's on.

So it was nice to see Mig given the boot. Broadway star yes, Rock Star hell no.

While I always thought JD was an arrogant prick, he was a far better perfomer than Marty.

And it was good to see INXS performing, although their new single Easy Easy wasn't exactly good.

But bravo, it was fun to watch.

Oh and before localbarboy, met Eps at Mortinis, where holybloodycow, we had to stand!!! It was so damn crowded, there were no seats, even in the bar area of the restaurant...

So when the nice waiter came along with the steak sandwiches and asked how we were doing, I said, "would be better if we were sitting!" and he went and dragged us a couple of chairs! so nice...!

Anyway, I was quite appalled to find that my drinking tastes are changing. I couldn't even finish half of the appletini. For some reason, the taste and smell of the apple plus the cinammon (damn that cinammon and whoever thought it goes well with everything apple) just ended up making me sick to the stomach. Insane.

Dinner was at Waraku - the Marina Sq branch is in some obscure corner on the ground floor outside the building. Place could use better music - it was elevator music ie instrumental, chime-like crap.
BUT their tempura udon was to die for! Crispy well-battered, huge prawns and vegetables, even pumpkin - which was q a nice change. And the udon was just perfectly cooked - with a nice bite to it. Yummy. Too bad the damn drink fucked up my stomach a little bit!

It's amazing the number of food outlets at Marina Square really.... where are all the shops?