This might seem a bit unlike me to say it but I am not a party animal. A lot of people mistake my happy go lucky personality full of sense of humor with 'partying'. I am like that at home with my grandparents or anyone at work. It's even funnier when they would say things like 'omg u're so cool and funky'. I can't help the fact that I'm very self conscious and GQ magazine cut outs are always scattered every month in my bin.. well until I got here only cos they don't have GQ or OUT magazines here.
Boss, as usual, raped me to coming to a party I've never been before. It's on every first week of the month at British club. Well, she didn't really rape me to it since I was willing to spend my Friday wisely... aka with alcomahol.
So, I was with Boss, Ostrich, Girlfriend and her main squeeze, Canadian, and his friend 'Jap' (not her real name but I will explain. Jap looks like a Japanese and I was just tired from work and hungry and I shook her hand and introduced myself and went "So are you Jap?" and she went 'you're so PC'. So, that started our friendship. From then on, Jap gave more attention to me and she was a nice girl to talk to. Blunt, honest, a bit rude yet so funny. She was my type. So, we talked on.
So, before we reached British Club, Ostrich asked me not to expect much and to be honest, I felt a bit fat and a bit insecure since I was sweating like a pig. I went in and I couldn't stop talking until I left. There was just at least one person talking to me and the conversations were just awesome.
I think being a gay man, with his boyfriend oversea, gave me this diversity where I would be conversing with a lot of people. So, there was no flirting going on. No talking about work since I don't know anything about politics and wearing a rectangular thin white tie with a cardigan, I became a bit of an attention baggage.
- Plastic Bernard turned out to be the sweetest man I've ever got to know. He was talking about how we all have different personalities since he and I would meet at a meeting and we'd be totally serious and then we would meet in parties and drink and be all jackassy and stupid and fun. It was nice of him to tell me that he was impressed with the other personality he saw from me when I'm on stage. Now, to be honest.. this is something I don't know I have. but apparently, he said that I turn into this another person when I'm on stage. I was very honored that he'd say things like that.
- There was also this frenchie (I so assume he was gay) who came and asked me for a lighter by going 'hey singer, do you have a lighter' and I went 'how did you know' and he went 'of course'. It's funny how you're known by a couple of people that you don't know.
- Jap introduced me to her Burmese friend who lives in Scotland, who was pregnant but yet she looks awesome. We were talking about the TV Show coupling and how the Welsh guy is so cute in that tv show.
- Maltesers was back from her one month trip out of Burma and she, JazzyGuitarist and I were talking about meeting up for a jam session.
- The funniest thing was when GermanChick's housemate came and talked to me. 'Journalist' works for one of the Myanmar Times and I've always thought she was cool and just funny. We would get drunk and kiss each others' lips in public and this was way before my time with Craig haha. So, she came and she was like 'Are you sure you're not gay?' and then she mouthed a 'wow' looking at me and she insisted I try her lip gloss. I was like I would if it doesn't have color. She insisted she wanted to put it on my lips so she did. God it tasted good... I started sucking on my own lips after she left me with that lip gloss.
- I got to see the mother of the five year old kid I was playing at a party with last time. Sarimama is Indian married to an American and her kid is just so beautiful and adorable. I was playing with them last Sunday and Sarimama told me that the kids were really happy with the party and they wanted to go to another one of mommy's parties. It was even sweet that she mentioned it was because of me that they loved the party. Yeah, I was just playing with them cos kids are so much better at conversations than political talks that goes nowhere. I was telling her about long distance love life and I started talking about Craig with her and she was telling me about how it's really important that I found someone I love. She told me that her gay friend could not stay with a person for too long. I told her it's only cos he hasn't met the right person. I told her how promiscuous I used to be. Her gay friend, like me, always whinges about true love and monogamy but he doesn't practise it apparently. It's not his fault.. He just needs to find himself 'the one'.
I got home at twelve and I just feel accepted. I always come home alone on my own, without a date.. without a partner. I always am on my own element in parties conversing with anyone. But I guess it's the life I chose and I kinda like it and I just felt great that I'm finally accepted as this community, without me having to be like one of them. I know nothing about politics and I suck at geography but I'm glad they're patient and nice enough to think of other convo topics for me.....
I guess this makes me the conersationalist in parties...
no flirts
no one nighter
no booze attack
just me talking....
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