Ok, that's what about Zouk

Copied from Mai Lan's blog

Lan dau di Zouk

Follow my colleagues, I went to Zouk for the first time. I asked Terence what was so famous about Zouk, he said "among all the clubs in Singapore, this is the one last the longest". According to him: "this club is built with a culture and the culture lasts". (Well, I'm not quite sure what he meant). We arrived at 10.45pm and I saw a long queue at the main entrance. Luckily Benjamin had booked 3 bottles of wine and secured 10 seats for us. Guest how much was the 3 bottles of wine? 550++ for 2 Chivas and 1 vodka, my goodness...

My first feeling was it's quite a local young environment. Not like clubs at Clark Quay with full of foreigners at 30-40s, you could find a lot of young and local faces at Zouk. Most of them were only less than 25, so I felt quite save here and not to worry someone will put something in my drink. It was dark inside and the music was so loud. There were so many people as well. You couldn't talk but scream to each other ears. I saw my colleagues mixing the wine with ice and coke (later on then I knew it was to dilute the liquor), I myself ordered a fruit punch (I knew for sure I could not consume such high level of liquor, even a little amount like a wine cap could knock me down and get rash for few days so I'd better play save). It was quite ok for the first few hours, just drinking and dancing...But later on, with the the high level of alcohol in the body, people started behave differently. I saw a lot of girls got drunk, couldn't move properly and guys need to hold them stand. Intensionally or unintensionally, they started hugging each other intimately, even involving 2,3 guys or girls at the same time. My group spent a lot of time dancing and taking photos, I hoped I could loss some of my fat after a few shakes there haha... At the end, Racher and LiLing started to get drunk, they danced and screamed loudly. And I saw some guys from my group start taking "intensionally or unintensionally" actions.

I got home at 2.45am in the morning. A good place to hang out if you want to be held by someone which is not your love one.

I could not make a comment (Y!360 sucks). So I copy it here so express my opinion.


I have nothing against dancing / drinking / etc ... But to be honest, I extremely crazily hate this kind of bar and dance in S'pore. Alcohol are there, and when people are drunk, they do a lot of stupid things, and they can do bad thing to you.



One more thing, it's about going home late. I don't think "it's singapore, it's safe" is a good excuse. Being late is being late, and it's about danger. It's the time of drunken guys and who know.



I've learnt to accept if my closed ones want to go there. But I would always hate that. It brought me a lot of bad memory indeed.



For my 7 years here, I've never been to any of those ....

PS: some one came and keep arguing with me (in person) about this topic. So I decide to make clear some of my points:

1. I wrote the part highlighted in blue color and only that part. Whatever I wrote, I just mean it and nothing else. In particular, there were only 2 points: 1. I myself hate that due to some bad stuffs I encountered and 2. I personally think that it's not safe to go there as it involves alcoholic drinks and late staying. Also note that I am discussing in the context of "some gals enjoys going there (in a small group of 2 or 3 girls frequently (say every 2 weeks, once a month)" and "they go back late".

2. For which I wrote to answer your comment, please take it in the context of a response to the previous comment and don't take it separately. For example, my response to Charlotte: "Charlotte: "nice ppl don't go there", isn't it too strong to say. Mine would say "nice ppl should not go there"" has no intention about classifying those who go there, it essentially means "if I'm to say that sentence, I'd rather say blah blah". I would also clarify that I hate the place itself and I have definitely no opinion/comment about people going there. (As someone talks to me as if I am having a bad attitude toward the people there. So I repeat, this is not about people, it's about the place and the activity of going to that place)

3. I am very keen on discussing this matter. But please limited it to be on the blog. I think it's safer to for a written discussion (in the sense that you think more carefully about what you want to say).

4. If you like to go there, please go. If you go with your bf, with some (reliable) friends to enjoy the music/drink/environment, that's pretty safe and nice. Nevertheless, the choice is yours.