Friday, 19 Jan 2007
image by oak
it took only two meetings to conclude that our talks should include alcohol, thus arranging our third meeting at a laidback retro furniture slash coffee slash new york style cocktail bar called ‘shades of retro’.
people present: oak, tee+, jay, pikk and myself.
amazingly enough everybody was able to ward off friday rush hour traffic and arrived on time. the evening started off ordering from the extensive list of cocktails–where half seems to be the bastardisation of the ‘long island’ cocktail. when asked what a certain cocktail was made up of, the barman would always start his answers with ‘it’s like a long island except there’s ~fill-in-replacement-ingredient-here~ in it.’
conversations ranged from discussing experiences with research agencies, discussing certain clients that we shared, how to answer clients when they ask for ‘new media’ and what we could do to revamp/rejuvenate swatch. mixed among those topics also included conversations about art direction, the non existant sex education courses in thai schools, and about thai men and pr clubs slash lounges slash excuse my french… whorehouses.
dinner came about after realising there’s no food served at the bar, and our stomach linings were quivering from the gastric acids that were starting to burn ulcers in them. our remedy was from the pizzanotti delivery service, we opted for the buy 2 get 1 free deal, at first fretted we weren’t going to be able to finish all three trays, but glad to find that we worried for nothing.
the evening ended with agreement that the next meeting will also be held at shades, but not before turning the sugar packet holder into a pizza condiment holder.
oak and pikk
jay
tee+
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