Last Friday was a great ending to my work week. After work I went with Kitteh and some Nuffnangers to the Curve for an event GAB was holding for Oktoberfest. For those who may not know GAB is Guinness Anchor Berhad: the company responsible for bringing us booze like Heineken, Tiger and Guinness. So it was only appropriate that they celebrated Oktoberfest right? 🙂
They extended Laundry to reach all over the front of Cineleisure and set up lots of tables there for people to sit and drink. Then they had a stage and lots of people dressed in Oktoberfest theme with Oktoberfest music in the background. I really loved the setup. It really gave a whole festival kind of feel.
There were performances, dancing and all that and there were also games. Like this one where you’re supposed to throw a pretzel around any bottle of beer. This is Kitteh throwing hers.
When it came to my turn I missed all 3 throws. Totally useless  I was. I think the people there took pity on me an gave me a consolation pin badge.
Kitteh was there hoarding as many friends as she could and sitting at the end of the table so much that she looked like the excited birthday girl at a birthday party.
Some other Nuffnangers were there too. Here’s Kitteh and me with Tzia, Adele and Shin Yee.
Me with Chukei.
Kitteh with Kelly
Some of the Nuffies
Check out the huge mugs of beer they were serving. Each for something less than RM40 and you get to bring home the huge mug as a souvenir.
And here is a very drunk me with Sixthseal after some many many drinks.
I have a disclaimer. I don’t normally drink myself silly but that night everyone decided to play drinking games. Kitteh was appointed the designated driver so I had no reason not to drink. We played this game where everybody put out either a zero or a five. The game sounded fun and Kitteh wanted to play so she made a deal with me that she would play representing me. If she lost I would have to drink.
Me being the brave white night decided to protect my girlfriend from all the booze and agreed to it. BIG… BIG MISTAKE. Kitteh is hopeless in most games and in almost all drinking games. So she lost many many many times to the joy of everyone else. After a while though everyone was so high that we couldn’t keep track who was winning or losing and just had everyone drink up.
I had so much l I felt sooo bloated that if someone had jumped on my stomach there would be beer on the ceiling. Was a really happy night though, a wonderful end to the weekdays of the week. All of us just drinking, talking, singing along to the songs that they were playing over the loud speakers. One of the songs they played was this song I remember from Oliver.
Oom pa pa…. listen to the lyrics and you’ll learn it’s actually a drinking song.
Here’s a last picture of some of us. Half of the people on this table were a little tipsy by the end of the night… but we had fun.
Would definitely do it again next year 🙂
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space