Clubbing at Luxy

It sure rains a lot in Taipei.

After all that stamp collecting yesterday, I slept. But when it came time to get ready, I was so excited! My first time! Almost all the exchange students in the dorms were going. My goal: Get picked up. Yay!

However, that didn’t happen.

We actually went to the wrong club firstly. It took a lot of trouble to get into this wrong club… they even asked for our passports. Bah. Not a smart idea to flash your passport around, as I learned. When we arrived at the right club, Luxy, we only had to show our student ids. I’m so glad that we got them today.

Hm… the inside decor was nice. However, I don’t really like hiphop, so I didn’t really like the dance music that they were playing. The music in the other room was better for it was more alternative, but there weren’t very many people in it. Therefore, with a friend, we decided to leave (after checking out the whole club) and come back to the club later when the rest of the people we went with wanted to leave.

The 3 bubble tea places.

Now, the more fun parts began. We went walking around at night looking around. Taipei’s awesome for this. Warm temperature with places open to shop and eat in. In the alley/road directly behind Luxy, there were 3 bubble tea places all lined up beside each other. Apparently, different places call bubble tea different things, as in California, they call is boboa or something like that.

Eating the red bean dessert in the MRT station. Not my hand.

We went around taking pictures, talking and exploring generally. My friend? brought this weird fruit thing I’ve never seen before from a street vendor and I bought a red bean dessert. It was soooo good! There was hardly any sugar in it, so it wasn’t as sweet as the standard Taiwan desserts I’ve been having, and that was really good. Mmmmm…

Inside the very clean MRT station.

The biggest bonus of not staying in the club was finding Burt’s Bees! I sure hope that it’ll help soothe the multitude of mosquito bites that I have. It smells gooood. Also, hanging out in the MRT station at night is cool because it’s so well lit, clean and well, doesn’t feel like a crime area like the public transportation stops at home do.

No idea who this is. Luxy washroom.

Apart from that aside, when we went back there were more people than when we originally arrived. Many drunk people. Many smoking people. Many… dare I say it? Skanky people. This is interesting because it seems exactly like the clubbing culture at home, or rather, my perception of it. Perhaps it seemed like a club at home because Luxy is known more as a foreigner club, or something like that.

I like this photo. Luxy washroom.

The washroom at Luxy was nice. I have no idea who those people are in the pictures that I took. I was a bit bored, so I decided to be productive. However, I sitting right where the cigarette smoke from the ashtray wafted towards me. Now, I don’t mind smoke wafting towards me if it’s of the campfire kind, but… eww cigarette smoke.

Went we got back to the dormitory at 2:30 am (is it really that early to leave a club?), I immediately took a shower and went to bed for I had class at 8 am this morning. My clothes still smell, though. So, for my first time out clubbing, it was okay, but I don’t think I’ll really do it again because it isn’t my type of fun. So, no getting picked up for me. Unfortunately. Hah! I prefer wandering the streets at night and being able to hear people when I talk to them.

So, clubbing wasn’t really clubbing for me, was it?

A bubble tea place.