Peter’s surprise birthday party, New York
:: Wednesday, September 28th, 2005 @ 7:57:30 pm
:: Tags: General
karine and peter @ aer
Peter was really surprised when he walked into the the upstairs dining area at En Japanese Brasserie. (part of his response was: “there are, like, people from California here!”). Karine spent weeks prior to their recent trip to Africa planning the surprise party, and Allon, Emile, Alvin, Jason and I all came in from out of town to join the NY locals for a crazy evening of celebration.
After a 4-hour dinner, we migrated to a club called Aer, in the meatpacking district. In general, I hate clubs, but the New York clubs really offend. Normally, layers upon layers of VIP-ness are thrown into your face, but we managed to avoid some of that by reserving table service for 20 and having a bunch of cute girls with us. Even though we had more women than men, we had problems getting eleven guys into the club. I think it required slipping cash to one of the bouncers.
I drank a lot, which is extremely unusual.
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 Jason and Allon |
 Alice and Chris |
 Francis gets an early start with the alcohol... |
 Brad, Olivia, and Patty |
 Jane Kim and friend |
 Elise |
 Young and Emile |
 Alvin and Eric |
 The private room at En Japanese Brasserie |
 Peter arrives for his 30th birthday party |
 At our end of the table, we talked about RAID storage, dual-core chips, and other such geeky stuff. |
 Peter with custom menu (made by Karine) |
 Toast with lychee drinks! |
 Peter, Jason, Allon, me, and Emile |
 Francis challenges Eric at a Taiwanese drinking game |
 Alice teaches the Taiwanese drinking game to Young |
 Alice and Chris |
 The menu at Aer was very impressive. |
 Tormented by Eric, Francis radiates alcoholic fumes. |
 Peter and Iggity, reunited |
 Eric, Ron, Alice, and Jen |
Karine and Peter, red |
 Allon chugs a $625 bottle of Grey Goose |
 Chris and Karine |
 Jen, Alice, Young, and Alvin |
 Jen, Alice, Young, and Chris |
 Eric, Peter, and Emile |
 Eric, Pat, and Karine |
 Alice, Ron, and Peter |
 My NY experience is often filled with good friends -- and trash. |
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[Pictures of Chinese finger-count drinking games.] Ah. I can see why y’all got sloshed.
Cute girls? No, those were very cute girls. Looks like a great time. I would have paid money to attend your porcelain bus driving session. Making fun of you would have been priceless :) Yes, I know–I owe you a call…
even under the crappy lighting conditions (ISO 400), you still managed to capture the mood of the evening. thanks for the phots, and most of all, thanks for being there!
thanks, karine! i felt absolutely cripped by that little camera (in such low light, i mean). :)