A night out in Macau starts around 9 in the shared flat of exchange students. Everbody brings drinks and you end up trying the famous students' specials- cheap beers and wines, plus some vodka and whiskey (ridiculously cheap in Macau). Conversations are school-related, travel-inspired and my favorite “How do you say that in your language?”. Really boring commercial music is coming out of lap tops, but we always have fun and end up wasted before even going out. That's the point, I guess.
Second stop is, naturally, the 33 - the classical low-budget drinking spot. Basically, it is a shop with a bunch of chairs outside, right on Hookers' Street by the water. You can enjoy racial diversity down there, with the beautiful Taipa skyline in the background. Exquisite.
Then we walk to MGM Grand, because a night out in Macau is impossible without at least one fancy casino name on the menu. The MGM Lion's Bar is flooded with the same boring commercial music mentioned one par ago, but the live-band makes it better. Recently, they have started playing some Kings of Leon, so it is not all that bad actually. It is weird when you realize that one year ago you were drinking with some hippies in the park and now you are in a first-class Las Vegas casino with a caipirinha in your hand. Life is just one unpredictable piece of work.
So after the casino it is time for some clubbin', right. Well, not much choice in Macau to be honest, there are two or three clubs open until the morning – Cubic and D2 (and D3 but I don't know many people who have been there). The chosen spot is normally Cubic, and for some reason I always end up having loads of fun even though it is the may be lamest bar in the world. The drinks are free, the ladies are not, the music is crap, but still.
This basically sums it up. If you can still walk and talk after this, 7/11 is is open 24/7 and the rooftop hammocks await patiently.
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Hammocks! So cool.
By the way, a colleague of mine brought us some Chinese cigarettes. The packing was green with some gold and there were two pandas on the front, like the cigs were targeted at children. I almost expected to find candy instead of cigarettes. They burn pretty quickly (not quicker than Marlboro though) and the taste is fine, but the pandas... Oh my.
If it sells, they'll use it. :D I think I have seen that green Panda smokes. There are also orange ones with long filters. Both very light in my opinion :D
I think they were the favorite brand of some politician and became very famous because of him.
Here everyone smokes. I have seen a 70-year old guy climbing up the stairs, one bag in each hand, a smoke in his mouth. Impressive longevity!
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