Saturday, May 01, 2004  

I hate it when I forget my camera. There was a Prada party at the old Marine Police Station in Tsim Sha Tsui on Friday night and it was quite a sight. See, Hong Kong is almost totally built up with gleaming new skyscrapers, but the Marine Police Station is a bit of an anomaly -- not only is it an old building surviving RIGHT in the centre of modern Hong Kong (seriously, it's between Star Ferry and the Peninsula Hotel), but it's accompanied by spacious grounds set on a little wooded hill. It's really a bizarre and unique sight, even moreso because it was effectively abandoned, and is less a curious oddity and more something people just totally ignore.

So the setting was pretty cool, and it was worth a few photos. Inside... so-so. It was pretty much just the grounds outside, a dancing area inside, and another "hardcore" dancefloor further inside. There was a cool area on the balcony straddling both the outside and the inside with more laid-back music playing and a neat little colonial bar next to it, but for some reason security decided to confiscate the chairs there and rather killed that area. Um... the food was also good. The drinks were alright, but they ran out of glasses pretty early on so you had to either keep toting your own or risk not having anything to drink at all.

Towards the end I was hanging out with Mrs. Prada and Milla Jovovich, apparently, but I honestly had no idea where she was. Everyone kept telling me afterwards that she was right next to me, but I just couldn't see her. So I guess she wasn't all that impressive then, eh?

Posted at 5:49 AM

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