Disco Houses.

My buddy and me were chatting over the phone a few days back about old times. Our other good buddy is finally going to settle down this November and we're both pretty happy that the bum, urrmmm, I mean good buddy of ours is finally going to be a family man ... LOL. It's about time too!

The three of us have such good times together and we still do have great times when we meet up. Well, we're planning a bachelors night out for him one of these days, just the three of us going crazy like we always do (What? No honey, there won't be no dancing girls and stuff, well maybe one .... LOL!).

Anyway, that brings me back to the days when we used to have house parties, with disco lights and live DJ's with their music consoles and stuff. Does anyone remember that? Those days, well, not too long ago anyway, house parties were the rage around town. You'd be a hit if your house was hosting one of these things :D

I remember these parties well cos my house has played host to quite a few these (of cos always with mom making such a big fuss about it before hand though) and I've attended quite a few myself ... hehehe ... It was such a fun time. We'd all be so excited fixing up strobe lightings with those rotating mirror ball thingy and those wide range of coloured disco lights we'd rent of some sound and light shop for the night. We'd turn the house into a mini disco.

Then the fun part came with all the invited and many a times uninvited guests turning up for these parties. Everyone came with their dates and those without tried to pick up dates during the party ... LOL! If you were invited to parties like this meant you were kinda popular. Trust me, I wasn't invited to many except the ones my cousins and me hosted. One of my cousins was the more popular one and these parties normally had more of his friends than mine (and I mean way a lot more!)

Normally a bunch of us would just gate crash these parties and end up being the uninvited ones ... hehehe ... (this was way back in my secondary school days before I met my good buddy Adrian and gang). Normally the host would never kick you out cos the more people gate crashed stuff like these meant the more popular the host was and normally the gate crashers would be the ones without dates who would be trying to pick up someone from the party (not me though, I was pretty shy ... hehehe). Sometimes fights would even break out at these things!

I remember one time, a year after I met my good buddy, we'd planned to have one of these house parties in my house. So after getting my mom's permission, we spread the word to all the girls in college we knew (yes girls, we tried to not let too many guys know ... hehehe) and besides we wanted to keep it manageable. We rented the lights and set up the music console, we planned to spin the music ourselves, well, some of us anyway (a few of us were too busy with their dates ... hehehe).

Eventually the party day came and the turn out was overwhelmingly frightening cos I think the entire college turned up! We were shocked to say the least. My mom was on the verge of calling the riot police but luckily no nasty incidents happened and everyone ended up having a good time, though the drinks and what little food we had were not nearly enough.

All of us had dates, I didn't have a date in the true sense of the word but I did invite this girl I had a crush on, nicknamed the 'Nose' by my two good buddies, in hindsight, she did have a nose as big as my fist ... LOL! (Yeah, Adrian, go ahead and laugh). And I spent the night, well, as much time as I could anyway dancing with her :D And after the party was over and the clean up was done, my buddies stayed over at my place and all three of us (we had a few more buddies around as well) were like love seek geeks all night long (hey can you blame us? We were only 18 or 19 years old then ... hehehe).

Those parties were really such great fun. A few friends and me even formed our own sound & light system called 'Echo Chamber, Acoustics, Sound & Lights' (name courtesy of my other buddy who is getting married) and rented ourselves out to people who were organizing parties. We did have a couple of 'gigs' and then eventually we gave it up. Too much of a hassle ...

I don't think they have house parties like these nowadays. People are more into clubbing now I guess. I've never been interested in the clubbing scene though my work took me there almost every week at one time when I was working in an event company. To be honest, clubbing just isn't my cup of tea, but I guess the times change accordingly. Clubbing is the in thing for the present, but I sure miss those house party days.