9Monday, February 26, 2007

After a hectic festive period collecting angbaos and enjoying the Chinese New Year festivities, bigbrohu is back with a vengence. There are many things that I want to talk about like my sales job pre-CNY selling Yang Yang cookies at Raffles place and also Neck's latest flings with V and S. However, all those shall be left for future entries. Today, I'm going to talk about Ah Long's work at bu3 tong2 KTV lounge.

Bu3 tong2 KTV is located in the Bugis area, between the Bugis and Lavender MRT stations. Many of you will wonder, what is our Ah Long doing there? Is he there as a loanshark as his name would suggest? Or is he a bouncer of some sort? Waiter? Gigolo?

No. He is nothing smaller than a kitchen boy there.

Ok, maybe calling him a kitchen boy is belittling him. His job title may be 'Head Chef' for all we know as in his kitchen, he is the only guy there.

Many of you will know that in such dubious environments, suspicious characters like China girls will always frequent such places in search of riches in this Land of Gold. I applaud their efforts as it is with this sort of enterprising attitude that our forefathers carried with them when they first came to Singapore from China, turning Singapore from a fishing village into a thriving cosmopolitan city today. A typical Bu3 Tong2 girl will look like this below.

Photo courtesy of www.sammyboy.com

Anyway, Ah Long gave me and Joseph really first-class treatment in his territory. My readers please do not let your thoughts wonder too far with regards to my previous sentence. What Ah Long offered to the both of us was a grand total of 4 jugs + 2 glasses of beer. Such was his great influence at Bu3 Tong2 KTV. It is no wonder considering he looks like this.

The China girls there were definitely of sub-standard as I had seen much better ones in the form of $100-a-session China girls at Geylang. (Disclaimer: I do not frequent Geylang. It was just an observation I made when I was there to eat beef kway teow.)

At bu3 tong3, I also saw the waiters there openly flirting with the China girls. I wonder whether Ah Long have contracted any weird virus from contact with those girls as he was conspiciously missing for the first few days of Chinese New Year, citing illness as a reason for his absence.

Our VIP treatment continued in the main lounge where old tikos were belting out tunes from the 70s and 80s. We brought in a significant amount of youth and vigour into the whole place when I sang Mayday's Lian Ai ING. The old folks and China girls looked visibly surprised and happy with my choice of songs as they were all staring at us. After another few Jay Chou tracks, we left the place with a feeling of satisfaction and fulfilment.

FYI, Ah Long has since moved on to work at Raffles Place, such is his level of adaptability in terms of environments. Little is known about his illness and I urge all readers to play it safe and keep a safe distance when coming into contact with him.

And to those who want to share with us this wonderful experience, Bu3 Tong2 KTV Lounge is situation in Jalan Kledek, off Victoria Street.

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