Social.

It's been a few weeks. Work has been busy but I managed to do my social rounds of Meet-Ups and single events most of which are quite notable.

I signed up for a Martini lesson somewhere up on the Plateau area which the local singles event coordinator had organized at a bartending institute. The instructor was fun and lively as was the turn out for the event. To keep it brief I'll say the mix of happy people all taking their turn at tending to their selection of a Martini was well worth signing up.

Friday that same week was sort of a marathon of events. Well, OK, it was two events but the trip between the two was a little discouraging. My evening started off at the end of a long day at a Cheap Ethnic Eatz meet-up. This event was at the St.-Ambroise Restaurant in Place St.-Henri - a wonderful French restaurant with an amazing yet affordable menu done up in "post-modern-faux-medieval" and tucked away in a converted industrial building behind a maze of business lofts. I had a sea food stew which sold itself to me when the waiter mentioned it was the chef's grandmother's recipe and later did not disappoint. The service staff itself was not at all of your typical snotty classiness though the food could have been easily served with such and was surprisingly fun and proud of their establishment. It well deserves a revisit someday in the summer over a date or group event.

Oh ya, the second event... I promised to meet a friend who had been dying to go dancing for a month at the dancing club called the "Rouge" where a "Nitelife" meet-up group was having an event. I don't usually enjoy dance clubs but for some reason I was enjoying just being in the middle of a sea of "nitelifers" in various stages of their chosen euphoria. As for meeting anyone, I wrote that thought off. I don't charm the ladies well on just my looks and having to shout over music doesn't help my situation. I made the best of my night though and enjoyed what ever I could from dancing and observing.

Saturday brought me to the Cinema du Parc for a watch of "The Wrestler" featuring a reborn Mickey Rourke in the lead role. The movie was all Rourke as he made the character and the pain very believable. The movie was sort of done in the style of a documentary which added to the raw feeling you got from the film. It's definitely worth a watch at the theatre.

Finished the week off at another singles event. At the suggestion of a friend I was going to try my had at drumming much like the folks at the Tam-Tam on Mont-Royal park. Crowd was small but the music enthusiast who lead the event made the event worth a try despite my lack of rhythm.

With Valentines on the horizon there's definitely more to follow...