dk of Blog2U invited some of us to The Martini Innercity Festival 08 at Clarke Quay on Thursday evening. I guess had FoxTwo been a Blog2U member, he would probably also be invited but 2 drinks wouldn’t be enough to satisfy him.

At the event, DK introduced to us Elaina – whom I believe to be one of the organisers – and if I heard her correctly and got the context right, she mentioned the concept of various cocktails out of Martini is about going social.

When some of us spoke about our impression that Martini is a lady’s drink, Elaina quickly put an end to the misconception by pointing out that Martini is actually more of a man’s drink. She point out that Martini first gained a lot of attention because of James Bond, and therefore there should not be the idea of it being a lady’s drink. I thought she might just be passing on an urban myth but when I am sober enough to check on Wikipedia later, I discovered that she may indeed be right. On hindsight, while it may be just trivial, I was quite impressed that she actually did research on the matter and spoke about it with much confidence.

These are the people dk invited to the event: alice cheong, coolinsights, endoh, jean, nicole, and plaktoz. Most of them, other than endoh, jean and nicole, I have met for the first time. My only regrets is yet again I didn’t chat very much with much of the faces new to me, like coolinsights (Walter), jean, plaktoz (Tianhong) and alice. The photo on the left shows nicole, plaktoz (whom you can see for yourself the effect of the Martini), jean and alice.

They are good company – since we generally concentrated on the event, sampling the drinks offered instead of camwhoring. All of us took the drinks we fancied, for e.g. Teh Halia, Japan!, Mintini, Scary Harry etc, and at times we let one another have have a sip of our drink when we felt they are quite good but none beat the Scary Harry which ran out by the time some of them who still have free drinks left on their access passes tried to get one for themselves.

On the right, you see a photo of dk’s hand holding a Scary Harry – truly the drink of the night. While I am sorry I can’t really remember who the sponsors are and which joints are present there, I know for sure one of the counters serving their own blend of Martini Cocktails is manned by Geek Terminal. I believe Harry’s is also there as well though I am not quite sure.

Anyway Singapore is truly small because I also run into some of my friends from Biz-Era at the event though they are not there for drinking. They were simply there to standby to ensure the IT part of the event works. After all they need some way to keep track of the drinks being given out and make sure no one gets more than their assigned number of drinks, and Biz-Era wrote the software to interface with the database for the event. If I am not wrong, I believe this software also keeps track of the people who will sign up for the $99 offer for 20 Martinis at the event.

After the event, dk, endoh and I went over to Brewerks and got ourselves one more jug of Golden Ale just to meet our alcohol quota for the night. Nicole was also with us to chat and we continue to chat a bit more before alice, jean and plaktoz came over to say good night one more time one their way home.

All in all, it’s a fun event. No pressure and all fun, and I certainly wish the organisers success for this festival which will end on 14 Aug itself. For more details you can visit their site here.