monkeyboy_ssj
7th July 2003, 15:50
Here’s the write up of how the first ever London E-Budo Meet went.
We aimed to meet up outside Piccadilly Circus at around 7:30pm. I got there and realized that I hadn’t got a clue what any of them look like! So I sent out a text message telling them to look for the amazingly attractive guy with huge muscles and they soon found me (Insert sarcasm here).
Ben (Fithchamber) was the first to come upto us and say hi and we joked abit about what people would look like and soon after Mike Williams joined our group. Most of us were showing off our martial arts T Shirts but I was wearing my Betty Ford Clinic out patient one…I got many funny/scared looks…
So far everyone was just like they were on line, and laughing and talking about members and threads being discussed in the forum at that time. Then I got a sheepish look from a guy with his muscular brother and it was Stan (StanLee) and his brother Felix.
We soon head off down to a pub on the edge of Soho called ‘The White Horse’ that does a good, cheap(ish) pint for central London. It was nice to see everyone having a drink of London Pride and generally having a chat about Randori, Music, stories of Sensei’s and loads more Tom Foolery.
Soon a drunk guy came up to us, thinking he was funny and started telling very unfunny jokes, us politely sniggering hoping that he would go away when Felix told a joke with the punch line “A post office cue” which had us in stitches and falling around laughing. He put my donkey joke to shame…and the unfunny guy soon realized he was not in our ‘league’ (insert smugness here)
After finishing a few pints we headed off the Glasshouse Street for a Curry in the ‘Mumbai Café’. Bring on the Cobra beer! ^_^ We soon were talking about moves, locking each other out with faces flying into Naan breads, and spinning the wheel of Chutney for our Popadums.
We were getting very strange looks by the waiters as we drank and were happily hurting each other with smiles of our faces. After finishing our beers and multiple curry’s it was time to head off, slightly pissed, stumbling out of the restaurant, before we got slowly mesmerized by the 50in TV showing Bollywood movies.
Time to go our separate ways, and off the land of nod. It a wicked evening and all the boys were a great laugh, I would recommend anyone who could possibly make it to come down and I promise you will have a great time, 10x better that that Tokyo lot! (hopefully this time I’ll try not to do side kicks on the train ¬_¬)
Right ok boys!
I will let you know about what the next will be. I'm pretty cool with dates, I think a Thursday would be good but if anyone has got anymore ideas then great. Maybe around the first week of August?
We will go for a couple of drinks in a great bar called Henry's with huge sofas and great cocktails and beers, this is by Leicester Square but we would probably meet at the same place.
After a few refreshments then we would head up north on the Northern Line to a place called Colindale where there is a HUGE oriental shopping mall. It’s a great place to visit in the day, and a great place to eat at night.
In the day they have got a supermarket with every oriental food/ sweets/ drink. In the day they have got a food court which is a square about 30 meters by 30 meters with loads of tables and chairs, surrounded by 20 different food bars from all around the east, (Japanese, Chinese, dim sum, Thai, Korean, Malaysian, the list goes on) and you get a huge meal for about a £5 max, but this is only in the day. Also they have got a Japanese book store (Adanmi), an arcade (lots of cool games) and loads of great restaurants!
You have to see this place to believe it’s in London. We would probably go to a great Chinese buffet place, which has got easily over 100 dishes in a huge center bit, and it’s nice and cheap, also the drinks are cheap too. Loads of sake!!!
Everyone cool with these plans?
We aimed to meet up outside Piccadilly Circus at around 7:30pm. I got there and realized that I hadn’t got a clue what any of them look like! So I sent out a text message telling them to look for the amazingly attractive guy with huge muscles and they soon found me (Insert sarcasm here).
Ben (Fithchamber) was the first to come upto us and say hi and we joked abit about what people would look like and soon after Mike Williams joined our group. Most of us were showing off our martial arts T Shirts but I was wearing my Betty Ford Clinic out patient one…I got many funny/scared looks…
So far everyone was just like they were on line, and laughing and talking about members and threads being discussed in the forum at that time. Then I got a sheepish look from a guy with his muscular brother and it was Stan (StanLee) and his brother Felix.
We soon head off down to a pub on the edge of Soho called ‘The White Horse’ that does a good, cheap(ish) pint for central London. It was nice to see everyone having a drink of London Pride and generally having a chat about Randori, Music, stories of Sensei’s and loads more Tom Foolery.
Soon a drunk guy came up to us, thinking he was funny and started telling very unfunny jokes, us politely sniggering hoping that he would go away when Felix told a joke with the punch line “A post office cue” which had us in stitches and falling around laughing. He put my donkey joke to shame…and the unfunny guy soon realized he was not in our ‘league’ (insert smugness here)
After finishing a few pints we headed off the Glasshouse Street for a Curry in the ‘Mumbai Café’. Bring on the Cobra beer! ^_^ We soon were talking about moves, locking each other out with faces flying into Naan breads, and spinning the wheel of Chutney for our Popadums.
We were getting very strange looks by the waiters as we drank and were happily hurting each other with smiles of our faces. After finishing our beers and multiple curry’s it was time to head off, slightly pissed, stumbling out of the restaurant, before we got slowly mesmerized by the 50in TV showing Bollywood movies.
Time to go our separate ways, and off the land of nod. It a wicked evening and all the boys were a great laugh, I would recommend anyone who could possibly make it to come down and I promise you will have a great time, 10x better that that Tokyo lot! (hopefully this time I’ll try not to do side kicks on the train ¬_¬)
Right ok boys!
I will let you know about what the next will be. I'm pretty cool with dates, I think a Thursday would be good but if anyone has got anymore ideas then great. Maybe around the first week of August?
We will go for a couple of drinks in a great bar called Henry's with huge sofas and great cocktails and beers, this is by Leicester Square but we would probably meet at the same place.
After a few refreshments then we would head up north on the Northern Line to a place called Colindale where there is a HUGE oriental shopping mall. It’s a great place to visit in the day, and a great place to eat at night.
In the day they have got a supermarket with every oriental food/ sweets/ drink. In the day they have got a food court which is a square about 30 meters by 30 meters with loads of tables and chairs, surrounded by 20 different food bars from all around the east, (Japanese, Chinese, dim sum, Thai, Korean, Malaysian, the list goes on) and you get a huge meal for about a £5 max, but this is only in the day. Also they have got a Japanese book store (Adanmi), an arcade (lots of cool games) and loads of great restaurants!
You have to see this place to believe it’s in London. We would probably go to a great Chinese buffet place, which has got easily over 100 dishes in a huge center bit, and it’s nice and cheap, also the drinks are cheap too. Loads of sake!!!
Everyone cool with these plans?