Peter’s birthday was great fun- he had hired out “The Casting Couch” in Attica, there were a band of midgets carrying silver platters of nibbles around on their heads, a fountain that played Chateau Neuf Du Pape, and at midnight- an elaborate laser, firework and Wild Tiger show extravaganza to the song “West End Girls”.

Me and him

The whole “private table” kind of night out is very Shanghainese, you pay for a set number of drinks in advance and are thus given permission to sit in one section of the club. Everyone who is part of the in crowd gets into the club for free, so assuming you and your friends would have spent that much money on drinks it’s a pretty good deal.
Whether Peter would actually have spent the minimum 10,000RMB on drinks I don’t know, but it was a warm night so he would’ve been pretty thirsty.

Luckily Peter got all of his fun out of the way before the Official Three Day Period Of Everyong Being Jolly Sad And Having No Fun which the government has decreed. Cinemas, gaming websites and any other forms of entertainment are going to be stamped out during the period.

No, I have no idea how that will help either.