Last night was my first official night out in the Chennai. I met up with a few friends and headed over to ‘Dublin’ at the Park Sheraton in Chennai. Now, before we headed down to Dublin, we stopped at this TOI ‘party’ at a different hotel which was free and had a male-to-female ratio of 1000:1

We bolted out of there as soon as we could and eventually met a few other people to go to Dublin for their 7th anniversary celebrations. Looks like all the hotels are on a high state of alert these days. My car was checked for explosives at the entrance and everyone had to go through a metal detector before entering the hotel. There was a 1500rs cover to get in that night but we got in for free since my friend’s got all the connections.

The club was pretty nice and the music was pumping until the celebrity DJ Akhtar from Mumbai started playing. His music was predictable – every third song was great, his transitions sucked and he was talking pictures with his friends at the DJ booth the whole night. I felt that my Zune could have been a better DJ that night. The resident DJ Rudy was awesome and had some great dance songs and reminded me of my favorite radio station c89.5. Drinks cost a fortune at the bar here but feels like people have way too much money these days. I saw quite a few celebrities last night including Mathew Hayden, film actors Dhanush, Shaam, Namitha, Shruti Hassan among other people.

It was a fun night but people are still socially awkward and conservative here. Need to check out the night life in Bangalore and Bombay before I write this one off. I drove back at around 2AM and was stopped and had my car searched glanced (at) at a police checkpoint inside the city.