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Woot woot! Here comes my review (3rd review of an event for me); to those who read it, enjoy 
Where to begin? Last night was just absolutely incredible, and like I told Nada, very memorable. I arrived with Mel, Miche, and JAX (haha, what are the chances? I ran into her at Union Station) around 11pm or so; I probably waited a total of 15 minutes while being processed through the guest-list line into the club. And on that note, thank you kindly to John Tang for putting me on the list We got inside the KH, met up with Alex (LOT2005), and started the night. I was a bit surprised that the Haus wasn't yet packed, but within a few hrs it was filled up nicely (nothing compared to main room though: I went to see Deep Dish for about 10 minutes and I couldn't believe how rammed and stuffy main room was, there was almost no room to dance). For the first hour and a bit I just chilled out, really didn't do much dancing. Around 12:30am I headed over to the meetup and ran into a lot of great TAs. After the meetup I started dancing dancing dancing! I danced from about 1am-7am to some wikkid wikkid sets. Finally, just a tad before 7am I left the club, cabbed it back to Miche's, grabbed my keys, and drove home.
Alright, now for the good stuff: there are soooooo many highlights to this night, I will try to mention as many as I can remember:
1) I MET A MILLION PEOPLE LAST NIGHT. The best part of the evening, without a question, is the interaction I had with others. I saw many familiar TAs who I was sooooo happy to party with, met a huge number of new TAs, and also spent lots of time talking and dancing with randoms. You guys all know who you are! Fucken awesome. There is nothing more that I enjoy than meeting new people an sharing a connection with them at parties like these.
2) There were a few TAs (and maybe randoms?) that I spent hours with. I danced up a storm with these guys & girls. Darouge11 was one of them and there are sooooo many others. In all honesty, I really can't remember anybody's name but there is no doubt that I will recognize their faces the next time we party. There was one guy I met last night who made my night: he introduced himself to me saying he recognized me from TA and boom! him and I partied together for hours and hours throughout the night in KH. I can't recall his name but there is no doubt the guy knows who he is (green hat, took soooo many pics with me, took a video of me (which I can't wait to see!), etc). Dood, as soon as you read this, you gotta do two things: 1) let me know your name and TA identity obviously; and 2) send me all the pics and vids you took last night. I had a fucken blast partying with you and we'll do it up proper again in December.
3)NNNNAAAADDDAAA!!!! Hahah, she is a highlight of my night--in a cateogry all her own. I finally spotted her in front of the DJ booth in KH maybe around 2am or so. She came over to me and I gave her the biggest hug in the world--just as I promised I would. I had a sick time dancing with her for the last hours of the night. Ali, buddy, fucken great to see you again too dood. You have an awesome smile which only makes me happier when I'm around you.
4) Pawel! I was so so happy to see this guy and party with him. I appreciate what you did for me man. We had a blast together and I know my night wouldn't have been the same if you weren't there. I owe you one buddy
5) Picture with Cat-Woman....no lie, really! Myself and two others TAs took a pic with Cat-Woman, full leather suit and all, so cool!
6) Even though it sounds kinda cheesy, HUGS!!!! I must have given / received 100 hugs last night. It sounds silly I know, but they mean a lot to me--> it makes me feel like everybody else is just as happy to be there at that moment as I am. Anybody who saw me last night knows this haha....I even remember hugging this beautiful blonde woman and 5 seconds later telling her I had to give her another one and did
7) My interaction with the crowd: last night's KH crowd was fucken awesome! I was feeding off the energy of the crowd all night. There is NOTHING like looking across the room, catching someone's eyes, and encouraging them to put their motherfucken hands up and move like crazy as they demand you do the same! I loved it. One of my absolutely favourite memories of last night was the following: there was this woman who I had been making eye-contact with for a long time, feeding of each other's energy, etc. Eventually, we made our way towards each other. At a certain point, the DJ threw on a huge huge huge build-up. While this was happening, this woman and I squeezed each other's hand and put them as far up to the ceiling as we could. We were literally squeezing each other as hard as we could and must have done this waiting for the track to slam back for a good 30 seconds or more. I will never forget that, it meant a lot to me.
8) I was in sooo many pics haha. Pics with TranceGrooves, Coxx (you're friggen awesome man, loved partying with you, thank you for taking all the pics with / for me ), LOT 2005 (Alex), Plastikboy (Rob), Nada, Jenn....the names are endless, I could go on and on.
9) My best-friend showed up the party, something I wasn't expecting...first time partying with this guy, so fun!
10) SANDER VAN FUCKEN DOORN! Holy fucken shit. This guy is absolutely amazing, amazing! Without a doubt, he impressed the shit out of me, and is now my newest favourite DJ. I feel soooo blessed for having attended his first Toronto appearance. He is just incredible: his stage performance is fulllllll of energy, he's all smiles, he dances, dares the crowd to get as crazy as they can, and makes eye contact with single people in the crowd all the time. As soon as he got up on stage, I got to shake his hand. While he played, him and I made eye contact and laughed at each other sooooo many times (I was front and centre!). Then, WHILE HE WAS STILL PLAYING, he was kind enough to give me his autograph and let me shake his hand again. He killed it. Hard trance has never sounded so good. Just....mind-blowing.
11) Interactions with the DJs: I got autographs from Oakenfold, Second Sun, and SVD...I also took pics with Second Sun and got a chance to have a small convo with one of them. So cool!
I could go on and on, but time doesn't permit right now. Here are some of the pics from last night. I really really want to get all the pics that people took of me last night!
I'll end by saying this: THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY WHO CONTRIBUTED TO MY UNFORGETTABLE NIGHT! TA is one of the greatest things that has ever happened to me and you guys just don't understand how much this all means to me. See you mother******s in December!
P.S. I'm still kind of out-of-it today, so if I neglected to mention someone or something special I apologize.
P.P.S Sasha you were missed buddy!
P.P.P.S If anybody who met me (or re-met me) last night would like to get to know me a bit better--guys or girls--send me a msg on MSN!
Last edited by Nicolas Oliver on Oct-12-2006 at 12:15
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So anyhow, made my way there w/ Dannie and Monica (best crew evar lol). It was awesome to see everyone. Crystal Method were kickin but we ended up leaving cuz we couldn't breathe. Basically went around to just about every room. Hilites were Sander and time spent in the Drink... was so tired by the end due to sickness... so THANKS TO ANYONE I was dancing around, you guys kept me going when I was so tired I was tripping over my own feet dancing and trying to keep up 
Love that top on you, hon!
