The name of the club was inspired by the 1984 movie starring Steve Martin titled " The Lonely Guy". True to the movie's spirit, this bunch of "gooks" from Utah State University decided to experiment with the concept and started promoting their house as the Lonely Guys' Club. Decoration ornaments being put up all year round, the music and the atmosphere of the house bespoke the latest trend during the mid eighties with Duran Duran and Sade 's music took the center stage.
Having a cool DJ like Mr Chong and Thiep, as always,the live wire of any party, the Lonely Guys Club took up the reputation as a cool place to hang out ( BYOB) for friends and other selected guests. Rule # 1, girls can only bring their boy friends with the permission from either one of the Trustees of the Lonely Guys Club. Otherwise, leave your boy friend at home....
To give credential to the club and to protect its safety, we engaged a couple of Footballer friends ( American Footballers Offensive/defensive linesmen are on average 280 lb / 6 feet 5 inches in height) to frequent the place as our special guests and we also made sure that all our immediate neighbors were in the same wavelenght with us. Rule #2 : No drugs are allowed with the exception of what's coming out from Thiep's little pipe.
With all the party ingredients in place, any slightest event could trigger endless fun in the club ie: ice cream party during winter, birthday party, halloween party, home coming party, farewell party, end of semester party and etc. The place also became sort of information center for new foreign students and its reputation benefited us as well. We regularly received home cooked food from our visitors and there was one particular dish that i liked so much, a slow roasted beef from this Japanese girl ( couldn't remember her name) who was a big fan of Katsutaka Murakami, the rare Japanese with permed hair ( he replaced Wan Mohd Nor a.k.a Wan Jus as one of the Trustee for The Lonely Guys Club after Wan's graduation). Katsutaka however had a fetish for American girls, specially one high school senior who looked like Madonna the singer. Because of her, Katsuka religiously pumping iron to build his small frame and hoping to impress her. Long story short, with all the romantic gestures and new macho appearance, Katsuka was heart broken when Thiep the smooth talker managed to intercept "Madonna" from him and that incident almost brought the halt to the LGC activities.Rule #3 : Do not take relationship seriously and personally especially when it involves the club trustees.
Having a cool DJ like Mr Chong and Thiep, as always,the live wire of any party, the Lonely Guys Club took up the reputation as a cool place to hang out ( BYOB) for friends and other selected guests. Rule # 1, girls can only bring their boy friends with the permission from either one of the Trustees of the Lonely Guys Club. Otherwise, leave your boy friend at home....
To give credential to the club and to protect its safety, we engaged a couple of Footballer friends ( American Footballers Offensive/defensive linesmen are on average 280 lb / 6 feet 5 inches in height) to frequent the place as our special guests and we also made sure that all our immediate neighbors were in the same wavelenght with us. Rule #2 : No drugs are allowed with the exception of what's coming out from Thiep's little pipe.
With all the party ingredients in place, any slightest event could trigger endless fun in the club ie: ice cream party during winter, birthday party, halloween party, home coming party, farewell party, end of semester party and etc. The place also became sort of information center for new foreign students and its reputation benefited us as well. We regularly received home cooked food from our visitors and there was one particular dish that i liked so much, a slow roasted beef from this Japanese girl ( couldn't remember her name) who was a big fan of Katsutaka Murakami, the rare Japanese with permed hair ( he replaced Wan Mohd Nor a.k.a Wan Jus as one of the Trustee for The Lonely Guys Club after Wan's graduation). Katsutaka however had a fetish for American girls, specially one high school senior who looked like Madonna the singer. Because of her, Katsuka religiously pumping iron to build his small frame and hoping to impress her. Long story short, with all the romantic gestures and new macho appearance, Katsuka was heart broken when Thiep the smooth talker managed to intercept "Madonna" from him and that incident almost brought the halt to the LGC activities.Rule #3 : Do not take relationship seriously and personally especially when it involves the club trustees.
I can go on and on with the Lonely Guys Club activities, especially with the other characters like Fung Wai Yin aka Jasmine, Alex "the Doc" of HK, our white water rafting trip in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and loads of other fun activities during the one and the half year of LGC's existence. Where ever you are guys, especially the founders of the Lonely Guys Club, the experience that we went through made us a better person in life now...
