However, I do want to be clear about one thing, if a bad experience has been had, if you shouldn't believe the hype about a certain party night, then, we'll let you know, after all, I also hope we function as your guides and assistants through a sometimes tricky and booby-trapped nightlife scene, which brings me to Oshum.

Oshum Concept Club, a swanked out joint that occupies the former Pacha next to the Polo club off of the Zona Universitaria metro stop -or East Jesus as my college friends and the Urban Dictionary would call it , due to it's distance from the city center- unveiled a new party night last night, Couture Wednesdays. Billed as a concept created to be a useful tool that brings together fashion brands and the public (us), as well as strengthen the different offerings from fashion brands and trends within a nightclub atmosphere, my first impression as I ran into the club -ate to meet friends, in a sweat and with my nails still wet from polish I applied two minutes before walking out the door- was boredom, everyone looked bored.

The event that is for fashion lovers, which I would say, yes, I am one -heck, I even got gussied up in my fancy-ish royal blue pleated bubble dress for the occasion- said that weekly it would have a runway show, showrooms, 'live' photo shoots, etc...and at 9.30pm pica pica, free food ---knowing this ahead of time, I had skipped dinner. The pica pica was of, literally, bite-sized sponge cake like squares topped with a variety of pates, hams and fish spread and filled with cream cheeses and butter. They were, awful and ridiculously, almost insultingly small. The pate one was the worst, it is what I imaging licking a duck/goose's webbed foot would be like ---heavy on the pond aftertaste, a big disappointment.

The event was also partially put on by Moet, since there were large bottles used as decorations, and although the decorative bottles were in abundance, the glasses of the quality fizzy stuff were not, servings of maybe one sip were being passed out, when they were gone, you had to all but literally stick your foot out to stop a server to get more.

The runway show began at 11pm, but it was just a bunch of 'models' sitting in an area in front of the bar getting their photos taken, no one got on a speaker or mic to shout "oy, oy" to direct our attention to it, not even a nice person walked through the crowd to say, "hey, fashion show partygoers, look on", nothing, everyone looked dazed and confused. We asked for the woman who sent the invite, but the servers didn't seem to know who she was or if she was around...

A total dud, and to boot, we had to make it back on the metro or be stuck way the heck out of BCN for the rest of the evening into the morning. The whole time I kept remembering the free pica pica event to end all pica pica events at Shoko on October 22nd, where the sushi and tempura was a plenty and the wine seemed ever-flowing ---at least during the designated hours. That event pretty much set the bar, and high for these special pica pica/free booze events, and anything that falls well-below -like the Couture night- is a disappointment. As one friend said while we walked our hungry, thirsty, and disappointed glammed up selves back to the metro, "they should be doing/offer more, especially since they are so far from the city center".

My thoughts exactly, if you are going to do something, do it right, if there is going to be a glass of champagne, make it a glass, not a sip, if it is pica pica, be varied, tasty and well, abundant, if it is good, the people will go back, if it is not, then a bad chain of events ensues in which, I go back home, have to make a racket in the kitchen to fill up on fuet or whatever is in the fridge, my roommates get angry about all the noise, I go to bed in a huff over having dolled up and traveled far for nothing, and then noone's happy.