Call me ignorant, but if I did not know any better, I would have thought that Bar None was a bar just like any other.

Today, however, changed my perspective entirely.

It is undisputedly the best club/bar that I've been to (which is not much, since I haven't been to many places).

The band was the best that I had seen a local one perform, complete with a really awesome sound system, a cosy enough atmosphere, and well, a cute guitarist. LOL

Not only that (as if the cute guitarist was not reason enough), the club plays really good songs to dance to in between sets.

So for the entire time that I had been there, I could not only dance to the band's music, as well as to the songs that the club played.

There is one thing, however.

The club-goers are on the more mature side, as the age limit there is 23 for girls and 25 for guys.

So expect to see a good handful of expats/tourists who stay in the Marriot hotel itself, as well as working adults.

You definitely won't see the army boys there, nor the uni students.

It's an "uppity" bar, if I may say so myself.

Just for your info, Douglas O sings there with the band on occasional sets.

Other than him, the main lead singer has a really good tattoo-ed bod and of course, voice.

I only saw his tattoo-ed bod because he did a mini strip-tease thingy for 2 girls who had their birthdays celebrated there.

One of whom, was my friend.

And boy, was she utterly embarrassed at that.

Which was a pity, really.

How often do you get a guy with a good bod doing a strip-tease for you in front of dozens of people?

Not likely to get lucky twice. Uh huh. =)

And oh yes, back to the cute guitarist.

He wasn't cute in the conventional way, as in he didn't have the typical good looks.

In fact, he had a messy mop of long hair which just doesn't do it for me.

Not only that, his dress sense conspired to bring him to oblivion.

But still, he was cute in his own way.

Which just goes to show that you need not have the entire package to come across as attractive to a group of young women well past their hormonal age.

What he does have, however, is the most amazing voice which he put to good use when doing a rendition of Hoobastank's The Reason.

Plus, he's one guy who plays the fastest and most brilliant guitar.

If he were to join Who Wants To Be A Millionaire's Fastest Finger Contest, I'm sure he would win hands-down.

In that sense, he toppled the law that said that attractive men can't sing for nuts (and play good guitar whilst at it).

But, all these aside, the reason why he caught my eye (literally) was because our eyes happened to meet a few times and each time, he smiled the warmest smile at me.

And that was just it.

Some kind of strange connection between 2 strangers who had never met.

Each time the band came back to perform another set, it would happen again.

At first I took it as he was looking at the audience in general, and not any one in particular.

But I was situated at the side of the bar, and the only people around me were my girlfriends.

So I thought, maybe he was smiling at one of the girls with me.

But as it happened progressively, that presumption had to be overthrown.

As our eyes met increasingly, the expression on his face seemed to change.

It grew to turn into a look that seemed to be studying me, as if trying to figure an answer to who I am.

And that's the story.

Of how the first married man charmed me.