Round Tw0! Scarlet and her friend Walter invited Val and I to attend the Bier Fest once again. I though, "Hey why not? If they are going to pay our entrance fee we might as well go. We can get some good saussage, one free beer and leave before things get too hairy." WRONG! Not even the Late Mother Teresa could have escaped from that tent without wobbling. Val shattered the ego's of many an Asian male when she managed to ring the bell in the strong man competition. Doesn't she look great with that mallett? Thanks again Scarlet and Walter.

Bier Fest! - No, not the crappy movie. This was the real deal. Well, as close to the real deal as you can get outside of Munich...and in HK. Err...you get my drift. Swilling Steins of Lowenbrau out of wooded clogs, yodeling, trying to blow 20ft horns, and froliking with hundreds of HK locals as we all try derperatly to sing in German has become a Hong Kong tradition. All very surreal I tell ya. We went along with SMUGs and I believe won every contest we entered, except for one. It's the one time of the year that people think It's actually cool that I'm half German. Great food, great friends, great beer, great night, great God I'm glad it over for another year. Tikki-Takki! Takki-Takki! Here's picture of a semi-naked German playing a pot and spoon on his privates.

Rock-it! 2006 proved to be another interesting combination of musical styles. There were some awesome performances (Japan's Electric Eel Shock beating themselves down on the stage with their own guitars was err...scarily cool). The Academy rocked out at usual, Tom the singer climbed the staging and almost died - Ok, not really, but it was pretty good. Local band Fat Little Pig was hilarious, they had little jumps and "Hey, Hey's!" choreographed into their set. QuiHong, the heaviest Cantonese band on the planet were incredible, and the lovely ladies of The Shotgun She-Ras were foot-stompinly good. Other than these, there were some very ahem...different sets. Most notably a few that were so terrible that none of us could believe that they actually got a spot in the concert. Ie, The Spencer Douglas Band (dude, take singing lessons...Seriously) and headliner (WTF?) canto-pop singer Anthony Wong. Horrible, just horrible...even the locals who know who he was had to turn away and refill their beers. The thing that really confused me was that both nights of this "Rock" concert ended with Drum and Bass DJ playing to a spaced out crowd in the Tent. I felt out of place as I mistakenly left my Fubu gear, Skull Cap and whistle at home. I'll bring them next year if they managae to put on another Rock-it! (Dance-it! Perhaps?) Speeking of D&B DJ's here's a pic of me harrassing UK Club Legend - Goldie. Gotta get my caps done like that too. Wonder if my medical plan will cover it?

Wedding Bells! - Ok, not me and Jes, but a great wedding all the same. My good friends Paula and Eric recently tied the knot at the Old Orchard Inn in Kentville, Nova Scotia. It was a great day and I actually don't have anything sarcastic to say about it. Surprising eh? It was kind of a theme wedding though, as they (Ok, Paula) are Lord of the Rings fanatics. "Oh, what do you mean?" you ask. One of Paula's sisters played the Hobbiton theme on violin before the ceremony, they walked down the isle to another soundtrack song (really gotta ask which one, they'll kill me if they ever read this) and Gandalf made an appearance to deliver the rings. Really. One of her sisters came in just as the rings were asked for, everyone turned and, yup, there was Gandalf. Beard, staff cloak and all. Rather unexpected but a great laugh! Well, Cheers to the happiest couple I know! Picture to follow soon - It's taken me so long to post this as my useless HP laptop recently crashed (again) and I lost about 3,000 pictures forever. Arrk!