What a wonderful way to waste a weekend!

Sorry, but can somebody out there, name me a better way to end life as a lucky blogging bastard, than this? After one year I have resigned from the club of lucky bastards, and this weekend -which in fact was the Mid Autumn festival weekend- was the last one as a LBB. Tomorrow -Tuesday the 16th- I'm going to start to work again. Maybe this also will have an influence on the updates on this site, as I haven't got the time to post all this silly stuff, or maybe it will just change character, and become more work related. If someone wants to know what kind of work, I can tell that I am going to introduce film and TV making at Renaissance College and built up a video workshop at the school. It is going to start from scratch as nothing of this kind have been at the school before, and of course I am very exited, as I can see some great potentials for a studio like that at an International college. But this wasn't going to be about work, not at all, it was going to be about this wonderful way to waste a weekend.

Wear all black and no talking during the game!

All Kiwi's & Aussies -nicknames for New Zealand and Australian citizens- among our friends, was all very tense and seemed in a little distress, as was something of special importance about to happen. In deed there was! The final in the battle of the Tri-Nations crown was coming up. All Blacks against the Wallabies live from Brisbane Australia. Of course the talk is about Rugby and one of our Kiwi friends -Paul Benefield- was talking about this as "the game of the century". So to give this event the kind of attention it deserves, he had organized a video projector and built a big screen on the rooftop at their house, and invited everybody who might have the slightest interest in watching a live rugby match, have some beer, some food and to yell loudly towards the screen: "Com on All Blacks, do the hakka and crush those wallabies". I'm sure, that the Kiwi fraction among the guests, were all so certain how the end result would turn out, and so it was OK, that only one of the colleagues turned up in an Australian top, and sometimes also shouted out loudly, when Australia tried their luck running towards the All Blacks, to find a way through their defense. Paul -in the brown top- is very concentrated, and the only Aussie at the screen party -in the yellow shirt, had to send SMS to friends in Australia, to have someone to share his sympathy and excitment with during the game.
I am a soccer man, and must admit that I don't even know the all the rules of rugby, and so I had to ask all the time; why this and why that? At the beginning Jason -the guy next to me- answered very friendly, but as the game went into its deciding stage he just handed me another beer to keep me quiet. at the end New Zealand did win, and has now the Tri-Nations title, and -nearly- everybody was happy. Even that I.m more to soccer, I can enjoy watching rugby together with real fans, because it reminds me a bit about the Saturdays back in Dresden, when I used to go to a bar called Keepers, to watch the German Bundesliga together with some good friends, and at least rugby, can have some similarities with soccer.


The Sea breeze Sunday.


Sunday we were invited on a Junk trip from Tsim Sha Tsui to Clearwater bay. Food and drinks all inclusive, and as the boat came out through Victoria harbor and entered Clearwater bay, where it threw the anchor, there was nothing much else to do than relax, have a drink and every now and then to jump in to the water to cool a little down, before having another drink. Where the day before the majority had been from New Zealand and I got used to their dialect, even sometimes adapted it my self like a parrot, the majority on this Junk trip was South Africans, so suddenly I had to get familiar with this quite special version of the English language, which seems like a mix of Dutch, Africans and English.
The crew on the boat really did an effort to try to boost the trip, as they kept on serving their "Sea breeze" cocktail, Vodka, orange- and Cranberry juice, and as the time went on, I think they increased the vodka part in that cocktail, and as they also served it in plastic water bottles, there was no excuse; you could even take the drink with you into the water.



























When we finally woke up this morning and got out of bed, I still felt like being on that boat, as every thing was still moving a bit like the boat riding the waves. It could be that my brain still tried to level something out, or it might be the last effects of the famous Sea breeze cocktail, which for sure at the end had made an impact on the guests on this Mid Autumn festival Sunday party Junk trip. And like I said; what a wonderful way to waste a weekend.