Fu Manchu @ fifteen eleven twenty ten!

Concept or not? If concept, then it has to be real.

I'm really doing my best, but i have some problems by getting the beard to be long at the ends, so they can hang down from my chin like the real Fu Manchu beard. Maybe I have to cheat and go to one of these shops who do hair extensions, and ask if they could do a beard extension instead!

Fu Manchu!

It was itching and kept getting stuck in my t-shirts when I got dressed or undressed. When I was in bed at put my head on the pillow, it felt like my chin was lifted up by hundreds of small whiskers.
Finally this morning it was time before heading towards work. The razor had its problems, even that I changed the blade for a new one -Gilette Mach 3 or not- the 7 day beard did put up an eminent battle and the evidence was left behind in the bathroom sink.
Thousands of small black and grey studs was left, glued to the sides of the sink, like small fish cought out at the bottum of a dried out lake.
And the first stage of my own private Fu Manchu?

Like Wilhelm Tell; yes the man in Switzerland with an Apple on his head, but here also with a Fireball in his mouth.

Decision day for the MOustache.

So now I've got the verdict of which kind of MOstache I have to grow. Late Yesterday the final bids came in and our comMOunication manager could spend some time putting together a list and design a poster with all us the poor souls, who now has to get up earlier in the morning and go to the bathroom and look into the mirror and try to design -and maintain- a MOustache for the next 3 weeks.

Here is a clipping from the official list with the verdict:
The Fu Manshu style MOustache!

As I saw the result of, I must admit that I were pleased that the good colleagues from the LIRC -which is our library, and who put the bid in for me- didn't choose one of the outragous ones, allthough the one they pointed out for me, will be hard to grow in only a few weeks.

An odd dream!

Previously on this blogg, I told I had some of the magical "Sun breeze" mixture cocktail on the Junk boat last night, and that you never can know what is going to happen after drinking that stuff.
Well I got home and to bed and slept very well, but I had this odd dream; I dreamt about the french impressionist painter Claude Monet, and that he was joining the fabulous Mr. E in the band; Eels. They played together in a new music video on a Junk boat on the lake in Monet's famous garden in Givernhy in France.
Mr. E was sitting on the top singing and playing a Harp while Monet was standing at the front with an easel, painting loads of his famour Haystack pictures with different coloured laser lights on the top.
Both Monsieur Monet and Mr. E had these big weird beards, they are so famous for.

Everything was beautiful and very colourful like Monet's paintings, and the tune was a new one, at least I never heard it before, I think it was called; "Blackbirds hiding in the beard of mine".

When I woke up I looked like this:

I can only explain it this way; The "sun breeze" mixture had been influenced by a recipe from a famous druid from somewhere in Saxony in Germany. I know this man and his amazing ability to create magical stuff, and so the ingredient of his mixtures must in some way have found it's way to Hong Kong, and now is the secret of the magic of the "Sun breeze" cocktail, served on entertainment Junks on Victoria Harbour.
Anyway, I have to shave today so there is not so much harm done, only that I have to plan more time doing it as normal.

(Thanks to Herr. Frank from Dresden for his magical touch.)

MOrtensens MOvember.

Today is the 5th day of the MO, and today it is the day where people can do their bid or the MOst outrageous MOustache, and on which individual who can do the best effort growing it.
If you support me, I am sorry to tell you that I am quite low down on the betting table, and to be honest, I do not expect to climb the latter either. Anyway, I will continue the fight and hope I can manage some silly MOustache by the end of this MOnth.
By the way; if you think that you can see a major change from yesterday, then it is because I got myself a haircut yesterday afternoon.
Another by the way: See the thing I use as a light source at the bottom of the picture. I finally found a way to use the Ipad I got some time ago in a useful way. So now I will always bring it out with me on shootings, either as a light source or a reflector, as it is quite useful that way.


The standings so far at 9:45 AM local Hong Kong time:
The bids is in Hong Kong Dollar.

Mo Grower - Top Pledge
Mo Braund 20
Mo Brasher 16
Mo Broome 200
Mo Cotton 900
Mo Coventry 20
Mo Day 100
Mo De Melo 20
Mo Diamond 100
Mo Duffy 10
Mo Dufty 20
Mo Fahy 20
Mo Faire 150
Mo Farmer 150
Mo Gillis 35
Mo Hansen 500
Mo Hogan 20
Mo J Morgan 50
Mo Johnson 5
Mo S McCann 20
Mo McManaway 100
Mo McRorie 10
Mo Mortensen 20
Mo Newhook 50
Mo P Morgan 150
Mo Reid 15
Mo Ross 250
Mo Spivey Jones 100
Mo Thomas 50

Concept MOvember!

When you have started a concept, you have to follow it through, so here it is; my growing beard on the 4th day of the MOvember MOustache.

Getting ready for Christmas, or what!

Yesterday a colleague of mine told me that there was only 30 working days left before the Christmas break. So today it must be 29 days, right?

This means about 6 weeks to the next holiday, which sounds quite nice, but it also means about 6 weeks to the beginning of a new year. No more 2010. And yet another year has passed, and how on earth did that happen, without me really realizing it?
I think I just got use to write 2010, and soon I have to write –and get used to write- 2011. Two thousand eleven or twenty eleven, sounds actually not as bad but never as good as the one we’ve got now, but that is something that has already been up here, so let us leave it with this now.
I guess that at this time of the year, Europe is already completely decorated for Christmas and that every shop tries their best to get people to buy and buy and buy. That is what I can remember from living in Europe, every year the Christmas decoration came out a bit earlier than the year before. Quite so, that it was beginning just after the Schools autumn break.
Thank god it isn’t like this here in Asia.
They do something special at Christmas time, but it hasn’t at all the same hysteria and complete Christmas maniac around it like in the culture I come from. And I am not sad about that, and do not miss it a bit.
Maybe this has also something to do with the weather and the temperatures, coz who on earth feel the Christmas mood in 24 degrees wearing a t-shirt, shorts and flip flops, while staggering past some silly Santa figures and some Reindeer's or like here, some silver plastic horses, dragging a sledge full of parcels, not I.
By the way; these photos are from last year, there is still no Christmas decorations anywhere.

State of the MOustache :

Day three of the MOvember; it is starting to feel like sandpaper on my face.