First weekend of the month was a day Japanese Beer Festival! Tasty Tasty! HK Brewcraft saved my dwindling faith in Hong Kongs ability to do anything well.
One week down and we where off to see the Rolling Stones in Macau the next Sunday. We didn’t realise but it was only a 3,000 people capacity venue. It made me kinda mad seeing all the empty seats – corporate gifts that no one ever bothered to use up, but the show was great and I can say that the heroin diet is really working for Mick. I swear it is preserving him in some way, he looks the same as he always has! Keith Richards is obviously utterly crippled with arthritis and Ronnie Wood plays a lot of the guitar riffs. He was holding it together by far and the best musician in the place. It was 90mins dead of non stop hits and although there was no banter it was a solid show. I think maybe it might have felt a bit like a reunion or tribute show if there was lot of ‘back in the day’ chat. We got too drunk again on excitement over seeing people play actual instruments, you see the pattern here, and where not too fresh in work on the Monday.
One more week of being hammered at work, honestly 12 hour days are a fucking joke, and we’re in to another weekend. We popped over to try and find a food fair in Sheung Wan but all the good venders are at the daddy of all Hong Kong beer festivals, Beertopia, this weekend. Catherine big 4-0 was the highlight of Saturday evening and a lot of rum was drank by all.
Monday and Tuesday I was off the work with general fluey-run-down-ittus. Safe to say I’m not cut out for Hong Kong working style. And I can tell you sir that I care not one jot for it either. I came back a slightly refreshed and resolved to try and work better instead of longer, some how. The rest of the week was quiet and the weekend uneventful. We went for long walks with the dogs in the nice weather and ate with Team Java which was the best and worst as we learned that Pete and Jamie are leaving Hong Kong in September 😦
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