HK Dragon Boating Championship Race, Tuen Ng Festival 19.06.2007

Sun was out in force for the 2007 dragon boating festival - cororate sponsored boats lined the sidelines, with party people and party music almost drowning out the sound of the kick-off gun.

MSJ had a fairly new crew racing in the Tuen Ng festival dragon boating champsionships this year, but managed to get into the Finals - finishing up 7th Place in the Plate Final Division, out of a staggering 110 odd teams participating!

Awesome day - cant wait for 2008!

Long Ke, Sai Kung 17.06.2007

Viv had a cruise scheduled, so we headed out amongst ominous weather conditions for a bit of shine, swim and snorkel.

Corals came out better when the sun brightened up in the arvo; seathings came to party and we caught zz's all the way home back to the pier after a good catch.

Hermit crabs - hooray!

My friend Ben

This is my friend Ben.

Famous for his multitude of talents, but he is probably best known for his ability to defy the evolutionary logic of man - the theory of natural evolutionary regression??

Ben, you rock buddy - missing your humour already. These had me laugh til I was in stiches for ages.... hahah :)

Lenin Bar, Circular Quay, 15.06.2007

Thanks to all the crew for an awesome night - atmosphere was great and alot of surprised faces of people i hadnt seen in a long long time! :)

Had a wicked time, i cant wait til next time!

NB: HK crew '05/ 06 - come back soon! Dragon-I has your reservation on it! :)

Sydney, Australia June 2007 - Part 2

A few more "out and about" pics from last week....

Sydney, Australia June 2007 - Part 1

Jetted back to Aus for a quick holiday in June, great to see some old faces; the city itself was almost unrecognisable in some ways - so much has changed in 2 years!

Ash had the week off, so we took his Merc SLK for a ride and pimped up all the ladies in the Bronte area (sorry Ben, maybe next time hahaha)

The week consisted of a whirlwind surprise to old friends and family, with the odd lowenbrau beer visit; a night at the international beer festival at Bungalow 8 (that rocked - heads up to Jun/ Roger a great start to a drunken night!) and the final night at Lennin Bar (next time must check out the ice bar!)

Wakeboarding & squid fishing, Sai Kung, 03.06.2007

Aaron's infamous networking skills got us hooked up with some wicked wakeboarding over the weekend in Sai Kung. The boat was an absolute speeder, but we got in late in the day so had to come up against some rough waves - made some good wakes tho!

Finished up the night with some good old fashioned squid fishing on board some old junk - petroleum was spilling into the water, but o' it made the squid just that bit extra tastier!

Got either stung by a sea urchin or a rock fish/ lion fish - so thumb is now a glowing lump of meat throbbing with poison fluid. Worse than a blue bottle octopus sting!!!

Heads up to Joey and Chris for awesome trip tho - respect dawg!

Tin Hau/ North Point night scenes, 02.06.2007

After knocking down some japanese in causeway Bay, Win suggested to check out apartments around victoria park and to also walk of some of the dinner. The short walk quickly turned into a trek of winding paths and unknown side streets in sweltering 33 degree temperature (dammit!), but we did see some funky apartments and ruin a couple's romantic endeavour in a side alley!

Hooray for sex in public!

Stanley Dragon Boat Warm-up races 28.05.2007

The last 12 weeks of saturday training was put to the test as MSJ team raced against some of the best HK had to offer....particularly hard were the Seagods Xtreme, whose women participants were almost built physically to match their herculean male counterparts......

Go, weenie Hongkies, Go!

But coming in 2nd for the Plate Final, MSJ still kicked some ass. Great day - The final should be wicked!