China Mike, Dynamite!!!!!

5 nights in Hong Kong.

4 nights of non-stop drinking.

Only one, China Mike.

--shaft on

Who's the only white man, who can speak both Mandarin and Cantonese..... MIKE!
Who's the only white man who can read the language toooooo?..... MIKE!

--shaft off

So I suppose I should explain this. Mike is my oldest mate. Not oldest in age, but oldest in time. We suffered together through the Mentone Grammar Gulag. Mike has also been living and working in mainland China for the last 5+ years. Mike was a real hit at dinner. His poise, his grace, his looks and his success. That coupled with his command of the Chinese languages, and culture - means he is the newest addition to the extended Clark family.

Congratulations Mike, your feats will live on forever in my dad's boring family tree.

So it's really hard to say where we went, and how many Long Island Iced Teas we drank, or how many strange looks we got, or how often we wore our pants up to our elbows. But hell, my kidneys are crying and my liver is weeping, so I guess it was a fuckin' good time.

Some highlights:

The Tuesday Night from Singapore - 1 litre of alcohol consumed.
The Wednesday Night from Columbia - Many visits to the toilet cubicle.
The Friday Night from Hell - more seedy bars and long island iced tea than ever drunken before.

Other more family oriented highlights were:

The Saturday Morning Yum Cha after the Friday Night from Hell - with my Aunties (everyone's an Auntie in Hong Kong) at the Renaissance Hotel - more room there than Euan and Jen's entire block of apartments.

The Saturday Evening Dinner - with my godparents, godbrother, and China Mike. It's been a long time since we all saw each other, but everyone was very very welcoming. What can I say??

On Saturday evening I was feeling very ill (read: soft) so wanted to go to bed. Mike and Euan on the other hand decide that going out drinking was a good idea. We spoke to them on Sunday morning at 6am when we were going to the airport, and they were going home. Ahh.....

....and now Melbourne.