Why I’ll be taking it easy this weekend

Clockenflap, Hong Kong’s boutique music and multimedia festival, was great last weekend, but it was two long days outside. Congratulations Mr Justin Sweeting, Jay Forster, and Mike Hill. I was exhausted by the end of it.

After and during that, my good friends Patrick and Tash were here, and, being a good host who always eats in his best interest, I accompanied them on a Monday night trip to Lamma for seafood (where Patrick ludicrously claims to have stepped on a tarantula).

The next night saw a trip to the trusty Khyber Pass in Chungking Mansions for cheap and scrumptious curry.

Wednesday night, my band (not that I own it, but I can’t say ‘our’ band, ‘cos you don’t know who ‘our’ is) Fat County (unsigned) rehearsed in a small and inadequate (but cheap) bandroom in Mong Kok and wrote half a pirate shanty.

Last night, I hit up Super Fun Bowling in Olympian City and found my inner Big Lebowski (a movie I confess to never actually having seen). My friend Ben and I outdid ourselves with our excellence (tempered with just the right amount of haplessness), and drank Carlsberg from a pitcher.

Finally, tonight, I have a breather. So I’m going to see This Is It, the Michael Jackson movie. And then tomorrow, I plan to do something close to nothing… leaving me Sunday to watch the Hong Kong golf open, which this year has its best-ever field.