Already during the week, you could notice that something special is going on in Hong Kong because the streets were (even) more crowded than usually, particularly in Lan Kwai Fong. And many wore shirts with strange colours, mostly strips and squares. We were looking forward to this for weeks, Hong Kong Sevens 2007 was coming up (sponsored by Credit Suisse, by the way), three days of stout sweaty guys looking for an egg (Easter is drawing near). We didn't have a clue about rugby, but we knew it would be the biggest party in town. As there was no way we could have get on hold of officially sold tickets, we decided to take our chances and rely on the flourishing black market.
But, let me put everything in chronological order. On Friday, we went partying (of course). We started off at FINDS, where we usually get free drinks as the management is Swiss :). Then Gigi managed to get us into one of the fancy clubs in Hong Kong, club 9. But first of all, she told me to go home and change my shoes as I was wearing sneakers. She convinced me that this club is really worth the hassle so I went home blabla just to find out in the end that EVERYONE was wearing sneakers in there apart from me. Anyhow, the club was indeed not bad. Good music, nice intereur and stuff. Even so, we decided to move on to From Dusk Till Dawn in Wan Chai. Like in Insomnia in Lan Kwai Fong there was a Filipino band playing there and they just rocked the house. The grand finale of the night was breakfast at the Flying Pan again.
But, let me put everything in chronological order. On Friday, we went partying (of course). We started off at FINDS, where we usually get free drinks as the management is Swiss :). Then Gigi managed to get us into one of the fancy clubs in Hong Kong, club 9. But first of all, she told me to go home and change my shoes as I was wearing sneakers. She convinced me that this club is really worth the hassle so I went home blabla just to find out in the end that EVERYONE was wearing sneakers in there apart from me. Anyhow, the club was indeed not bad. Good music, nice intereur and stuff. Even so, we decided to move on to From Dusk Till Dawn in Wan Chai. Like in Insomnia in Lan Kwai Fong there was a Filipino band playing there and they just rocked the house. The grand finale of the night was breakfast at the Flying Pan again.
We had actually planned to get to the stadium quite early, but after the night out there was no way we could have done that. I'm still proud of us that we made it to the stadium by 1pm. Cheers to the black market, we got in just in time to see one my favourite team, the All Blacks (New Zealand), play. As it was sevens rugby, that is, only seven players per team, playing for 2 x 7 minutes, we saw all teams, some of them even twice. The All Blacks qualified for the cup finals on Sunday, so I had to support "my team". However, it was way harder to find tickets at a reasonable price on Sunday. The first offer I got was 1500 HKD! Around the stadium the prices hovered around an "equilibrium price" of 500 honkies. Those black market dudes had a cartell agreement, I'm more than sure. I was at the point of giving up when I family guy with his to kids was leaving the premise, and I got my got my ticket for as little as 50 honkies :). The Sunday games were of course much better because the good teams would play against each other, there were more fans and the atmosphere was just great. The All Blacks beat England in the quarter finals but got defeated by Fiji in the semi-finals :( As a footnote, the cup was then won by Samoa. On the way home, Philipp suggested having "one drink":) We had another good night at From Dusk Till Dawn. The best weekend so far. (Apologies if I bored you with the rugby stuff)
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Fun reads ;-) What happened to those two old farts with the binoculars? Hope they didn't turn into stalkers LOL
And way to go Filipino bands!
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