On Time

Getting to the money end of the week, we started with a great breakfast of customised tosai from the Sri Lankan chef. Got some work done then headed to the venue for the final walk-through and tweaking - looking great! Took part in the press conference briefing at 3pm - all the artists (Rikus, Nomad, Stefan Marx and Luke Bennett) seemed really cool.

Took the train to Samariter Strasse and met up with Pascal Engel after 10 years! Had a coffee in his neighbouthood, the last district to be renovated after the GDR days, and checked out his pad, a great one-bedroom walk-up on the fifth storey with a coal stove and only EUR240 per month! His girlfriend's squirrel had died the day before but he seemed ok. We had a beer down the road and he filled me in on the last 8 years of his life studying to be a psychologist, and how he was finding a job and looking at becoming a coach.

Zoomed across town back to Q Hotel and proceeded to dinner with the Asian media and artists, Christian, Chong Lee and our Danish distributors. Had a very slow dinner at a trendy but tasty place called Bangaluu, then to Sage Club where we had a private lounge overlooking the dance floor, rock night, and our own fridge full of Tiger. Worked our way through it with determination as everyone other than the beer boys faded. One yum seng and many hours later, we traversed town again (Mogan and I re-interpreting U2 to the car radio) to a house-like bar and met a cat from the Dominican Republic. Made it home as the sun rose.