It’s useful being friends with designers and photographers; they have a habit of injecting that extra element of quality into capturing events. In my case, I was lucky enough to have Abe shooting away on his rig, and Gerhard & Klara mounting their time-lapse cam in the corner of the room – lovely.

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Kicking off proceedings was dinner at my favourite local ‘restaurant’ – the getto shrimp van at the end of the street. We grabbed, wine glasses, bread and candles, and created a few raised eyebrows, dining to the sounds of music and shrimps being fried with a hairdryer. As the parking lot filled up, we decamped to the apartment, where a super spread of friends gathered to wish me well as I successfully managed to circumnabulate the Sun 30 times.

On top of that, I am now the proud owner of a 20″ Apple Cinema display, which is significantly more pleasant to work on – to the point that I am pretty sure I am processing more photos for upload to Flickr now, and the blog. Awesome.

Nick and I discuss vases

Really special to have the HK crew in town. Appreciated!

Candlelit / neon – lit supper

Strike a pose.

Onizou Idea Nomads in Town

Shrimp pots.

A very special cooking style – eat your heart out, Heston.

Make a wish!

The team.

Champers.

After managing to offload this trash to Sam last year, it managed to find its way back here. Someone will pay for this!