It's been almost a week now since getting back from Hong Kong. I can still remember the beef brisket from over there though. The food is awesome, and the folks were equally helpful and made us feel right at home in one of the most dazzling cities I have ever seen.

Honestly, Hong Kong was the shiznitz. Bright lights, tall buildings, fast cars, hot girls, hot food, cool weather, blingbling, hot food, and really tall buildings and fast underground inner-city transport. We did alot of walking too, aside from riding around on the MTR (that's what they call they'r light rail system). Took a ride down to Tom Lee, the market in Mong Kok, and walked up and down the side streets of our hotel pretending to be sight seeing when we were actually just trying to pass the nervousness before the gig.

The gig was a little awkward, not because we were in a different country, but probably because the audience was a bit more intimidating than what we usually get. I'd say 90% of the heads in the audience had blonde hair, and the few that didn't were still a head or two taller than me. And they were all wearing suits. That closed the deal. I stood in the bathroom before the gig contemplating my balance as my head started to turn. Wasn't pleasant at all but we got through it all right and in the end I was really proud of the band, and really proud of our extra special guest that night: Lalay Lim of Urbandub who very generously offered to help when Trevor couldn't come because of passport problems.

We were all really really proud to have been part of the Nokia IAC music showcase in Hong Kong and we hoped we did our country proud. Many thanks to Nokia for choosing us and to all the folks who downloaded our song off of the Nokia IAC site (nokia.com.ph/IAC).

On the way to Hong Kong we were looking forward to the prospect of meeting some really important people in the music industry, perhaps even some bigwigs from overseas. We did meet a lot of new and interesting people but the ones that were the most helpful and interesting were probably the bands themselves. One Buck Short from Malaysia, Slur from Thailand, and Pointblank from Malaysia. Superb musicians all and showed that Nokia did indeed choose the finest from each country. But more importantly they were all nice nice guys and didn't make us feel alien at all.

All in all, a really great experiance for all of us involved. We took in the city lights (a truly amazing city at that!), breathed in some oriental air, took pictures of old school british colonialism, walked awestruck through perhaps the most amazing airport in the world, and played in front a truly global audience. Can't wait to do it again.

Three cheers for pinoy rock!

Henry