No. It means I was drunk yesterday.

I've often said/bragged that hangovers don't occur on holiday and listed many possible reasons for this including humidity,no work to worry about and Aussies having the drinking capacity of a tardis. Last night I unintentionally tested my "no hangovers on holiday" theory and I'm sad to say it joins "white boys can dance" and "senior citizens are wild in bed" as utter bullshit.It's just hit 5:30pm and I think I've been out of bed for about an hour which isn't how I had envisioned spending my last full day in Hong Kong. It's well known that I have the kidneys of a smurf and often suffer large hangovers that last so long that I develop bedsores but this is the first big one I've experienced on holidays and it won't be something that I'll be repeating.

I'll attempt to sift through the disjointed memories of last night and fill you in on what happened as it was actually a pretty good night. The plan was to hook up with the Welsh girl for a beer or two but then I found out she doesn't land until the 30th which is the day I fly out so that wasn't going to work. Instead I hit the American Embassy (McDonalds) for a snack and as usual there was no seating to be found anywhere as it's always packed. There was one seat spare next to another gringo so I asked if I could sit there which he happily agreed to. We got to talking and he was from Paris but was moving to Australia so we chatted about that and he told me to check out the nightlife on Lockhart Road in Wan Chai so that's where I headed last night. The taxi trip took about 15 minutes and I found myself on Lockhart road which was less busy than crazy Nathan road and had plenty of clubs/pubs. I had a burger and 2 pints of Stella at a quiet german pub (german pubs are everywhere!) and sat at a bench overlooking the road so I could scope out the nightlife (Scope is codeword for perv). I noticed a pub over the road had a decent amount of people crammed inside so I finished up my pint and headed over to the "Old china Hand"

The place was indeed busy and was full of tourists/ex-pats and one of them invited me over to his table where he was sitting with another guy (names were shared but I can't recall them). They told me a quiz night was about to crank up and would I be interested in joining and having nothing better to do I agreed. The quiz night had 6 sections with 10 questions in each and from memory the sections were "General knowledge,Sci-Fi,Sport,Celebs,History and Movies". I was pretty useless but did alright in the movies and celebs sections. The quiz went for about 3 hours and we drank through-out and were joined by a few other ex-pats and there wives. I often find that ex-pats can be pretty bitter/cynical and tend to lecture you especially on travel but these guys did none of that and were good fun. The quiz concluded and I laughed when the "Perth Eagles" got announced as being the 3rd placed team and we won a bucket of beer (6)...woohoo. All the other guys in my group screwed there noses up at the brand of beer and they joked that 2nd prize was 3 beers and the winner only got cursed with a single beer. Now by this time I had drank 5-6 pints of beer and should have passed up the bucket of beer and gone home but it was free beer dammit. The rest of my group retired for the night and STUPIDLY I drank the rest of the beer and found myself VERY VERY drunk.

I recall wandering blindly around Wan Chai and stumbled across some Christmas display outside a business and it had these giant golden balls which I decided to pick up and carry about. It was quite large and heavy and my drunken mind thought it would make a great basketball so I bounced it on the concrete which made a very loud crash and the bottom of the ball caved in. Some guy ran up and grabbed the ball off me and started yabbering so I did what most responsible drunkards do and ran for my life. Pretty silly of me really and hopefully there's not a warrant out for me but it's convinced me to ease up on the boozing!

I can't even recall how I got home but did get propositioned in the elevator by a prostitute who showed me on a calculator how much it would cost to let her infect me with an STD but I didn't take her up on the offer. Today was just spent feeling nauseous and trying to ignore a pounding headache but I feel alright now despite some dizziness which I've had for a day or two. I'll head out tonight and take some photo's before flying out tomorrow at lunchtime. Not having a window in my room is annoying as I waltzed out in shorts and shirt to find it was pissing down with rain but I don't have a raincoat anyway so I guess it doesn't matter heh.

I have plenty more to rant about but I'll do that once I hit Thailand!