Happy New Year

I must admit I've been getting pretty lame with this blog site. I'm starting to get jealous of Simon's. Perhaps, he has more time at work to do things like this, I'm not sure.

Anyway, merry belated xmas to everybody. I hope everyone had a good holiday. Lindsay and I did. There were a few parties, including our annual open house (see below) and lots of turkey eaten and beer drunk. New Year's was great too. We spent the night at Moonshine Hill, which is the place in the mountains where I held that concert, Basic Aid, last year. It was a great way to bring in the new year, complete with fireworks (fireworks, and good ones, are easily accessible in this country. Lately, I've been becoming a bit of a pyrotechnician. If my career as a musician doesn't work out, maybe I can get on the road crew of a band).

So 2008 is here.

It's funny Simon mentioned me starting a Taiwan School of Rock. I still haven't yet but our school Christmas show is coming up (yes I realize it's after Christmas) and I have dressed my junior high class up in metal gear for an airband of The Final Countdown by Europe (perhaps the best worst song ever). Though they can't play the instruments, their headbanging, powerstances, and windmills are improving with each day. I am very proud of them. Of course, I will do the annual Youth in Asia band too.

On Friday, I'm off to the Philippines with a local bar owner named P.J. Kind of a random trip. In another two weeks or so, Lindsay and I are off to Malaysia and Thailand. I will be traveling with three girls. Though this might sound good as a Penthouse letter, I'm afraid it will mostly involve me sitting around waiting for them to get done shopping every day.

This is Michael (my friend and bandmate in Militant Hippi) and his wife Caroline.
I've been lame with the picture taking too. I couldn't really find any good ones of Xmas or New Year's. So here's a guy named Colin pretending to light a cigarette off our DVD fireplace.