I was about shower when Daniel called me yesterday early evening, "Hun come, you have to see this...a tradition for new year."

I brought my towel to the couch and follow him watching TV. Ah its Miss Sophie and her butler, James. I knew it, Dinner for One!

I read it from the book I bought on Christmas, 'Planet Germany' by Cathy Dobson about this cult. Dobson wrote as follow:

"One of the more bizzare rituals is watching 'Dinner for One'. This is a black and white sketch in English which for reason lost, even on the german please, has become a cult hit. It is so popular that every TV station broadcast it at least once on New Years Eve. NDR, the North German regional station puts it on no less than five times over the course of evening. Looking at the Tv guide, we calculated that you could, if you were so inclined, manage to watch the sketch no less than sixteen times over the course of afternoon and evening. And I bet there are Germans out there who do exactly that, year in year out!"

The movie is about Miss Sophie who is hosting a dinner for her 90 years old birthday with her beloved friends which are Mr. Pomeroy, Mr. Winterbottom, Sir Toby and Admiral Von Schneider.

The fact is that all those four men are already dead and miss Sophie somehow doesn't realize it. James, the butler makes his way round table, playing each imaginary friend's role and drinking each one's share of wine as he goes. And of course more the drink flow, more James got tipsy. And tipsy James will ruins everything. That's the funny point.

As Dobson wrote in her book, many Germans have adopted the ritual of serving the same drinks that's James served (and drink) to Miss Sophie. They are sherry, white wine, champagne and then port.

I left the show before the movie was over. Read it from the book doesn't attract me to watch the show. But heard Daniel still laughin even he already watched it every years had made me curious. So this afternoon I search on youtube and watch it again. Hehe...ok that's funny...but I don't think I will watch it again and again without feeling dumb hehe...

You can see the video here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=b1v4BYV-YvA
And the complete history of it is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_for_one

QUIET BALI
At work again. In Jakarta city.
Had great time in Bali but yeah…Bali is not the same anymore (yet). Last time I went to Bali was on last September and now, after the second bomb, Bali is really different from the last time I came here. So quiet. Still there are some tourists there but well…not that much. Arrived at Kuta 29 Dec around 10pm and it was hard to get ordinary dinner in Poppies Lane 2 at that hour cos most the restaurants were closed. It used to be so many people walking, said hi each others or some Australian guys sitting and drinking in front of Circle K or around Kori café in Poppies 2 but that night…none.

The hotel I stayed was so quiet also. Maybe only 10 rooms were filled and most of them were local tourist. This is my third time stayed in Palm Garden, but yeah…this is the emptiest quiet time I ever had here. After dinner (finally found resto with VERY limited menu and zero taste) me and Ewi decided to go back to hotel and sleep. We had rough day at work before. Tired. And quiet Bali really bother me :(

SIR ELTHON JOHN
The next day, Friday 30 Dec after did some shopping, a friend I know since September (or is it August?) Vincent, and his friend Romuald picked us for dinner. I forgot the name of the resto but it’s near the location of Bali bomb 2 in Kuta Square. The food was dazzling. I'm glad that our French friends love soto and sop buntut goreng hehe...

After dinner we went to Hard Rock center stage and we met Elton John there. He just married and got honeymoon in Bali. It was cool, he’s a really nice guy. Had few chit-chat with him. I think he’s a really down to earth person. He didnt mind to come to our table, talked so smooth, patiently and always answer all the questions even it’s the odd ones hehe…Got picture with Sir Elton John, but still waiting Vince to send it to me.

BOMB PARANOIA
Saturday, me and Ewi had several dreams; snorkeling, parasailing and Jimbaran. But then a bomb news shocked us out. It was in Palu and we’re pretty worry about Bali as well. Ewi tried to get information from her TV station and Thx god Bali seemed fine. But another problem was euh…the weather was so bad. The sky was so dark and easily raining even sometimes the sun peeked for one or two minutes. Finally we just stayed in swimming pool till around 5pm. But its not so bad, I got free swimming lesson from three teachers hehe…One of them even a real swim teacher somewhere in France. But having too much teachers had made me confuse. Everybody wanted to teach me with different method...euh...

KISSED THE DJ
Saturday, 31 Dec, 11 pm we started to move out from hotel. Our first destination was Fuel, my fave resto and lounge but this time I didn’t have any plan to have dinner in Fuel (even the pad thai is so yummi but mamma, I was full), just wanted to drink and enjoy the Goodnight Electric performance. Goodnight Electric is an electronica band with tree DJs and all of them are vocalist as well. Angga(omleo), our friend from college is one of them.

Before Goodnight Electric started their perfomance, there was a cool DJ with a very Mike music. I mean he’s music was just like Mike’s music. Bartender said he’s from German…no wonder then. Maybe in German deep house is ruling. The DJ kept looked at me from his table and I was quite happy with that hehe…Ewi even pushed me to get him drink! But when he’s finish his performance…mamma mia…he walked to his girlfriend who sat three meters from me. Damn!

Goodnight Electric was awesome. I can’t explain what their music exactly. I think it mix between eighties music, electronic, Depeche Mode and very dance music with cool performance of the members. Simple words; great tunes to keep you move your legs! Point 8.5!

Pass the 00.00 in Fuel with free flow illusion and plastic trumpet around. That night was also the 1st celebration of Fuel, so its really cool. Unfortunately we cant stay longer in Fuel cos our (my) main destination was Double Six.
Kissed DJ Angga bye.

Around 1.30 am arrived in Double Six. Double Six was full. Usually me always come to Déjà vu and Paparazzi first before 66, but that night straight to 66 seemed a good idea. Met Vince and Rom again there. The DJs were cool, the music was awesome…all great songs were there from Madonna’s till Randy Katana’s…I like the way you move!!
Really cant stop dance till dawn. Met the twinz as well but Justin is in UK since bomb 2. His club was not so crowded after that.But if only Justine here, he will be happy that on new year's eve 66 was bloody full!

Met several stars like Steven Seagel, Aming, Najib Ali, etc. Aming was disaster! He wore backless kimono. Euh.

Rom tried night bungy jump in 66. Scary for me. I prefer do paragliding or sky diving instead. The very deep swimming pool below also made me shiver. Me didn’t even want to sit near the pool. Eeww…But Rom did it pretty cool. He even did some capoiera style on the sky lolz

Back to hotel around 10am, dinner, check out and moved to Vince’s hotel to waste the time cos our plane was 20.30 Bali time.



It was really cool to spend New Year’s Eve in Bali. And was glad that nothing bad happened in bali. In fact my main destination beside Double Six was to come to DJ Riri’s gig in Kamasutra at 30 Dec…but I donno why...I didn’t want it anymore when I really get there hehehe…