I'm the aussie beer guy, and in answer to your valid concerns there misseward, I can guarantee that every single bottle will be served at the recommended serving temp as printed on the bottle...

Great idea! I think you can rightly expect every Australian in town to turn up to this. Although, it won't be quite the same if the beers are served in the 'Chinese style'.... aka warm.

Arun was for me (and presumably a lot of others) the original rock n rolla, the guy to emulate from early school days. Days when we would visit each others families on weekends, and immediately after exchanging pleasantries be off on a cycle, he riding, me on pillion, in any direction, till hunger got the better of our vagabond spirits.

He would chaperone me to Kerala for the summer holidays when I wasn't old enough to travel on my own. Train journeys were never so much fun, when we would share our berth, sneaking away in the middle of the night when his parents were asleep, patrolling the aisles end to end till the vestibules prevented us, pestering ticket collectors into parting a share of groundnuts and other eatables.

His incredible stories bring back tears of laughter even today, especially of one where he convinced some of his classmates in engineering college into believing that Jim Morrison was the 4th President of the USA.

I last met him at the Tull concert, where he entered the grounds with trademark bag on back, hunched over his Yamaha. A conversation on longitudes and latitudes and the free spirit of life in Yunnan ensued before we decided to meet the next day for some drinks…never to happen.

He has "gone up the country, where the water tastes like wine."

Will miss him and his randomness.

It's for the kids Steve. The more you drink, the more good you are doing...

it's like christmas came early

@pat

looks about right

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im salsalta from utereus 44578a and soon you can see us !Not only that for all the ones,not believers its to late!the secret code will be understand by the people who know the truth!

It is pretty obvious from reading this that Danmairen (if that is his real name) is not the skeptic he appears to be but rather he is one of those aliens living among us. Why else would he deny the plethora of "evidence" that all of you speak of. He is trying to prevent his cover from being blown. Nice try, Danmairen. Luckily, some of us can see through your deceptive ways...

Check this out
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNZ2xve0zzI

Arun was my childhood buddy...pretty famous in school for taking us to the National Level Bournvita Quiz contest semi finals -single handedly.....nicknamed Channel V or soda was always buzzing with weird ideas and sense of humour....I still remember we use to clamor out for a bite in our recess time or giggle during our class hours with our pranks played on our class mates.....having spent the best days of my life with him...he wil remain in our heart as the one who lived his life on passion and not following the mundane norms of life:-)

I am smiling ..thats what u did when you were around.....make us smile :-)

I just read up on the "November 27th UFO disclosure". Seems like Barack Obama and the Pope are going to participate in a 2 hour live tv session to be broadcast worldwide. They are going to disclose how aliens live amongst us and how we earthlings should react to them.

My only question is: Will the tinfoil hat I made in the 1st grade let me see the aliens or do I have to make a new 2009 model?

I agree Truthseeker. Wish i'd known about this conference here in Kunming. I would have gone to it.

I think that China has NOT lost its' sense of Wonder about the Universe, which HAS been lost in the West. This, more than any other reason is why CHINA will be the future. As a physicist who has worked with NASA on "next step" propulsion, (after rockets), I am reminded of Hamlet's statement "There is more in Heaven and Earth than is Dreamt of in your philosoophy, Horatio. We must ALL remember this. If we can THINK of it or DREAM it, it is POSSIBLE. We just haven't figured out HOW to do it yet. (some, we have)...There are always ways AROUND the laws of the Universe,,,which are really DEEPER LAWS that we haven't discovered yet. I applaud this beautiful man, and would love to share a cup of tea with him and good conversation sometime. I think we will both enjoy what we have to talk about.

This year will be the disclosure. The question isn't if there is life out there. We will see soon enough. Be patient. This is the year! You can take that to the bank!