Chinese New Year

February seems to be a month of celebrations. First we had Valentine's Day and then we had Chinese New Year on the 18th of February.

Chinese New Year is celebrated for 15 days. Traditionally, businessman would choose a good day to reopen the office for business. However, since Viking Bar is a pub and caters for all customers all year round, it is impossible for us to close even a single day (unless required by the government of Thailand).

One of the traditions of Chinese New Year is for the owner to given 'ang pow' (known as red packet) to staffs. In a business like Viking Bar, it is also good for the owner to celebrate the joy of Chinese New Year with its customers. Normally, this is done by giving out oranges and 'ang pows'.

So, being Chinese myself, I decided to carry out this tradition this year. On the second day of Chinese New Year, customers were given 2 oranges and an 'ang pow'. In each 'ang pow' was a free drink that the customer can claim from us during that night. I hope the customers enjoyed it as much as I did in sharing my new year with them. Well, at least I knew that all the drinks were claimed...ha ha ha

On the last day of the new year we will be having fireworks. So, if you are around in Samui on March 4th, please do come and celebrate with us. Incidentally, 4th March is also the Full Moon Party day in Koh Phangan.

Gong Xi Fa Chai, Sin Nien Quai Lek, Wan See Ru Yee to all my Chinese readers.

Valentine Day

We celebrated Valentine Day with a difference this year.

On 14th of February, Viking Bar was decorated with roses and balloons. Each lady customer was given a rose on this romantic day. It must have been a great sight and I could see from the pictures that the ladies were very happy. I was also told that our kitchen was full of roses (as per picture above).

I, unfortunately, was stuck in Malaysia and was unable to celebrate Valentine Day with the customers in Viking Bar. So, guess I missed all the fun.

Happy belated Valentine's Day.

David has done it again!!!!

David of Denmark has topped the Men's Shot Competition. Last year, David did an impressive 9.x seconds. But he was overthrown by Federick of Sweden a few months later. Federick's time was 9.10 seconds.

Yesterday, David and three other friends had a go at it again. And this time, David made a record of 7.25 seconds whereas his friend, Kasper, made a record of 8.27 seconds. This makes them both in the first and second position currently and Federick is now moved to the third position.

So, our top two records are held by the Danish and the third place goes to Swedish.

For the girls, our two Thai ladies have been holding the record for almost a year now. No Swedish ladies have beaten the record so far. Mariann of Norway holds the third position currently.

Our shot competition is very popular with both the guys and gals. All the guys need to do is drink 11 different shots in 11 seconds and under. If they beat this record, the drinks are free. If not, they pay 1,100 baht for the drinks. As for the gals, they only need to drink 7 different shots in 7 seconds and the cost is only 700 baht if they do not make it. All participants gets a free Viking T-Shirt worth 350baht. By the way, all shots are 6cl.