A TRIUMPH IN BEIJING

Beijing, Day 9

What a Triumph!

The House of Switzerland team had their first crucial test today, and they passed it with bravura. We hosted the Grand Final of the Triumph Inspiration Award 2008, which is an international competition for students from design schools to create a two-piece lingerie set if I understood well. The jury for his event featured some famous experts, amongst them designers Viktor & Rolf (still less famous than CK, and that’s me!), top model Helena Christensen and other well-known people from that industry. Hakon had the difficult duty to run the back-stage food supply with his “access-all-areas-batch”, and I guess he has rather sweet dreams tonight (in case he manages to sleep).

Aren't we lucky that it is rather warm here in Beijing?

The organized chaos, part 4:

It is a tough job in the back office!

Don't worry, Mr. Höfling, Fides will not breath in an micro-organisms,

thanks to the Chinese health regulations.

Yes, great, and where the h… are the photos???

Well, the author of these lines spent his day in the kitchen to make sure everything went well (just joking, Chef Mark, the Gamma chefs with the “César Ritz” / IMI team were in full control of the situation, I was probably more standing in their way…). It was quite challenging to be back in this kind of Olympic F&B situation and brought back a lot of good memories of the previous games (I get almost every day mails from the Torino team; they are definitely thinking about us here in Beijing and wish us the best of luck).

So, there are no photos as the pastry kitchen has a bad view on the cat walk, but if you go to the following link you will get an idea what we had to deal with: www.triumph-inspiration-award.com/

Beijing's next top models, dressed in honor of the National Day in the Swiss colors.

Steph and the flower boys:

A tough choice to choose the right decoration.

In the evening I went back to move from one apartment to another one (the third, and hopefully last place I stay here). It was quite an adventure since they had already turned the electricity off in my old apartment, so I packed in the light of a pocket lamp (and the impatient Chinese maintenance guy waiting in front of the door since he wanted the lamp back which was his only one). So here I sit now, after I found the fuse box in the darkness of my new apartment, in a 28° Celsius hot place at 01h00 AM and hope to access a free network later as the one here does not work yet (tomorrow, I was told). CK

Verena decided to quit drinking after the Olympics,

but until then...

New water-saving measures for the dish washing area have been put in place!

And, by the way, Julian greets his dentist (isn't there a cavity in the B14 top left?)

Stocktaking at the end of a big day:

Emily takes well care of our business!