Birthdays & Weddings, a few pictures, part 2!

Left: Rin, from My Way Cabaretgroup in the middle of a dance for our Backstage audiance.











Right: Somewhat 'dark', but Rob and Kik enjoying the show being put on!












Right: Rob and Ted and his wife from Delft, Holland







Left: Chris and Sao from The Dutch Inn, a cool Dutch bar of Bangla Road











Right: Ka, brother of Kik and his friend with Kik and Rob












Left: The guys from Heaven Bar, in Paradise, they came after their bar closed for the evening to celebrate and same time also sing a song with our staf ;-)

The Birthdays & Weddings Party 7th of October! Part 1 !

Left: The father of Ton and yours truly, one of the two birthdayboys of this evening ;-)

The 7th of October we at The Backstage celebrated two birthdays, a weddinganniversary and an upcomming wedding, which took place here on Phuket on the 10th.
The birthdayboys were Jeroen, from Delft and here to attend the wedding on the 10th, and yours truly, the so called owner of The Backstage, Rob.
The weddinganniversary celebrated was that of Rob (again) & Kik, who celebrated their 2d (Dutch) weddinganniversary.
The upcomming wedding was that of Ton & Bow on the 10th. Ton is a Dutch friend of Rob from his hometown Delft in Holland and he got married to Bow, a friend of Kik from his home province in North East Thailand.

With this party we not only wanted to celebrate the birthdays but also kick off on a most pleasing couple of weddingdays for Ton & Bow culminating in a beautifull weddingday here on Phuket at The Andara Villa resort and partly organised by yours truly ;-)


Right: An animated atmosphere developed in anticipation of a modest cabaretshow put on by our friends from May Way Cabaretgroup.

For the first time Backstage tried to create a complete cabaretshow, but because of the space needed, most of it was performed outsite in front of The Backstage, on the street with the little, individual numbers on our own Bachstage-stage!

Below: The cabaretshow started. The May Way Cabaretgrooup put on a most intimate and pleasing show for the occasion of our birthday and for that we were most gratefull!

Ofcourse we also did the traditional birthdaycake ceremony for Jeroen, who celebrated his birthday here with us at The Backstage together with some of his friends from Holland and his girlfriend Edyta.


Left: From left to right Jeroen, Edyta, Rob and Kik


The Birthdaycake presentation finally underway. With all present singing their hearts out in honor of Jeroens Birthday. Rob gratetfuly took the opportunity to play Master of Ceremony so he cleverly escaped the ceremony himself with all atention focussed on Jeroen... as it should be ;-)

Left: Jeroen receiving his birthdaycake from Gong, and on the far left you see a pretty hot Rob ;-)

Wear PURPLE on Wensday the 20th of October! + ...anouncement of a report on the Birthdays & Weddings Party of the 7th ;-)

Wensday the 20th of October The Backstage is going to support the Facebook initiative to wear something PURPLE on this day in protest of the gay bashing on internet and elsewhere resulting in suicides/deaths of often young people who wrestly with their sexual orientation.

If you happen to be in or around Patong Phuket, feel free to drop in at The Backstage and when you wear something purple you receive a free houdecocktail !

Report of Birthday & Wedding Party

Due to extreem rainfall, luckily before and after the events of the 7th and the wedding we helped organise on the 10th, we have not yet been able to make a report for this weblog, but we hope to be able to do so in the next couple of days.. this is just to let you know ;-)

The official invitation for the Birthdays & Weddings Party on the 7th of October!

For all our followers/readers here on Phuket and elsewhere, please see this invitation as personal, with our hope we can welcome you to the party and enjoy a special evening!
Lets celebrate life and blessed futures for all!

That's for one what birthdays and weddings have in common ;-)

Hopefully see or otherwise hear you on the 7th ;-)

The flyer we produced for The Birthdays & Weddings Party on the 7th

We will start distributing/handing them out this comming weekend!

Please, when you have the chance, opportunity know that you're most welcome to celebrate with us!!

See (or hear) you the 7th! ;-)

Hugs,
The Backstage team!



with thanks to EJ for making our flyers, etc. ;-)

Birthdays & Weddings Party 7th of October, rough outline of set-up now known.

Roughly the set-up of the upcomming party at The Backstage is getting shape, though nothing is definite yet, but enough to start sharing the information ;-)

We'll start the 7th at 7 pm with Celebration of Life (= Birthdays).
If all goes to plan we'll happily celebrate the birthdays of Jeroen, who will be here for holiday from Holland, and Rob, yours truly and 'owner' of The Backstage!
Between 9.15 and 10 pm we'll have a first show, which will be about celebating life!

At midnight, when 7 turns into an 8th, we will start celebrating weddings, or, as one can also say: long lasting relationships, love, commitment, the union of people based on love!

Right: Rob & Kik on their way to Cityhall of Delft to get married, in company of friends and family, 8th of October 2008.

We celebrate the 2d weddinganniversary of Rob (yes, me again) & Kik and the upcomming wedding on the 10th of Ton & Bow here on Phuket! (Ton is from Holland, while Bow is from North East Thailand)
Between 00.30 en 01.30 am we'll plan to have a second show, concentrated around long lasting relationships, love, etc.

We expect this special party will end between 2 and 4 am.

Ofcourse The Backstage provides, as is tradition here in Patong, a buffet, hopefully to everybody's liking and ofocurse the traditional welcomming drink!

O, not unimportant, all promotions The Backstage runs right now, will NOT be valid during this special event at The Backstage!!

Backstage now on Facebook!

Since a day or so, The Backstage made her first carefull steps in the facebook-community.

You most likely end up on the right page if you paste this adres in your browser:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Phuket-Thailand/The-Backstage-Purple-Meeting-Point/128153483901105?v=wall

but if not, you can allways get there if you search "The Backstage - Purple Meeting Point"
or surf to my own facebook page "Rob J. Vermeer"

See you on facebook, I would say ;-)