The boss recently has taken up Dragon Boating, which means i get to go as well! I was a little nervous about it all, especially when the boss came as a cross dressing pirate! Arrgh! Arrgh! hmmm? And why the "outing" , well, it was Diva Day Dragon boat racing on the smelly Singapore River. I like the smell of all things rotting slowly, and that's why I love the Singapore River.
And now a little woof woof knowledge....see Singapore has a fresh water shortage and all the drinking water comes from Malaysia. If Malaysia was to turn off the tap, Singapore would collapse in 48 hours, and that is why the government spends the second highest per capita on military in the world. So we can invade Malaysia if Mr. Razuk forgets to turn on the water after a sumptuous Nasi Lemak long lunch, mmmm, yum, woof! So, the local P.U.B. had a round table meeting at the Killiney Kopitiam, and came up with a cunning idea; Build a "Barrage" at the entrance to Singapore Harbour which only lets water out, which turns the salty harbour into a fresh water harbour. Thus, doubling our fresh water supplies. Now we have 72 hours to invade Malaysia, Cool! Anyway, the salt water fish and animals aren't liking this terribly much. And that's why the Singapore river stinks at the moment...everything is dieing. mmmm, i can hardly wait to go Dragon Boating again, take in a big whiff, then a quick dog paddle before rolling in the muck washed up on the shore....its pure doggy heaven.
See you soon for tummy rubs and big face licks.
Love Jessica
When i was a young girl, the boss decided to take me to the fancy part of Sentosa beach. We usually go to 'Tanjong Beach Far End', where the other dogs and nice men in small swimsuits come to play. This time we were outside the Rasa Sentosa hotel, all very posh. In fact they had cordoned off one part of the public beach for Hotel customers only. Well, the boss must not of seen the sign and walked over to that end for a swim with me. Maybe it had something to do with the voluptuous women tanning themselves in their designer leopard print bikinis, who knows?
Anyway, while we were playing, i could feel my tummy rumble and i felt a little queasy...And try as i might when the boss picked me up to rest me on his hip and shoulder, as we do all the time, I let rip the runniest poo I'd ever done. A waterfall of poo cascaded down the bosses stomach, onto his board shorts, down to his knees. The boss froze, standing in front of the tanning ladies with their makeup and lipstick. The boss then smiled, turned his back and dipped us both in the water. A little wash and off we trotted. "Farewell ye poor maidens, enjoy the surf!"
See you soon for tummy rubs and big face licks.
Love Jessica
Before the boss got the fancy pancy blue Kangoo van for us to hoon around Singapore in, we used to have to take taxi's everywhere. Most of the time the boss would call the taxi company and have to say "medium size dog on leash" and off we'd go! I'd sit on the bosses lap, nose out the window, saliva splashing against the taxi and back onto the bosses face. He would towel off himself and the taxi upon arrival to my favourite place in Singapore.."Tanjong Beach Far End", A place for dogs and for very toned men in small swimsuits tanning together. We all have such a gay time at Tanjong beach.
When my boss brings one of his lady friends along, we swim right out to the floating buoys, the boss treads water and holds me up over his shoulder, then we swim back into shore. I think he's trying to show off to his lady friend. Next thing, he's rubbing an oil into her skin, how odd? Me, I prefer to come out of the surf, roll around in the sand until I'm covered from head to paw and then jump in between the boss and lady friend.... Shake and Bake!
See you soon for tummy rubs and big face licks.
Love Jessica
I'm so excited and i just can't hide it...woof! I was born in Adelaide (Australia) June 1st 2004 so it's my birthday today. The boss made my favourite breakfast this morning... left over spaghetti bolognese in a red wine sauce. mmmm. if only i had a glass of my Grand Ridge Gippsland Gold ale to wash it down with. Hopefully later tonight..
When i was a young pup, the boss let me try my first beer. He served it up in a large bucket, which he said was the best.. and called it "slops". My first Slops was so delicious that i had to have another, and another. The amazing thing about drinking a slops was that the flavour changed each time you drank it. mmmmm. I was enjoying it so much i began to chase my tail and skip around the beer garden in glee. I tried to "hop up" on the bosses lap and missed him completely, ending with my snout half way up one of his lady friends skirt. .. She seemed okay with this and everyone was giggling.
What was in this stuff? Soon after wards, i decided to have a lie down under the picnic tables, and slept most of the night. The boss picked me up and carried me back home over his shoulder. I woke up the next day on my little mattress next to the bosses bed. Just the three of us. I didn't touch another slops for 3 years... but that's another story..
Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me.... woof, woof!
See you soon for tummy rubs and big face licks.
Love Jessica
When my boss moved to Singapore with Foster's beer in 1999 after three years in Hong kong, the first thing he did was join are rather depleted Australian Football club called the Wally Wombats. Through the bosses support over those first few years, the team flourished. One of the first fellas the boss started kicking the Sherrin around with was ruckman, Colin Stimpson."STIMO" woof!. I first laid my big doggy brown eyes on Stimo in 2004, when he came into to play a solo acoustic gig one lazy Tuesday evening. The audience... boss and me. It was very quiet back then. No one knew we existed. Stimo kept coming back every Tuesday for over a year! And when he wasn't entertaining the small but appreciative audience, the boss got him behind the bar serving beers...and he did it all for free! I love Stimo..
These days I get to stay at Stimo's house with his kids and missus when the boss is on a holiday with one of his lady friends.
As for the man musician, he formed a duo called "MEGASTIMULATOR" and they get big gigs all around town... of course, Stimo has a day job too... something about digging up liquid black stuff.. the same black stuff you can find washed up on Sentosa beach. I love to play at Sentosa beach and my boss loves washing the black stuff from my fur and paws. We are all soo happy...
See you soon for tummy rubs and big face licks.
Love Jessica
When i was a little girl, before living in the Attic of The Prince of Wales Pub/Hostel, the boss and I lived at 62A Sing Avenue,
Farrer Park. About a 20 minute walk from The POW. The boss and I would walk up and back every day, sometimes thrice! He never put a leash on me, which is great because I get to sniff everything! The bushes, trees, lamp posts and especially any passer by who smells a little K9. Once
I've had a good whiff, I then bolt to catch up to the boss.
"Get up!" he says, and i trot up ahead. "
Waaait" and i slam on the paw brakes. "Stay with me" and i get in real close. And the bosses favourite, "lie down Jess" when he wants to meet a new lady friend.
One day, my boss calls me downstairs and he has this funny looking contraption in his hands. It could make a ringing sound and had two round things with rubber on them. To my shock he then got on top of it. He then turned to me and said, "
c'mon, lets go"... Go where? I thought, there's no room for me on that thing. Then it starts moving and i don't know what to do, accept worry that the boss may damage himself. It starts to build up speed and I find myself starting to enjoy it too. Before you know it we are at the pub in half the time and we've never looked back. Boss, me and "the bike".
See you soon for tummy rubs and big face licks.
Love Jessica
When i was a young pup, the boss decided we move into the attic of the POW hostel. The boss was doing incredible hours of work, opening the pub at 9am and closing at 12 midnight. 7 days a week. Sometimes he would be so tired that one of his lady friends would help him to bed and stay until the boss was asleep. That was nice, i always thought, though a little noisy at times...
Around the time of our move, I'd just worked out, through lots of "encouragement" from the boss, that it was good to poo on grass, but not so good to poo on footpaths. I was getting the hang of it, and it did come naturally... but one night we had this new band playing loud and the doors were kept shut to keep the noise in. I was looking everywhere for a place to go, but all i could see was shiny concrete floors. And then my eyes spotted the comfort of a carpeted stage. In the middle of their performance i gave the best performance of my life, to an amazed, and stunned crowd. Touche!
See you soon for tummy rubs and big face licks.
Love Jessica
The boss and I used to live in the POW hostel attic way back when. He always said it was "convenient". Well, it sure wasn't convenient getting up those attic stairs on four legs and my snout getting occasionally stuck between each stair on the way up. I guess, the bosses lady friends thought the same, because once they were up there, it took forever for them to go back down again.
The bosses bed was in the middle of the room under the ceiling fan, and my little mattress off to the side. I remember occasionally being read a bedtime time story or two. My favourite was always "The adventures of Kev & Trev - The comfortably numb Koalas". (my second being, New Zealand Sheep Stories., which always culminated in a happy ending).
Kev & Trev were cheeky little fellas who worked for the local council, and whenever there was work to be done, they'd munch down a load of THC laden eucalyptus leaves, and head to the beach. They were always getting busted by Constable Cockatoo, as koalas are the only mammal, besides you primates, that have fingerprints. These fellas were generally your quiet types, accept when mating. Trev was known for his very loud call during the mating season that could be heard from almost a kilometre away. Sort of remindered me of my Boss!
See you soon for tummy rubs and big face licks.
Love Jessica
"Mayday! Mayday! There's a great big music festival right ahead o' us cap'n!"Okay, apologies for the horrendous pun, but how else to draw your attention to our musical May, which gets off to a flying start with THE BOGANS on April 30th (the eve of a public holiday!) and truly explodes on Saturday May 2nd with PoW WoW!! '09, a one-day music festival featuring some of the best bands in Singapore...?
Yes, PoW WoW!! is back, three years after it's highly praised debut which featured then virtual unknowns (now bona fide members of the Sg music establishment) like The Great Spy Experiment and The Pinholes. Once again the PoW will be bringing you some of the hottest of the talent that is bubbling just under the surface, including popsters QUINARII, the heavier rock sound of BLACKDISCOBALL and the retro stylings of THE LONDON FOG (tipped by many as Singapore's "next big thing"), with support from guest Filipino regae and ska band LUPA & THE SUPERSTARS. There's always the possibility of the odd special surprise(d) guest as well... before we finish the evening with a set by one of Sg's best international spinners, DJ BOGALOO SHRIMP (aka Ulysses James).
For more info you should take a peek at www.powwowfest.blogspot.com, where you will find band bios and a promo video featuring music by the headliners, The London Fog.
And that's only the beginning of the month... back for more performances in May are DORIAN ROACH & THE CRUZERS, MEGA-STIMULATOR, SILENT TREATMENT and THE DISCLAIMERS, amongst others - just check the band calendar on the website for details!
I'm looking forward to wagging my tail at you all very soon!
Love & Licks,
Jessica
***STOP PRESS***
Tonight the PoW will be hosting a fundraiser gig for victims of the recent bushfires in Australia.
Music provided by Stingy Lil, The Disclaimers, The Trip and DJ Boogaloo Shrimp as well as a charity auction.
All band and DJ fees are being donated, plus $2 from every Australian beer sold and all door monies - entry $1 minimum (no maximum!). Donations will be made via Red Cross, as listed on the
Australian High Commision website.
If you cannot come but would still like to help
click here for more info.
Well, hello there! What a start to 2009 we've had... New Year's Eve seems eons ago, but what a blistering January it has been, with our first Tinnie Run a great success, the haggis on the barbie for Burns' Night, and of course the now-legendary knees up we had for Australia Day - if you weren't there you really missed out!!!
Upcoming Music & SportAnd so to the future... February may be a short month, but as usual it's a fun-packed one! Music-wise we have a lineup including favourites Dorian Roach, Silent Treatment, The Disclaimers and Mega-Stimulator (amongst others - check the band calendar for details), and with the AFL about to kick off, the Six Nations just starting and regular EPL action, sport-fans won't be left out either!
St. Valentine's DayOf course, on February 14th bars all over Singapore will be celebrating love and romance... and happy couples are welcome down at the PoW to celebrate however they feel fit! But what of those poor souls out there not so lucky in love? Well, seek out Alex, the Manager, and give him your sob-story... the best ones will earn themselves a drink on him! But while you're at it, don't forget that there are many out there who found their better halves at the PoW (including Alex himself) and your luck could just change. Although even if it doesn't that's no excuse not to join in the party atmosphere!
St. David's DayEnough of St. Valentine... what about St. David? "Who?", I hear you cry... The Patron Saint of Wales, of course! The Sunday Session on March 1st will see the PoW celebrating St. David and all things Welsh, with live music in the beer garden, free food on the barbie and a special offer of $6 bottles of Welsh beer!!! You can't go wrong with that!
So, we look forward to celebrating all these things and anything else you want to celebrate down at the Prince of Wales... see you very soon!!!
With Love & Licks,
Jessica
A fun filled January lies ahead, kicking off with the launch of our new sporting / drinking (should that be "sprinking"?) event on Sunday 18th...
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THE TINNY RUN
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The general gist is simple... you run a bit, have a beer, run a bit more, have another beer. It's easy! There are prizes for first placed male and female, and one for best costume (yep - fancy dress is encouraged!), but even if you're not in it to win it you can still have a lot of fun! And our usual Sunday promo's apply - CHEAP BEER, FREE FOOD & LIVE MUSIC! Sign up between 12 & 1.30pm on the day - race starts 2.30pm
The week after it is not only Chinese New Year, but also on the 26th it's...
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AUSTRALIA DAY
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Yep, we'll be firing up the barbie, cracking open some stubbies and raisinga glass of Bundy's to "Australia fair"! The BBQ will be free for anyone to use from 1pm - just bring your own steaks, sausages, shrimps... whatever takes your fancy! Naturally we'll be helping the celebrations along with a drinks special, a few party games and, if you stick around into the evening, live Aussie Pub Rock from STINGEY LIL - Singapore's finest Aussie covers5-piece band!
And that's just to start 2009 of with a bang... wait 'til the year REALLY gets going! See you all down at the PoW very soon!
Love & Licks,
Jessica
***BACKPACKERS - PLEASE NOTE THAT THE HOSTEL IS UNDER RENOVATION DURING DECEMBER AND WILL BE CLOSED FOR THE FIRST WEEK WITH LIMITED AVAILABILITY OF BEDS FROM THE 8TH - THE BAR WILL BE OPEN AS NORMAL!***2008 is almost over, and what a year it has been at the PoW! Mini-fests galore, awesome bands - both local and international - and the introduction of late night DJ's have cemented our reputation as a great venue for music, and our coverage of the AFL, EPL and Formula 1 (amongst other sports) coupled with the brand new pair of dartboards means that those of a sportier outlook have had much to enjoy as well!
But that was this year... what about 2009? Well, we intend to start with a bang, seeing in the New Year in style... of a sort! December 31st will see our DEEP, DOWN AND SKIRTY party with anyone who comes in a skirt drinking for free - and yes, that includes any guys who dare! (Watch out for full details on this page very soon...)
After that we launch into '09 building on everything that made us a well-loved nightspot this year... on the mini-fest front we will be bringing you another Re:COVER festival (for cover bands), another FemmeVox (for female vocalists) and, of course, our third Jeff Buckley Birthday Tribute Concert. Plans are also afoot for another multi-arts collaboration with [in]Parties and other themes to be explored...
We'll also be continuing our sports coverage, especially of the AFL - why would you want to watch it anywhere but this proper Aussie pub!!?? Grand Final Day is still 10 months away, but we're looking forward to it already! And while we're on the subject of all things Australian, watch out for details of our alternative Australia Day Ball in January...
All in all the PoW is excited about 2009 and we want you to be excited about spending some quality time with us throughout the year!!! So enjoy the rest of '08 while you can because '09 is hot on it's heels and raring to party down at the PoW!
Oh, and before I forget.... Merry Christmas!
Love & Licks,
Jessica
So, full speed ahead into September... and what a bumper month it is!
Alongside the usual suspects playing music every night of the week we have special guests OCEANWAVE who are dropping by from Switzerland as part of their tour around South East Asia. You can check out their sound
by clicking here - but don't forget, Saturday 13th at the PoW may well be your only chance to catch them live!
And, of course, September is a fantastic month for sports lovers with both the AFL and the NRL reaching their climaxes... don't forget, AFL GRAND FINAL DAY is September 27th - watch Aussie Rules in a real Aussie Pub! Grand Final Day is always a good afternoon and, as last year, we will continue partying after the final whistle to the Aussie Pub Rock sounds of STINGEY LIL!
The following day is the
other Grand Final, that of the NRL... and then in the evening we will be showing coverage of the inaugral SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX! And now that the EPL soccer season has restarted expect our sports coverage to be pretty much wall-to-wall over September weekends!
So that's the specials for the month, but don't forget our regular items too! Music is every day at the PoW, usually starting at 9pm... except on a Sunday where our ARCHIPELAGO SUNDAY SESSION takes place in the garden with $6 pints of Archipelago Samui beer from 2-7pm, free steak sandwiches from 3pm and live acoustic acts at 4pm. And if you have a band please get in touch with our Entertainment Manager (
ents.pow@gmail.com) about being booked for our regular Monday "DISCOVERY" night where we let new bands strut their stuff and open up the mic to all-comers.
All in all, you'd have to be barking mad to miss it down at the PoW... so I'll see you all there soon!
Love & Licks,
Jessica
Well, hello all... yes, we have finally stopped twiddling our paws and got this website updated! So now all you need to know about what's on at the PoW bar, or how to book into the PoW hostel, is right here and easy to find!
Do check out our gig listings - we have a varied selection of music at the PoW that caters for most tastes! And don't forget to check this news page from time to time for any special events or drinks promotions!
Oh, and if you see me at the bar don't forget I love a good tummy-rub... I'm the short fluffy one on four legs!
With love and licks,
Jessica
The boss recently has taken up Dragon Boating, which means i get to go as well! I was a little nervous about it all, especially when the boss came as a cross dressing pirate! Arrgh! Arrgh! hmmm? And why the "outing" , well, it was Diva Day Dragon boat racing on the smelly Singapore River. I like the smell of all things rotting slowly, and that's why I love the Singapore River.
