Let's Get it Started

Kuala Lumpur recently got rocked – Boom Boom Pow! - when the Black Eyed Peas came to town. You may have read about the controversy-laden concert. It was sponsored by Guinness to celebrate Arthur Day (aka Mr. Guinness). But, um, Malaysia is a Muslim country, and the concert was taking place during the most religious time of year, and Muslims supposedly do not drink.

So officials said, “No, this beer concert cannot happen!” Whoa, Hey Mama, Where is the Love?

So lots of people got mad. So the officials said, “This beer concert can happen, but Muslims can’t attend!” Shut up!

So then the kids of the officials got mad. So then the officials said, “This beer concert can happen, but beer cannot be drunk inside the concert area.”

What a bunch of Monkey Business.

This meant: 1) You had to be scanned to see if you were a Muslim.


2) We had to wait in a reallllly long line to get some beer. Mr. Happy bought everyone in our group two.

But then Mr. Happy got his hands on a VIP pass! This meant free beer. But actually, it’s hard to drink a lot of Guinness.

I can’t imagine these kids ever finished this mountain of suds.

Before we knew it the concert started. We guzzled the rest of our Guinness (choke!) and headed out into the crowd. Malaysians are great. We just had to say “Sorry!” “Excuse me!” a few times and suddenly we were up front!

I Gotta Feeling, that tonight’s gonna be a good good night!

‘Twas!

(Ed. note - OK, who believed they were really screening us for "Muslim"??? They were actually taking our temperature to see if we had H1N1)