Alternative Report: MS'2k

by Melwyn of Haujobb

Please note:



  Some bits from a party called Mekka Symposium 2k. And just in
case you wonder, all the text below is not chronological. Oh, and
please excuse my bad taste of humour.

...

  I'm usually not too keen to name anykind of stereotypes but
this time I can't help myself. Just imagine you're driving in a
crowded car over 100 mph on a big speedway, having a driver who
speaks like Terminator and a radio which obviously had only one
purpose: to spread "kikkelitrance" (well, eurotrance for all you
non-Finnish people..) to the world. Yes, we were in Germany -
also known as the promised land of tasty beer and good
demoparties.

  What comes to good demoparties, You can try to prove me wrong,
Mekka Symposium 2k was the first one which fit into the schedule
of our Finnish hardcore-party-judging-crew (namely I, Virne/Kooma,
Droidi/Haujobb, SolarC/Haujobb, Visualice/Haujobb and Kure/RNO).
And after a long and hard weekend we had no other chance than to
give it A+. Now all we have to do is give Evoke and Dialogos a
chance to beat their big brother.

  What comes to tasty beer we were really exited. Having first
sips of so called random lager (now who could make a choice when
you have dozens of differend beers you have never tasted?) gave
us exactly the long waited divine feeling - Yes, there can be a
heaven in Germany, too. And while waiting for other Haujobb
people to arrive an arch angel himself (better known as Tobi or
XXX) sent a sms near to revelation: "We are on the way. We have
144 cans of beer."

  And as if this was not enough the brilliant wide green grass
field just next to the party place and warm sun caressing us
lovingly seduced us fully to several deadly sins. No need to tell
the very same grass field became our home for that weekend. We
had indeed a big family there. I lost count somewhere around 28
when trying to realize the amount of Haujobbers in our little
party area. There are some highlights in being in a group bigger
than meaning of Life (I guess we're over 42 already).

  Of course, being such egocentric fellows from a cold and
distant land we had to promote ourselves well. First of all each
of us had a bottle of Koskenkorva - a vodka like very traditional
Finnish strong alcohol - to corrupt our foreign companions. And
in the top of all, some bottles of Karhu (Bear beer). Oh boy they
were taken. Or was it just us?

  Germany seems to be a perfect country to catch up friends
you've never met before - or even heard about. Just meeting all
the great Haujobb members would've been enough but instead we
were surrounded by French, Swiss, Hungarian and Norwegian people
with varying partying tactics - from Norwegian way of passing
out on the grass to international way of escaping to the woods
nearby to flourish each others lifes. Weird things happened,
new and old friends were found. As if HiRMU himself would've
been there.

  More strange things happened later on. Perhaps it was Chromag
who realized first that we were actually mummies. With some aid
of toilet paper and helpful hands we managed to form an army of
mummies. "Beware the mummy!" And the girl at the main entrace
looked a bit afraid - or perhaps she was just amused.

  Some strange things happened in competitions, too. Not as "Hau
Strange" as we personally would've wanted but there really was
some cool stuff almost in every competition. Intro compos beated
demo compos, Amiga beated PC, C64 beated Amiga. Everybody were
beaten and happy about it. Surely one of greatest things about
the big screen and the stage was that there was some kind of
entertainment going on almost all the time. Of course The
Radwar invitation alone was literally thrilling to watch but
especially that weird quartet with real Prussian grip on techno
music was something I wasn't ready for. And top of all, Haujobb
balloons on the stage - Now what else could one possibly want
from a party?!?

  But like all the good fairytales have an ending, this party
had to end, too. When enjoying the last bits of German
hospitality at Noname's (Hey pal, I was just kidding - You
don't sound like a Terminator :) place I were already planning my
next visit to this confusing country. Mekka Symposium 2k+1,
beware!

  - Melwyn as a courtesy of Haujobb