Cannon’s

What a great Christmas lunch we had this year at the Renaissance Hotel City Center. Twelve of us started arriving at R Bar for a few drinks, a wine contest, and the virgin ceremony, celebrating our newest members Frans Bakker and Martin Middleton. Iain Wise was the only one who arrived 20 minutes late due to an LRT technical problem (that was his excuse), anyway whatever the explanation he had to pay a 50.00 rm fine for his bad offense. This time our wine expert was Frans Bakker, who decided the crappiest bottle of wine was the one brought from the other virgin, Martin Middleton, and he had to pay a 50.00 fine for his bad behavior and a bad offense. After a few drinks and finishing all the formalities, we all moved to the lobby for a group picture and then to our private room to initiate our lunch. Before the lunch started Ricardo Castro distributed Christmas goodie bags for each of us full of gifts, a birthday gift to Mike Smith and Jan van Driel, and a special gift for our honorary member Andrew Robinson, then distributed to everyone a sample of the 2024 season summary accounts with all the numbers and stats with the final approval of all the present members. After this Ricardo passed the stage to Andrew Robinson to say some words to the past LC members who are not with us anymore, finalizing with an emotional toast to their memory as they will never be forgotten. Mike Smith our LC founder honorary member, also had a few words about the beginnings of the Loose Cannons in 2004, and some nice old stories followed by a nice and happy toast. After all the formalities, we finally started our Christmas lunch, first with a visit to the buffet followed by the special Christmas menu served later and at a good pace. Just before the desert, we initiated another LC tradition, telling a joke or singing a song, and everyone participated in a good Christmas mode, even some of the guys telling more than one joke, besides all the Fritz stories. All the wine bottles were consumed, except the crap wine from Martin Middleton of course. It was a lot of fun, happiness, and great friendship, and that is the meaning of our society and the main reason why we all keep the LC society alive. Around 4 pm eight of us moved to the Corkman for more drinks and giving some support to one of our new 2025 sponsors. One word for the hotel staff who did a great job, always very friendly attentive to our needs, and proactive. Thank you also to Bipan Kappur and Benjamin for all the arrangements and the special deal for the Loose Cannons Society. Thank you to all the LC members for your support during the 2024 season and a warm welcome to the new members. Welcome 2025 season.

Cheers

Ricardo Castro

LC Convenor

R BAR PICTURES WITH IAIN CHECKING THE LRT UPDATES.

VIRGINS CEREMONY COMMANDED BY MIKE SMITH.

VIRGINS CEREMONY VIDEO.

THE CRAPIEST BOTTLE OF WINE WINNER PICTURE.

CHRISTMAS LUNCH PICTURES.

JOKES AND SONGS MOMENT.

BUFFET AND CHRISTMAS LUNCH MENUS

THE SECOND HALF AT THE CORKMAN BAR & RESTAURANT.