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For my first (and only?) post in 2008, I'm letting you all (i.e. the 3 of you who have me on RSS) know that I added a little widget to the left that shows my Nikeplus profile. Nike+ lets you use your iPod Nano to track your run times, distances, and calories burned.

Notice that I managed to do 2.55km in about 15 minutes. In contrast, the top 5km time on the Nike site is 13:21! But hey, not bad for a first try eh?

OK looks like the profile is not showing up... apparently Nike messed up some coding so in the meantime you can see my record-breaking 2.55km run on this link

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Medstars @Gold Coast

Last Sunday (well, technically Monday morning) I had to pleasure of watching the Man U & Chelsea match with Mike & Helen. The pull-down screen was huge and easily the largest TV I've ever viewed a football match on (in my less-than-six-months of football watching experience). The atmosphere was absolutely fantastic, and it was a cracking match! ... or "the match was a cracker"?...

Anyway, here I am on the way to Gold Coast. They have these new buses which are fitted with all forward-facing seats. I've always wanted to ride in one and I finally got my chance.

Got off at a stop too late... but right across from Crossroads so took a moment to get this shot:

A healthy selection of beer at Medstars:

We were seated about 20 feet back... you can't really tell how big it is from the picture, but trust me, what a view it was.

I chose one of the two German beers available: Veltins. The beer was actually quite good, but next time I'll try out the other German bier. As Sal so cleverly pointed out... these are my trophies from the night!

When all was said and done, I boarded one of those scarily-fast red minibuses (red rocket?) and was lucky to have made it back to Jordan Road in one piece. By then it was nearly 3am and it was eerily quiet on the streets, and I had myself a mini-photographing session. Perhaps I'll save those shots for another post...

#2

This was Gerrard's mid-week goal versus PSV, which all started with Reina's nice goal kick.

He scored again tonight against Man City, shame we didn't catch it on TV live but it should crop up on YouTube soon enough. I'm sure it was a cracker of a goal. (I'm trying to use cracker/cracking as much as possible now!)

Does the announcer say "ooooooooooohhhhh" or "goooooooooaaaal"?

Border Starbucks

Earlier this week I was given the honor of traveling up to China... and then immediately returning to HK. On the HK side of Lowu, they've opened up a Starbucks... it must have been there for a while now, but I never got a chance to actually buy anything from there, until now...

A winning combination: Sausage Roll & Mocha Valencia!!

Shenzhen was literally within a stone's throw away!

Where else can you enjoy Starbucks straddling the border of HK and China? Unfortunately there's only one way to access this location, so the next time you come back down from the Mainland, be sure to check out the Border Starbucks!

GERRARD!

FINALLY he scored his first goal this season...

clip is not in English but it's the best I've found on youtube so far. Besides, football is a universal language :)



ps. this is officially "my first Steven Gerrard goal since hopping on the Liv'pool wagon!"