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Learning what it means to be a good dad from this blog.
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Songs from Guns N' Roses' highly anticipated album, Chinese Democracy, were put on the net by a blogger, and now he's in really hot soup for his act.
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I'm still stuck on Eyes Open. This should be a must buy.
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It's wonderful that the fans are deciding that enough is enough and they want to wrestle the club back from Tom Hicks and George Gillett. Liverpool fans have been infuriated by Hicks and Gillett burdening the 18-time English champion with debt since their 2007 takeover and failing to sufficiently support manager Rafa Benitez in the transfer market.
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- After watching Dreamgirls, I’ve decided that Motown isn’t for me. #
- Are we not done yet congratulating Team Singapore? #
- Now I’m hungry. I wish those burgers would magically fry themselves and fly into my mouth. Hungry, but lazy. #
- Funny how I keep the interior of the car relatively clean, but just can’t be bothered about the exterior. #
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- Nothing else good on tv, so I had to watch Rahsia Perkahwinan 2. Again. #
- I want nothing more than to sleep. Just sleep. #
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For the third time this season, Liverpool left it late - very late - to score the winner in their match, this time in the 2nd leg of the 3rd qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League against Standard Liege. Having drawn a rather clueless game in Belgium, the Reds were expected to give a much better showing at Anfield, but it was the Belgian side that played brilliantly. They defended magnificently and took whatever opportunity they had to sneak in a counter attack.
The Anfield faithful, and the ones thousands of miles away, struggling to stay awake at 3 in the morning, ie. me, were left wondering if it could be one of those nights. A tiny slip, a stolen away goal and it could have spelled disaster for the Reds - both psychologically and financially. The windfall from qualifying for the group stages of the Champions League is too big to let slip.
It was in the dying minutes of the second half of extra time that Babbel crossed from the left, Kuyt somehow got his legs in front of the covering defender and the Dutchman scored the vital goal. Standard Liege had a couple of chances to equalise and steal the match from Liverpool but the Reds barely hung on for the win.
It was indeed a frustrating night that could have ended in disaster had Kuyt not come up with the winner. Time and time again, Liverpool failed to break down a resolute Belgian defence and they got more and more frustrated as ideas and time ran out. They say the mark of a true champion is to play below your best, yet still manage to carve out a victory from somewhere. They also say, champions play beautiful football. Occasionally, at least. It’s been three late winners so far. The results are great, but they way the team huffed and puffed throughout the match worries me. One day their luck will run out and the winner might not come at all.
And with news that Liverpool are to play PSV Einhoven, Marseille and Athletico Madrid in the group stages of the UEFA Champions League in three weeks time, they have got to step it up a notch or two. This surely looks like the group of death.
UEFA Champions League 3rd qualifying round, 2nd leg:
Liverpool 1 - Standard Liege 0
- Been nodding off at my desk for the past hour. Baaadd!! I need stronger coffee! #
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At long last, the update to the Nikon D80 is set to be released! Come mid-September, the world will finally get their hands on the Nikon D90, the world’s first DSLR with motion capture, ie. VIDEO!!. DSLR owners have long lamented the lack of video functionalities in their cameras and with the impending release of the D90, that void will certainly be filled.
[Wired]
Specs include 12.3 megapixel CMOS sensor, sensitivity range from ISO 100 to ISO 6400, 4.5fps continuous shooting, 11-point autofocusing, live view on its 3 inch LCD screen and of course, the all-important video shooting at 24fps 1280×720 motion JPEG.
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The camera, designed specifically for the advanced amateur, is set to retail at a street price of US$995 (body-only) or with the new f3.5-5.6 18-105mm VR ultrasonic kit lens for US$1,299.95. Add about US$179.99 and you can also get the all-new 30MB/s 16GB Extreme III SDHC card to store the images from your spanking new D90 camera.
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Also check out these guys working with award-winning photographer Chase Jarvis, who each got to play around with D90s. How I envy them!
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- Time to infuse some food into my tummy. #
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- Office is deathly quiet without the usual suspects around. I wanna go home!! #
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- I should go have breakfast at the nearby McDonald’s next time while I wait for the boy wonder. #
- Plurk is down and I’m getting sleepy! #
- Everybody Wang Chung tonight! #
- I think dragonflies are the most evil-looking insect ever! Especially when they’re hovering inches away from you. #
- Is Gareth Barry really that good that so many big clubs are chasing him? #
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- Spurs look really silly this season. I expect another defeat this weekend when they play Chelsea. #
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For those times when I feel abandoned, left alone, neglected or simply forgotten in the dark, crying for help ….
Perhaps this will brighten up the day:
It’s so cool! A tiny, little lightsaber I can wave around with and pretend I’m a Jedi in the office stuck in a boring job.
[link: Geek Alerts]
As the curtain draws on one of the most successful and spectacular Olympic Games ever, another event has just begun in the North-western English port city of Liverpool, which by the way, is also home to the most successful English football club, Liverpool FC, and probably the greatest band ever, the Beatles!
What major international sporting event am I talking about? Why, it’s the World Firefighters Games 2008, of course! The 10th edition of the bi-annual Firefighters Games, which started in Aukland, New Zealand in 1990, is being staged in Liverpool from the 25th of this month to 3rd September.
About 5,000 highly-tuned, beefy and brawny firefighters from all over the world will be competing in 60 sporting events (the Olympics had only 38 events), ranging from the traditional sporting events like swimming, marathon running, and wrestling, to the more obscure sea angling, arm wrestling, assault course, bucket brigade, fire house cook-off (mmmm!! yummy!!), fire truck challenge, poker, stair run, toughest firefighter alive, treasure hunt, and the ever popular tug of war.
We might not see an Usain Bolt zooming up the stairs in the stair run, nor a Michael Phelps splashing his way to gold in the open water swimming event. We might not even see a single event on TV, but it’s a very important gathering of men and women from the fire services from around the world in a celebration of sports, camaraderie and unity as proud and heroic firefighters that they are.
I wish I could watch the cook-off because I hear firefighters cook a mean steak! Mmmmm ….
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- Sky looks nice this evening. I can see a faint rainbow on the horizon. #
- Not looking forward to hauling a giant bag of diapers home, but it has to be done. #
- WLM 9 beta looks different. Profile pics on the left, bulleted messages. I like! Now, to wait for Plus to integrate with the new version. #
- Any day where I doze off less than 5 times at my desk is a good day. #
- I finally have some time for a much-needed smoke. Such a busy day today! #
- Is it my tastebuds or does this cheesy mushroom chicken burger from 7-11 actually taste good? #
- Trying to get rid of a damned bug from the interior of the car. #
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Expect the prices of your favourite Hershey's chocolates to increase in the coming months due to the increas in prices of raw materials used to make those yummy chocolates. The good thing is that they're not DECREASING the size of their products and at the same time INCREASING the price, like some other food manufacturers are known to do these days.
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At long last, under tremendous pressure, President Pervez Musharraf is finally stepping down. The president has been granted "safe passage" out of the country — a means to avoid impeachment, which would be the first in the country's history.
One weekend while at Harbourfront, Maya was confronted by a green monster in a trash can.
For the second successive Barclay’s Premier League match in a row, Liverpool needed a late goal to snatch a winner from what looked like a very poor game. The gaffer says Liverpool must emulate Chelsea and win ‘ugly’ if they were to mount a serious challenge for the title this season.
We can’t play beautiful, free-flowing football all the time and expect to win 5-0, but in today’s game, Liverpool were poor for most of the match. As John Burridge said on TV, Liverpool “played like a 4th division side”. For once I have to agree with the man with the questionable sense of fashion (he even took a shoe off in studio. I saw it!).
Scrappy, ugly win it may be, but there’s no denying what a beauty Steven Gerrard’s goal was. The fightback started when, a goal down from a Mido strike, Jamie Carragher collected the ball outside the penalty box from a rebound off the Boro defender’s arm, fired a powerful volley that deflected wickedly off a Boro player, wrong-footing the goalkeeper and into the net.
Up stepped Gerrard in the dying seconds of the match for a fantastic placed shot to the far post for the match winner. As much as I’m in awe at his superb match-winning goals, I’m beginning to really worry about Liverpool’s over-dependency on the captain to provide the magic touch from his magic boots which I will gladly kiss if given the chance!
Well, a win, ‘ugly’ or otherwise, is still worth three points and I’ll take that gladly with both hands. Two wins in a row. Not a bad start to the season so far, but there’s still a huge room for improvement.
Bring on Standard Liege for the return leg of the Champions League qualifier in mid-week!
Barclay’s Premier League: Liverpool 2 - Middlesbrough 1
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Lock up your children! Gary Glitter, incarcerated for child molestation in Vietnam, has been released from prison by the authorities there pending deportation from the country.
And guess what?
He’s contemplating moving to either Hong Kong or Singapore.
Glitter said he was thinking about resuming his singing career and that he might move to Hong Kong or Singapore.
Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was convicted in March 2006 of molesting two girls, ages 10 and 11, from the southern coastal city of Vung Tau. He served two years and nine months of a three-year sentence, which was reduced for good behavior.
He was also charged and convicted of child pornography in 1999. This is one foreign talent that I would NOT welcome if he decides to move here.
[link: Yahoo! News]
It seems like the world is against John Mayer for breaking up with Jennifer Aniston. Or so he says. He had lots to say about the whole breakup affair, defending himself against rumours that he was a cheapskate (Jennifer paid for everything when they were going out) to him being unfaithful to her.
He was obviously pissed when groups of paparazzi hounded him and incessantly asked him questions about the breakup.
“If you guys are going to run stuff and run every lie under the sun, have somebody stand up for somebody. Have me as a man who ended a relationship stand here and write some truth. Have me stand up for somebody and write that Jennifer Aniston is the smartest, most sophisticated person I think I’ve ever met. She’s one of the most lovely people I’ve ever met in my life and I’m going through something that’s a very personal thing and you have to give that up. You have to give everything up because you can’t have it all and it sucks.
“I’m sorry that the story’s not interesting, but it’s about time that somebody stands up for that girl and I think she’s great.”
Mayer reflected on the situation as “the most normal thing in the world – There’s no lying, there’s no cheating. There’s no nothing.
I doubt we’ll really know what went wrong with him and Jennifer Aniston, but she’s keeping largely quiet about it, as she did when Brad Pitt dumped her.
So the “it” couple is no more.
I love John Mayer’s music and he may be a nice guy but when I first read about his relationship with one of my favourite Friends, I knew it wouldn’t last, given his history with women.
Oh well ….
[link: The Superficial]
The Project Runway whiz kid, Christian Siriano, is launching a maternity line next month.
The fierce and talented designer collaborated with his two friends and founders of Moody Mamas maternity clothes, to create a collection called Fierce for Moody Mamas by Christian Siriano.
No tent dresses are available in this collection, it seems.
[link: The Cut]
