and the REDS go marching on …

Read in the papers where the Liverpool team will be today quite a few places and so I decided to go down to Novena to catch Glenn Johnson and John Flanagan. It wasn’t too crowded and since the event was sponsored by Carlsberg you just needed to purchase $50 worth of Carlsberg beer to get a free pass to the Fans Area. Seems Harry’s was the co-partner in this as they were selling 2 buckets (each bucket 5 bottles – $35) for $70 which will allow you to get your pass.

Luckily when I got there early there was not much of a queue, it started to get heavy just a few minutes after I got my Fan Access Pass. The place was basically set up in the Basketball Court and all ready for the 2 stars to appear. When I got into the holding area they announced that Glenn Johnson would not be turning up instead it would be Joe Cole.

At About 2.30pm they came in and after a few words they were down to the Autograph and Phototaking. These were actually for those winners from the Carlsberg Fan Site I was not part of that group just behind them in the Fan Area. The top 10 were allowed autographs and personal photo’s with the stars, while the other;s were in team shots of 5 each. There was even Mr Liverpool Fan who actually had Liverpool Tatooed on his Body !!!



After they were done it seemed there was still a little time and so the organiser allowed those in the fan area to come up for a photo in groups of 10. I was one of the first to get in and the first group to go up. There was an official photographer who was taking the photo’s which would be posted on the Carlsberg Fan Web Site on Facebook. But for some reason the organiser saw me with my camera and asked if I wanted someone to take the pic (maybe it’s because I was in my Carlsberg Pool shirt), I said ok and he took the camera looked around at the official photographers but no one around to help him so he decided to take a shot for me. But by then all the official photographers where done and the security personnel was moving everyone off the stage getting ready for the next batch of 10. Somehow I was left alone and got a Solo Photo with Cole and Flanagan … way cool that was ha ha. My lucky “Group” shot.

There was lucky draw at the end of the session after the stars left at 3.15pm they were there like for 45 minutes only. I managed to snag one of the Carlsberg Liverpool Jersey’s. Other items up for the draw were passes to their training ground and for the super lucky person a Liverpool T-Shirt signed by the entire team.

Finally a shot of me with my winning T-Shirt at the event they had this booth where you can take a picture of yourself at the event and they will email you the picture. Yep that is me below with the wacky hat (they gave a Carlsberg Plastic bottle too but that was on the floor) and my lucky draw T-Shirt.

 

VISION

Got some tickets to the Magic Show VISION held at the Esplande. Luckily it was a Mantinee show as it clashed with the NDP rehearsals and we were able to get out before the closed off the roads. The show started at 2.30pm and ended around 5.30pm about 3 hours with a 20 minute intermission.

It was by the local father and daughter team of Lawrence and Priscilla Kong. It’s a local act pretty good I guess. Nothing in the form of David Copperfield or David Blaine kind of stuff but the storyline was ok rather hard and at times a little dark to follow. Wonder how all the kids took it. It’s about the father daughter relationship and flash backs to the younger times kind of story. A couple of slip ups like the Magicians calling his younger version by the boys real name and not his. Notice the lady did not seem very comfortable doing the fire bits and the close up magic probably not meant for the stage. But overall a nice afternoon with the missus just the two of us.

Final 3

I just signed up for my final 3 runs for the year. It will start with the REAL Run which basically is kind of my favourite running event, will be doing the 21K at that event. It will then be followed by the Newton 30K and as the event states its a 30K run. All this will culminate in the year ending Standard Charted Marathon Singapore where I hope I will be able to complete my second Marathon. Time to get serious about training ha ha ..

T3 : DotM

Transformers 3 : Dark of the Moon, was looking forward to this movie, I even got the trading cards which were selling in the 7-11 stores before the movie came out. It’s a very nice card set. Lots of specials to collect including Chromium Cards, Acetate Cards (what they call specials), Gold Cards, Silver cards and Metal Collection. I like the Chromium’s best and the base cards were picture puzzles like this one.

This shows Sentinel Prime puzzle on the right and the left is the back of the Optimus Prime card set. More like the Chromium (below Bumblebee) and the Metal Cards include the company logo.

Anyway back to the movie I got a free ticket to catch it on opening day. Went for a late show as the missus wasn’t really interested in catching these sorts of movie’s. The theatre was full !! I have to say I was a little disappointed with the movie, They should get back Megan Fox, the new lady just does not fit in and I have no idea what her name is. As usually the Michael Bay kind of action scenes were everywhere. Lots of Product Placements in the movie, someone will probably come up with a list soon. This year definately has been the year of the comic book movies, Thor, X-Men, Green Lantern, Transformers and next up CAPTAIN AMERICA woo hooo …..