Home games: Mets should be mighty vs. Padres,
Marlins

post from NewYorkology: A Free New York Travel Guide on 03 August 2008 11:46:03 PM. © NewYorkology: A Free New York Travel Guide

NewYorkology contributor Scott Ross keeps you abreast of upcoming Mets and Yankees home games in New York City. Ross is between jobs this week. Really. Here’s your look at major league baseball in New York City this week: On the...

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New sidewalks crumble in Beijing ahead of
Olympics

post from Japan Probe on 03 August 2008 11:40:37 PM. © Japan Probe

Fuji TV’s latest report about Beijing making final preparations for the Olympics was filmed at a spot in front of the Bird’s Nest stadium where a newly built sidewalk has begun to cave in:According to the reporter, such crumbling sidewalks are not an uncommon sight near the Olympic venues.

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Tour Divide Mileage Log

post from FelixWong.com on 03 August 2008 08:42:42 PM. © FelixWong.com

Here’s a spreadsheet summarizing my progress during the 2008 Tour Divide mountain bike race, including miles and hours ridden per day, along with where I started and stopped.Bookmark or e-mail this article

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Hotel Review - Crystal Plaza in Stockholm

post from Europe a la Carte Blog on 03 August 2008 07:02:11 PM. © Europe a la Carte Blog

Crystal Plaza Hotel in Stockholm (Birger Jarlsgatan 35, 111 45 Stockholm) is one of the Excellence Hotels properties, which judging from the Crystal Plaza example, are excellent only in the name.The hotel has 111 rooms, but if you are a lone traveler like myself, you will most likely be spending your nights in a hole [...]

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The Ramen Girl

post from Japan Probe on 03 August 2008 06:42:25 PM. © Japan Probe

According to the Ramen Blog, this movie was filmed back in 2006 but has seen its delay released and might end up going straight to DVD:An American woman (Brittany Murphy) is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a ramen noodle chef under a [...]

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Fukuda downsizing to smaller jet for Olympic
visit

post from Japan Probe on 03 August 2008 06:42:13 PM. © Japan Probe

The Asahi Shinbun reports that Fukuda will be the first Japanese Prime Minister to use a small jet as transportation for an overseas trip: Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will use a smaller aircraft to fly to Beijing next Friday, instead of the government’s official jumbo jet, to underline Japan’s commitment to cutting carbon dioxide emissions, [...]

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Innocent Village Fete 2008 Photos

post from Going Underground's Blog on 03 August 2008 03:41:00 PM. © Going Underground's Blog

If you've been travelling on the London Underground for the last month or so you can't have failed to see the ads for the Innocent Village Fete - another of London's summer festivals. Me and some friends went last year on the hottest day of the year, although unfortunately the weather in London wasn't so great this weekend.

When I left Kew on Saturday the sun was shining brilliantly, but it had been drizzling all morning, so I went prepared for rain. I felt bit of a fool twittering at the station in my Converses with an umbrella, plastic ground sheet / poncho, long jeans and more long sleeved things in my bag.

However, with that typical four seasons in one day Englishness, by the time I was walking through Regent's Park, there was a torrential downpour of rain and various peeps I was meeting there were Twittering & texting me stuff about the inclement weather (Rachel Clarke, Niamh, Anna Mondo & Curlyluddite)

I could see why I knew I wouldn't like festival camping as we splattered & sploshed our way across Regent's Park trying to find a dry spot. But as if by magic, within about ten minutes the sky had cleared, the sun came out to the cheers of other Village Fete'ites and the day turned out nice again.

As usual with Festivals I find that a picture tells more than I ever could. But in case you don't know Innocent (they're the guys that make smoothies and other drinks in the UK) try to keep the English Village Fete theme going in a massive park that's filled with thousands of people. Personally, I think that the "stall holders" last year got into the Village Fete feel a bit more. But there was still plenty of Welly Wanging, knitting, paper hat making & fringe events to go round:

I'd completely forgotten that James from the Tube Carriage Offices in the Sky was going to be there with his theatre group Nabokov.

So it was lovely to be warmly greeted by him by the Village Voice Tent. He explained that their ideas tree (pictured above) was for people to hang ideas in a tree would would then be performed by them later this year.

We ended the day lazing in the sun drinking frozen Margaritas (like the Emergency Tube Margaritas but frozen) and listening to a guy in the Big Wheel area.

There was a massive farmer's market a the Fete too, so we had plenty of nice food to eat. I even spotted nod to The Times Food reviewer Giles Coren (who went ballistic about the word "a" being subbed out of his review) as we left:

My full set of photos from the Innocent Village Fete are here. If you went along, I'd love to know what you thought of the days.

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Puto Cheese Nga!

As I took out the puto wannabe from my oven, my heart skipped a beat because finally after trying probably 10,000 puto recipes (I'm exagerating a little bit) it looks like I got it right this time. I rushed to take it out of the bano maria burning myself a little bit in the process. Hurriedly, again burning my mouth, I took a bite and rejoiced....Yes! Puto Nga!

You cannot imagine, how hard I experimented with puto. I think I did more puto optimization experiments than in the optimization of my microarray experiments. Molecular biology is easier, it is more defined and the protocols are published, with the added bonus that I get paid to know about it. With puto, I wondered for 5 long years how they make it so soft and delicate, and so ice creamy . Hands down the best puto cheeseI had ever tried was from our neighbor Mrs. Maturan from Los Banos, Laguna. I don't know if she is still selling them but I never forgot how wonderful they were.

Because I live in Switzerland, I really have to work my butt off just to eat the simplest food. To think that while in the Philippines I took the puto pao for granted to indulge in blackforest cakes and crema de frutas. Now, that I physically live so close to the actual "black forest" ("Schwarzwäld" in German, the origin of the cake with the same name), all I can think about is the simple puto.

With the success of my siopao just a few weeks ago (which I also worked hard for), I can't believe that now it is the turn of my puto cheese. I'm on a roll!

I cooked the recipe of the batter put asado in the middle and it became puto pao. Exchange the milk in the recipe for water if you prefer it to be less delicate. Mix it up like you want and create the puto of your dreams!

For this great puto recipe, please proceed to my food blog "Bubut's House" or click here.

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Twitter Updates for 2008-08-03

having coffee and leftover pizza for breakfast. #
leaving to meet “John from Daejeon” at Costco at noon. #
got back from meeting John. Got lots of DVDs and books from him since he’s leaving the ROK. Even got potting soil & Miracle Grow! #
“Welcome to Andong, the capital of mental culture of Korea.” http://snurl.com/39v6x I love it! #
got treated to an Outback dinner. Had dessert for the first time in an Outback-Sydney Surprise. #
http://twitpic.com/6e9j - Forgot that I took a picture of my Sydney Surprise. Even with 4 spoons, I ate most of it by myself. #