Liverpool 2 Sunderland 2

Dear oh dear oh dear.

I have to admit that recent performances from Liverpool have been unbelievably poor. And when I say poor, I don't even mean the fact that we have shipped 3 goals to both Man Utd and Man City. The fact is that in the Prem so far, the only team that Liverpool have beaten are WBA - and even that was only by 1 goal. And to be honest, if it hadn't been for that freaky first goal, we might not even have had a point from this game.

I don't want to hop onto the bandwagon that is already calling for Hodgson's head as I still think that he should be given more time. Hopefully, things will eventually "click" and the results will come. However, if things don't click soon, we may well find ourselves in the relegation zone as October brings some tough fixtures.

Okay, granted, the first match in October is against Blackpool at Anfield which Liverpool should really be winning. However, after that, we go up against Everton, Blackburn and then Bolton. All three of these sides have shown in prior years that they are not easy sides to beat (although you have to wonder what happened to Everton this year) and if Liverpool continue to play as badly as they have been, a defeat against all three sides is not as far fetched as I would once think.

So far, the only positive this season has been the fact that we have been able to score goals (Stevie G FTW!!!). Still, my pitiful performance in FM2010 doesn't seem so bad now...

Twitter

By now, the more observant of my readers (so no, not you) will have noticed the twitter feed on the right hand side of my blog. For the extremely unobservant, I should add that the twitter feed is mine and that I have indeed created a twitter account.

The catalyst for this was basically last Thursday's post. I had some random thoughts which I wanted to share. The problem was that there wasn't enough meat on those random thoughts to really justify a blog post in its own right but other than ignoring it completely, what could I do?

Well, it turns out that I could have created a twitter account and micro-blogged about it. Who knew, right? Too late now I suppose but hopefully, such short and random thoughts can be kept to twitter in future.

Also, somehow I have managed to pick up three followers. I have no idea how I managed this or why they would be interested in my tweets considering that my tweets so far have consisted of random crap. But there you go.

Some random links and thoughts

This rant perfectly echoes my thoughts on people who are consistently late. There really isn't much that I can add to that which hasn't already been said. So why am I writing this post if I don't have anything to say?

The truth is that I really wanted to send that link to the missus. However, at the last moment, I chickened out so I'm posting it here instead. If you never hear from me again, then I want you to know one thing - the missus did it.

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Also - Oh, how I wish this didn't resonate with me so much.

Gerry and Gordon go to the mall

The weather in Hong Kong has been extremely unpredictable lately. At any moment in time, you are either going to be pelted with thunderstorm levels of rain or baked by heatwave levels of sun. The net result of all this is that we have been spending a lot of time in shopping malls recently.

Still, Gordon doesn't seem to mind. Having said that, I think he is just happy with any chance to get out of the house.


A rare picture with Gordon looking at the camera while Gerry is looking elsewhere.


Closeup of Gordon - he is starting to look really cute now. :)


Huzzah - its me again!


For the life of me, I can't remember what they saw that is so fascinating.

Gerry at Pizza Express

Gerry actually learned to love pizza at a very young age. At some point in time, the missus and I couldn't be bothered going out to eat and ended up ordering Pizza Hut for delivery. In those days, Gerry only ate a little bit of the pizza dough but it wasn't long before he started eating whole slices!

Being the fan of pizza that he is, we naturally jumped at the chance when we got an invitation from a parent of one of his school friends to join a pizza making party at Pizza Express.


Here you can see that he is kitted out in his chef's hat and already has his pizza base ready for the topping.


Halfway through the process and you can already see that this is going to be a yummy pizza!


Huzzah - the (almost) finished product. In case you are wondering, this is a ham, mushroom, pepperoni and olive pizza. If I recall correctly, Gerry looks so upset because he wanted to immediately run off and cook the pizza (instead of standing there while daddy took a picture).


And here is the final finished product. Unfortunately, I don't have any good pictures of Gerry eating the pizza as he wasn't willing to stand still while holding a slice (I have lots of blurry pictures though!).

Even little Gordon managed to get some. Considering our nickname for Gordon is "little pig", would it surprise you to learn that he really enjoyed the pizza?

Werewolves

Short post today as I'm linking to entries on someone elses blog which are really worth reading.

In my travels through the interwebz, I sometimes come across some really interesting stuff that I wish I had the time to partake in. The online forum game of werewolves is one such circumstance as it sounds like a perfect mix of paranoia, psychology and dumb luck.

If you want to know what Werewolves is, then you should check out this post which gives a good introduction to the rules while also giving you a pretty good gameplay example. And if you have the time, I seriously suggest you read the gameplay example (which lasts for a couple of posts).

The level of paranoia, downright sneakiness and all round back-stabbing which goes on during a game of Werewolves sounds deliciously delightful. It also convinces me that I would be an awful Werewolves player as I would probably be way too trusting. Probably a good thing that I don't have the time to get involved in a game.