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I picked up my family from Miami airport last night and took them down to South Beach for a quick drive. My bro seemed to take notice of the rims on the cars quite a bit, and Mum was trying to get over me driving on the other side of the road. Dad was pretty chilled out it seemed. The extra bonus of my family coming over was they brought a lot of cool stuff with them (at my request)

1. TimTams (Ten or so packets)
   
2. Cherry Ripes
3. Milo (REAL milo, the stuff you can eat straight out of the can, not the crud sold over here)
4. Vegemite
   
5. A cricket bat
6. An AFL football

So it seems I’ll have to team up with some Aussies, head down to Fort Lauderdale beach and show those Americans how to kick a football properly. The TimTams have been an absolute hit today. I’ve had people coming back asking for seconds and OMG it’s so good to actually eat a biscuit that tastes that good! My personal record with TimTams is 7 packets in 2 days. I did that during Uni because there was a chance to win $50,000. Unfortunately, I never did win but the TimTams were on special anyway and I was only feeling slightly sick for no more than a day.

I met my technical lead for the first time today. She looked absolutely nothing like I thought she would (well, I only ever had a faceless person in my head like the people who appear in dreams), but heck, it was a bit mindblowing. I’ve been working with her for 5 months now and this is the first time I’ve seen her. Of course, I made myself look like a total dumb-ass on several occasions today. Here’s to tomorrow and more opportunities to make myself look stupid!

I’ve got a bloody FAU (Florida Atlantic University) College football chant in my head now. I’d like to thank the girl (who sounded very much like a guy) sitting right behind me during the game for getting it stuck in my head. FAU got absolutely flogged by New Mexico State, but hey, it was still pretty cool to see a game of college football. I got the tickets for free too!

Anyways, pics from the basketball game are here.

Wow! I just came back from watching the Miami Heat play the Dallas Mavericks. Heat got whipped, but I did get to see Shaquille O’Neal, which was pretty cool. The game entertainment was pretty cool and the whole place was pumped up so much! They play a whole lot of power songs throughout the whole night to keep the vibe going. It’s just amazing how much energy there is going around the place even before the game has begun.

Tonight was supposed to be the big night where I tested out my new telephoto lens, specifically designed for sports and nature photography. There was a sign that said “no flash photography”. That was cool – from where I was sitting flash photography would’ve been useless anyway. I walked up to the guards and they said “sorry sir, we can’t let you in with the bag”. I said, “but it’s only got my camera stuff in it”. I showed them my lens and they said “sorry, we can’t let you in with professional photography equipment”. I was stunned, shocked, and a little peeved. Then I thought “hehe. They said professional”. I said “well, how about this lens?” and I pulled out my normal lens. They replied “haven’t you got anything smaller?” and I shook my head. They said as long as the lens was under 6 inches it was ok, so I had to go in with my normal lens only. I hope this doesn’t happen again. I’m going to get really pissed off if I go to sports games and I can’t use my new lens.

There were some celebrities there as well which was quite a bonus – Boris Becker, Enrique Iglesias and Anna Kournikova. Pretty cool, huh? I was able to spot Boris Becker in the audience and got a snap of him. I was only able to get a snap of Enrique and Anna up on the scoreboard as I couldn’t find them in the audience. Pics are coming soon (once my slow arse computer finishes processing them 🙁