Little Pleasures

We will cover some of the finer things in life, after all all work and no play makes Ken a dull boy!

My Christmas 2007 Present

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Yes, my wife combined my birthday present and Christmas present all into one… and bought me a Sony 2GB MP3 player! How cool is that?

sony mp3 player 2gb

Full specs are:

Product Features

  • USB Direct Connect
  • Multiple Audio Codec Support – WMA and MP3
  • 3-Line Color LCD Display
  • FM Tuner with Recorder Functin and 30 Station Presets
  • Up to 12 Hours Battery Life

Technical Details

  • Model: NWZB105FBLK
  • Supported Standards: WMA, MP3
  • Hardware Platform: PC
  • Battery Average Life: 12 Hours
  • equalizer: Yes
  • equalizer_band_quantity: 5 bands
  • Digital Storage Capacity: 2 GB

It wasn’t as cheap as on the Amazon Website! But still! Thanks, Christine! I appreciate it! Now I can load my music on it! Happy Christmas!

What presents did you give or get? Let me know.

Buzz: Trusted Tours & Attractions in San Francisco- Sign up and win an iPod!

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It was January 1998, my wife and I had just moved house to Tienmou in Taipei, and despite everything being a mess, we still decided to take a much delayed (and much needed) honeymoon to Hawaii, San Francisco and Northern California.

san francisco

I do have some of the pictures I took then, but it’s difficult to find them from those Geocities HomePage days! I’ll be adding a few from those days if I can find them! So when I had a chance today to write this post about San Francisco, I grabbed it!

goldengate

Trusted Tours and Attractions is the name of the company seeking this ‘buzz’ and, of course, from the name, you can tell it’s a tour company offering quality tours and tickets to attractions in leading cities in the United States of America. Naturally, these packages offer special pricing for visitors.

sf-map

During our time we took several wonderful trips, some of which are on offer from Trusted Tours and Attractions: including San Francisco City Tour, Napa Valley Wine Tour, San Francisco Museums and Galleries, and the trip to Chinatown.

sf-cablecar

We managed to pack a lot of excitement into just those six days. We visited the pier, the Golden Gate Bridge, and a bunch of other places that you’d recognize from movies…! I was quite surprised at the time by how many places I already recognised! San Francisco has to be one of the most photographed cities in the world!

skyline

As part of the promotion of its service, Trusted Tours and Attractions is announcing a competition for visitors to sign up to their Trusted Travel eNewsletter, and they’ll be giving away an iPod Nano. You have to sign up before December 31st, 2007. I’m already on it myself!

 

Beringer’s White Zinfandel 2006: light, delicious and refreshing

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white zinfandel 2006

This post starts a series of posts on this blog called “The Finer Things in Life” (or should it be subtitled “Life’s guilty little pleasures”?)

Step up #1 in the list: Beringer’s 2006 White Zinfandel. We found them at Costco in Taipei City, and purchased several of them. Each time I have found them to be consistent in flavor, delicious and inexpensive.

The Beringer Website notes

The nose has lovely floral notes that are reminiscent of the wonderfully refreshing Spumante’s of Italy, with citrus and strawberry fruit nuances. The palate begins with a nice, classic “mousse” mouthfeel, and strawberry, brown spice and citrus flavors interplay with a refreshing acidity that carries everything into a long, delicious finish.

While it was recommended to eat with pasta, chicken and seafood, we tried it with steak and salad. It went well because the steak was lightly cooked and served with salad and other lighter foods. Ideal for summer food! But then I’m no expert!

Priced at $6.00 on the website, I can’t really remember what we paid. I’ll update that when I find the receipt. It was about NT$269, I think… but I could be wrong. So don’t forget to pick one up on the way home.