An early bird … getting up early, seeing different scenes at the same locations:
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NY Mets @ Clover Park
31 Piazza Dr.
Port St. Lucie, FL 34986
Will return.
Mets’ training days are played here. We passed by Cardinals’ in Jupiter which looks rather minor. This one for the Mets is pretty major.
It’s my first time to a training game and like it a lot. The park is intimate compare to Shea and now Citifield. The bathrooms are plenty and clean. Food smell rather good – given the fact that I just had a huge meal. Staff is courteous.
Tonight’s game vs St. Louis Cardinals is a tie: 4-4.
Skin care & sun screen
Spring is here, it’s time to get facial / skin suntan lotions out.
Neutrogena Ultra Sheer is the one I use most often, from their facial to body mist. They’re not dry nor greasy, and inexpensive.
Anthelios spf 60, by Laroche-Posay (their cream spf30 good) is good too, I think I got it at US Open: neither dry nor greasy.
Anessa spf 50 Mild Milk by Shiseido company, is so so – feels dry on my skin.
Sunshady by BioClarity is the worst: thick, greasy and stays white on my skin after applying it and their shelf life is very short, only 3 months. I’m active and out there under the sun all the time, but never have I finished a 1.7 oz tube within a year. I learnt this after I purchased a set in Sept 2022, and the Face screen expires May 2023, less than a year.
PTR Peter Thomas Roth is one of my faved brand. Their products seem to agree with my skin:
1. Intensive anti-aging creme thick but not greasy
2. Power K eye rescue
3. 24K gold hydra-gel eye patches
4. Firm peeling gel
5. Water drench hyaluronic cloud cream
Over the years, I also used Estée Lauder and Clinique.
Estée
- Soft clean infusion rich and thick
- Advanced night repair pretty good
- advanced night repair eye average
- advanced night eye concentrate good
- Advanced Night Cleaning gel good
- Perfectly clean ok
- Revitalizing supreme+ average
- Revitalizing spf 15 good
- NightWare Plus ok
- Futurist aqua primer why did I buy this?
- DayWear spf 15 so so
Clinique
- moisture surge spf 28 good
- clarifying lotion #2 very good
- dramatically different good
Christian Dior: I used it exclusively in Hong Kong. Still remembered its chubby tonic bottle with relative small mouth. Their Prestige line came near the end of 1990s. After a few years, I stopped all together.
Recently when I purchased a Dior 006 berry Addict lipstick, the sales girl gave me a sample of the cream, with faint rose smell. I couldn’t remember if there is any improvement from its initial stage. Their samples are also neatly packaged, just like their regular products, which is overkill. One of the reason I left Dior is, too much marketing and packaging, which is one of the reason I tried PTR.
The line at the top
Climbing the Everest isn’t lonesome sport anymore, for some years, if not decades. Lately, I’ve been seeing photos of the climbers waiting in lone long line to get to the top. Any fun?
Yoga on the deck
A glorious day, at sea, unfortunately – would rather have it when we have excursion …
I ended up led a short yoga session – ya, me leading, can’t imagine but I did. I think everyone is trying to do something.
All the photos are taken by ship’s photographer, thank you!
Yoga in Canada
Did a few poses at Akpatok Island, Canada, with mud boots, life vest and the parka. It’s polar bears territory, so our armed guards ask us to have the life vest while on the beach – so we can run or evacuate immediately should a bear appear.
Goalie Lundqvist
Rangers’ goaltender Henrik Lundqvist (1982-) had retired and his number 30 is officially retired on January 28, 2022. He was drafted by Rangers in 2000 205th overall and player for the team from 2001-2020. The first overall pick in 2000 was also a goalie by Islanders, Rick DiPietro – same position with two different career outcomes.
The goal keep cut a dashing figure in New York, always dressed to the nine. He jams with John McEnroe who presented him a guitar at MSG.
Mid pic: Hugh Jackman, John McEnroe and Lundqvist; R: Lundqvist, McEnroe Ed Norton and Joker
ATP and WTA
Association of Tennis Professionals, is the men’s tennis group
- ATP
- ATP Challenger Tour
- ITF Men’s World Tour
WTA wiki, Women’s Tennis Association
- Grand Slam (4)
- WTA Finals (1)
- 1000 Tournaments (9)
ATP Challenger Tour has 175 and 125 series, with 175 and 125 ranking points to the champions respectively.
The national anthem 国歌
I love many national anthems. Top the list is the The Star-Spangled Banner, China’s March of the Volunteers 义勇军进行曲, which I was born to listen; and the French La Marseillaise …
Many sporting events starts with The Star-Spangled Banner: