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Saw this on my IM

While looking up reference for my previous post, just bump into this link about Montreal meat.

It started a few years ago while visiting Montreal, my friend Dixon used to live there so we made a few trips up from time to time (I still try to do one a year). Afterall, Ottawa is close to Montreal, only 1.5 hours driving (much closer when compare to TO(ronto)). One time a bunch of us decided to try out the "world famous" smoked meat out of curiosity. How good a sandwich can be?

They are good. The meat is not salty but very flavourful. The smell of the spices and meat blend together to ensure you want to bite it.

Actually, I never eat there (maybe I should some time), each time we bought the meat to go and have them sliced up in thin pieces. The meat is wrapped in oil paper, in the old fashion way. I usually can't resist to open it up and swallow a few slices by the time I get to the car. It's _that_ good. The smell, taste, and the juicy meat......

Even after I get home and put them into the freezer, they are still good. I usually put them in smaller bags once get home, so I just keep one in the frige. The meat still taste good after the road trip and in the freezer. It's THAT good.

Speaking of food from Montreal, the next thing come up is bagels!!

I was in this place as well when I visit Singapore in June. There's why I first met Heng's friend in town. It's really a busy place and the waiter/waitress works there really have an attitude. I mean they are mean.... yes, mean. I guess it's come from that I-am-famous-near-and-far-so-I-serve-you-the-way-I-want-to-and-you-eat-what-I-give-you thingy. (There was a smoked meat place like that in Montreal too... and they are GOOD)

This bring back a lot of fond memory of the trip.

Thanks, Alice.

If you are a military buff like me, you probably notice the US troops deployed in that certain part of the world is donning a new camouflage BDU. The Army Combat Uniform. The new unifrom is redesigned and suppose to make soldiers' life easier, in another word, make them more survivable on the battlefield.

One interesting thing about this grey/white-ish camo designed to make soldiers "invisible" is that it's universal for all environments that US troops is going to be deployed. (desert/woodland/urban)

However, how effective is this so call "univerisal" camouflage? I guess only time will tell.

Meanwhile, ACU is not the only game in town. There is an experimental uniform/camo known as Multicam that is coming out about the same time. According to some information on the net, Multicam seem to be even more adaptible to the surrounding.

Speaking of the camo used by ACU, it's actually design digitally. It's a variation of one used by Marines called MARPAT (and here).

If you still want more of camo, see here.

Meanwhile, I still like the optical camo in Ghost in the Shell better.

I am finally returned to Ottawa after 6 months in China. My server has been off-line due to DSL router problem since June, the root cause is the failing Ethernet function on the SMC router. I replaced it with a LinkSys WRT54GS.

During the server's long outage, I've been using MSN MySpace a bit (now Windows Live Spaces). I will port all posts form there later.