EF 35mm f/2 ~ To Buy or Not to Buy?

6/30/2010 07:42:00 AM Canon EOS No Comments

as mentioned, i can buy anything with a value of MYR 1,000 and then submit it for claim as part of my Project Essence contribution appreciation... but then it has been 1 month already and i still dunno what am i going to buy... sigh*** the amount is erm kinda weird hahaha... it ain't low and it ain't high either, making me difficult to decide what the hell am i going to do with it...

buying something small and cheap will result in under-claimed and i a bit kiasu hahaha... but then buying something big and value above the amount will hurt my wallet sigh*** so i'm a bit 'farn' now hahaha...

there is actually something i've been eyeing on for quite sometime which is a prime lens for my EOS 400D... i always lacking of a true fast big aperture lens and my eyes were set on the EF 35mm f/2 for a long time but then still couldn't make the last move of buying it partly due to cash and partly due to the outdated design and technology on that lens... but it's a serious piece of glass to be honest hehehe... coz i've been reading the review and sample photos of this lens over and over and over on the internet ;p

yet, with now the cash problem is greatly minimized... i'm still undecided yet... hahahaha...

*** Time for a Prime Lens?
*** Prime Lens vs External Flash

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Dragon-I (Revisit) + ZOUK + G Six Club

6/29/2010 07:34:00 AM Unwind Session No Comments

remember i post about -ah koong- FFK us on last Friday nite session, so he text me and -ah jiew jeh- out for dinner at Mid Valley... while we were deciding what to eat at Mid Valley, i brought them over to Maxis Center at The Gardens to have a glimpse on the Samsung Galaxy S but then sadly... they do not have a demo unit?!!!... WTH?!!!... so i went further down to Samsung FMG outlet to ask about it and they also doesn't have it... worst still, the FMG store guy explained to me that only Maxis is carrying Galaxy S... WTH?!!!... you guys are official Samsung distributor in Malaysia and yet you don't even have the phone?!!!...

after being turned down by 2 store on the Galaxy S, i switched back the conversation to our dinner... and as expected, it's a tough job hahaha... at first we were queueing up at Sushi Zanmai but then we quit as the queue never moved the period we were standing there... so, off we went for Dragon-I... as we sat down for our table at Dragon-I, -ah koong- asked me if i recalled sitting the very same table many years ago hahaha... indeed yes, i think we sat on the same table the last time we came here with quite a huge gang...

*** i managed to dig out my post on my prev blog and it was 09th Dec 2005 the last time we were there... OMG! it has been almost 5 years...
*** 09 Dec / 10 Dec 2005

dinner is over and it's time for a drink and chit chat... we head down to ZOUK to have a drink before i recalled that The Library is openning a new outlet here, so we walked down the alley heading towards the once San Francisco Steakhouse only to find that The Library is still under renovation hahaha... -ah claire- is gonna kena from me coz she mentioned to me that she received SMS that it's open... gggrrrr...

since it's still too early to go home, i brought them up to G-Six Club... the very same club that i went the nite we had our decommissioned dinner hahaha... and since it's Monday, there isn't any cover charge for it and off we went in, sat down, order our drinks and start chatting... and boy we really chat a lot and chat almost about everything... the details???... guess not gonna write it down here hahaha... but then we enjoyed ourselves and the ambience was good there... we left the place exactly at midnite as we need to work the next day...

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England Trashed 4-1 By Germany ~ Zzz...

6/28/2010 07:10:00 AM Unwind Session No Comments

i was at Coco Banana yesterday to catch the game between England vs Germany and it was a disasterous defeat for England being trashed 4-1... sigh***

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Quiet Session @ Laundry

6/26/2010 09:35:00 AM Unwind Session No Comments

it's 12pm and i just finished watching the match between Brazil vs Portugal which ended 0-0... pretty much a very boring game... but then little did i know that it's gonna be a much more boring session later on i had at Laundry Bar... lolx...

so i drove down all the way from Shah Alam heading towards The Curve where -ah claire- organized a small drinking session... i arrived there sharp at 12:30am and a little surprised was there were some faces which i didn't recognized hahaha... it's then i found out that all of them were from a same company once... the E... ;p

-ah koong- didn't turned up and neither did he responded to our calls or text messages sigh*** so we knew that he won't turned up anyway hahaha... erm... i felt kinda bored that nite, not sure why coz i don't feel any atmosphere there and i only had 3 bottles of small beer in contrast the the usual amount i had in a drinking session... mainly i guess non of them wanna drink hahaha...

then it cross my mind that maybe i was the one with problem???!!!... maybe i drank too much on normal occassion?... sigh***

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Car Service ~ Major :(

6/25/2010 03:59:00 PM Car Care No Comments

my car so far has clocked approximately 103,500 Km in the space of 4 years++ and i bought it in for a routine service just now... all these while, i have been servicing my car at Proton Authorized Car Service Center but then since it has clocked over 100,000 Km already... it's time i depart from them and go out for normal workshop which will be cheaper in long run...

my rear absorber already dead for quite some time and i've yet to have them changed, so today is the best day since i'm on leave... so i drove my car over the our family car workshop and have it in for a routine car service... after some analyzing done by the trusted foreman whom is also the shop owner, i've decided to have both the rear absorber change and a new set of clutch...

the entire service session took almost 6 hours to complete and the bill...

• Tyre Balancing (On Wheel and Off Wheel) : MYR 24
• Computer Alignment (Front + Rear) : MYR 24
• Camber Adjustment (3 Wheel) : MYR 54
• Camber Kit (2 Kit) : MYR 120
• Engine Oil (Shell Helix HX7) : MYR 99
• Oil Filter : MYR 13
• Gear Box Oil (2 Litre) : MYR 50
• Clutch Kit (Japan Exedy/Daikin) : MYR 360
• Absorber (Rear Kayaba) : MYR 190
• Gear Oil : MYR 30
• Labour Charge : MYR 12
• 5% Government Service Tax : MYR 4.50

this brings to a total of MYR 980... sigh***

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Samsung Galaxy S ~ MYR 1,699 (12 Months Contract)

6/25/2010 07:53:00 AM Gadget No Comments

Maxis will start selling the long awaited Samsung Galaxy S at MYR 1,699 with a 12 months contract tied to it... this price tag surprises me as initially i tot the price tag will be somewhere around MYR 1,899... so don't wait... go and grab it...

one of my colleague whom had juz got the HTC Desire will be cursing Maxis for this hehehehe...

this exclusive deal start from today will Sunday and only available at Sunway Pyramid Maxis Center... >:)

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Samsung Galaxy S ~ Arrived via Maxis

6/22/2010 07:24:00 AM Gadget No Comments

i was busy with my laptop screen when my colleague (the one who bought the HTC Desire) suddenly quote: 'Deng!'...

i turned to him as he just sitting next to me and saw him pointing at Maxis website, on a small advert... in that small advert, it says 'Samsung Galaxy S Ready For Launch'... ops... hahaha... as he click into the advert, the RRP price stated there is a whooping MYR 2,599... but then that's the RRP and Maxis hasn't reveal the mobile carrier plan figure yet until they have officially launched it...

the launch date printed on the site is set to be June 25th, meaning this Friday...

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A Lucky Day

6/18/2010 07:04:00 AM No Comments

i was walking to my car after work and i saw multiple cars were clamped as i inch closer to mine... luckily this morning when i parked my car, i did scratched the parking coupon instead of just leaving it un-scratched, displayed on the dashboard... i just had that feeling that morning that they are gonna inspect this parking section and i was right... ;p

see the picture on the left... the car in front of me also kena liao... a lucky day to save MYR 50... >:)

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Letter of Appreciation + MYR 1,000

6/12/2010 05:18:00 PM Work No Comments

i was rather surprised on Friday when i came back from lunch to find an e-mail stating that i'm entitled to purchase anything i wanted within MYR 1,000 and have it claimed from the company... it was mentioned as a small token of appreciation for the transition work done for the last 6 months...

still not sure what am i gonna buy... hahaha...

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HTC Desire

6/11/2010 10:52:00 AM Gadget No Comments

a colleague of mine wanted to change his handphone and he's an existing Nokia user... at first he was set to change his phone to a newer version of Nokia phone but then after i've introduce the Android series of phone to him, his heart moved hehehehe... >:)

since mobile carrier in Malaysia started to bring in Android phones and tied them up with attractive contracts, though not as attractive as it could have been if you compare them with the UK and US side... nevertheless it is still cheaper to source it from them... sigh***, so i recommended him a few phones to look at... HTC Desire, HTC Legend and Samsung Galaxy S...

among the 3 of them HTC Legend seems to have the best phone+mobile carrier deal under DiGi but then since he's a loyal Maxis customer, his eye is fixed on the HTC Desire... actually he loves the Samsung Galaxy S very very much but then it wasn't available in Malaysia yet, so HTC Desire was the one... after days of unlimited information gathering which includes forums digging and mobile phone reviewer site, he finally locked down to the HTC Desire... ;)

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Too Lazy and Lack of Motivation

6/09/2010 05:18:00 PM No Comments

not sure why... maybe due to the recent departure of colleagues, i guess... i don't even spent time to update this new blog of mine... sigh***

i need to get back my motivation... maybe the Singapore trip in July will rejuvenate me...

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Facebook Destroying Marriage?

6/06/2010 09:06:00 AM No Comments

it's Sunday and i just read an article published on the Sunday Times on Facebook destroying marriage... the article was about cyber flirting which leads to cyber affair and finally cyber sex... the most interesting part on the article was that many of the recorded incidents are housewives with children went into Facebook for hours each day to flirt with guys which later found out by their husband and that leads to a divorce...

well many married husband also does the same thing i have to say but then the main point here is that on the real life incident qouted by the newspaper, the couples are happily married over 10 years (it was also quoted that the couples know each another for 12 years before their marriage) with a daughter until one day the husband found out that her wife were having an affair online with another guy via Facebook... the husband later filed a divorce with her wife and start a new life with his daughter...

hmm... sad huh???... a relationship which is almost 20 years gone due to Facebook...

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Delicious & G-Six @ Mid Valley

6/05/2010 12:39:00 PM Unwind Session No Comments

after weeks of planning and trying to accommodate each another's calendar, finally we have decided and y'day was the day we had our so call decommissioned dinner at Delicious, Mid Valley... pretty sad huh... sigh***

since i'm the one who organized the event, i was pretty happy to see a full attandance of all my ex-team members... all of them were present y'day and we had a great dinner session... i guess over the years working together, our relationship has evolved from colleagues to frens and i do hope that our frenship will continues and last...

some of us then went on for a drink session at a club name G-Six which is located at Level 6, The Gardens... the ambience there was fantastic but then lacking some x-factor when compared to ZOUK (the KL ones), Coco Banana, The Opera and etc., etc.,... still we managed to finish up 7 jug of Carlsberg only to have auntie drunk liao and -ah david- vomitting at the plants nearby hahaha...

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Seductive DELL Vostro V13

6/05/2010 12:31:00 PM No Comments

early this year, i convinced my 2nd sis to get the DELL Vostro V13 and she bought it before Chinese New Year this year... it was a fantastic piece of master piece from DELL at a very afordable price...

then 2 weeks ago, one of my colleagues (she was still a colleague of mine at that time hahaha) wanted to purchase the V13... i got to know about it and highly recommend that unit to her... few days ago, she got it and she's indeed very very happy with it... hahaha...

it's that seductive sleek piece of hardware that you indeed wanted to show it to everyone... ;)

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Sametime Client 8.5 Installed ~ Finally

6/02/2010 07:24:00 AM Work No Comments

about a month ago, i managed to download the Lotus Sametime Client 8.5 from the internet but then it failed to be installed onto the laptop for some reason that i don't understand... not only that, but then in the process... i've also uninstall the version 8.0 which i've been using... zzzz...

so for the last 1 month plus, i've to basically downgrade myself back to the old and outdated Sametime Client 3.0 zzzz... pretty depressing huh??!!... but then yesterday, i tried reinstalling the 8.5 version once more and the result is still the same... it just failed and the log file is not understandable at all... not giving up, so i went thru that complex and difficult to read log file and found out that all the additional jar files needed are actually downloaded from the internet as the installation is running... and the problem is that the URL link to IBM site has been relocated, and that's the reason why the provisioning of the jar files failed...

i went over to the internet once more to test out the relocated site of IBM and found their new site which is called the Lotus Greenhouse... it's kinda of a site where once you've registered yourself in, you've access to most of their beta(s) program and this includes the Sametime Client 8.5 ;)

registration is a piece of cake and in no time i was downloading the file and this time i noticed that all the provisioning jar files are included in the download package... this means that it will no longer need to access the internet to download the jar files while installing... saves a lot of time during installation... and tada!... i'm on Sametime Client 8.5 now... ~cool~

you can access the Lotus Greenhouse here

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New Role Starts Today ~ Officially

6/01/2010 07:11:00 AM Work No Comments

yesterday was 31st May 2010 and was the last day of my ex-team which will no longer exists... all of us says goodbye to each another and head off for our separate way but then we agreed to keep in touch all the time... well... in Facebook hahaha...

the senior of the team which i'll be joining from tomorrow and onwards also departed yesterday and will be heading her way back to the consultancy line... and i do really wish her all the best in her career... although i'm pretty sad to see her leaving the team i'm about to join... sad...

then i got another sad news as another colleague in my new team is also leaving for a new role???!!!... and this news, i got it from the mouth of another colleague in the offiz hahaha... see that's how the team dynamics are right now... sigh*** but then after a long chat with him, i understood his decision to move on and we also discussed about my new role and around the recent team dynamics...

well let's see how many of them will still be around 1 year from today...

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