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Shana Steals My Him Heang Biscuit

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:38:00 +0000

Been busying the last few days with my exams and got a Hang-Over after my trial. O.o" Life's tough and it sux. But can't help it. I haven't got the mood to post any writting for the last few days and I haven't even touch my LX3 since then.

After one week and I'm back here!! Hahaha... While browsing through my photos I noticed that some uploaded pictures have not been written up. So I decided, my Shana is changing her favourite food from the usual melon-pan to our famous Penang Him Heang Biscuit!

Actually my friend went over to Penang for a few days holiday. Thus, I asked her to order some of their local delicacies. When I got it home, Shana just couldn't stand still and were so excited to try out the biscuit.

The biscuit in Hokkien we usually call it Tau Sar Piah (豆沙并) or literally translated Bean Paste Biscuit. This prompted me to wonder, why westerners made more breads and easterner make more biscuits! Have you ever thought of that?

"Boss ist still thinking/dreaming there. Steal one to eat" - Shana

"Mmmm... Yummy! It looks so big. Bigger than my head! I wonder if I can finish it or not"

"And it's heavy too! It sure have alot of beans inside."

"I hope it taste better than Melon-pan"

*Bite! Munch~ Munch~*

"It taste sure good. With green bean taste, slightly sweet abit. Yummy!"

"Eat some more! This is delicious! ^.^ " - Shana

"Hey why so many biscuit had been missing! Who stole it arh?" - Shinky

"Shh.. Don't tell boss I took it. :P " - Shana

I heard there are other similar baker who bake this nicer. One day I should take a few days leave and go over Penang for a Holiday. ^.^

Thinking of Eating Japanese Food

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

It's been a while since I had my Japanese Cruisine. It was in Kluang at that time when I visited my cousin. Visited Idori Sushi~

Take a sip~ Ah~ The freshness of green tea warmly soak up your mouth quenching your thirst. Yes I prefer warm tea rather than cold tea even though the taste is still the same. The cold tea would actually freeze the food in my stomach and make me hard to digest. I would eventually have stomach pain. >.<"

A typical serving in a Japanese restaurant, you would see the shoyu sauce, wasabi and toothpick? It's so elegantly made with ancient Chinese writing?

The settings are romantic as well. Further inside there's individual private room for people who don't want to share the public atmosphere.

Here's the counter, nicely decorated. Usually a typical would have seats in front of the counter and the chef would serves fresh sushis. You can see how they demonstrate their skills. ^.^

The boss actually spend alot of money decorating this place. I guess the whole restaurant would nearly cost them a million or two for such designs. But in a small town like Kluang? Well, they're just too rich aren't they? ^.^

With plates like this, it's just so authentic! >.<" There's poem on your plate and it's with chop sign some more! Food have become poetic eh?
From a different perspective. Wanted to go look closer at the ship. But just plain too tired to walk around. Besides, mum said we need to sit properly in our seat during every meal? Table Manners? ^.^;;

While I can't make out what's the last word which is written in old chinese/japanese. It's actually the name of the restaurant -- Idori Sushi.

So as I was saying, the setting is nice, the tableware is so classic. Everything looks so classy liek you are in a fine dining restaurant. So where's the food?! O.o"

Really long time din't go for a Japanese Food already. After reading Myhorng's Tenji Japanese Buffet, really determine to go eat liao la~! Wazen! After my exam I will go! ^.^

The Morning Glories

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I love travelling around. Especially when it's somewhere near the greeneries. The freshness of the air, the cooling weather and the freedom to move around. It's so fun!

The flowers are also very beautiful! Let's enjoy some beauty that I had taken up during my journey in the south.

It was early in the morning, when the fog were just starting to settle. The morning dew decorates the flower shinningly~

My dad taught me that when taking flower photos, there should be three sticked together in the picture. This way it form the shape of a triangle. I don't really know what's the term called, but I guess it's one of a good photo composition. ^.^

Soft white in the middle of greens. This reminds me of a recent campaign held, "I'm a stand out in life!" campaign held by tiger and nuffnang. ^.^ Come to think of it, I'm actually quite stand out in life. Actually, standing outside of community I belong do. People always think that I'm weird, eccentric and not blending in. But in any circumstances, it doesn't matter as long as I'm aware who I am. ^.^ It's not like they hate me or what...

Zooming in on the flower. Everywhere was wet. It's not like those marshy kind of wet, but it just wet. Maybe because of the morning dew or probably it rained the previous night which I can't remember because I was sleeping like a log. :P

I like gazing flowers. I really enjoy strolling in a flower garden. I remember last time when my dad was taking wedding photos of his colleague in a flower garden right in front of the Malacca's palace in Bandar Hilir. I'm not sure weather it's still there or not, but the area had been sealed up and became a tourist attraction.

I wished the government make more such places. More gardens, more parks. So that people can relax and enjoy; living a healthier lifestyle. Well, I think I have said enough. Time to gaze more flowers. ^.^

After writing so much, I suddenly remembered that I've seen similar photos of flowers from Frankie's blog. Here's the link to there. Nope I did not copied his. He's in the far east Kuching while I'm still in the the southern part of peninsular Malaysia. And I definately din't know he took those picture. Probably mine were even taken earlier than his! :P

I'm not too sure what's this flower. I noticed it along the way to a recreasional park. It's very unique and only found along this place. It grows on a tree in bunches like bunches of Rambutans!

Yeap! We thought it was blooming season at that time. It's still early of the year and rambutans are blooming already?! What more it's yellow!

The trees were all filled up and we were suggesting, since it's nobody's tree, why don't we just stop and pluck some to fill our stomach! ^.^;;

Yeah, here's your yellow rambutan freshly served. You wan some more? It's sweet and juicy you know.

Here's some spider lily. Remember the spider i took in my back to nature adventure? Well, aparantly it had fed enough and wrap itself in a cocoon for a few months. Yes months.

After the few months of hibernation, when spring comes, it turn into a magnificent flower! Just like butterflies. Only that butterflies would suck the honey from flowers but this spider lilies provides juicy honey to feed to insects. It's give back to the communities. ^.^

Here's a bunch of spiders to end the post. More flowers to come if I land on a garden or so~ Maybe I should pay Penang Botanical Garden a visit. Yeah, I will PAY it when my finance is right. >.<" ...

More Coffee Please

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Once the sucess of Old Town Franchise, there were many high class coffee shops had popped out everywhere across the country. There's this Old Taste, Kluang Station, Uncle John and many more! Coffee had became a fad. It's a trend now and it's a lifestyle.

Was strolling around in a near empty Batu Pahat Mall. There wasn't much to offer. Seems like the economy is really bad in this area and there were many empty slots up for rent. We came to a cafe which the name was quite foreign to us.

The Dagan Rengit Coffee house. I'm not very sure weather the Dagan is the brand name and Rengit Coffee is the company name or vice versa. Never really asked in detail. The waiter who serves us also can't tell us much.

According to the waiter, it is an indonesian brand. The coffee beans are basically imported from Indonesia, brewed here and serves here. ^.^" The difference between the coffee there and the coffee there? Nobody can tells. I guess coffee just taste the same way like coffee always do! ^.^

We sat outside the interior part to watch the flowing traffic outsides. (Actually is because my cousin wanna smoke). Things were slow in BP. The day were cloudy. Nothing special in there.

It seems like the coffee house doesn't have much customer either. You can see all the tables and chairs neatly arranged, untouched. Come to think about it, the settings are actually not bad. Chairs are made from those rattans, coloured with dark brown green. The tables are also in dark green made of solid wood.

Serving time was okay. Not too fast nor slow either. Their packaging were similar to those Starbucks, Coffee Bean type kind of serving. All prepacked in a plastic cup nicely with a cap on.

The taste? White coffee taste lor! It's not black coffee so obviously it taste milky coffee. ^.^ I still prefer Nesspresso and Cappucino!

Back to Nature Adventure

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Sat, 30 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Running on more adventures... There weren't much things to do in town. Except for shopping malls, the rest of the place are either industrial areas or greeneries. So me and couz decided to run around and do some exploration.

Shot this scene when I noticed this pack of woods are so tall up and grow together. As they say, birds of a feather flock together, trees of the same species grow side by sides. ^.^"

We went to the town outskirt to explore and we came to a its recreasional area. Can't really remember its name. It's something like a Gunung something Recreasional Park. They have a water park right beneath the hill foot. But we aren't here for swimming we decided to pass it and walk up the hill.

Yes, jungle tracking. The area wasn't actually well maintain. But they sure have many facilities there.

There's this air walker equipment prepared by the local council for people to exercise. This scene reminds me of my couz naming himself Jonathan Skywalker after being inspired by the Star Wars Trilogy. ^.^ There's another photo which portray him working hard on the machine. But then I did not upload it coz it's kind of repetition. You know why he gotta work so hard? The reason is the thingy at his left hand. Click on the photo and look closer and you will understand why... ^.^

They have this hanging bridge connecting across the mountain. As you can see, all not well maintained with fungus and algae growing on. There's even doodads as well. What a great piece of artwork!

Yup. That's my couz. He's doing the monkey stunts again. I guess staying in the jungle really turn you back into nature isn't it?

The bridge is long connecting to the other side of the hill. Below there were only a small stream flowing by. It wasn't anything to shout about. The water wasn't really clean either. There were alot of rubbish thrown in and it's really sux!

Travelling further up, the water is much clearer but it's still small. This picture that you see is only 3 feet wide! You can see they actually connected a black PVC water pipe up. I didn't travel up further since it was so tiring and the weather had began to turn hot. I wonder if the stream is man made, and the stream water is actually the water connected from the pipe! ^.^"

When you saw this picture, what would you have thought? That I'm standing on the edge of a dangerous cliff, doing some photography stunt, risking my life to take a smooth picture of a big waterfall for you guys to see? And probably win some National Geography Photo awards and join the professional photographer guilds? Nah! Dream on~ :P This is actually a macro shot! The so called waterfall was actually as big as your hand. And I'm really clinging on to a branch not to get my precious baby LX3 wet!

On our way back, saw this spider hanging on to some leaves. It suddenly strikes me that Robin had some fetish on doing such posts! Maybe I should take some and consult the master... ^.^ Show me the way master...

The Perfect Score

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:23:00 +0000

Holy Crap! Just because one single mistake, there's no more perfect score.. >.<"

After watching this video I think I should shave myself too~! Why? Because lately it's so hot around here. >.<" I tend to sweat like pig. And we have to wear a tie during working hours, it makes me so uncomfortable. >.<" I just wished that we can just wear a normal T-shirt will do. ^.^ Ties are just ain't suitable for Malaysian weather... >.<"

Fiery Shana

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

It's been a while since I last post an Otaku stuff. ^.^ Actually, I'm kind of broke and there weren't anything released that I want recently. Adding the fact that I'm either busy working or studying for my upcoming ACCA exam, time is so limited!

Nevertheless, no matter how busy I am, I still will spend my time with my love ones... My Figmas! :P Here's a review on my Shana.

It came in at the same time with Tohsaka Rin. There weren't much accessories packed inside so the box was kind of small.

Here's the back view of the box. I got this after getting inspired when I got Fate. Yes it's because of the sword. Currently there were only sword wielder in my collection. Fate-chan would be so lonely with nobody to play sword fighting with her. ^.^"

Shana's pack came with a katana, a face change and a melon pan. ^.^ Melon pan is her favourite bread. I'm not very sure were they sold in Malaysia, but it's very popular in Japan. Do pin point where I can get if you saw one.

Yosh! Take a portrait shot! Say melon cheese! ^.^

This sword is long! Over her head by how many times! I think this is more like a muramasa rather than a katana.

The sculpture had actually released two version of this figma. One which is this 1 with a red hair. Another is with black hair and different facial expression. The black hair one is selling at 20% ~ 30% more expensive this red hair and it's limited edition.

Yosh! Another shot here wielding the katana. Since I ain't willing to spend the money and the different isn't much, althought the black hair 1 seems cooler. I opt for the red one to save some money for my next purchase. ^.^

Sword wielding girls are quite popular among the Otaku circles. The animes that have swords wielding girls that I can remember are Shakugan no Shana, Sakura Wars, and Ga Rei Zero to name a few that I'm familiar with.

Shana-chan had actually followed me out a few times. I've taken pictures of her with food, playing and much more! I would say this is the easier figma to bring out then the others because of its shorter skirt which would make kneeling down much easier compare to balancing the figmas in standing position. Pictures would be upload later so stay tune. ^.^

"Yoroshiku-neh!" ^.^

Have you been to Kluang Rail Coffee?

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Everytime I passed by Tesco Melaka, I'll always see numberous people sitting in the Kluang Station Coffee drinking coffee and eating laksa. Then I would wonder, coffee and laksa are just so common in Malaysia. Why are people paying such a premium price for such a simple food in Malaysia?!

Travelling down south, I sure have to passby this place. If not I couldn't say I've been to Kluang! Yes! It's the Kluang Rail Coffee! The one that you and I saw it in Tesco Melaka? That's a copy cat shop. The original Kluang Coffee comes from here!

The place is simply simple! With two shop lots located just in the railway station of Kluang. That's why it's called Kluang Rail(way) Coffee. Above is the kitchen where they make your coffee, tea, milo or whatsoever drinks that you ordered.

Here's the counter and food storage. They prepare your bread and mee siam or nasi lemak here. Simple isn't it? But look closely! They are using an LCD cashing machine to keep track of collections! High tech right in such a lowly shop. ^.^;;

The menu are pretty simple too! They offer all the usual coffee shop drinks: coffee, coffee-O, Tea, Teah-O, Milo, Milo-O.... The foods are basically, white toast bread with kaya and margarine, white toast bread with kaya and butter, brown toast bread with kaya and margarine, brown toast bread with kaya and butter. Period. That's all.

This is your teh-sii(milk tea with alot of milk) and this is your white coffee. Nothing grand and it cost you RM1.50. Cheap right? Compare to the one you drink in Tesco Melaka, definately!

And this is the settings. Nothing grand either. The place are tightly squeezed. Everybody have to be tolerance, give and take.

The other side. Tables are limited but plastic chairs are abundance. The main customers there are mostly Malays. Civil servants especially who stop by for a drink at around 3 something before going back to work.

Here's the brown bread with kaya and margarine. Two slices of brown bread cut into havles before served. The taste? Not bad actually! It's quite crispy and the kaya made it sweet~

And here's the white bread. Yeah, it doesn't seems white right? Well it's more like a bun bread actually. Inside is white that is. ^.^ Toasted crunchy before being swiped with juicy sweet kaya and tender-oily margarine. Yum yum~

Alright, I know some will say, "Wah! This will make me fat man! It's gonna add more colesterol to your blood vein!" >.<" Geez! Who cares, it's good food righ?! ^.^ Yummy! Itadakimasu! :P

Kopi-O Adventure

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:05:00 +0000

Previously I blogged about my visit to my cousin's place. Continuing on the journey...It was too boring staying in the palm oil estate. So we decided to tunnel out and find for what the local is famous for.

First up was this coffee house. Our eldest uncle had called up my cousin a few time to order some coffee power! So we end up in this coffee factory which was regard as SUPERBLY GOOD by my uncle.

Kluang Kopi-O Cap TV! Yeah who would ever thought of a TV brand right? ^.^" Nevertheless, it's actually quite popular not only within the locals, but we also saw Singaporeans and Taiwanese dropped by to buy!

When we went in to the shop, the manager there mistaken us as some reporters because I brought my LX3 inside. They gave us a CD inside with all the photos and history and some promotional materials for write up. I think they had pre-arrangement with some magazine or newspaper for a write up. We returned them after clarify that we are just their customers. ^.^ Hey couz! We should go into the factory and take a tour right? It would be cool to do so! Kekeke...

They prepared their coffee mostly in instant packaging. I guess people now is either too lazy to make their own drink or have less time for it. But I would say, you can only differentiate its quality and taste if only they do it for you isn't it? ;)

Still, if you prefer the traditional way of brewing your own coffee. You can opt for the coffee power! ^.^ Noticed that all its packaging written Kopi-O? Yup. They are famous for its coffee without milk or creamer. Otherwise it wouldn't taste like its famous Kopi-O isn't it? ^.^

I noticed that alot of small towns in the southern region are famous for their coffee powder. People would purposely travel/ordered their coffee from these township. But you don't usually hear or order such brands of coffee in big cities. I think city guys prefer Starbucks, Coffee Beans, Arabian Coffee (McD), etcs which are so westernized and expensive! ^.^

Yeap! That's the big logo sign there! TV Brand. I guess the founder likes to watch television or he got inspired when he noticed people who watch TVs at that time likes to drink coffee or who drinks coffee likes to watch TV. Have you seen any coffee brand that's LCD or PC? ^.^"

P/S: Dear colleagues. I've placed 1 bag of kopi-o in the cabinet intended to share with you guys. Please don't be shy to take it if you want to try. No harm changing taste from the usual nescafe? ^.^

Multiply your Money Video

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

This is one video really farnie! It's actually an advertisement for a finance company. I wonder if we really can multiply our money doing this. ^.^ Enjoy~!

Palm Oil Estate Adventure

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

During one of the weekends in a not so distant time ago, I was on my way driving south to visit my cousin, Jonathan. He's working there in an palm estate following his father's footstep. Being a caring cousin, I happend to get some time off to visit him.

On the north-south highway driving south. There weren't many traffic on the way downwards to Singapore. Mostly are express buses driving at 130kph shooting to the southern tip. Really Bo Kia Si!

The skies is clear... so is the road. Yeah. I'm doing one of the stunt again: driving and snapping photos at the same time. Along the way there were mostly rubber estates and palm oil estate. Nothing much to see.

However the sky is filled with white clouds. There were bunny cloud, mickey mouse cloud, donald duck cloud, Woody Woodpecker cloud.. Ops wait! I'm in cloud 9! Better come back to reality... ^.^''

When I finally reached the estate after 3 hours of driving, the sky had turned sour. Although the rain wasn't heavy, it had made quite a mess in the estate road. Lucky the estate was in high ground and it doesn't soak up the place into a marshland. But netherless, the road was orange muddy.

After leaving my bags at his house, me and my cousin went patrolling the area. Everywhere were green. Dark green, light green, yellow green and red green. Do you actually have a red green? ^.^"

While this is not my first time going into a palm oil estate, it certainly refreshing since it's been long since the last time I step into one. Stepping into an estate makes you feel like you're going into a jungle. You can see spiders webbed around everywhere, squirrels doing their acrobatic stunts among the trees. And if you're lucky, you can see snakes sunbathing across the road or herd of monkeys sitting along the road watching you!

I'm a pure Malaccan Boy. Dad's from northern part of Melaka and mum's from the southern part. Both worked in the central town of Melaka and I was born. Whenever I go back my mum's or dad's hometown, they people there would call us City Boys. But whenever I go to KL, people there called us Kampung Boys. So I really wonder how do we actually wanna categorize ourselves as... Halflings? Lolx..

But it really doesn't matter since our lives are much better than kuli above. Look at these estate workers. Poor them, they can only use newspaper to shade them from the rain. Comparing their life with mine, most people would say I'm lucky. But! But then again, if I'm comparing my life with those who are driving Ferraris, I would say the table had turned against me.

But it doesn't really matters if you're sitting a bullock cart to work, or driving a Myvi, or riding on a F1 Red Horse. What really matters is being happy on what you're placing your butt on. Some people don't mind placing their arse on poo because they feel warm. As for me, I am happy sitting on a cushion. No doubt, if I have some leather seat on top gears, that would be even much euphoric!!! ^.^

Barren area. Palm oil generally have a live span of 25 years and above. But according to my cousin, they would usually replant the tree after 25 years because it won't be that productive anymore.

So if you have a land and planned to plant palm oil, basically you would only need to plant them twice. The first time is when you're 25 years old after school graduate. And when you're 50 years old to replant them again. When you're 75 years old, you won't want to replant them again because you have already retired! A job that you only need to work TWICE a life time! I think I interpret this correctly right? :P

The rain wasn't going to stop any sooner, so most of my journey are in the car looking out the window. The estate consist of the plantation area as well as the mill factory. Basically they were around 100 people living in the community.

Yup! I was in IOI Pamol Mill Camp. The place is actually self contained with their own auxiliary police, church, mosque, temples (both indian and chinese), community hall, etcs. It's just like a mini city in here without any shopping malls but palm oils!

Life is kind of "easy" here. You work, play, eat, shit and live at the same place. This is where you call your Life! Not home mind you.

The company provide lodging for you. Your mum stays with you, your dad stays with you, your granny stays with you, your kids stays with you. Everybody is living under the 10 x 15 roof. Electricity and water is provided for you free. If you want to online or a telephone line, you will need to call the TM Nuts (Net) or Maxis. If you think this is too bored for you, you can subscribe to Astro!

However, having working here for long and working your way up from general worker to certified techinician (or equivalent). The company would provide you a much bigger house with compound. Then you could have your lovely garden, plant your favourite flowers or build your special tree house.

As you work harder, and get promoted higher, so does your house get bigger. Am I right couz? If you're reading this. ^.^ Having a land here is so nice! You don't have to own it, but you can do BBQ here every night. If you feeling lucky, you might wanna sleep under the stars (and feed the mosquitoes)!

I got up the next day to snap some morning photos! It was 7.30am at that time. I don't feel like wonder out far into the "woods" so I decided to just shoot around the compound. The air was refreshing! The morning glory just started to peek in between the trees.

This is the bangalow that was provided for my cousin. Yes, It is a BUNGALOW. I spelt right. How many jobs would provide you such a big bangalow with such a big compound? Definately not Audit! ^.^"

But considering the fact that you're staying out of town, away in the middle of "jungle", ALONE. I think I would pass the idea.

This is the light that wakes the whole world up! This view gives you the feeling of living in an enchanted wood. Did you spot any elves around here? ^.^"

On way back. Take a few more picture of the scenery. The skies are bright again. This is the place where old trees are being cutoff and make way for the young ones.

While this adventure doesn't seems like any of your adventure in all those luxury trip like going to Cameron Highland or Genting. But it does feel like one since you're owning the place "all by yourself". ^.^

When I saw this stop sign. I just couldn't resist to take it. It gives you the feel when you're in somewhere barren and there weren't any transportation passing by. Then you're just standing on the road side. Thumbs up! Hitch hike!

So do you have any experience staying in a jungle or anywhere near that?

Random Garden Shots

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:00:00 +0000

Snapped these photos during my modeling session with Wish. If you wanna see my portrait photos you can go over to her blog for more.

I've actually been here trice for photography session. Everytime with different models. And I still like this setting. My model would sit here and I will be taking from different angle. I've actually got praised for "making her legs long" in one of my session. ^.^;;

It was a sunny day. The weather was very hot. Too bad the trees were shady enough and we always had to run here and there for cover.

Though, looking up the tree you can't see the bright sun. But the sky is all white. This kind of tree don't give much shade do they?

One of my best photo. Glowing white.... name that flower. ^.^;;

Do you think this is a ditch or a small river? Nice clear reflection don't they...?

Trees along the walking pavement beside the lake. As you can see the area was cleanly swept. Kudos for those who maintain this area.

This scene gives you a reminiscence of your childhood time... Ah! I feel like wanna go play!

Noisy and Furious Cars

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The Fast & Furious were shown in the cinemas weeks ago. Lucky I get to catch up before the movie being taken down. And this was the photo I snapped when I was inside the movie...

Ops! Not this one... ^.^;; It's this one...

Kitty Cat in the pink car...

It's interesting when you see people spends so much money on their car. Decorating them in all sorts of way.

The only thing that you see people doing things without considering their money, it's their passion.

Passion gives life a meaning.

Passion motivates one to push further, to go the extra miles.

Passion DRIVES people to the extreme.

That's why they said, a man of passion is a crazy man...

Friends can't imagine that I spend so much on my figmas. They don't understand why a big boy like me still play toys. Why do I still watch cartoons..?

But they can accept people spending millions on their photography equipments.

They can accept people spending so much on their clothes.

They can accept people spending so much on FOOD!

They can accept people who spend lots and lots of money on their facial products.

But can't accept me being an Otaku. ^.^;;

They think that they me am immature, at this age still playing toys and watching animes.

But in actual fact, it is them who are immature. They can't accept other people's thought other then their own thinking.

As long as you're not hurting anyone, as long as you're not hurting yourself.

Just live the life you want. Live the passion...

So what's your passion?

Living a life without passion is just like living a life without an aim.

While many thought that their aim in their life is family, do they actually understand this statement...?

Enough crapping. Time to drive.

Snapped these photos in a recent autoshow in my town. These machine are powerful! They can lights up the streets, open a concert and even attracts the CHICKs with their Hello Kitties~!

So you got something to drive? ^.^

When you meet angry Rin

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

It's been awhile since I update my blog. In fact it's two weeks. Times flies really fast. Been around and busy around. Though I took quite a number of photos. My weekends just couldn't stop there. There's so much going on. Anyway, as an Otaku, surely I have to post up some of my figma collections. ^.^

My figmas are really angry with me now. Look at Rin.

She's looks like going to kill me if I don't post this up. ^.^;;

Well, actually I got her a few weeks ago. Just that I've been busy around helping out others and doing some outdoor model shootings. Here and here. Well it was a fun experience. ^.^ Will post up some edited photos later on.

Back to Rin, she's from the popular game/anime Fate Stay Night. I din't actually knew about this story. If I'm not mistaken there were no mangga on this story. The characters and stories are derived from its game. It seems like there were alot of different ending for the storyline with each character end up being the last person standing in their fight. But the story revolves by the same six characters or so...

Rin getting laid. I never played the game before so I couldn't elaborate much of it. But I have a friend who's a real fan of it. He had actually done a research and can write a book on it. While the better well know character is Saber, the kings of all kings (according to the storyline).

In the anime, Saber was the leading main character. A reborned King Arthur with a cool Excalibur. Maybe I should get her figma? ^.^ Hope this month's budget allows.

Okay back to Rin. Her guardian was a sword smith according to the anime storyline that I watched. These are her two different swords which was made by him. But I don't understand why is he called Archer when he use knife... >.<" Shouldn't he be using bow instead?
The classical setup where a figma is boxed with. 8 sets of different hands, a person and the figma stand. The special items that come with it is the two swords.

I usually see that people usually kneel their figmas if they don't want to use the figma stand to support. But then again, I think that's the nature of Japanese culture. They usually bow or kneel down indoors. :)

But if your figma is not so complicated. You can make it stand too. You just need to be patient to stand them. Sometimes try to set the head directions. Other time you can set the hands and feet to the right position.

I did mentioned she's angry at me right? Look she's pointing her knife at me now. >.<" *scare*
"You better not mess with me or I will slice you like a cake. You know the sharpness of this knife don't you... " *gulp* -.-"

"Alright. Back to your blog! Don't slack this time. Or I will just skin you alive!"

This is Rin Tosaka. The great magician.

A Talk Back in Times

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:57:00 +0000

Wanna share some random photos taken not long after I got my LX3.

Pictures taken in a rubber estate during my time at my auntie's house somewhere northern part of Melaka. My grandfather came from that part. He was a poor guy. Our family was big. In order to feed so many mouth, my uncles and aunties have to neglect their studies for work.

But that was the time when rubber tapping still can feed the whole family. My aunties would usually woke up early in the morning to cook and work in the rubber estates. My uncles on the other hand, would cycle to them bringing them freshly prepared hot food by my 3rd aunty who cared for the family. Yup. My grandmother wasn't there already at that time. My grandfather have to feed the whole family single handedly.

But well, not exactly single handedly. He still has his brothers and cousins. Relationship were very close between the families. And everybody stays together at that time. Now, all the family had separated and live with their own family and some even have their own grandson and grand daughter.

Nevertheless, we still keep in touch. We still visit each others during those festival and celebration period. We still often have our reunion dinner.

So what do you think about the photos?

Spring Figure - Yotsuba

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

It's Spring now! It's time to for Hanami! Time to sit by a river, gazing at the skies, mesmerizing at the flowers, drinking. But in Malaysia, there's nothing more but the usual dry and humid season.

However, we know that this kind of season is good for... insect-napping!

And here we go for bugs catching!

Yotsuba arrived around March. Right about the time for catching bugs, go fishing and picnic. Maybe go for easter egg hunting too! ^.^

It's actually quite an old figma. Released by Revoltech. The joints are actually different from thos released by Max Fatories. But nevertheless, it's a cool figma.

Everytime I watch her, it's always feel like sunny day. Whenever I see her face, all my dark clouds all gone. ^.^

It came with 4 different faces, a bag, a hat, a smaller sling bag, and a few pairs of hands. Though you can't change her clothes. ^.^;;

In order to attach the bags on her shoulder, first I would have to detach the lower part of the body to make it shorter. Otherwise, the bag's handle couldn't cross over the body.

The figma stands that come with it is also kind of different from the usuals. It does not use plug in hole to hold the figma. Instead, you just put it on rest reclining to the small stand.

Yotsuba! Let's go camping! Yeah!

To change the face, first have to take down the hair part. Then you pull out the face and substitute with the other one. Quite similar to my other usual figmas. Just that, her face are much bigger~ and flatter.

Yosh~! Hat? Checked. Bag? Checked. Ice Cream? Checked. Okay ikemashou! Yo!

Yotsuba is a much simple figma. But it reflects our daily simple lifes. ^.^ We half cities boys don't usually get to enjoy village lifestyles. And we certainly don't usually get to play catch the criket or swim by the river. Most of the cities kids lifestyle now are computer games or game console.

Alright time to say bye bye Yotsuba. Let's go for vacation. ^.^

Below Video Clips from Clannad After Story whereby Ushio asked Tomoya to go for a trip. ^.^

Orange Day Video

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

You only know Valentine's Day but you seldom heard of White Day. Then you sure won't know what's an orange day. ^.^

I did cover previously about those few celebrations. About girls giving chocolates during Valentines. Guys returned the favour during White Days. And then today, on the 14th of April, both guys and girls confirm their love by exchanging oranges or orange-coloured gifts. Another reason to spend more moneys! If not... watch the video! *grin*

Happy Orange Days.

The Trishawman

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:08:00 +0000

Many had came to Melaka before. Many had not too! Melaka which had co-obtained World Heritage Status with Penang in the not-so-long-ago had been flooded by tourists from all over the world. So do you know what's famous in Melaka? Today I'm gonna introduce you to one of our local "delicacies".

I still remember the last time I ride a trishaw was when I was very small that time. I rode with my mum to get over a few blocks and it just cost us like 30sens? But now, to sit on it, you would need to fork out RM5 per seat! No thanks to the commercialized tourist industry. But we also must forgive them right, because they also need to feed a family.

Here's this guy is trying to go further. He's going to ride his Beca to connect both the Unesco-acknowledged historical cities to raise money for charity purposes. The trip will take him about 3 hours making a number of pitstops on the way. This is a historical event as this is the fastest land journey ever planned. A car would usually take about 8 hours to reach Penang from Melaka, a train would also only able to complete such journey 2 hours earlier. However, Frankie is going to complete it less than a quarter of the time! The secret?

He's using this big Thrisaw!!!

Disclaimer:
This post is meant for humour. However the actual event is going to be held on the 6th of June. Do support the event for charity purpose and visit http://www.thetrishawman.com/ for more info. ^.^

I'm being atttacked by an Tripod Alien

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:31:00 +0000

One fine day while I was busy blogging with my laptop and watching anime, suddenly a mail just drop by our house. It came in rectangular white box that looks like this.

I was curious so I picked it up. It was quite light. I turn it around trying to figure out what could it be. But there's no indication what the content would be. It does looks like a tube containing antrax. Or a small nuke. But I definately don't have the tools or machine to check for bioharzard materials.

Figuring that I don't have much enemy who would hate me till they would care to send such lethal stuffs (or the ability to obtain such materials), I decided to brave myself and open it up. Inside contains a thin black bag with a strap. I can felt inside they are some something metalic. But it's light.

I open up the bag and took out something like this. It looks like a miniature Hubo Telescope landed on earth, prepacked and mailed to my house. I was wondering why on earth somebody send me a satellite when even we don't watch astro had been cut off. Is this the new gadget that connect to the internet with high bandwidth? I ponder...

Suddenly, the thing started to move. I jumped up and stand straight right in front of me. It looks like it had three feet and a head. The legs opened up in three ways and the thing stand still. It seems like it's receiving some signals out from the room, from my house, out of nowhere. At this time I was already worried. What is happening. Did somebody made a robot and send it to assassinate me?

While I was thinking, the thing started to move again. This time the leg grew taller. It became 2 section. It seems like thinner legs had grown out from the initial ones.

It continue to grow some more from 2 section became 3 sections. The legs getting thinner and thineer.

Finally it grew this tall. As tall as the level of my chest. It then stopped. There were some beeping sounds caming from it. But nothing happend for awhile.

After the beeping sound end, it grew again. This time it's not the leg but the head part. It seems like this thingy got a long neck! It seems like it sensor had detected that its current size is still shorter than me and grew its neck to compensate iit. It tried to reach above my head but at last it can only strech up to my shoulder level.

I was standing there grinning. Thinking that "so you can grow that fast. But no matter how you still can't grow taller than me". Then all of a sudden, the head started to squek. And there's a rattling sound follow. Bullets was flying everywhere the next minute. I quickly take cover.

When I jump to the side, the head also followed. It's actually aiming at me. I ran up and down evading the bullets. It was stunning that I could do all the summer sault just like Jackie Chan jumping here and there. For a few times the bullets nearly grazed me but I was lucky.

Finally, I end up on top of that thing. The thing couldn't turn its head up on me and it seems like it had finished its ammos. I thought I was finally save and relieved.

But instead, the thing threw a part of its head off. It landed on the floor. On closer look, there seems to be a screw key turning. I only there are only a few things in this world that have this screw key. One, you can find this in your normal daily alarm clock where you have to tighten the spring in order for it to function. Two, it's a time bomb!

Oh my god! I'm sure this is definately not an alarm clock. So it must be a time bomb. When I over turn it, the screw is unwinding and there's little time left. My room's gonna blow up! What should I do? Suddenly, Bugs Bunny came to my mind. I remember watching the looney toons cartoon whereby Bugs will always throw back the bomb that he was thrown at.

And so I did. I tell the thing. "Eat Sheet, You Bouzou!" Stucking the time bomb right back at it.

The thing squeek and the continue to buzz. There was air bubble coming out from its fuel tank.

And finally, the whole thing go bust! Kaboom! And I thought, this is finally over. Yeah finally defeated some crazy thing that invaded my house.

How did I know, suddenly something black popped out from it. It was a miniature tripod! This time it walks! And it was squeking and walking towards me like and octopus who was fished out of sea running to attack its captor.

"You got Owned! Arghhhh!!!!!"

Bump! Ouch! What hit my head? >.<" As I opened my eyes... It was...

The Last Musketeer - Hayate

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:00:00 +0000

The day had finally arrived. After months of patients; after months of hardship. Finally, the last musketeer step into my doorsteps. She's smart. She's pretty. She's kind and powerful. She's non other then Hayate!

She arrived together with Feito the other day. Since I missed the previous figure release which cost RM386, roughly the price of my head and I've already got Nanoha-chan, I decided I must get this. If not, I won't have a complete set. Besides, Hayate is my favourite of the three, so it is damn right to get it, no? ^.^

The set comes with a cross wand, a pair of wings, 2 books whereby one open and another close, Hayate's hat, a fierce face, a hair set and a set of hands. Not really much compare to Fate's but I prefer it since, you don't have to carry so many things around.

Hayate is an ancient magic user. Unlike Fate who's more toward offensive and Nanoha who's an all rounder, Hayate is a spellcaster. She owns a book that can replicate all the best magic in the world, aka the Book of Darkness. But its actual name is Reinforce Zwei! A cute little blue faery who's also as powerful as Hayate herself. ^.^

According to the story, Hayate actually has a few guardian with her. And each guardian has their own specialty, Signum who's the master of knighthood, Vita the hot-blooded Viking, Shamal the kind priestess and Zafira the loyal blood critter. If you look at it, it's actually a complete team with both offense and defense as well as support.

Yes I know I watch too much animes and getting childisher everytime. So I will not write a review about the Nanoha Trilogy here. Instead, I would just take more photoshots and let you get impressed with my new camera? ^.^

While playing with her, I noticed that the hand doesn't really hold the book properly as illustrated in the box. They did not make any hand grip or something that fit the hand nicely with the book. Instead the book is just balance on an open arm. So what I did was, I change the hand to a curving one and use the closed book. As you can see in the photo, I try to use the arm to clinche the book uner her armpit. ^.^;; Lucky she don't sweat.

Another reason I liked about Hayate is her vabriante uniform. As you can see, the uniform is in the combination colour of dark blue (my favourite colour) and white (also my 2nd favourite colour) with golden yellow outlines (my third favourite colour) giving a striking look. She even wore a cute fluffy hat. I don't really take note of her wings though. But since it comes with it, I just put on it to make it grander. ^.^

And here you go, the three infamous musketeers. ^.^ From left, Nanoha, Hayate and Fate. I don't actually can considered that I've collected all, since there are more characters yet to be out in the market. Rather, I would say that I've actually collected the three SSS class mages. ^.^ Unfortunately it doesn't work like Dragonball whereby upon complete of collections, I can summon a dragon who will grant me a wish. In this case, even all three of them are mages, they couldn't grant me any wish!! >.<"
Eh chotto~! Since when did Kyuoka came out?! She's not in the team is she?! >.<"

Dynasty Bread & Snack

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Recently friend had been keep on asking me out for a drink at night. We've been trying quite a number of coffee house around town. Might be sharing some experience dining in of and on. As of now, I'm just going to talk about some snacks I had in during my "Talk Kok" session in Dynasty.

Since that time I just had my dinner not long but my mouth is still itchy and scratching won't works, I decided to ordered a margarine toast bread worth RM0.50. The margarine was rich enough and the bread was soft. Did I say soft?! I thought I ordered a toasted bread? Yeah, the bread wasn't toasted enough.

In no time, I finished it. After some chat, my mouth felt itchy again, so I ordered another toast bread. This time, I specifically ordered it to be toasted more. What i expect it was it would be alittle bit brown in the bottom part. Instead....

...it turned out to be the same. =.=" I remember last time when I was in my uncle's place where they use the old school method, toast the bread with charcoal to golden brown. Then after that swipe with a layer of kaya and sugared margarine. I really love them at that time.

But this time, I'm eating my bread with assorted egg. Assorted not as in chicken egg + duck egg + ostrich egg. But, assorted as in there's ham, hotdog, onions and garlic inside. Everything was put into the egg, beaten and fried on a hot plate. It tasted good!

My friend ordered a plate of western food. It came with 2 slice of orange, mayonased salad, some frieds and its main course, grilled chicken? The plate was litter ally too big which makes the food so unsorted/undecorated.

But according to my friend, it's good. The price came up not too expensive too.

I ordered a Cold Lychee White Fungus for desert. The pot/mug/container came on top of a plate filled with ice. It seems that they put the pot on the glass plate first before filling it up with water. After that they let it freeze. When customer like me ordered, they would then only take it out, pour in the fruits drink and serves.

I don't actually like to drink or eat this way because when you top up your plates to eat, they say that you're topping up your debts. And it seems like I've been in debts way long.... But since this kind of serving is quite different from your normal food, I guess I will just let it go and just enjoy the dessert.

Inside, there's too many white fungus. They were generous in that but stingy in their lychee. I only got 2. I finish the fungus and the water first before I took the lychees. It was cooling though, and it's not that sweet.

While eating and chatting, I also took out my LX3 to shoot of course. Was playing with the aperture priority mode again. Since it was at night and the lightings weren't bright enough. Decided to "buka lubang besar besar" to shoot~ *grin*

The panda is cute! Half submerged in the ice. Will he turn from a panda bear become a pollar bear? ^.^" I wonder where did the owner got this kind of pot. In fact, most of the dining plates that they serve are very unique and looks very authentic.

After taking the food and shooting, I only realized that I had not taken any picture of the interior. But at that time, we were about to leave. Maybe will come over and take again some other time. Overall the food's good and the price is reasonable.

Fated Fate's Faith

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:01:00 +0000

This is the story of Fate. A girl who was fated to be born a clone. Without anybody's care, without anybody bother. She was destined to follow her ordered, and serve her master. But she held her faith strong and with some of her loving friends she finally overcome her fate. Now, she's ....

Fate! Fate Tesstarossa Harlown

Have been waiting her for a very long long time. You can read from the part where I got Nanoha-chan. And yes I get from the same supplier, FigureMall. No thanks to LikeV84 for charging so high. ^.^ *grin*

Immediatelym unbox it and laid down all the kits and accessories. It came with 2 Bardiche, one in scythe form and another in Zanbato. The rest are the hands and stand.

Fate ready up. In full blue uniform. Cool eh~! In the anime, Nanoha StrikerS she was a police in the magic world. So her blue uniform is actually her working gears. Since she's more of an agi-type figher, she doesn't has those flurry ribbons on her unlike Nanoha. Her cloak or also known as her barrier jacket, is her only armour.

Standing up figma isn't easy. You have to correctly position the hands and the legs. I took me 15 minutes just to set it up without using her stand. I tweak her hair and hands as well as lining up her legs. The hair are mostly stiff so I can't actually change much except for its position so that the exact weight fall at the right point to balance up the axis.

Fate, gear up! The barrier jacket that comes with it does not weigh down either. It's horizontal when you fixed on it giving you the effect that Fate is always flying, or the wind blowing.

Fate with Zanbato. Swords looks cool on girls. Wonder if there's any figma girl with a katana. So far I only have this figma with a swords. I'm not into Saber which is overpopular. But probably I will get Tohsaka Rin or Shanan. Or maybe I should just get both?! ^.^ Boy am I greedy. Have to earn those. Ain't easy.

Fate with 2 Bardiche. Though actually in the anime she usually use her scythe form, the Zanbato looks better on her. But, I still prefer her sonic form which it wasn't included in this package. >.<" I wish that they had came out with it. Check out her latest release here. It really cost a limb to own one. But when you look at her sexy pose... *drools* You will just get poisoned. >.<"

The sword is heavy, so she had to carry on her shoulder. This is the yakuza style. You got problem? Don't worry, Fate will help you. Just give me all your monies... ^.^ *grin*

Taking off the backdrops, a closeup shot make Fate so rich in colour~! Yes I think you saw something familiar in the backdrop. Will disclose it later.

Anoother close up view of Fate. This time the other direction. Everytime I see this picture, I just feel so satisfied. Lucky I got my new camera. ^.^ The colour is so rich. I really should take more of it. Maybe with different pose.

I wonder if they are making any figma accessories out there. Since there have been more and more figmas coming out. I think they should start supplying more accessories like swords, katana, guns or any other props for figmas. ^.^ So that players like me won't be limited in their choice. I've also seen alot of Figma Theaters going around in the Otakus blogsphere. I'm sure extra accessories would do them better. ^.^

Last picture, a sneak peak at another character which I got together with Fate. Wil be reviewing it later though. Figures are getting more and more expensive. I've dropped the idea of getting figures because it would take me longer to save up for it. Instead, Figmas are now my new playtoys. Still, they aren't cheap. With the Japanese Yen getting stronger against the Dollar and Riggit Malaysia, I have to start eating grass to get these anytime soon. >.<"...

Who's Birthday is Today?

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:06:00 +0000

1st of April. 1 baby that's born on this date was called "Watanuki" 四月一日. He was born not normal. He was born because someone had distort the time flow in the past. He is a replica of that someone, but not a clone of his. He share the same birthday. And his birthday was 1st of April.

Just finished reading Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles by CLAMP to the latest comic. The story is really too exciting! I really hope that they can finish making the anime. The last 2 season and an 3 episode OVA had just only reach 60% of its original story.

No mood to play April Fool Prank today. Busy with work. >.<" Watch the video for entertainment.

An Introduction of my LX3.

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:00:00 +0000

So I've bought my LX3 and I'm back in action here. I think with some time, I would be able to post up a month's post. ^.^;; Hopefully~

Everything is in the box.

Out open, there's the body, the charger, the wires, the USB connectors, the battery, some manuals and 2 CDs.. Of which, I've actually really used them all. Especially the manuals, I don't read them. :P

It's interesting that they provide 2 wires but 1 charger only. One is 3 head pin; another is 2. I used the 3 headed one because it's more convenient and safer since it has a fuse. But you don't have to worry about overcharging the battery. The charger will automatically off when the battery is full. I tried to overcharge it for 8 hours on my first use. But it seems it automatically off after 2 hours of fully charge. I was told that rechargeable batteries for gadgets need to be overcharge on its first use. I guess they don't do that anymore... ^.^;;

And finally, here's my baby. LX3. Pretty cool huh? :P I find that the LX3 looks much cooler then its sister D-Lux 4. My personal opinion lar. Because LX 3 has a hand grip there and it's rugged black. Whereas, for D-Lux 4, it's all flat. This reminds me of Lisa's post. One for AirAsia's aeroplane to land, and another is the iceberg that sunk Titanic. Hahaha. You get the idea. ^.^

Camera with o'l goodies. Got the camera bag for free and some batteries. Din't care much about the batteries though. As for the bag, it's kind of tight when you slot the camera in. I got an extra battery too. When I tried to put in the small pocket in front, it looks so bulky and I nearly can't clip on the bag. But you know what? The camera cost freaking RM200+!!! -.-".. Better guai guai use...

Wasn't free until one week later when I get to actually play with it. Fit it onto my dad's old tripod. It's rusty, but it still do the job. Imagine you are carrying your old school antena around searching for the proper direction for your TV's reception. Ah yes! That's what I did.

The reason I bought this camera is because of Manual Function. And yes I gotta show here that I tune in to manual mode to take photos. Push the power button right to "on", wait for the camera to load, turn the "Mode Knob" to M which litterally means Manual.

The manual functions can work with auto focus, auto focus macro or manual. In here I push down the button to MF which litterally means Manual Focus. Yes, am I explaining to a camera noob? No, I'm sharing my experience who have never used a manual function before. With technologies today, if you aren't a camera enthusiast, you bother it. If you are, you won't bother neither because you will be using a DSLR! Unlike half-breed like me... ^.^;;

Here, I set up my camera, preparing to shoot a birthday card. There are important element during a photoshoot out especially if you're using a manual. The aperture, the shutter speed and the contrast?? (Hope you can notice the 3 symbol below the LCD screen) Okay, I know I'm misleading and many of you pros are beggining to lose confidence in me here. I'm a total noob here. But personally, the reason I get this camera is also because I wanna play with this 3 main elements: Aperture, Shutterspeed and Focus. Playing with higher Aperture allows me to take higher contrast pictures since more lights flow into the sensor. Faster shutterspeed on the other hand allows me to capture moving objects sharper, no more those ghost image! And lastly, manual focus allows me to control my focus area and make bokeh effects.

Here in the screen, I'm demonstrating the manual focus functions. By turning the mini knob on the right (look at my right thumb), I selected the cursor under MF and push up or down to get my right focus.

But usually, the focus area will be in the center. In order to shift this focus area, I push once onto the knob, and a small inset screen will come out with arrows pointing at 4 different directions. Then by I can control the focus area to the side of the screen wherever I want. Pushing the knob again I can control the focus level again. The inset picture would show up the zoomed effect of my focus area. If it shows up a sharp image, it means I've reached the best focal point. If not, at that dept, it would show a bokeh effect. It also means, my image are off focus.

Next, like any other camera in the market, I can control the zoom level. However, as the further I zoom, the capability of my aperture and MF will drop. But to get the effect that I want, I try and error, playing around with these functions to get the best image I had in mind.

As you can see I'm taking this picture in my room. The lightings aren't enough. Therefore, I can control the EV to suits my likings. However, this would affect my aperture level too.

Aperture control had been selected. See yellow coloured symbol. The quick menu knob easy as I can easy change the options around with my thumb. Unlike using a DSLR whereby you turn your focus with your left hand at the lense area, set the aperture and shutterspeed level with your fingers on top of the casing and look into the viewfinder to watch the metering. You can get to see all these functions control in the LCD display screen which is very much convenient for lazy people like ME! :P

Prepare... and Snap! After playing around with the MF for something. I get too tired. Each picture I took needs nearly about 10 minutes or more because I need to search for the correct settings. Then I suddenly discovered one small button beside the trigger. It's a focus button! By clicking onto the button as you point your camera to an object, the camera will automatically focus for you! So it's like auto focus in manual focus mode! Confusing? Yeah, many will say here that better put in the AF mode and just point and shoot. But the camera does not always know what you wanna focus at. Besides, in AF mode, your can't move your focus area to the side. So basicall, the rule of A third would be hard in practice.

A close up view of the birthday card. Noticed that the front part is kind of blurry but the center part is sharp and clear. This is the bokeh effect.

My dad always tells me that a good picture, you need to have a subject, a background and a foreground. In this case, the birthday card is the subject, behind the window and plan is the background. There's no foreground. =.=" Conclusion, it's not a good picture?

Here the subject is the same and background is the laptop and wall poster. Also not a good picture? But this picture shows a distant effect. This means that you're short-sighted, and you can only see things clearly but the further away, the blurry it is...

This two picture here and below shows the bokeh effect and the different focal area. In the picture the plant is crystal sharp and clear, but the card isn't. This means that focal area is at the plant.

On the other hand, without moving the camera but changing the focal point, the card become clear and the plant blurred. This, I can concluded that, I've bought the right camera... ^.^;;

Now you see...

Now you blur... This is how our eyes works. Unfortunately, mine weren't that good. So this is a good excuse for me to bring my camera everywhere? ^.^

Will be posting up more sample photos with my new baby. But if you are already hyped up and really want to get this camera, click the link below and buy it ba~! No regrets serious!

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 Digital Camera (Black) (10.1MP, 3" LCD, Mega O.I.S., 24mm Wide Angle, ISO 3200)

Ikea Chair.

noreply@blogger.com (Shinky) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Went over KL the other weekend to meet up some friends. Had always wanted to go Ikea to get a chair. But whenever I went there, its either I don't have the money to buy or it's not convenient to carry back.

However this time, I drove up and have the freedom to move around. Furthermore, I was lucky to have a friend to guide me there and back! If not, I would need to stay there overnight. >.<"
Out from the box

It has its name, and it's called Moses~ This is the back rest.

The package also came with a seat part...

... 4 wheels...

... an arrow-ed card board showing the directions?

...2 arm rest handle..

... a star-liked leg stand...

... a seat support...

... a plastic pillar and a pack of screws.

There wasn't a manual on how to fix the chair except this...

But things are easy. Just screw in the wheels below the 5 edges of the star stand and slot in the pillar in the middle.

Another part is to screw the support onto the seat. I find it easier to do it first before screwing the handles on its side.

The screws comes in the exact numbers. There's no extra so have to be wary not to lose any of them. ^.^;;

A closer look at the how it's being screwed in. Everything just fits right.

An alen key is being provided. And it's a good one. Not like those cheap plastic made type.

Just finished assembling the top part. The handle must be screw in first before fixing the back rest. Since I'm fixing it alone. Spent quite some time trying to fix it up with the weigh. -.-"

Finally, the chair is fixed. Now it would be more comfortable to watch animes in my com.

I also get some hangers for my trousers. These are suggested by my friend. Mum had been nagging about my overloaded wardrobes. I don't actually owns alot of clothes. But it just happend that wardrobe is too small the... ^.^"

And another mini ironing board. Mum's been complaining that the one at home is too light and not suitable. But in the end, it's left aside unopened as well.

This iron board is not only small and cute. But also came with a handle that you can hang it anywhere. Convenient isn't it?

The total amount of all these cost me a limb. >.<" Ikea really have the idea and design. But their price is also in Euro(x5)! Well, I guess you have to pay for the difference if you want something better... ^.^;;