malaysian dreamgirl

man, really out of touch with life in malaysia…just watched episode 1 & parts of episode 2, and man, is kenny sia tough or what? My eyebrows were raised everytime he says something…lol

but you gotta give malaysian girls a pat in the back…someone criticizes them and they still can smile & behave like nothing has happened!

Night Pics with Lumix FX07

Well, time passes real quickly and finally I had time to go back to London for just a while…anyway, here are some night pics in London itself using the Panasonic Lumix FX07:

There was quite some noise in the darker pictures but all kinda solved using Noiseware!

New Toy: Panasonic Lumix FX07!

It was a tough choice but I finally got me self a camera, the Lumix FX07:

Forte: Wide-angle lenses, amazing macro mode, lotsa settings to tinker around, optical image stabilization, small, wide range of ISO settings: 100 –> 3200!

Achilles' heel: "Watercolor effect" when blown up to 7 Megapixels (esp. on higher ISO settings) - overcompensation by image processor I guess, but not so visible if you print it out. Night pics w/o tripod impossible with ISO > 200!

Anyway, some sample pics for those interested:

Tora Tora "Otoro"!!!

wahlau…money's in my stomach now…was good while it lasted….but sighz…could have gone for something much cheaper…wonder if I could make out the difference.

spendthrift mode officially OFF now.

Pandora!

I never really caught on to the Pandora bandwagon till recent news that they have shut down access to countries outside the US due to copyright issues, but man, THIS is the future of radio or probably portable players (Creative - you should try to integrate this into your mp3 players)!

Basically in Pandora, you get to choose what you wanna listen to and Pandora intelligently seeks out the "genes" of the music you like and picks a random song which you may like. You can further finetune your music selection list by giving a thumbs up or down for the music it plays, and boy, I've been discovering like new songs and artists almost everyday!

If only we can do this in Malaysia, that would be so great!