GREETING | Happy New Year 2008

Wishing You all a happy New Year 2008.



2007 had past, loads of memories, many lovely journeys had been traveled.
Yet, 2008 is a new year, another new exciting journey yet to be explored.

RANDOM | After Show

Just a quick post to end the year 2007, which have been an interesting year, be it good or bad, still an interesting year.

Just like performing a big show, the curtain's drop for the year 2007, and there's a new "journey" to look into for the next year, i.e. 2008.


Having a break after performing a national performance.

Another photo taken from the EOS 300X last few years.

REVIEW | CANON EOS 300X + 28-90mm

Was sorting out some camera stuffs at home, and remembered that, I still have not finish the roll of film in my Canon SLR EOS 300X!

I remember the last time I used the camera was during Brunei's National Day Parade 2-3 years ago!!

So I just snap anything, and quickly developed the film in one of the camera lab at the capital.



The above photo was taken with the Canon EOS 300X; 28-90mm, scanned digitally by the photo lab, and I just convert it to Black & White.

A sample coloured photo taken with this camera can be found here.

I was quite amazed that, even after the 2-3 years, the film was still good & usable!

The camera itself is very light, easy to operate, FULL-FRAME (as opposed to some DSLR with 1.6 ~ 1.3 crop factor).

Convenient for traveling due to:

1. With the advancement of Digital Camera, the 35mm film negative can be bought cheaply almost any place in the world.
2. Need not panic if no power supply to recharge your batteries, as EOS 300X is using 2xCR2 batteries, which also can be bought it most camera shop everywhere.
3. No need to worry about inadequate disk space problem.

You can find many good reviews for the camera, just search for it online.

Despite its goodness, I'm thinking of selling this camera if there's anyone interested, might do a special post about it some day.

BRUNEI | KNK | Penambang ...

... Thailand's proud of their Tuk-Tuk ... Indonesia ... have their Bajaj .... some eastern countries with their Beca .. or Rickshaw ... and Venice with their Gondolas ....

.. Brunei also have something to be proud of .... the Penambang of the water village ....



... one of the numerous Water Taxis along the Brunei River .... a single short trip across the river can be as cheap as BND0.50/pax ... and a half-hour cruise along the river can cost roughly at least about BND15/pax ....

.. come rain ... come shine ... the Penambang guys will always be there for the customer .....

RANDOM | Film Camera & Mysterious Thingy...

.. I think every now n then ... as post-processing photos to be uploaded will take some time....I'll post up some random stuffs... or some sort of filler in between the real photo posting....

So for this 1st random filler ... U might be wondering what the title is all about ...

FILM CAMERA

.. this is one of the first few early photos that I shot using a 35mm film SLR camera, the Canon EOS 300X, it was a very kewl camera.. easy to operate... all the functions are equivalent to the Canon DSLR EOS 350D, but with the 300X having an advantage of a full frame instead of the 1.6x crop .. eerr if u don't understand the technical bit its alright .. it won't be in your exam paper :)

MYSTERIOUS THINGY ....
.. hmmm ok now for the mysterious thingy ... if you are brave enough ... not afraid of the dark? ... not afraid of those.... eermm... eer.. won't say it ... but yea ... mysterious thingy ...??

k try this ....

Open up a new document in your Microsoft Word .. or if u r afraid ... anybody else's Word ...

then .. type this

=rand(200,99)

then .. relax.... sit back... sip your extra-expensive-designer-coffee .... turn your speaker volume to full blast ..... n then .... press ENTER ....

Whaaaaaaamm ... c for yourself what gonna happen.... but beware do it on your own risk ...

p.s. I think even Bill Gates doesn't know about this .... hehe ... I think .... hmmm...

Good Luck ...