We have many friends around us. We share some happiness and sadness together. Although those seems to be humble and ordinary, but to me are pricelss. I would like to share it before the time fading it out...
Watched "Crash" in Saturday night at HBO channel. This award winning filem seems appealing to me. The story of the movie is quite good, in which it smartly shows how all others people crash together in the cool-blooded LA city. All of the poeple, from different background and races, crashed together. Among the crashes, most of the crashes cause friction and suspicious due to the races differences in US.
I like the starting, when the Graham said: "It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something."
This is a must see movie. It happen to us also, just that we don't realize. More nice quotes from this movie can be found on this site.
Every days, I need to deal with the traffics on the road. It would be a pleasant journey to work if the traffic is not in severe jam. However, the roads become full of vehicle, when you already late to work. Isn't it funny?
Today I used the camera I bought, and took several shots to test the camera.
This is the place where I sleep and write the blog. A bit messy, but at least it shows the real life of a busy man who hardly can find time to tidy the room. I prefer to take pictures naturally. In which, let the room be as it normal condition, rather than in a very tidy and neat room. This hardly can reflect my business in my daily life.
There was no view outside the window. Just the backside of second row houses.
I like the curtain, in simply yellowish colour. The colour make me a good mood to stay and rest.
I went to Midvalley today and bought the FX3, after finding out that the silver colour of FX10 is not as appealing as the black colour of FX3. In addition, FX3 is at lower price, with RM100 less than FX10. In addition, it also come along with 1Gb Memory, casing, SD card holder casing and shoe bag. All this sound too great to buy a easy use camera. Since FX10 and FX3 are not much different in the specification, I bought the FX3.
I checked the review in Imaging Resource website, as quoted as below:
The budget model in Panasonic's stylish and very portable Lumix line, the DMC-FX3 has a basic set of features, but enough added functionality courtesy of Panasonic's exclusive imaging technology to warrant a second look -- especially at its reasonable price point. Being offered for as low as $230 at some online retailers, the Panasonic FX3 is based around a 6 megapixel sensor and Leica-branded 3x optical zoom lens with effective focal lengths of 35mm to 105mm. Exclusive to Panasonic -- though some competing manufacturers offer similar technology -- the FX3 boasts MEGA O.I.S. image stabilization, which helps correct for hand-shake by actually shifting the lens to keep the axis straight against the CCD when you snap a shot. If you've never tried MEGA O.I.S. before, you'll be in for a pleasant surprise --- and you likely won't want to turn it off!
The Panasonic FX3 has a generous 2.5-inch LCD display but with a fairly average resolution of 115,000 pixels and, like a lot of digital cameras these days, no optical viewfinder. For those who like to shoot in low light without a flash, ISO light sensitivity is selectable only between 100 and 400 on the Panasonic FX3. However in its special High Sensitivity scene mode, the camera will automatically boost the ISO up to a maximum of 1,600, which is great for shooting in low light. On the downside, the camera captures images at reduced resolution in this mode to compensate for high sensitivity processing.
Speaking of scene modes, the Panasonic FX3 has 17 of them including the unique "Baby" modes that allow you to program a date of birth in each, and then have your images tagged with your children's current ages at the time the photo is taken. Other nice perks include available shutter speeds from 1/2,000 to 60 which is quite a bit longer than is common on most digicams. The Panasonic FX3 also offers a higher-than-average movie resolution of 848 x 480 pixels, as well as the ability to shoot clips in 16:9 wide angle which is great for playing back on widescreen TVs. So while the Panasonic FX3 might look like a budget model on paper, it's certainly no stripped down, bargain-basement camera.
To me, it is a budget camera, but it suit my need for normal use. This camera, is a gift that I buy for myself for the hard work I have been done so far.
This is a review I found for this new launch camera in imaging resource website as below:
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX10 is a six megapixel version of its close sibling, the seven megapixel DMC-FX12. It shares the same body, lens, and LCD, at a $30 savings. The only other difference is the selection of colors offered.
The Lumix DMC-FX10 features a LEICA DC VARIO-ELMARIT 3x optical zoom lens with 35 - 105mm equivalent focal range, 2.5-inch 115,000 pixel LCD display, 27MB of built-in memory, SD / MMC card slot with SDHC card compatibility, and power from a proprietary Lithium Ion battery.
The Panasonic FX10 also incorporates the company's "Intelligent ISO Control" system (first seen on the FZ50), which detects whether or not the subject is moving and automatically raises the ISO setting, allowing the camera to shoot at a higher shutter speed when needed. This feature, together with Panasonic's MEGA O.I.S (Optical Image Stabilizer) should help keep blurry pictures due to subject or camera motion to a minimum.
Other FX10 features include ISO sensitivities from 100 to 1250 with the ability to extend this to ISO 3200 equivalent in High Sensitivity mode, shutter speeds from 1/2000 to 60 seconds, and a whopping 20 scene modes (Portrait, Soft Skin, Scenery, Sports, Night Portrait, Night Scenery, Self-Portrait, Food, Party, Candle, Fireworks, Starry Sky, Beach, Aerial photo, Snow, Baby1, Baby2, Underwater, Sunset and Pet). The DMC-FX10 also offers a wide aspect-ratio movie mode with a resolution of 848 x 480 pixels, as well as lower-resolution 640 x 480 and 320 x 240 pixel options, all at rates up to 30 frames-per-second and encoded in the QuickTime Motion JPEG format common on many digicams.
After reading the review, and the advertisement I read in the newspaper, I was so tempting to this slim and stylish camera. To me, the camera is slim, and easy for me to carry the camera around. In addition, the price is under RM1000. I think it is worth to buy since it is using Leica Len for this product.
I think I seldom buy a gift for myself. In conjunction to the bonus that I will get end of this month, I think I will buy this camera as a gift for my hard work through the year of 2006.
Add the same time, I have a digital camera, my first digital camera, which is also Panasonic (DMC-FZ1). This camera I bought at the year of 2003. I like this camera and I have taken this camera to US and China trip before. It still work until now. Although I can buy a newer version of this model of camera. However, due to the budget constrains and the ease of handling, I find that the new DMC-FX10 is much more favorable for this time buying.
SvetlanaKorkhina, Russia, win gold in the 2000 Sydney Olympics for the UB event.
Disaster occurred on Svetlana when she tried to get her third gold in the UB event in 2004 Olympics since 96 when she dominated in this event. She fall and cost her the gold medal to drop into another competitor.
Nastia, America, won gold in this event in 2005 World championship.2005 was the last year in gymnastics history where perfect 10 system in the marking system. After 2005, all the score will have no limit, and it base on the combination of autistics and element/skill. Gymnasts can score more then 10 points.
Xiao Ting Ting, China, stunned the gymnastics fan which her "wow" performance in her golden meet in the ShangHai world cup series. She has spectacular 5 release move, in addition with another release move from the high bar to the low bar. This is the most release moves in UB that I know.
Beth Tweddle, British, won 2006 world gymnastics championship in this even. She is the bars expert and her bars work is amazing.
Li Ya, China, won silver in the World Cup final in Brazil 2006 for this event. The gold medalist was Beth Tweddle. Li Ya has the most difficult routine for bars in the world. However, she lost to Beth due to the execution of the routine is not as clean as Beth. Her combo release move, Jeager Half or "Li Ya" and Jeager, is very spectacular and breathtaking.
Kim Gwang Suk, North Korea, stunned the world with a perfect then in the 91 World gymnastics championship in the Event Final of uneven bars. She had very difficult routine in which one is created under her which called "Counter Kim". This release move is transferred from the Men Gymnastics skill in High bar. The skills in bars become more release and more exciting.
Lu Li, China, scored perfect ten in the 92 Olympic event final of Uneven Bar. This is the last perfect ten we can observed under the major gymnastics competition. Her routine was elegant, nice and full of artistic element, besides the difficult skills.
Svetlana Khorkina, Russia, start to dominate this event in 96 until 03. She missed the bars routine in 2004 Athen Olympics during the event final that caused her lost the Gold medal although she had big chances in winning it. She won a lot of major gymnastic meet for this events. She is tall, and her routine in uneven bars were full of originality.
Mo Hui Lan, China, stunned the world with her most difficult release move called "Gaylord", or "Mo Salto". This release move was transferred from Men's High Bar. This release move is very difficult to perform in women bars. As we can observe,the distance between bars is much further as compare to the 70s or 80s.
Bi Wen Jing, China, is the big rival of Khorkina during the 96 - 98 meets. Her bars set was breathtaking and she created one skills called "Bi Turn", that become the trademark of China Gymnast nowadays.
Olga Korbut, a sweat little gymnast, who capture all the audience in the world during the 1972 Munich Olympics. This Russian girl have make many little girls start to practice in gymnastics. During the 70s, the bars distance is quite near to each others.
Nadia Comaneci,Romania, a little girl who stunned the world with a new record of perfect 10 in the Olympics history. She presented high difficulty in the apparatus and hence the world of women gymnastics start to shift into a sport with more competitor start to compete at younger age.
Ma Yan Hong, China, is the first women in China who won the gold in the 1979 world championship. She also won gold in 84 Olympics, tied with Julianne Mcnamara.
Daniela Silivas, Romania, a great gymnast in women history. She scored perfect in this uneven bars in 88 Olympics. She win gold in this event. In addition, she also won 2 more golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze. In short, she took all the medals in the 6 events of women gymnastics. Notice that the distance between bars become further and the style of the gymnast start to have giant swing, pirouette and release move in between the bars.
It is proud to be a Malaysian, since you have tons of opportunities to experience high-tech and intelligent facilities or infrastructure in Kuala Lumpur.
One of the highlighted infrastructure that KL citizen can experience is The Smart Tunnel. SMART Tunnel will see 30,000 vehicles travelling its length when it begins operations this month.
The Stormwater Management and Road or "SMART Tunnel", is a storm drainage and road structure. This will be the longest stormwater tunnel in South East Asia and second longest in Asia. The main objective of this tunnel is to solve the problem of flash floods in Kuala Lumpur and also to reduce traffic jams along Jalan Sungai Besi and Loke Yew flyover at Pudu during rush hour.
There are two components of this tunnel, the stormwater tunnel and motorway tunnel. It begins at Kampung Berembang lake near Ampang and ends at Taman Desa lake near Sungai Kerayong at Salak South. The project is led by the government, including Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM) and the Department of Irrigation and Drainage Malaysia (Jabatan Pengairan dan Saliran = JPS) and also a company joint venture pact between Gamuda Berhad and Malaysian Mining Corporation Berhad(MMC)
It is estimated that the first month as it would be toll-free during this period. This tunnel will be official run on March 9. The 3km motorway makes up part of a 9.7km water tunnel designed to channel water away from the city, reducing the risk of a flood. The part where the motorway meets the water tunnel is the world’s first two-in-one tunnel. In this area, water is channelled into a lower deck while the middle and upper decks are for motorists. If need be, the two decks for vehicles can also be flooded to channel water.The RM1.93 billion tunnel provides an alternative for motorists to escape the Jalan Tun Razak traffic congestion.It is estimated that 200,000 vehicles travel the road above the tunnel daily.
Cervical cancer is predominantly caused by certain types of a virus called Human Papillomavirus (HPV). HPV is a common virus that affects both females and males. There are more than 100 types of HPV that can affect different areas of the body. Most types are relatively harmless —like the ones that cause common warts on hands and feet. Some types of HPV can affect the genital area and can lead to cervical cancer, abnormal cervical cells, and genital warts. It is important to know all you can about HPV to help prevent these diseases.
I found a very nice words written by a blogger. I have the same feeling when I write those words. It is true, in the world of love, something it is hurt...
Again, I find something that make me feel a bit down. Knowing the truth or understand the truth is sometime very pain and hard.
Feel that I always make friend relationships become worst. May be I don't know how to make friend or don't know how to maintain a good relationship with friends. Sometime it is a very scary experience for me, in which, most of the people I care most, will finally end up with silent or disappearing.
May be I not a good candidate to become a best friend for. I should keep a distance to all my friends.
I wish you all the best. Hope everything is still fine for you.
This is a Chinese New Year advertisement in Malaysia by Petronas. This advertisement, is very touching in a sense that reflecting the actual phenomenon where most of the younger people in urban area move to the city area for job. This cause the older generation to stay or leave behind the urban region.
The smaller town or village become more and more quiet, most of the residents are just the older generation or the wife with their children. All the younger guys have move to the big city or travel aboard to earn big money. Life in the urban region become quiet and less interesting as before.
All the old folks, in the advertisement, need to help each others in their daily life while their sons may working in another region. And at the end of the advertisement, it say that we need to go back to celebrate this festive season with their family.
Chinese New Year is like Thanksgiving in US. All the people will travel back to home and celebrate the holiday with their family. It is nice to have all the family to gather and celebrate the Chinese new year. And it is the time for us to meet back our old school mate or friends since all of us are busy earning money for living.
She falls but she keep on going. This is amazing. I was stunned and touched by her courage to continue.
They continue after Zhang Dan nasty fall. Every one in the podium were touched by her courage to continue. This is the spirit of sport in Olympics.
Below is quoted from the website.
Figure Skating: The courage of a 20-year-old grips Games Feb 14 2006 By Jon Bramley
TURIN, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Zhang Dan is only 20 and probably knows nothing of the great acts of courage and defiance which have graced the Olympics Games over the past 110 years.
But on Monday night she wrote her own piece of Games history which will never be forgotten by the thousands who witnessed it in the ice rink or the many millions who watched on television.
The tiny, elfin-faced ice dancer had an outside chance of a gold when she and partner Zhang Hao took to the ice to round off a mesmerising night in the pairs event.
Within a few seconds of their routine their hopes were dashed. Zhang was thrown high into the air and span in a blur four times in an attempt at the rarely witnessed quadruple Salchow.
To gasps all around a packed Palavela, Zhang misjudged her landing and hit the ice with a sickening thud. Her legs crumpled beneath her like a new-born fawn and, all dignity lost, she slithered into a crash barrier on her backside.
For a second or two, she remained there, a broken figure before gingerly regaining her feet and attempting to continue the routine. It was clear within a few further seconds she could do no such thing.
Her background music stopped and the fixed smile of the skater was replaced by a grimace of pain. After a few more moments she skated stiffly towards her coach.
That appeared to be the end of it but Zhang, as we were all to discover, has a backbone of pure tungsten steel.
After a couple more minutes she started slowly circling the ice again before indicating she was ready to carry on.
The crowd, finally catching on to this remarkable feat of sporting bravery, broke into instantaneous applause and then watched in silent entrancement as Zhang returned to this sporting high wire balancing act.
HIGH-RISK
Only she will know how she got through the next five or six minutes but by the end of it, Zhang and her partner had completed the rest of their routine, involving several more high-risk spins without so much as a blade out of place.
Their reward at the end was deafening cheering -- louder than for the gold-medal Russian pair who had preceeded them -- and a standing ovation from the entire arena.
Zhang received her marks with a huge bandage on her thigh and an ice pack on her knee. Extraordinarily, the Chinese had bounced back from this early-routine crash to earn enough points for the silver.
At a news conference, Zhang gave a good impression of a young woman who did not understand what the fuss was about.
She described her fall as "probably a good experience for my future career" but spoke almost nothing of the courage she had summoned to carry on after such a tumble.
In fact, nothing she will do in the sport will be remembered in the same way even if she wins at the next three Games.
Pietri Dorando, the little marathon runner from Italy, was a first class runner who repeatedly won the leading races of his day but is remembered today as the man who was helped over the line in the London Games of 1908 after collapsing completely spent within metres of the finishing line.
His aides succeeded only in ensuring his disqualification but they also confirmed his place indelibly in sporting history while the winner of that race has long since been forgotten.
Most would be hard pressed to name another sportsman or woman who even took part in those Games but Dorando's memory is revered in athletics to this day.
You can fast forward nearly 90 years from Dorando to Kerri Strug, the U.S. gymnast.
She also had a glittering career but it was only her courage in pulling off a gold medal-winning vault for the home team at the Atlanta Games while her badly sprained ankle was heavily strapped that confirms her place in sporting history.
That was only 10 years ago but today papers and Websites still refer to those few seconds of almost foolhardy bravery as the defining moment of the 1996 Atlanta Games.
We may just have seen the defining moment of the 20th Winter Olympics in Turin's Palavela ice rink on Monday night.
A Mat Rempit is a Malaysian term for 'an individual who participates in illegal street racing', usually involving underbone motorcycles (Kapcai) or scooters. Minah Rempit can refer to either the female counterpart, or a female companion of a Mat Rempit. Not all Mat Rempits involve in street racing, some of them just ride their motorcycle's dangerously on public roads. Mat Rempits usually travel in groups and race in bustling city centres on weekend nights. As of recently, Mat Rempits have been linked to gangsterism, gang robbing, fighting, vandalism, thefts and bullying. Most motorcycles used by the Mat Rempits do not meet standard specifications, or have been modified extensively. Additionally, some Mat Rempit do not have valid licenses, do not pay road taxes, and ride stolen motorcycles. More and more housing estates were turned into racing tracks. It is estimated that there are about 200,000 Mat Rempits in Malaysia. The terms of Mat Rempit also used in Singapore and Indonesia for the same reason.
Why they want to do such dangerous act? Fun, or want to have something that can pump up their adrenaline? I have no idea.
Watched "Crash" in Saturday night at HBO channel. This award winning filem seems appealing to me. The story of the movie is quite good, in which it smartly shows how all others people crash together in the cool-blooded LA city. All of the poeple, from different background and races, crashed together. Among the crashes, most of the crashes cause friction and suspicious due to the races differences in US.
