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• My friend just bought a Sony NEX-5

 by Stanley, August 8, 2010

I accompanied my friend to the shopping mall today. He just bought the Sony NEX-5 digital camera. After leaving the shop with his new toy, we went for lunch and I taught him a thing or two about taking pictures with a dSLR-like camera.

He has been using a compact digital camera for years. Using it in auto-mode at all times. He shunned dSLRs because of weight and size but has always wanted better picture quality than his digital point-n-shoot could deliver. So when Olympus came out with the micro 4/3rd, he was very tempted. But luckily, he wasn’t in hurry because Sony’s NEX series is IMO better than Olympus/Panasonic offerings.

I spent an hour describing things like focussing, exposure, ISO, aperture and shutter control. I wasn’t familiar with NEX’s menu navigation and had to spend about 30 minutes going through all the essential functions. From a dSLR point of view, the menu navigation in the NEX could use a bit more polish. It’s not as intuitive and straight forward as I would prefer. But compared to point-n-shoot cameras, it’s a lot better.

• Cow head protesters punishment a joke

 July 27, 2010
These cow-head protesters should all be charged with sedition for inciting racial and religion hatred. All twelve should be heading to ISA to serve a two-year detention sentence. But instead the most extreme punishment dealt to them is a RM3000 fine and one-week jail. If non-Malays in Malaysia were to throw the Quran on the [...]
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• DAP Tony Pua sheds more light into Malaysia’s impending FDI darkness

 July 25, 2010
The recent release of World Foreign Investment Report (WIR) 2010 by United Nations Conference of Trade and Development (UNCTAD) provided a picture that is nothing short of grim and ugly for the Malaysian economy especially in its attractiveness as a local and foreign investment destination. While the headline 81% drop in foreign direct investment [...]
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• Mid-range gaming rig for a client

 July 22, 2010
One of my clients threw me an RM2000 budget for a personal computer. I’m assembling it for him as a favor. His son will be using it for mostly gaming, no doubt about that. What a person likes in Facebook tells a lot about that person Budget of RM2k for a gaming PC is [...]
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• Last weekend spoiled by mild food poisoning

 July 22, 2010
Last Friday, I had chicken chop rice for lunch. Right after the meal, I felt kinda quesy and increasingly nauseous. My stomach felt bloated. I knew for sure the meal came with some extras - tummy bugs. By evening time, I woke up with a slight temperature after a short nap. The entire evening, I [...]
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• Running feels so good

 July 9, 2010
Many people think runners do so to lose weight. Both for health reasons and perhaps vanity. What non-runners do not know is that running plays an important role in helping a person relax, release stress and clear minds. I did not realise that before my running routine was interrupted due to domestic commitments. It was [...]
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• Nothing but cartoons

 July 9, 2010
My friend whom I met over lunch today told me the only thing his TV plays these days, are cartoons. Every single day he and his wife have to tolerate repeated cartoons - Elmo, Nickelodeon stuff, Barney, Care Bears, Backyardigans etc. We used to college mates my buddy and I. We share quite a lot [...]
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