Banana Hazelnut Cake

How i wish to claim that this was from some admirer of mine...and placing it on my desk with an anonymous card ..haha but its not..

Anyway, Celia made these for me..because i helped her to dev and scan her negatives. She quited CAG last year to pursue her dreams in some cooking academy degree...

So in a way, the usual us helped her to taste and review on her product.

But i must admit that its really thoughtful of her to get me a nice container and drive all the way to the airport to pass it to me...






Thanks Celia, really appreciate it!

My love for Porter

This is not the first time that i am posting an entry on Porter bags. With every blog entry, it means that i bought one and i must clarify that the earlier entry on saving up was after this decision to purchase this bag..haha so i should be blame for not honouring what i said.

First one!
http://jackson-myphilosophy.blogspot.com/2009/07/shopaholic.html
n i cant the rest....haha

Should i give thanks to Alex or should i blame him for introducing Porter to me?

I remembered the first time i saw him carrying his pouch was during the army days...it was so cool, plus he seems to be the only owner of it.(Porter wasnt so well known in the old days)

He brought me to bugis village to get an imitation and that imitation bag followed me everywhere for at least 2 years. I was further influenced by Derrick who got me all crazy on porter again after he showed me his working Porter bag.
That was my first purchased locally. Then he went to Japan and offered to bring me a Yoshida B version back...which i didnt reject his kind gesture...I gotten one!

When i went Taiwan, it was amazingly cheaper! And i bought 2 from there on the 2nd day in Taiwan and carried it with me through my backpack trip! It was crazy!

Now, XY got me my "Last" Porter haversack from her trip to Taiwan!
Something which i wanted since last year~







Porter is like Leica...its made to last! The workmanship is good! So detail in every aspect.






I personally preferred the Milky series...


Can you tell which is the Yoshida B version?


Tis is ENOUGH!

No more cameras & films for now

I am selling off quite a fair bit of my collections currently to try limit the amount of cameras that i "store" in my dry cabinet. I feel that i have slowly becoming more of a camera enthusiast than a photography enthusiast...which is something i would love to avoid since i do not have a huge fortune for them...

And it seems like buying products off ebay didnt always end up a good deal but vice versa...half the time, there are always dispute...im glad that i managed to get my money back most of the time...

Really missed the old days where i just gotten my first canon compact camera and im so motivated to take nice picture with that camera.

Think i will try to restart my hobby again and get my motive clear!

PC Fair purchases

Remember my last post on the great IT Fair where i proudly show off this set of speakers from sonic gear and i thought i grabbed a bargain for them. Guess what, it spoiled the next day i installed on my PC. So much for a local company that made the product in China.

This PC show came at the right time. My monitor started to get cranky, and so happened that the highlights for this PC show was the LED monitor.
All along i thought samsung was the best in its LED monitor until i walked past the Phillips booth. It didnt take me too long to decide and buy the 20" Phillip LED monitor. Ow also agreed that this monitor is better than the Samsung and furthermore the price is lower.

Oh, i got myself a new pair of creative speaker...thou its nothing fanciful but the sound effect was so much better compared to the sonic gear.

So now i am looking at the screen happily and blasting off the speakers for my movie in Bluray format!

Thanks Ow for carrying the monitor for me!

Our first travel!

I know many will ask why am i always going to Malacca and my answer would always be that i love that place! Which is true! I honestly find Malacca so beautiful than any other parts of Malaysia that i have been to.

I realised that i have strong interst and preference over places with strong culture compared to urbanized cities. Well, i would be delighted as well if there are some mega malls in the area for some shopping after exhaustion from exploring all the cultural sites.

Malacca fits exactly what i am looking for! It has a wonderful Jonker street that looks so different during the day and night. There are some mega malls as well which in my case, takes me away from the hot weather.
And who says travelling with a bunch of ladies are troublesome and noisy? This is the first time i travelled with CC, Fionis and Holly and amazingly i think we cliqued off quite well!

Although there are quite a fair bits of difference among us, we managed to accomodate one another. For example, some preferred to chat on the long journey while some just decided to feign sleeping throughout the journey!
Some love chicken rice balls while others love asam laksa...

They say that travelling experience came mainly from the travelling companions, which i agree! Partly because im in that group! Haha

Pictures are mostly from Holly's Camera and some from Fion's. She did a great job in editing, so that i can just extract for this entry!...for the first time, i am being documented on the journey!! How lucky!

We reached Malacca only at 4.30pm, all thanks to the jam at the causeway! And we walked quite a distance before we finally reached jonker street! Luckily we still managed to catch the last light before the sun set.

Everyone busy with their own picture taking session including me!


And who will wear shirt to Malacca! Me!!!


*behind the scene! by fionis*




The must do n must have! Setting up tripod for grp shots!


Pics from the camera mounted on tripod!




Doing some streets walking and shopping after dinner




These night PICs WOW! Holly disappeared from the group to take these pics for us!






And finally we end the night with some ice cream and Root beer back to the hotel!

The next day morning!
We took more photos! The weather was equally hot!






Cc super focus on taking this pic for the longest time! Manual focus somemore! It could be her winning shot!


I nearly faint here from the heat as well as the wait for the wanton mee!


Nice Pics from Fionis!






All the pics posted here are either from Fionis or Holly! I didnt took any and CC didnt share any here yet...
I hope they didnt expect too much of a standard from my pics! I got a feeling that im going to disappoint them big time! lol