Here I am, back at my hometown, where my life in this world began. This house of my mum is almost the same age as me. We moved here when I almost turned 1. Before I went back, I actually ask my sister to arrange installment of Astro at my mum’s house. It’s time already. Been persuading my mum ages, but a typical answer – The unpaid TV is too much already for her to see. Well, I told her that I will pay for the bill, but she said please don’t make the account under her name. She don’t want to answer the call of Astro calling for unpaid bill. LOL. I said OK. Finally, there’s Astro at my mum’s house already. According to my sister, my mum just sit in front of TV all day long. I’m so glad. At least she’s not bored at home anymore.

Even the fruit season long gone, but there are still left over “langsat” at the “langsat” trees around my house. This was planted by my late dad when we first live here. May Allah bless him for the fruits that we gave around the neighbour.

This is this stray cat at my house. My mum said this cat used to be healthy, but after it fallen sick, the owner just dump him. It’s quite an emotional scene. My mind flying back to my cats at KL. Actually, this cat kinda stay at my mums lawn as my mum feeds this cat. So, I bought a pack of cat food, and ask my sister to give it to the cat.

Here’s, I’m at my 2nd brother house (just next to my mum’s). His wife is doing cake business at the back kitchen.

Business seems good. She got more than 100 orders now for Hari Raya, and the usual weddings that will take place after Hari Raya.

Wish to write more of what you can see in my hometown. But I guess I save that for later, when I’m back again. Been busy helping my mum with the Hari Raya preparation.

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Getting your gadgets complete is like a spending machine. You will buy one thing after another. After getting my Canon 580EX II, I will need another thing to accompany it – that is Stofen Omnibounce. I really want to for my “Hari Raya” photography. But due to I almost going back to my hometown, I still order this, but made the delivery address to my mum’s house.

So here is what I ordered, together with this micro fiber cleaning cloth. Would be handy to wipe dust and oil from my camera, and fingerprints on my other things (PSP, iPod, handphone)

And here’s how the Sto-Fen Omni-Bounce looks like. This to be attached to the head of the flash. Gosh. This plastic thingy costs me RM85.

What this is for actually? This is how it works information that I get from Stofen website.

Flash straight on without the Omni-Bounce causes the light to go forward only and creates a harsh shadow behind the subject.

Flash with the Omni-Bounce installed and tilted to 45 degrees gives a nice soft wrap around of light with a soft shadow behind the subject.

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Finally, my last minute packing has finished. I’m all ready to “balik kampung” now. Bag for clothes, bag for all of my photography gears and gadgets together with the slim laptop bag that I bought a few weeks ago are packed. Not forgetting, the must “duit raya” for every single time of this festive season.

My “kampung halaman”, here I come.

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Menjauh dari kehidupan

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This is just another thing that makes me feel restless. It happened to me last time when I got my 80GB iPod Video. Not it happened again to my Canon EOS 40D DLSR camera. Feel like I just got this camera, and now the new model of this line is out already – Canon EOS 50D.

Sigh. I can’t sit still knowing that there are newer model of things that I’m using, and I feel this big urge of upgrading. Damn. I’ve been cursed with this feeling since long time ago, where I cannot handle the feeling of outdated when using older model. And the feeling is even worse knowing that I just got my 40D.

Anyway, while ago I did mentioned that iPhone will be my next phone. Well. I guess not yet. It’s so crap that Malaysia can’t persuade Apple to consider Malaysia as one of the country that they will market the iPhone. Even India and Philippines manage to get hold of the new iPhone 3G.

With iPhone is also launched at our neighbour country – Singapore, I believe that Malaysia will be flooded with underwater iPhone pretty soon. But the fact that the phone has been unlocked, and it’s currently not working well on Maxis network, I guess I will just stay away from iPhone for a while until it is officially launched in Malaysia.

I guess the next best thing that I have is Nokia N96. Yes. It just out 2 weeks ago.

It’s been a year already I’m using my current Nokia N95. It is just the time already for me to change phone. Although the review for N96 is not that overwhelming for this ridiculously high priced phone, but there are a few points that attract me:

• I want a new phone ;)
• 16GB internal memory. Wow! I can’t imagine how many softwares I will install
• Live TV – DVB-H based mobile TV with internal antenna. Even though I’m not sure whether there is a service like that or not in Malaysia yet, but the name of it kinda sexy.
• Dual-LED camera flash. This will be a great backup for my Canon EOS 40D camera whenever I want to snap a quick photo.

Selling at RM3338, it will take 3 months or so for me to save enough money for this. And this is the current total earnings that I got from one of the ad referral program. Better not to mention the name as it will violate the T&C.

USD111.88 is approximately RM391.164. Well, at least this will help me reaching that RM3338 target faster ;)

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