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1) Canon EOS 20D

After long hours of thinking, asking other’s opinion i decided to pursue what i have thought before and forget the better camera of two in my options. I decided to go with Canon EOS 20D which perfectly fit my budget although it is few years behind Canon EOS 40D which also being sold by the same person.

I decided not to swallow the ‘poison’ of the 40D and stick to reality that i do not have that much money for 40D (another rm1000) and i’m not using this hobby to gain extra side income either, so i decided i needed to make a decisive decision between these two, and finally i really confident to go ahead with my former plan, which is the Canon EOS 20D.

When buying something that you want especially for your hobby, always have an extra money for yourself, dont spend it all at once for your hobby, think, assess, measure, compare, asks opinions, before deciding to buy. A lot of poison came from, and temptations from stuff that are much better but, BETTER DOESN’T ALWAYS MEAN THE BEST FOR YOU!

My criteria for choosing is

1) How good the stuff is (depending on what you wanna buy)

2) How is your financial & your budget

3) Thorough market research & explore and compare prices between sellers & vendors

DONE! you may ask me, Why you dont measure the degree of NECESSITY? Well, when it’s a hobby, it is always not a necessity, so it is OUT OF THE QUESTION!! hehehe….

2) The Champions League 2009 Final. Man Utd Vs. Barcelona

Personally i don’t like both team, but i don’t like Man Utd much more, since i am an Arsenal Fan, and there’s thousands of reasons to hate Man Utd, i don’t even know how to start. Why i hate Barca?  (Barca=Barcelona). I hate them because they are bunch of posers, since Arsenal lost in Champions League 2006 Final undeservingly to them, i truly madly deeply hate them, because they did not deserve to win, furthermore they are posers and saying they are the ‘best in the world’ kind of shitty stuff…. argghh…. [Jump & scroll down to skip my super-analysis of the game]

Anyway, taken from a neutral point of view, the game last night was a good game indeed, albeit a little bit slower pace than we used to see how Barca played in their week-to-week league game. There is two most DECISIVE DECISION by Jose Pep Guardiola is to play Messi slightly deep in the center, and to hold the ball in midfield a little bit longer to slow the tempo.

1)With Messi in the position of Xavi/Iniesta in their usual game play, attack became unpredictable, something that the tall Man Utd Central Defender Vidic & Rio couldn’t cope up with, let alone Evra and Oshea which is in another world by themselves chasing ghosts.

2)Xavi & Iniesta playing more central in midfield, holding the ball a tad longer than usual, with some of the times running forward ahead of Messi,making the ball stays with Barca longer, and agitate Man Utd players chasing the ball all around the field.

Messi in a Central attacking midfield position proves a real threat, that confuse man utd defenders, shuffling places with Eto’o on the right and Henry on the left. Add Xavi & Iniesta with their usual pin-point unpredictable precision pass with Puyol on the right side into the Equation, barca control the game comprehensively. So the game was written in history.

As for Man Utd, they didn’t exploit except for the first 10 minutes of the game, the absolutely obvious super weak Barca defence line at full force with proper tactic. Ronaldo always trying to prove he is the best person on the universe, with Rooney playing without using his brain, and Carrick that seems lost in the Stadio Olimpico, plus Anderson who seems to naive for this big Final Champions League. Giggs & our own Asian man, Park Ji-Sung is the only two that seems to follow any real sort of game plan, with others only following part & parcel of the Ferguson game plan.

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And the 2nd goal by Lionel Messi sums up the whole night. A Magic Header Goal, putting even Maradona to shame, by not using his hand to head the goal onto the net of  Van Der Sar. Xavi on the outside of the penalty box hook up a beautiful curving ball towards center of the penalty box, with Messi dashing towards it, bending his head backward a little bit before unleashing head movement forward to lop-headed the ball above Van Der Sar and into the goal.

The amazing thing was, Rio-Vidic pairing considered the best defence in the world, comparing their height Rio with 1.89 meters & Vidic with 1.88 meters and the goal keeper Van Der Sar  is 1.97 meters!! Lionel Messi is only a mere school-going boy height at 1.69 meters, able to get a clear header, although he jumps so hard, that his right boot was off his foot at that time, and clearly surpassing Van Der Sar to enter the net. Rio was only able to watch while Vidic is nowhere to be seen. Such a will of power from a small guy. I’m telling you HEIGHT DOES NOT MATTER! I am that happy to see Messi, a short guy, showing to the world that he’s good, and you know what, i think i got the same thing with Messi. I am short too, at 1.58 meters but i always has an extra strong confidence in me, because HEIGHT DOES NOT MATTER! hahaha…if you think that i am merapu too much, just smile okay!

end of the story, i want to sleep now….kruuhhh….snorringgg….!!

1)A Chronic Problem – Window Shopping through Internet

It’s the third week of final year, yet i’m still my 1st gear, very malas malas, not that hardworking, instead for a few days in the past 2 weeks, except than that i’m totally lazy, time would passed me by just like that, day by day, night by night…

I’m caught up again, with the same old problem, i am continuing my bad habit of long hours in front of the laptop, doing what? Window Shopping…. yeahh….

I’m currently hunting for a new Digital SLR Camera for my lonely Lens Tamron that i bought before i went off to Indonesia. In indonesia, i borrowed my brother’s camera to fit the lens that i bought, now i’m left with the unusable lens since i got no camera body.

From forum to forum, online shop to online shop, sending multiple emails and messages to forumer, just to get the best buy, at the cheapest price, and trust me, without i’m realizing it, it took so much of my time, so much of my energy, and so much work is being postponed, i’m behind my schedule! 

there is at least 6 big forums on the net that has countless of digital SLR camera selling at a very rapid pace, with so much items being traded each day, it makes me wonder sometimes, that maybe this 6 big forums is an economic entity by itself, running on itself, with hundreds of transactions occur in one week time, involving thousands of money, money changing hands, and many of them support their family through this method.

i’m one of many thousands that are caught up with the forum mania on the internet, how should i stop? it is consuming me!! arrgghh! hahaha….

i can’t just ignore it, if i surf for a little while, i’ll get stuck, but if i don’t at all, i’m quite restless becoz i’ll be aching to know what is going on in the forum, but when i do enter the forum, it’s hard to pull out. I thought it is over when i went to indonesia, where i don’t have internet connection at ease, there in indonesia i felt the bad habit has gone, but it resurface the moment i got back in Melaka! i know it i know it, it’s funny right? LOL!!! hahaha….

how lah?

2) A Fierce Person

i really gotta buck up tonight, especially when thinking, that the most fierce lecturer in the universe is going to come tomorrow:

I’m expecting to get: “You are stupid, bloody hell, bloody dogs, your brain is useless, useless donkey, stupid dogs, nitwick, bugger of the first order, rich brat and plus many more new vocabulary tomorrow”.

With him, you can’t predict a thing, don’t ever think you are well prepared, you never will, at least for his eyes, nobody is never good, and nobody is never prepared.

BUT, there will be one/two time a miracle will come, where he will teach, and that time, only god knows, but perhaps he is one of the best lecturer ever!

In reality, looking at his mood graph drawn over the past 2 weeks, and it has been showing increasing pattern and peaking just about yesterday and monday, i’ll predict we are gonna get something nasty from him tomorrow!

Sayonara! Embrace the fear factor!

Last friday when i arrived, i was happy that i am safely back home, but a little bit sad because i felt i wanted to travel more, eventhough i’ve been travelling, experiencing a lot, i wanted more. Since then i said to myself, try to be content with what you had, and be grateful, and i am grateful enough to have the chance to gain such experience, of which many of my friends did not.

Then, came on monday, the start of a new era, the final year, “the pre-housemanship year”, or “the senior clerkship year”, whatever you want to call it. Basically it means you need to study more, work your ass off more than before, and becoming more and more like a real doctor. What i didn’t expect is to be in it, to be that busy right on the first day. When i knew i’m in Surgery Posting, i thought, “That’s it”. No more daydreaming, no more relaxing, no chance! This first week i was posted in Anesthesia posting, one week under surgery department, which i learned how to anesthetised patients in the Operating Theatre, the drugs, the principle and the steps involved. I would say it is very interesting, at least for me! The Anesthetist is really a special kind of people, they are the center of the patient’s management in the OT yet they usually are less recognized or less prominent. They alone has the power to clear patients for surgery. Their lives revolved around dangerous drugs, you name it, everything is in their hands and under their discretion. Ketamine, Morphine, Midazolam, Propofol, and many other drugs that can make drug-addicts felt he’s in a sure heaven on earth.

The first week of 7.30am till 1.00pm then 2.00pm till 6.30pm makes me wanna scream aloud in my room at 6.30pm when i got back. I didn’t have time to even unpack properly and my room is a mess, i just managed to sweep and clean it but my stuff is still “berantakan”, haphazard! I would slept off just after dinner, or i’ll be too tired i dont have the mood to study. But i have to adapt fast or i’ll be left behind. It’s a cruel world of who does not make it will be left behind. A single mistake and our lecturer will chop our head off, literally la! That is how to say in surgery posting here, you need to be on top of your game, your gun must be fully loaded, your sword must be as sharp as possible.

I didn’t have time to write about my experiences in Indonesia, because of time constraint, i would write in simplified and sweet manner!

do check my flickr account to see my pictures, i uploaded it last week some of 30 gigabytes photos i taken during the 5-week journey. http://www.flickr.com/photos/photo-j/

Bye. Live long and prosper!

Alhamdulillah.

I am safe and sound, in the pink of health, grateful and full of syukur to Allah S.W.T that i underwent a challenging, yet a smooth 5 weeks in Jogjakarta, Indonesia.

Completed my elective study very well, and achieved many of my own personal goals.

An adventurous, intriguing, colourful and enchanting 5 weeks journey, left me with many stories and memories, new realization, and many more.

I heard that many more of malaysian is coming to Jogjakarta in the near future, or many that are still planning to come. I will help as much as i can by writing down here in this blog with everything that i could come up with. Let’s hope i could achieve that feat!