40d/450d/d80?

on a silent nite like this... when everyone left our place after the party ends... when megan and joelle are fast asleep... i began to look at the photos i took with a dslr camera when we were visiting felicia last week (thanks to miranda, who painstakingly emailed me all the photos till 2:30am...)... the camera i tested on, is a canon eos 450d... i'm going to get my first dslr camera soon (and joelle promised to sponsor $500 as an early b'day gift)...

problem is... is it going to be:

- canon eos 40d @ ~$1599

- canon eos 450d @ $1099

- nikon d80 @ $1588

its going to be my first dslr camera, and so, an entry level should be sufficient... afterall, first time driver dun usually get a mecede as their first car right?

so, my eyes were kinda fixed at the eos 450d... afterall, these are the pictures i took with an eos 450d...

like i said before, you can't do this with lumix... there are lotsa bloggers who got pretty nice shots on their bloggie... say, jason who uses an eos 40d, leonny who uses her hubby's nikon d200 and i simply adore this and this shots she took, ed who uses nikon d40 mentioned to me once to go 4 it!

problem is, there are so many 'it's that i'm not sure which 'it' to go for...

even thou i'm kinda 'hooked on' the eos 450d model... keke...

x-mas eve 2008

finally its x-mas eve! one more shot at the presents before the party starts...

yes, we're holding a party today for the family... we ordered buffet from neo garden and here's the food...

牛油虾 and 罗汉斋

酸甜鱼片 and 咖哩鸡

佛钵飘香 and 火腿拼盘

苏东油条 and 扬洲炒饭

 

and how can we miss out the log cake?

megan finally get to show off the dress my dad bought for her... and this is serene, joelle's sil, also the mum of nicky and valerie... and they are not here today... touring malaysia with their aunt... :(

and i dun know who got this hat for megan... but she looked cute on it thou... nice...

ok, lets unwrap megan's present... i know its not boxing day yet, but hey, we all got to work on boxing day k? we dun have a strong work union here in singapore, so boxing day is not a privilege for us...

megan's first x-mas present is also her first 'study' table and chair... merry christmas to you darling... and to all of ya too...

eve of x-mas eve 2008

on the eve of x-mas eve... mood suddenly got lifted up a great deal... and maybe its because i get to meet up with rek... yes, he's back to singapore for a few days, and we met up during my office lunch hours... talked alot over lunchie, i meant, got 1 whole year of updates to update each other wor...

oh ya, rek, do think twice before going to the singapore flyer this weekend, after what happened today...

haiz, give up... mrt like that, now flyer also like that... kaoz...

 

oh ya, i was saying, its that time of the year soon... on the eve of x-mas eve, we finish up our last minute shopping, and get all the presents wrapped up and tugged them all nicely under the x-mas tree...

and megan, can't get her hands off the tree... or rather, the decorates on the tree...

taa-daa... our little present for our little megan on her first christmas! now, did i said little?? keke...

no dear, we open christmas presents on boxing day k?

now, get off your present! its not cheap... :P

and now, all the gifts under the tree... ghee, this year got lotsa present wor...

oh ya, finally the 3 presents are wrapped up for bernice, gabby and nicky... guess who did up the santa origami?

looks like a fun x-mas coming up this year... no wonder megan's all smiles...

watch this space...

cuz, ningmengcha is getting its first nuffnang advertisement campaign!

the campaign "EDB (Engineering courses) SS" will be running from 4th till 10th jan 2009... 2 more weeks to go, like i said... watch this space!

c-reactive protein

went on a 3 days course this week... i would say, the best 3 days i ever had for the past few months, cuz no need to go back to office... leave everything at the back of my mind... but good things always never last long...

 

i dread at the idea of returning to work the next day... dread of the pile of sh*t on the desk waiting for me... just when i convinced myself not to think of work, and enjoy the last few hours of moment before returning to work on wednesday... someone from office called me...

VeryTupid: hello kf?

Me: yes...

VeryTupid: tonite concourse got electric shutdown leh... how ah?

Me: what the... today? now then they tell us?

VeryTupid: yalor... i just got the concourse management email leh... how ah? MIS going to send email inform everyone?

Me: did they say only common area shutdown or whole building?

VeryTupid: ok, i read the email to you ah... (reading from the email...) ... to inform tenant that there will be power shutdown on 17th nite till 18th morning january...

Me: wait wait, you say 17th january?

VeryTupid: yalor...

Me: hello... today is 17th DECEMBER leh...

VeryTupid: oh... yahor... heng ah, not today...

Me to GOD: what have i done wrong for you to punish me like this?

and this also serve as a warning to anyone intending to sit their office premise in the concourse... they do power shutdowns biyearly... during my 2 years working at suntec office, i dun even know what is power shutdown... and the stupid concourse keep having power shutdowns...

 

and then, my greatest fear came true... in the morning, joelle mentioned that megan feeling kinda warm... and in the afternoon, her nanny called joelle saying megan's temperature gone up to 39 degrees... the saddest thing is, we couldn't go back... so nanny bring megan to a GP and got some fever medicine... and in the nite, megan's fever didn't go down at all... and so, we took a day off the next day on thursday to bring megan down to tmc for a checkup...

in the end, we spent almost a day at the hospital to do blood and urine test for megan... she kanna inflammation... and so the fever... see, never go to GP, they don't know anything one... especially for infants, its better to have a thorough check then to have a GP peaking down her throat and say its ok... kaoz...

while waiting for the test results, we visited felicia, joelle's cousin, who just delivered her baby... and guess what, she's in the same ward as the one joelle stayed when megan arrived... the newly arrived angel's name is phoebe... and megan is jealous when joelle carried phoebe and leaning over to demand joelle to carry her... haa...

oh btw, i finally got a feel of a dslr camera (joelle cousin's canon)... i happily snapped some shot and showed joelle the results... and she marvelled at the pictures i took wor... it seems my dslr dream camera is materialising soon... keke... (miranda, please send over the picts fast fast...)

 

and so, end of story? no way... megan's temperate still soaring high the whole nite and all of us couldn't sleep well... in the end, joelle fall sick today and i still got to drag my ass to office...

 

hope megan can recover fast... and her fever has to subside by this sunday, else we got to go see doc again...

 

and... ending this post, with this pict of megan... thanks to cindy for this nice little santa cap...

darling... get well soon... daddy's heart cannot take it liao...

 

btw, it c-reactive protein thats causing megan's fever...