Category: General

Goodbye And Hello

Wuan was here for the weekend and we went shopping for a new camera. I traded-in the Canon EOS 500 with had an oily shutter together with the EF35-80mm and EF80-200mm zoom lenses which had uninvited colonies of fungus residing in them.

Wuan kept asking me if I would be shedding tears as I parted with them. At that moment, I was too ecstatic with the Nikon Coolpix 3100 that was beckoning me. As I am blogging this, I am feeling pangs of sentimentality. I have had the camera since October 1995. It is a pity that cameras do not keep well in tropical climates unless they are properly stored. I am still learning the functions of the Coolpix 3100 and will post my comments as soon I figure out how it works.

After 10 years listening to sounds from a pair of first generation Creative speakers that came with the Sound Blaster 16, I have finally upgraded to an Altec Lansing ATP 3 2.1 speakers. Never mind I am still using the Sound Blaster 16; this nifty little package pumps out sound with fidelity much better than my Pioneer hi-fi. Wuan bought it in Kuala Lumpur and lugged it all the way to Penang. What a gal!

Now, please excuse me while I go play with my new toys, and scrimp for the rest of the year for these moments of silly indulgence.

The Liberator

The Iraqis are so lucky. They have a guardian angel that is looking over them. He sends an army to liberate them from an oppressive tyrant and also to seek and destroy weapons of mass destruction stashed there. He rains missiles and bombs on their cities with his weapons of mass destruction so that he can rebuild it from the rubbles that he has created.

He has confiscated their country?s assets in the United States and taken over their oil fields and oil terminals and plans to use the proceeds to finance the post-war reconstruction of Iraq with corporations short-listed from his own country. Perhaps he will also introduce to them the democracy that has served the Americans for over three hundred years, to respect human rights and the legal system where no one is guilty until otherwise proven beyond reasonable doubt.

The Iraqis are so lucky. They must really be thankful to this man who has such good foresight to unshackle them in an all out war called Operation Iraqi Freedom and then help rebuild the infrastructure and other whatnots that he has bombed to kingdom come with their own money. Who needs Saddam Hussein when they can have George W. Bush?