Cam's shakedown cruise.

Yesterday was officially good food day! Together with my dad and David, we went downtown to purchase the family’s new Panasonic Lumix FX 9 digital camera. After we parked behind the courts, my dad suggested:

”You guys wanna eat at the best steak house in KL?”

So we hobbled over to The Coliseum, a really 60s old school café/hotel that specialized in steaks. My dad and I had the sirloin steak set while David ordered the Maryland chicken. Dave was the smart one. His plate was overwhelming with chicken, sausages and what-nots. I even had to help him with ¼ of his Maryland. :P

Anyway, a downpour quickly descended over the heart of KL. So after our scrumptious meal, we ran towards Pertama Complex where supposedly all my uncles from overseas patronized a particular camera shop called Selangor Photographers. It has the lowest prices for cameras. Trust me, my uncles are a very thrifty bunch. They know a good deal when they see one.

Negotiated from the sticker price of RM 1588 to about RM 1330 for the camera together with a 512mb SD card. WoW! Good bargain! The lowest price I have seen so far was at SS2 for RM 1355 with the same free stuff.

He then helpfully ‘suggested’ a spare battery and a ‘LCD Screen Guard’.
“I give you best price for these items if you purchase them together la! Extra battery I give you half price and super LCD screen guard I cut off RM 15. So all together I give you total RM 1500.”

Errr… thinking back now, the seller always has the last laugh in Malaysia after all. :(


This is officially the first photo with my family's new Lumix. Me dad!

Later after that, we took a walk outside the front of the courts where they were showcasing cars. In my opinion, displaying Kancils together with a Mercedes CLS 350? Sacrilegious! I was too scared to unpack the camera from the box so I did not have any pictures of the event. Check David’s blog though. He took pictures of a Mazda 6, a Ducati p0w4hbike and several other classics such as the Aston Martin DB 6.

Later, I went to church to bring the camera for a shakedown cruise.

DUMC's 6.30pm Saturday evening service.

After that, the usual gang (David, Sean, and Mark) together with Adrian’s sister Germaine and Mark's cousin Alex went out for dinner. But their CG was celebrating Justin’s going away to the land of lamb chops (New Zealand) so it was another super meal for me at at a SS2 Italian restaurant next to ESC cyber cafe. They originally wanted to go to some steamboat place but it has been replaced by… ESC! Hahahaha!


From left: Alex, Sean, David, Mark and me! Jun Wei on the extreme right. Germaine too cam shy so she took the picture. :P



Mark, David and Sean's CG. The picture was taken by me!


AntiPasto? Anti-Pest in Italian? Uh-oh...


Afterwards, I went home and played with the camera somemore!


Do you have it in black?




This is my room/family storage area. Any ideas for a makeover?



So nice after renovations!



Fredrick “Little Angel” Tan. More like angel of destruction. My shoes! Waah!
He is probably thinking that the camera I am holding is food or something.

Well that is it for now. Ting tow teh!

"...and we will win this war, with a little help from God and a few Marines."