Introducing the fuji finepix F100fd, the Sigma DP1, and the Ricoh Caplio GX100

All three wide angle point and shoots with aperture and shutter speed priority modes, and the sigma with the largest sensor on the planet, basically a DSLR in a pocket format.

I’m pretty sure god made that camera.  and i want it.

check out the comparison here.

I’ve been anti-TV since 2000.  

Why?  Music rocks so much more.   And in this day and age we feed ourselves news, information, film and so on. We choose.

Even after I gave up the resistance and bought an old TV off my mate Khalid, I never ever have it on unless I’ve seen a listing on Radiotimes.  

A few things that have helped me greatly in streamlining my life (not that i’m anywhere near it!):

Lovefilm DVD rental al

Google calendars + Remember the milk  texting me 5 minutes before a deadline/task and emailing me 12hrs before and appointment 

NetGator/Netnewswire News aggregator

Optimus Tactus keyboard This keyboard can do anything because it doesn’t have physical keys.  You install the keyboard program which then switches the interface.  Drool!!! 

Just the solution to an ever-merging string of weekends - a chronicle, so no one weekend is forgotten by the brain of Cheryl (that’s me, by the way), stuffed so full of knowlege, wisdom and processing power that mere logging of events has to forgivably take a back seat. Let’s just say I support the efficient use of technology and processor units-of-operation.

Since this is going to be a long entry I expect thine eyes to glaze across the following passage without taking any notice and in that knowlege I shall rest assured my narcissistic journal writing be mostly private.
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Pizza making with Yu yu!
Yu yu decides to make pizza after a hard week at work. Abstentees: Beth and Gareth. All the week’s stresses have been released into the dough and it has been kneaded to a silken pulp. Rise, o fair dollop, in the privacy of the boiler cupboard. Roll. We then offloaded the entire kitchen fridge onto these glorious dough dishes, and baked the hell out of them. My super thin pizza rises exponentially due to the overzealous addition of those cute little yeast granules by an overzealous pizza pusher.

Lord of the rings. I found the entire fellowship of the ring an epic (beautifully filmed) comedy, due to the fact that I’d watched this

before ever watching any cinematised Tolkien. Agad, a trilogy of Elijah’s Wood venturing into the buttcrack of doom to destroy the ring. Ouch.

Oriental City, Edgeware. Ian introduces me to Oriental city, a place I should have long visited. We join David and Brian for a feast at the food court, where I had Chai Dau Kway (Fried carrot cake with egg and Chai por) which was gorgeous but slightly salty. A thick Chendol (Coconut milk with starch noodles and palm sugar) to wash it down with. They say, your most sinful dish should be breakfast. So it was! I was one bean sprout away from regurgitating onto my new aquaintences.

Irish Andy and Anita’s birthday at a new cocktail bar by the name of Hidden Julep, at London Bridge. Present: Beth, Tom, Yu yu, Angela, Kevin, Rishi, Bivu and a heap of familiar names and faces from the GKT massive. I trigger happy with my XA1 that i “want to run a roll of film through before ebaying it off”. The outcome of triggering happy shall be shared with you as soon as I de-idiotise myself. More later. Idiocy of such magnitude deserves its own blog entry. The joint birthday party was great fun, especially so after four vodka martinis, when house music became less of an issue with my house-averse self. Twirl.

Before crashing out at Yu’s, finish off the gorgeous Beef rendang from the makcik at O-city. 101% mindblowing flavour!

Singapore short films, curated by Boo Jun Feng, at the Singapore High Commission. It was an interesting showcase of eight short films, and a great opportunity to contemplate the growing attention that Singaporean film is receiving from the rest of the world. I support! I especially liked Zo Gang by Jacen Tan and The Mole, by Victric Thng which everyone agreed was very Tim Burton.

After some chilling with Angela, Tom and Yu we decide to leave him to his new (gorgeous!) guitar and head our seperate ways. Tom to Warwick, Angela to East Dulwich, and myself to Gillingham. Rain.

In october 2007 there had been a campaign to repeal section 377a of the penal code, which was introduced in 1938 to criminalise ‘gross indecency’ between men.

After an extensive refinement of the penal code, the parliament decided to retain the section, albeit not actively enforcing it.

Singaporean prime minister Lee Hsien Loong states the PAP’s view here, in a lovely pink shirt.

For more, a good summary of the mini saga on Channel News Asia can be found here.

…is up and running!

The other day while driving I was accosted by some kids cycling around the car, and one of them kicked it. My instructor jumped out the car and they ran away hurling obsceneties. They need a slap.