Dryzone Rover

Posted on May 7, 2012 by 志明

After much research for a waterproof camera backpack, I have settled on buying the Lowepro Dryzone Rover which arrived TODAY!

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Why this Backpack?
I find that this backpack is just the right size as a carry-on in an airplane. It has quite a roomy top compartment, which allow me to pack my underwater housing or strobe and also some of my clothes in my portable dry-bag so that they too don't get wet when I am between boat transfers from land to island or island to boat during my dive trips.

Waterproof Base Compartment

This backpack has a waterproof compartment at the base of the bag with ample space for my camera, strobe, macro lens, extra battery, SD cards, battery chargers and other accessories which don't play well with water, especially sea water. Most importantly, the zipper! It's waterproof – TIZIP water seal zipper, which, I must say is not easy to open and close. Need to put my muscles to work when unzipping and also when trying to zip shut! The manufacturer is quite thoughtful in this matter, they have provided strategically placed D-rings for leverage.

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Canon FA-DC58C

Posted on May 3, 2012 by 志明

The adapter has finally arrived. Hmmm…it has a very light plastic feel to it. I wonder whether it can support the weight of the macro lens. Yay! I will be field testing this adapter and the lens bought earlier during a road trip to Gunung Jerai next week.
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Reading Glasses for Canon G1X

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Keith Soon

Check out the new reading glasses I got for my Canon G1X. This should help her see the small and tiny critters underwater better. I am hoping to get the lens adapter soon so that I can test these out on land.

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Meet my S80 replacement…

Posted on February 29, 2012 by 志明
I have finally made the move from the S series to the G series. After much deliberation … procrastination on which G model to get, G10?G11?G12? I have settled on Canon newest product. The only downside is that there's no accessories available yet…
 
Introducing my 2012 lovely gadgetgirl…

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200th before 40th

Posted on September 8, 2011 by 志明
My 200th Dive Portrait

My 200th Dive at Puri Jati, Bali

The 40th Birthday Cake

40th @ Cititel Penang

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Celcom iPhone 4

Posted on April 25, 2011 by 志明

FINALLY…

The 3 plans for bundling contract are known as Celcom Biz Pi 98, Biz Pi 148 and Biz Pi 248.

More information can be found on SoyaCincau

Hmmm..I wonder if Celcom is bringing in the WHITE model. If not, I think I will wait for iPhone 5 or aifon4ass  cheeky

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Canon Powershot G12

Posted on January 21, 2011 by 志明

Canon Powershot G12 Review: 9. Conclusion: Digital Photography Review.

Woo Hoo! The model I am planning to upgrade to from my current S80. The G12 earned an overall score of 73% and a gold award on dpreview.com. Check it out in the link above.

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Happy New Year, Bloggie!

Posted on January 11, 2011 by 志明

Happy Jee Khong Et Et! Bloogie…I am now back to tinker
with you via our Tinker Gnome page. I have updated you to the
latest verson (3.0.4) which is will make you more secure. Ahhh…it
is good to see that my twenty ten child theme tinkering is working.
The next thing I need to do is to make our comments section secure
from those mindless spam-bots! Going to explore and install the
Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin. Hopefully this will assist
Akismet :smile: Off to more tinkering…

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Safari Dive Trip

Posted on November 27, 2010 by 志明

Hi Bloggie!

I am back from my safari dive trip. This safari took me ~18-24 hours to reach my destination. I had to travel by land, air and sea to get to Malapascua island located in the Visayan Seas in Philippines. My journey started @ 7.30am in Penang on Nov. 16 and I didn't arrive at my destination until Nov 17 around lunch time! It is a loOooong journey. My first check-out dive was at 4:26p.m. I went to a max depth of 13m with avg depth around 7.6m for a total dive time of 42 minutes. The following day, the dive was at 6 a.m. to go shark diving – to see the Thresher shark. Goodness! On a normal working day, I've not even woken up at that hour yet, except maybe to pee and then go back to sleep. Anyways, no Thresher was seen because it is already quite late based on island time. The Sun is already up & shining very brightly by the time we reach the dive site – Monad Shoal. Lots more details in my dive log.

This safari trip is a learning trip for me both in diving and also my underwater photography – trying to get my brand new strobe to talk to my old Canon Powershot S80 camera (2005 model !!!). I found out that I cannot set my Strobe to TTL if I set my camera to manual mode. My camera is old…time to upgrade to a S95 or G12! :smile:

Oh Yah! I have uploaded my video of the Thresher shark to YouTube. Photos? I'm currently sorting and cropping my photos for uploading. Once I'm done, the photos can be seen here or in my picasa web album.

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Swizz, Be Sold a Pup, Gaffed, Gipped, Gypped

Posted on November 15, 2010 by 志明

Damn! I've been gipped! I should have smelled out the fat-ass gay male rat instantly when the obnoxious species requested anxiously for the deposit. Subsequently, the avoidance tactics like not providing me with the receipt, talking to the shop directly, and the misdirection by using his cousin as an excuse.

Lesson learnt! What goes around will come around, that is my believe. Hope to recover me moolah soon.

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