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The DSC-T5 has F3.5-4.4, 3X zoom Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens. The focal length of the lens is 6.3 - 19.0 mm, which is equivalent to 38 - 114 mm.

The reason I bought this baby is of course the look. Slim, petite and elegance. The only downside of the appearance is this baby get a lot of fingerprint as most of the parts are chrome type. But unfortunately it doesn’t perform or delivered well as a digicam. Here is my review after using it for almost half a year now.

First the test subject I would like to comment is a macro subject. Sony T5 does give a good job while taking a macro shot. It can take macro subject up close to 1cm. That is pretty impressive. Perfect for super close-ups shot. Thanks to the built in lens that never pop up, 1cm macro shot is possible. Colors look and everything’s smooth — no noise here. For the normal 8cm shot is great too during daytime.

Coming to the lausy part of the camera Sony T5 does a freaking lausy job with the night mode shot. The camera didn’t take in enough light due to the maximum shutter speed of 2 seconds (most of the digicam in the market are 4-5 seconds), which make things a little darker. One way to bring in more light is to increase the ISO, though that will make the photos noisy. The thing is if you never use flash at night, the subject and background are very blur and soft. If u use flash at night, then the background will all become dark but image still sharp.

The other lausy part is no matter how steady your hand maybe, it will cameout blurry and soft image for most of the night mode you caprture as well as indoor. This maybe due to the small and slim size and there is no VR function. Thus having tripod for night mode and indoor mode is a must. Small cameras mean big redeye, so I am not surprised with the results of the flash shot.

Notice that I didn’t mention common things like shutter speed, aperture, EV etc, this is because this camera is point and shoot type. So nothing much to talk about here. Only some function you can control like White Balance, Iso (Max 400), and focus type.

Coming to batteries performance, it did a pretty decent amount of shot. I am not sure how many shot it can take for a full battery but it lasted 2days for full time shooting with 256mb MSPD while I am holidaying at Kinabalu. Of course the temperature highly effecting the battery life. If the place is cold, then it will only last for a day.

Conclusion.

I love T5 for the design as it’s ultra thin compact, 2.5” LCD screen and good job for macro shot. Normal quality for daylight photo. The downside of this camera? Image are soft, super poor performance at night shot, weak flash and I always accidentally open the lens cover when I slide in my jeans pocket.

My Sony Ericsson P910i is the second latest in Sony Ericsson’s P-series of phones that combine pda functionality with mobile phone technology which was launch back in year end 2004. Recently I went to Sunway to check it out P990i. It cost a whooping RM3500. Though it’s UIQ 3.0, it looks pretty same with UIQ 2.xx.

The front keypad can be removed to reveal the huge 262k internal display, offering a touch screen facility and handwriting recognition as well as a qwerty keyboard. The P910i doesn’t look like a PDA but it has many PDA-style functions. For a sms junkie like me, I spend most of my time tapping message using the front keypad rather than the small qwerty keyboard.

P910i includes an integrated 0.3MP super lausy camera. The camera is pretty useless. So far I haven’t even snap a photo using it. It’s a shame that SE integrated such a lausy camera when on that time O2 have interated 1.3mp camera.

The only thing that I find it rather different from WM is u dun have a flexibility ‘window’ like stuff. For a copy, cut and paste function, using a UIQ will be tap on the document, go to file, then copy and paste. For WM, u just got to tap and hold and copy and paste. Well, I know it’s a minor sruff but somehow I find it rather annoying. For viewing sms, u can just pressing next to read other sms but u got to go out and back to the inbox to open other sms.

For the battery life, I will appreciate very much if SE have those usb charger type. I get very used to charge my phone via usb. Basically I just connect my ex Mini on my PC in my office whole day long. I seldom need to separately charge it. But now, I can’t do it with my P910i. P910i do have a desktop connector from a usb hub but unfortunately it didn’t do the charging part. Anyway, this can be overcome by using a normal charger and connect it to the desktop connector.

Conclusion

The reason I change to P910i from O2 Mini is the keypad. Really! I getting very annoyed using the touch screen to sms. So for sms junkie out there, do not buy a pda phone that are without keypad. Thrust me, those slight keypad are rather troublesome and tedious to use too. Exp:- DOpod 838 pro, O2 IIs etc. Second reason? I got bored on using Mini. Hehe.. Anyway, that is all for my review..

Today was a sorrow day for my company Nepalese. I got an sms on 7:30pm The message goes like this “ Adrian ni Gaj tak bernafas ni. Aku nak pergi Hospital atau Klinik?. One of my Malay collegue sms me. I thought Gaj (Nepalese guy) cannot breathe. Unfortunately he doesn’t breathe anymore. Went to Klinik and saw him lifeless. He doesn’t move anymore. His face, leg and hand already faint colour. The doctor pronounce him dead.

Yesterday, I was talking and joking with this guy. He is so lively at that time. He even jokes with me. No pain, no nothing.

Went to Police Station to report. Carried his body to the police car and bring to HTAR for post mortem. We are all still puzzle why he is dead. Heart attack? Over tired? Still waiting.

Life seems so fragile. He is so lively yesterday. Today he is no more. He is dead. Life is so unpredictable. I pray for his soul to rest in peace. He is a very nice guys to talk to. We will always miss him…

I found this game not bad at all by the famous Square Enix. This game is the first action game that are released by Square. All this while they were producing RPG game namely the famous franchise Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Radiata Story, Kingdom Heart, Grandia and much more.

Dirge of Cerberus is a sequence or more like side story for Vincent Valentine in FFVII. This event took part after FFVII and FFVII:Anvent Children. In fact, Vincent story are quite nice and interesting.

For a third person shooter style game, it found it nice to play. Of course the famous final fantasy cinematic graphic here and there is the most outstanding and solid ground. U will get use to the controller though as first it was a mess. To familiarise the whole controller will be about 30min. This is the first time i know Ps2 controller do have L3 and R3 button. You can actually press inward the anolog controller to select stuff. I though it was only to move and turn around or camera view stuff all this while.

Though i dun quite like the fact that when u died, you will get more exp. Of course some took avantage saying this is indeed a good implementation by Square. As u died, u will restart in new game with more stronger character. I for once does not agreed with this. I find it nicer if you actually kill more enemie to gain more exp like rpg style. I dun like my character to be died anyway. Anyway, diff ppl diff cup of tea i guess..

Overall i like the thrill on this game. It’s quite exciting i may say. The rate of 10, i will give it 8. Maybe i will try Devil May Cry by Capcom on my next game.

I went to watch the grand opening yesterday. Thinking it will be a mess havoc super joke by Jack Black. Unfornutately, that shows never delivers. It is an average so so comedy.

Some of my friends ask me this question. ‘What is life’ Ohh, how lame and how dull it is to answer this type of question. They said life is u r capable of doing whatever you wanted to. To live like in fairy tales with your love one, in some farm, cool nice weather, big garden, flowers around you, green green grass by the river, bird singing, bees collecting honey for you, drink from cool clean river water, all people treat your fairy and understand deep inside you, blah blah blah.

But, OOOPPPSSS here come gravity, oopps here goes reality. Come on la.. For those who are questioning what life is, and still searching for the answer, here let me show you the answer.

Life is you spend more or less 10 years running and jumping naked like nobody business, then u study hard and grows up in another 10 – 15 years. By the time you have spend quarter of your life, you start working ur ass up for 30 years. Then you rest for another 10-20 years before going to heaven or hell. It sounds that simple? Nah, of course when u r 25, you work Monday to Friday before sun rise and go back after sunset and some even work on Saturday, then you rest on Sunday , play golf, games, pat toh and blah blah but to sums up, here is your schedule of life

1^st quarter

Running naked, cry, eat, shit, fight like all kiddo did.

2^nd quater

8am-6pm or 7pm - Work work work.

8pm - TV, Rest, Enjoy life for bout 1 hour

10-11pm - Sleep…

3^rd quarter

See and play with your grandchild if you are lucky, mostly spend ur time alone, maybe a little traveling if your pencen duit allowed.

Well, basically u jes copy and paste the same shit over and over again until you reach 55 years old before 3^rd quarter. Yeah, this is the answer to ur freaking question of what is life. Take it or leave it.

For those who wan to comment and say Ohh, this is not life. You can do a lot of thing like do wat ever you wan, find a job that u like (ohh perrr lissss laa) blah blah, unless you are AP king or Datuk K or rich buggers, then go ahead. This is the typical answer for typical money like most of us.

So, do not be a baby asking bout what is life, stop dreaming and be reality.

Final Fantasy

The most anticipated RPG game of all time. Which RPG enthusiast has never heard before the name of the famous Squaresoft now known as Square Enix? When playing Final Fantasy game, I have a habit of leveling up my main character to level 99, best weapon, armor, magic, etc. It gave me long hours of playing it. Thus my journey as an avid RPG gamer begins….

FFIII

The first RPG I played indeed was Final Fantasy III. Those are the time when we played using Micro Genius. The old school retro RPG game. Thus my love for RPG started off more than 10 years ago….

FFVI

FFVI was the second RPG I played on UFO Disk, Nintendo. It was a splendid game but I couldn’t remember much about FFVI.

FFVII

I had to borrow PS from my friend just to play FFVII. No money to buy PS that time. Who can ever forget the most famous valiant up to today? The super cool long hair guy who weld a long sword. One wigged Angel was his song. Cloud famous Omnislash and Aerith cool song. Ahh, it is so nice.

FFVIII

Gunblade. A sword that build in with gun. Creative idea indeed. Famous guy? Squall Lionheart of course. Boss? I can only remember super tough hidden boss. Ultima Weapon. Phew, up till today him still alive in my ps. I haven’t killed him yet. Too tough for me.

FFVIII.

Master Vivi. The small cute mage. Final Fantasy VIIII brings you back to Alexander era. Fill with Mages and magic. Main character is Zidane. No, not the famous header Zinedine Zidane. Not to forget Kuja too.

FFX

Woo hoo, PS2. The first RPG I played with voice and face expression. Also a borrowed PS2. Haha, what to do, no money buy PS2 mah. This game set me over 100 gameplay hours. The famous Tidus, Yu Yevon stuff. A very nice RPG. I will rate this as 9/10 scale. Why not perfect? I hate the insanely hard to get characters ultimate weapon. I still remember I dodge 100 lighting just to get Lulu ultimate weapon. Tidus chocobo racing within 0:00 time? Forget it! I tried so many time yet I can do it. Alas, I synthesis a weapon out as powerful as Ultimate weapon. With BDL and BHPL, this super sword can deal damage for about 20,000. Yeah. 20k!

FFX-2

This game was an added story for FFX. This is YRP adventure. Nice game and my total gameplay reach 90hours. I did it 100% completion in 1 trial. To be true, this game is pain the neck in order to get 100% completion. I did it with a full walkthrough guide. The famous hidden boss is Trema in Via Infinito. Nailed him down in my first attempt. Only bosses like Omega Weapon in FFVIII stuff that is hard for me.

FFXI

Nope. Never play as it’s an online game by Xbox. For PS2, u got to have Network adapter, broadband, etc.

FFXII

Waiting patiently for the US release. Japanese version already out. The USrelease will be on sometime around October 2006.

Last but not least, Final Fantasy have set a standard for all RPG maker to follow. Some gamer say we are brainwash by the epic of Final Fantasy episode. If Final Fantasy RPG is not Final Fantasy, will the game sell as much and will the game get the most anticipated? I am not sure bout this. But one thing for sure I love Final Fantasy no matter what!

Yesterday, i jes notice that when i close a program in my SE P910i, it nv actually close it. Same like Wm2003SE. U got to use Spb Plus in order to kill the programme. For Symbian UIQ stuff, we need to use Sman. The only free lisence software that will flush away the so called closed programme thus prolong the battery life and memory. Good application software i must say. Thumbs up for the developer. I wonder why Symbian or WM did not come with a programme that really kill a programme itself. There must be a reason in it.

After about a year and half of using O2, the phone is quite nice to use as it’s quite user friendly. After all most of us are all using Window base PC. To start with it, WM2003SE is quite stable device. Just that u got to soft reset at least 3 times a week. A lot of features in it. The only cons that i found using Mini is it doesn;t have a keypad. Thus smsing is not encouraging at all. Forget bout sms while driving when using mini. U can never do that with a vitual keypad. One more cons is all WM2003SE will hard reset if the battery drained out. That is a bad bad stuff too. Other than that it’s all ok. Overall a nice WM base phone.

As now i am using SE P910i. Though it’s quite old model but i found it more nicer in terms of look and the best part is the Keypad. For the flip inside qwert keyboard, it’s totaly a nuisance if you wanna type in the dark. It should have light on the keyboard. What a waste. I can notice that P910i is a bit slower when opening program. Even sms. Maybe because it have tonnes of function in it but utilising only 190mhz processor. Overall, it was a nice phone. I dun install much programme in it as i had enough of all those nonsense program like i use to have in my O2. Now wanna use the phone as a simple tool but still serve as an pda. Doing all the light work. The other cons in P910i is the battery actually drain very fast. I dun know how SE dare to promote their phone stating the standby time is 400 HOURS!!! while u only get merely 48hours or 60hours max. Heard that they say the statement of getting 400 hours standby time is u on ur P910i without sim card and leave it there and nv touch it for 400hours. This is so lame and stupid. Who the hell wanna leave a phone there without sim card untouch? Comment sense pls. They should advertise something more realistic! But overall, i am satisfied with this phone so far. Have been using it for bout 2weeks liau.

Anyway, i am now looking into Nokia 9300i. It have wifi and lot of cool function. Some ppl said i am actually going backwards. Haha. But the biggest cons in 9300i is it doesn;t have Virbrating mode. Yes! No vibrate. So if u put ur phone into silent mood, u won;t know how much ur life is missing. Most probarly, the first word u will received when u finally notice and call them back it "Kaninabu lau !@@!@#$%#" Call u so many time dun wan to answer ah!  So i guess Nokia 9300i or any pensilbox brick lookalike is out of the question.

Dopod 900 might be in my next list. But it is also a super huge bulky brick too. It have loads of feature to offer. But how reliable is still a question. Furthermore it cost a bomb. Might as well i simpan that money to jalan jalan cari makan better..

Okla..thats all for now..

Yesterday went up Genting with 2 of sohai fren. Tiba tiba say wanna go and sekelip mata, we are there on top liau. (5 series mah) This time the different is, this is my first time to Genting…(haha, dun get me wrong, I belum blog habis)As i said, this is my first time went Genting without finding Uncle Lim. Err, it feel a little bit different. Always, there is a huge stress for me to go up Genting, but this time was a pure cool relaxation. Yup, we reach Genting around 11pm jes to lim teh at Starbuck. So freaking cool and we are sitting outside with each one holding Ice Blended drink. Yeah, the 3 stooges. Hmmm.. ‘Ice’…ahem

The next thing u know, we ended up in mamak Genting. First time i know there is someone selling a mee goreng or nasi lemak with the price only RM2.50 at uncle lim teritory. What a shock! Always, it cost me Rm9.90++ for a plate of mee hun goreng at Lao Ti Fang. (the cheapest i can find that time) Damn! Now, i can vist there for budget makan if i am up there again to challenge ‘kau’ Uncle Lim!

So after all the nonsence, funny, stupid, jokes SK story, we finally turun. Reach my goddamn house at 4am. Was so sleepy. Mana tau balik rumah we continue our nonsence conversation till i heard malay praying. Man, it was about 5-6am. When finally all 3 stooges are tired and wan to sleep, there come all kinda of super submarine, train, F1 sound coming our from one of a stooges. Couldnt sleep till 8am when i finally gave up. Too freaking noisy this stooges snore. Curse him Bee Gees.  So i went makan breakfast. This is my first time waking up at 8am to go breakfast. Never do this before for so long liau. Waking up? Nah, i will say i am like a walking Zombie. How to wake up when u havent sleep at all. Reading The Star paper and felt so sleepy at the coffee shop. Went back at 9am and phew, lucky the Bee Gees submarine have awaken. The submarine already starting to play Ps2 at 9am. Mad fellow. Anyway, dunno what shit got into me and i started to climb up and clean my air cond filter. Then finally this 2 stooges went back at 10am. Again, duno what getting into me as i was damn tired and i started to sweep, mop and cuci my room toilet. Man, after that took a shower and it is already 11am. Was goddamn freaking tired that time. The air cond are strating to get very cool after the cleaning and FINALLY, ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Wake up at freaking 5pm. Wallet no cash in it. Went to 4 freaking ATM and all cannot dispend money. Freaking BCB atm card is down. Went back and cook magie makan. What a day. I am gonna call it a day again. Time to sleep! Tomolo kena kerja lagi..aduh..Letih nyeeeeeee