Leah’s Cafe

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My digital camera retired beginning of this year after 5 years of faithful service and I have been using my sister’s Sony Cybershot off and on for taking photos for the blogs. I returned to her last week since she grumbled that her camera stayed with me more than with her.

I have hesitated to get a new camera because we have a digital camera and a Handycam, but are with hubby right now. As a picture speaks for a thousand words, I felt quite handicap trying to blog without a camera. I cannot tahan(stand) being camera-less for another 2 months till he comes back here! Am thinking of getting a point and shoot camera that is not too expensive for the interim time.

My budget is below RM1k. What kind of camera is functional and within that budget? Where can you get good bargain for cameras? I have wanted to go scouting for the camera for the past few weekends but was not able to, hopefully can do it next weekend! I have paid extra attention to those flyers that came with the newspaper, look like they are quite a few choices for below RM1k, but are they good or functional ? Do you have any experience with any camera within this price range? What will be your suggestions and recommendations?

Was interviewed by a reporter from one of the Chinese dailies on “dyslexia”. She wrote up an article about “dyslexia” that published on 16 June, in the Malacca section of the Newspaper. From our conversations, I knew she didn’t know much about “dyslexia”. Though I expected her to research before she write the article, I provided her all the information that I have, either from the Internet or books. Despite the 30 pages of information I gave her, her misconception of “dyslexia” showed and scattered throughout the write-up, it is so annoying!

The thing I dislike the most is: she put words in the quote, as though I said them. The most embarrassing part was: she asked me what was my qualifications (she had my business card, she could have just take a glance). I told her I have a Bachelor degree in Maths and Physics, a masters degree in Mathematical Physics. Since we were talking about educational issue, I told her that I was once enrolled in a doctorate program which I did some educational research but I didn’t complete the doctorate program, and am currently doing a diploma in Montessori Education. She wrote that I have a PhD in Child Development, casted me as a liar to people who know me. Pengsan

It seems to me it didn’t matter what you said in an interview, this reporter came with a set mind and wrote what she thought I said. She didn’t tape record our conversation and took down minimal notes. Which reminded me of what my youngest brother experienced many years ago, he was the top scorer in his school, and the newspaper “interviewed” him and published that he wanted to do medicine or pharmacy after 6th form, and my brother was “When did they interview me?” Terror? The reporter could even wrote up a story without interviewing the person involved.

It’s pain in the butts, but gotta learn the lesson! Which reminds me, have the journalist send you the write up before they publish it! Actually, I would just volunteer to write the article if I knew she is so unprofessional. :-)

*** I have since put back the nofollow in the comments.

I have removed the nofollow on my blog. You may not know that when you leave a comment on a blog, a “no follow” tag is automatically inserted so that the link is NOT spidered by search engines. Therefore when you leave comments on blogs that aren’t using Do Follow yet, it wouldn’t increase backlinks in the search engine.

To make it easier for all of YOU to find blogs that are using Do Follow, I’m joining the “D List“. Not only can you visit the blogs on this list, leave a comment, and get a REAL link back to your site (because they’re all using Do Follow), you’ll increase links to your blog by adding your blog to the D list.

This DoFollow Blog list is courtesy of Courtney Tuttle and was created originally by Coleen as the D-List.

Previously when 56K dial-up was the only Internet service available, dad didn’t get online very much. But things changed since ADSL became available to the village two months ago. Every weekend when I was home, brother HS would be on his laptop and dad would be on the desktop, the computer addict me couldn’t even get near to the computer until they went to bed. This weekend, Streamyx was down since Saturday morning, HS kept calling the service provider to report the interruptions, dad kept asking him to call too. But, they did get over it and get more social later as everyone was at home this weekend.

At least once a month, all my siblings would be gathering at my parents’ place. Though older brother, his family and I who live half an hour distance away, the regulars would be there almost every weekend. This weekend, Pauline, my ex-roomate and now my sisters’ friend came down to visit us too. We had our favourite Hakka Lei Cha for breakfast. Pauline though is not Hakka had acquired the love for Lei Cha since she came to visit my family for the first time 10 years ago.

In the afternoon, we went downtown with Pauline. Poor Pauline though came to visit us regularly, but we have not brought her to the weekend tourist trap market. As Malaccans we dragged the weekend tourists traffics and the parking woes, we would avoid going downtown if we could. My sister’s friend, LH was so enthusiastic about showing us this coffee place that she found featured coffees from all the Malaysian states. She volunteered to do the driving, so we obliged.:-)

LH is a school teacher, she got a 25% raise during the recent salary adjustment of government servants. She wanted to give us a treat, but we all had lunch at my parents’ place before we went out, so we took rain checks from her. Anyway, we changed our mind about coffee when we were at Jonker Walk, we had Cendol instead and camwhore around a bit. But hor, my two sisters very fierce one, they will kill me if I put their pictures up here, so they warned.

A weekend without internet was not so bad, with friends and family around.:-)

Saw this at Hijack Queen’s blog that I have been a silence reader recently, thought it’s such a cool idea, so decided to check out blog of tnchick, who started this photo hunters.

You can visit tnchick’s blog to find out more information and the rules. I am joining the list of 300++ people for the fun of photo hunting, though I am a point and miss half pass six photographer.:-)

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