Crab Dinner

Crab Dinner
Originally uploaded by Kirby Ong.

Just had dinner at Long Beach Seafood Restaurant at IMM.

Think Tanks are here!

T K Foto Technic has been appointed the official distributor for Think Tank Photo Products. And i'm one of the few who have made my purhcases from them. Good prices & good services so those of you who are looking for digital camera and accessories, feel free to contact them. They are open from Mondays to Saturdays. Operating hours are 10am to 7pm (Mon. to Fri.), 10am to 6pm (Sat.) closed on Sundays and public holidays.


My Think Tanks


The Chimp Cage - Fits nicely most DSLR/SLR bodies with/without battery grips. If you plan to use the thick camera straps such as thise from OpTech, it would be a tight squeeze. Front has 2 pockets suitable for body cap, lens cap and media cards.


LC 75 Pop Down - This is one pouch you can put a long lens such as the Nikon 70-200mm/f2.8 VR with the lens hood attached without having the reverse it because the pouch can be exteneded to accomodate the lens hood. Comes with a rain coat for extra protection during rainy days.


Large Lens Drop In - Fit for my Nikon 17-35mm/f2.8 with the lens hood attached. Now i am able to access the lens faster without having to detach or reverse the lens hood. Comes with a rain coat tucked at the bottom.


Lightning Fast - Replaced my original Nikon flash pouch with this. Have a zip compartment to store batteries Comes with a rain coast too.


Modulus Pouch and Pro Speed Belt - This belt is for the my above pouches which i have bought. The pouches can be slided when attached the belt unlike my previous Lowe Pro belt which requires their pouches to be attached into loops. The one from Think Tank allows the user to either to be attached into the loops to prevent from sliding or just loops it over the belt for easy sliding.

So what are you photographers waiting for? Get them while stocks last!

Reapings

Reapings
Originally uploaded by Kirby Ong.

Within one night and travelling multiple places and with the help and generosity of friends, i've got 2 free stuff and an a extremely good offer for 1 of the items, see photo. Only thing is the travelling time and weight. Lugging them from City Hall to Punggol and home.

Expensive keychain

Expensive keychain
Originally uploaded by Kirby Ong.

Just borrowed from my friend his Sony GPS keychain for my upcoming trip. This expensive little will tag my photos with the time, date and location of places where i will be taking my shots in realtime. Now i just have to figure how to work it.

HUGE balls

Went to have lunch at Sun Plaza and decide to have noodles. For S$4, these are about the biggest fishballs i've ever had. And believe me, just eating 3 of them is a already very filling but i still managed to finish everything.

The Leopard Connection...SUXX!

After spending days figuring out why my external USB hard drives were unable to used with my Leopard-Loaded-Apple-Powerbook. People have just began to take notice of this problems at here , there and everywhere. Especially when this one which is posted at the Coolermaster website where most of my portable hard drives enclosures are made from.



And then today i happen to stumble upon this website. It has a link to a updated USB driver for the Leopard issue. So thinking that i've nothing to loose, i've decided to give it a try.



AND THEN IT WORKED! Now the system can detected my thumbdrives and external USB portable hard disk BUT....





...the one with the dual connectors (SATA & USB) hard drives enclosure still did not work. The worse has yet to come. Just before i decide to log off and go to bed and try it one more time to conclude my findings, the thumbdrives and hard drives couldn't be detected by the system again! After i rebooted my Powerbook and gave it one last try, i managed to get them to work but thereafter i'm too tired to try again. I am going to bed after this posting, will do more research until Apple (or whoever is responsible for this), gets it fixed.

Good Signals

Good Signals
Originally uploaded by Kirby Ong.

After wiring it up, my signal on my STB (Set Top Box) is on the normal (watchable) level now. No more screeches and distortion from the tv channels.

Amplify It

Amplify It
Originally uploaded by Kirby Ong.

After facing the "screech TV" and unable to watch any channels properly, i went to a Home Fix shop to pick up a signal amplifier, cost me $55. Let's hope it works.

Screech TV

Screech TV
Originally uploaded by Kirby Ong.

This morning, i tried to watch a decent tv program on cable tv and all i got was frequent screeches and disruption on all the channels. So i looked into the STB (Set Top Box) info, i seem to be having massive signal lost which is causing this.

The First Breakdown

The First Breakdown
Originally uploaded by Kirby Ong.

Not long after the launch of the new Nikon DSLR, D300. My friend happened to be so "lucky" to have picked up a faulty set, out of the box. So much hype and yet a disappointment by Nikon quality checks.