The Leica M8

The first-ever digital range-finder in Leica's long-running "M Series"—famous since launching in 1954 as the gold standard for serious photographers and wannabes alike—this new model is an entirely different animal from the rebadged Panasonic Lumixes also sold under the Leica name.

This is the Rolls Royce of the digital age of cameras ~ Leica M8, 10.3 megapixels & low-noise CCD image sensor.

Screwed

The laptop crashed big time, the system couldn't get the the HD to be bootable or mounted. And the techs at Sony says - "To do a OS recovered i.e. reinstall and wipe out all data." Done that, but the HD still have HD parameter error(s) that's causing the system to lag big time, it's a real pain.

HD data temporary gone, until recovery...
Files in limbo...
Screwed.

Study mode...

"The lectures go according to the theories and studies made by famous people in the past, and you aren’t really encouraged to go out and find new things, but first to stuff yourself with the “basics” which are the books written in the past. In contrast, the anthropology courses in Japan encouraged us to find new topics within our current society and do research on our own. Of course we would read books, but we do not analyse the placings of the theories of the books within the context of the history of anthropology unless it’s the history of anthropology class. And our research extends to our daily lives, from newspapers to television to magazines to comic books to literature to traditional festivals and ancient dresses to random exhibitions, all the media that surrounds us are our research materials, and I was always looking out for interesting study related things on daily basis. The British way will gain you lots of knowledge on one particular topic." ~ Yuki

Bobby's Taproom

Just back from the reopening (grand opening according to its new owners) of the now renamed Bobby's Taproom, the new interior revamp didn't seem all that alluring.

But I did come face to face with Wendy Cheng aka xiaxue.blogspot.com
My... she does look a little like... I guess you all know what she looked like, heh.

Anyway all shortcoming notwithstanding, I'm already not talking about Wendy here.
Bobby's grand opening by it's new owners was nice in a way, in that the drinks were constant and free - so was the spread of food.

Met up with a guy, who worked at in the local production unit at Disney's Singapore broadcast centre, I dun quite recall the location of the broadcast center...

KaiXing is the only name I remember from tonight, an AE at RappCollins handling the Kai account...

Maybe there might be a KM8 followup, but these things hardly ever get organised.

Beyond the Sea

Beyond the Sea is a biopic about the life and times of Bobby Darin.
Both wonderfully directed and performed by Kevin Spacey.
Loved the jazz big band arrangements and the fact that Spacey actually did his own singing (an uncanny imitation), Spacey is a marvel.
Though the movie did not quite take off for me, perhaps because I had such high expectations for it, but there's a quote I quite like ~
"People hear what they see"

Another sweet find is one of the songs in the movie ~ Dream Lover, only because I vaguely remember it when I was much much younger.

Dream Lover
Ev'ry night, I hope and pray
A dream lover will come my way
A girl to hold in my arms
And know the magic of her charms
...