Going the Distance - a romance & comedy movie

I still can't believe I went for this movie few days back, as previously I'm not the type of person can watch this kind of 'unknown' movie (because I totally never heard this movie before) late at night, and guess what, I even watch this movie at Gurney Plaza - Penang most famous shopping mall which located at the most traffic jam area.

Queue up, and finally I holding the movie tickets in hand, I'm still asking what is this movie about, and I get blank info for this movie, and just walk towards the cinema with full of question mark round and round on my head, I just hope I wouldn't fall asleep, or walk out the cinema before the movie end.

Flip over the movie ticket, I found one red stamp sign on the ticket: "For above 18 only", something came to my mind is either this movie contained a lot of sexual (18SX) or violent (18PL) scenes. Mmm...interesting!

Surprisingly, I laughed within the first 10 minutes, and I can confirm this is a comedy movie as the dialog are just funny, and make you have no other choice but laugh.

Synopsis:

a terrible guy named Garrett (Justin Long) break up with his girl friend because he not even understand why a girl still expect a present during her birthday even though she said : "..no, you don't need to buy anything for me..".

He was sad, gather around his room mate and a best friend, having a man's talk in a bar, with a lot of beer. In the bar, this is where he meet Erin (Drew Barrymore) at the "Centipede" game machine.

After the drink, they were sleep together, and they thought they can just treat this as 'one-night-stand', but they couldn't. Garrett still date Erin even he been told that she just have another 6 weeks in New York, and she'll be back to San Fransisco to continue her studies afterwards.

6 weeks past, they knew they already fall in love to each other seriously, and that's how they decide to maintain this long distance relationship. It isn't easy as they thought: time difference, distance, trust, ....

I'll give 6/10 stars to this movie. If you think you haven't laugh out loud for a long time, then you can consider this movie. :-)

Confused by the Nikon free calender

This week (weak) I'm just 'sick', head always spinning round and round; and my mind always turned into 'Sleep Mode' like the Windows Vista or Windows 7.

Why? This is a 'no-answer-question' to me as well. What I can think of is time for my body to have some 'maintenance'. One the way that I can think of to get rid of this 'sick' feeling is REST (= sleep). It has been a decades that I never sleep for more than 10 hours since my scouting life during high school; surprisingly I did it on the past Wednesday, which consider a movie day for many youngster, but I have 'recharge' myself for one whole night.

Thursday morning, I feel better. Maybe psychologically feel that I suppose to feel better after the long rest; but seems I was wrong...

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Discussing about the Langkawi trip with colleagues, and Malaysia Day which held on 16-September-2010 holiday was brought into the topic as well. One of the colleague told me it is on Thursday; after take a look to my desk calender, I correct her it suppose fall on Monday, not Thursday.

Everyone were just look at me, and ask me whether I look at the August one but not September. Their statement rendered me stunned as my eyes still reflecting the big bold words "SEPTEMBER 2010" from the calender, but I just don't know why I was wrong? Am I over-rest? or something went wrong from me?

At that moment, I'm blank, and just subservient to counter-check the calender again and again. Finally, I found that I was right, and at the same time I was wrong; but at least, i got the answer. :-)

Take a look at the date: after 12-September-2010, it jump to 16-September-2010. The following week, after 19-September-2010, it jump to 23-September-2010.

Yeah, it is the calender's fault.

真爱，不是以“热恋”来衡量的

经过了整26年的人生旅程，看过也经过不一样的爱情旅程，多多少少也会有所领悟！我很喜欢读读类似以下的文章，不一定赞同，但是肯定可以让我以不同的观点来看看同样的事。

这是一篇偶然在面子书（Facebook）发现到的短文，先让大家读读吧！

我们知道，爱是一种无私的付出和牺牲，爱的回报就是对方的永远快乐和幸福，如果你爱对方，那么你会因为对方快乐而快乐，因为对方幸福而幸福。无论是婚前的热恋中还是婚后的平淡生活中，只要你是真的爱对方，只要你为了你们的幸福生活而努力付出，那么天长地久的爱情就在你的身边，不是你拥有了天长地久的爱情，而是你创造了天长地久的爱情，难道这不是更好吗?

很多情侣，觉得爱情就非要爱得轰轰烈烈、"You jump, I jump!" 那样子。其实那些都是错误的想法！说得白一点，在爱情里有受过伤害的，肯定会知道，其实一段爱情会以不一样的时间点，被分为不同的阶段：

i）热恋

两人开始恋爱，彼此都想就此融入对方的心里，感觉这个世界就只属于两人共有。是一个最让人忘怀的阶段。

ii）被恋

过了热恋的阶段后，两人感情也步入较稳定的区域。这时候，肯定会有一方觉得是时候给与自己、对方多一点时间 来完成想要达成的事。但是，往往另一方会觉得不习惯，觉得他/她不那么爱自己了，会情不自禁的做了很多事，为的是想要维持之前的热恋激情而导致两人思想不一。这阶段很危险，也很容易发生冲突、意见不和、甚至是闹分手。

iii）自恋

如果能够通过第二个阶段，请暂时把你的“放心、开心”留在门外，因为第三个阶段是‘被恋’的升级版。两人如果可以在第二个阶段达到共识，接下来就会自然地要求给与彼此更多、更大的自主空间。这是一个极度危险的阶段，因为在这么一个独立的阶段，很容易被第三者，或是其他因素例如：思想以及目标的改变，而导致终日吵吵闹闹，最后走到分手下场。

iv）恋爱

能够走到这个阶段，才能真正体会到什么是爱情。两人可以互相扶持、信任，一起开创属于你和他/她的生活，拥有圆满的爱情。

其实，以上的名词都是从以下英文名词所得之:

- codependent，counterdependent，independent，interdependent

许多情侣都捱不过第二个阶段，导致分手后也会怨曾经爱过的那么一个他/她，那可是非常可惜的事！还没有恋爱的，或是在恋爱中的，要记得：一段感情的失败，并非只是他/她的错、不足，而是两个人的事；你没有资格怨恨他/她，因为你自己也必须负一半的责任。

“...这里是很危险的，你还是快点回去火星吧！”- 这是周星驰在电影[少林足球]里其中一个超经典的一个对白。往深一层想：地球这个养了上千上万种的人，很容易会因为不了解、体谅而产生冲突；即使是同肤色的，也可能因为误会而又斗争。这么看来，地球确实是很危险的...

How to check the Shutter Count for a DSLR?

A very serious price deterioration for DSLR nowadays. Most probably this is the consequences of the 'price war' between Canon & Nikon.

Few months back I'm shocked by my partner - Bob, about the Nikon D90 body only price dropped till plus minus RM2450. Compared to last year, price drop for around RM400, which create more and more so call photographers nowadays.

The price drop also giving me a chance to upgrade my camera to Full Frame DSLR, of course, I support only Nikon. Before I get my D700, I have to let go my D90. That's why I create a free advertisement at Muday.com.my - one of the very popular free ads site.

Within 3 days, I received more than 20 SMS to ask for the price negotiation for my D90. However, before they start negotiate, definitely they would like to know one most commonly asked question:

"What is the number of the shutter count?"

Although I may not honest to myself all the time, but I feel no point to cheat the buyer. Therefore, I sent them one URL with 1 latest photo taken from my D90 to show them the exact shutter count of my camera.

#1

1. Check the radio button 'From file', and select the latest photo capture from your camera/DLSR.

2. Then click 'View image from file', and wait for approximately 1min, if your photo size is more than 1.5MB (some slower, depending on your internet speed)

3. Afterwards, you'll see the some basic information of your camera, settings, and etc.

4. From here, you'll know the camera's age as well. Just refers to [Date], you'll see how long the camera has been used.

#2

To view the Shutter Count, simply press 'Ctrl-F' and search the word 'Shutter', it will lead you to the 'Shutter Count' info.

Very simple isn't it? You may save this link to check the Camera's age and Shutter Count when you want to buy a used camera/DSLR.

Start to check this out!!

http://regex.info/exif.cgi/exif.cgi

是晴天？

乌黑的天终于有望转晴了,

心中的巨石也轻了一大半..

因为之前预测不到的暴风，

导致现在的我还心有余悸，

虽然心已松但却留了阴影..

是时候要克制自己的心魔，

也是时候为未来有所行动，

更应该减少对自己的疑惑，

又或是他或她的过去事迹..

我恢复了以前早睡的习惯，

也恢复了之前早醒的良习，

总觉得早醒的脑袋特别清，

清晨吃的早餐也特别美味，

对着翠绿的花草我也笑了..

我想，这就是了...

我的外甥 - 振翼，可爱吧！