cutenessapprovedOnline window shopping.

I have been a Sims game fan for years – from the first to the 3rd one. I just love how you can let your imagination run wild with this game. From simple conversation, to hanging out and jamming with sim friends at a nightclub, shop for plus size maternity clothes, become a business owner etc. So you can imagine how excited I was to hear about Sims 3 pets. It was released in October last year but I just tried it out not too long ago. All I can say is, it is simply awesome! At last, my single Sims won’t have to feel lonely when they can have a pet cat or a pet dog to greet them after work everyday. I just love this game!

If you are like me, who has a memory like sieves, you would know how important it is to have a pen around to jot down important things. I like having pens in every room in the house. I was looking at different types of pen holders to get for my pens when I came across some funny pen holders, which I myself do not mind getting.

As a child, I did not have many toys. Growing up in the 80′s, although there were many toys back then, I don’t even remember having toys.Instead we would turn chairs with casters into racing cars, make match box houses or simply play games that do not require any toys. The irony is, as an adult, I see more toys every day than I did as a kid hence all the pictures I took about toys. I just notice this when I was going through the folders of the pictures I took the past few weeks.

Here are a few:

Don’t know why I took these pictures, but I just did. Perhaps just a combination of my love of taking pictures and the love for cute things.

I’ve been having the Canon A3200 is for nearly a month now. A small, compact camera that I carry in my bag everyday to work, to shop for groceries, or even out for dinner. Below are a few sample pictures I took using the camera.

The only qualm I have about the camera is that it processes a little slow. It can be because of the SD card that I’m using which is a 4gb class 4. Or it can be the processor itself. In case if you are wondering what mp I used for the pictures, I usually use lest than 14 Megapixels because I know there is not much point to have such huge Megapixels unless if I’m going to print them out onto a huge photopaper.

Anyway, though I am not too happy about the slowness sometimes but this isn’t such a huge problem for me since I have my prosumer Lumix camera if I want to take pictures of important events. For daily picture taking, this camera is good enough. So thank you to my other half for getting this camera for Christmas. Well, now that his birthday is coming soon this end of January,I should be looking out for potential gifts for him. Hopefully I’d be able to find something as nice as this camera.

I posted about getting the Lumix DMC LS5 sometime ago. A pretty pink, powered with 2 AA batteries camera. With all the nice feature advertised that made me decide to buy it – 14 MP, Optical stabilization, 2.7″  LCD screen and HD video -  I finally had to send it back as soon as the shop opens.

I do not know whether it is that particular camera or all Lumix LS5 is the same. I have a Lumix fz28 and very satisfied with it so I was sure that this Lumix would be the same (well, a little less quality as it is a way cheaper camera than the fz28). However, what a let down. The image is average at best and the interesting thing is, it could not focus close up well. What my Samsung Gio phone camera could do it could not! How can a phone camera be better at focusing? This is a point and shoot camera, so even set on Auto it should be able to take simple pictures nicely. Well at least better than a phone camera. That is all I expected it to do.

So that was the short lived relationship I had with the camera. Right after the 28 trial picture I took, I packed it  and sent it back to Mediamarkt. Good thing that it has a “2 weeks no quibble” policy. They took it right away and asked whether I would like to exchange with something else. Which I did.

I took the Canon A3200 is. I had the Canon A400 and loved it ( I still have it now after 8 years).  I have been using the A3200 for two days now and loving it so far. Will post up some picture soon.