My Nikon is back with Nikon again

Ah yes, recently I got my D70 body back earlier than my kit lens.

My kit lens' repairs requires some parts from Japan that is pending delivery to the service center. Having an itchy shutter finger, I ask to havethe body back first... didn't I blog about this? ... anyhow, attempted to clean my sensor on numerous occasions... in the process I scratched my focussing screen... IDIOT!!!

Well, since my warranty is valid till June this year, I decided to send the body back again hoping Nikon will let me have a new focus screen for free, and I asked for a sensor clean this time (which I found out from Nikon is FOC ... now why did I go and clean it myself? IDIOT...)

On the very same day I decided to send my Nikon body back again, my friendly camera vendor called to tell my my new SB800 has arrived.. Yippee... errr.. but I m sending the body in... after a dilematic deliberation, Aiya.. get it fixed first la....

So I m bodyless, with a new flash, and 2 lens that I can't use till the body comes back...

And my girl finally got a job on the island.... blessing or damnation? Time will tell.

Still stuck in Penang!!! Malaysia is truly a third world country!!!

Rants, Henry, that's all I got!!!

The People I Loath!!!

There are certan folks at work that I utterly despises. Over the year that I have spent/wasted/rotted (pick one) here in Penang, I have heard rants of injustice during performance review, I have seen abuse of "ka-ching-ness" with system administrator to give his work priority over other colleagues, I have received an unsincere wedding invite from him (my prejusice is that he only invited me cuz there were tables to fill and angpow to make up for cost). Basically there are folks in this office that I do not want to have anything to do with.

Perhaps I m just blogging this because my friend told me that I m judgemental about folks that I judge him just by the cover. I may be still partial, perhaps blunt on my coments, but I belive 7 years is more than enuf time to see thru a person.

Perhaps my inability to tolerate bullshit will be my ultimate downfall.

I utterly despise the housemates I have too. Particularly when it comes with cleaniness. What to do, I m not a native in Penang, have to rent, have to share rent, and property in Penang is unreasonably expensive. No matter what they claim, Penang IS NOT a city....

and the Cityboy rants on.

CCD Cleaning... Perhaps should be left to the pros

After about 3 weeks I got my D70 back from Nikon. Well, apparently the sensor was not cleaned. Or was it? From the long wait, I have read thru a many web articles about cleaning the CCD from Dust.

Well, went and tried it. Tried I did. Man, it's tough. I have ran thru about 2 and a half stack of cigerrette paper before I finally gave up.

There were moments when the result was so clean except for tiny bits of specks. Then I went on thinking "hmmm.. one more time will clean that right up"... well, end up putting more dust on it. Then the process repeated a couple of hundreds times.

phew... I think it can still be cleaner. But the flu I m having right now and with my girlfriend nagging me to rest for my flu, I have to save this for another day. Perhaps I never shudda read any of these dust removal stuff.. it's more trouble than helpful.

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