Mitsubishi Motors New Zealand offer SIX Lancer variants.
Starting from the plain Jane ES Manual to the hot RALLIART Turbo, there is a choice for different drivers.
The Lancer ES (top left), the VR (top right) and the RALLIART.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
My Lancer VRX Sportback
In My Auto Love Affair post I promised to tell you how my Lancer VRX Sportback drive and behave, so here...
Mitsubishi Motors New Zealand offer SIX Lancer variants.
Starting from the plain Jane ES Manual to the hot RALLIART Turbo, there is a choice for different drivers.
The Lancer ES (top left), the VR (top right) and the RALLIART.
Mitsubishi Motors New Zealand offer SIX Lancer variants.
Starting from the plain Jane ES Manual to the hot RALLIART Turbo, there is a choice for different drivers.
The Lancer ES (top left), the VR (top right) and the RALLIART.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Heritage Poster of The Star (Malaysia)
Story of the one and only surviving "Star Goes National" promotional poster!
First, for those not in the know, I am quoting Wikipedia:
"The Star is the leading English-language tabloid format newspaper in Malaysia. It is the largest in terms of circulation in Malaysia, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. It has a daily circulation of between 290,000 to 300,000.
The Star is also a member of the Asia News Network.
The Star is majority-owned by the Malaysian Chinese Association, the second-largest party in the ruling Barisan Nasional alliance. Its major competitors are the New Straits Times and the The Sun, both tabloids."
In 1974 I joined the young Star as their first Photo Editor.
In 1974 we had to fight with scores of established English, Chinese and Malay newspapers! Our biggest "enemies" were "The Straits Echo", "The New Straits Times" and their afternoon tabloid, "The Malay Mail"!
Our founder Mr K.S.Choong, who was also the MD and Editor In Chief realised that the only way we can beat the others are by publishing "Scoop News" and "Scoop Pictures".
Choong has the vision to play up good news pictures BIG and that gets the attentions of our readers! Asked any Star readers that live through the 70's and they will tell you we had the BEST pictures!
First, for those not in the know, I am quoting Wikipedia:
"The Star is the leading English-language tabloid format newspaper in Malaysia. It is the largest in terms of circulation in Malaysia, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. It has a daily circulation of between 290,000 to 300,000.
The Star is also a member of the Asia News Network.
The Star is majority-owned by the Malaysian Chinese Association, the second-largest party in the ruling Barisan Nasional alliance. Its major competitors are the New Straits Times and the The Sun, both tabloids."
In 1974 I joined the young Star as their first Photo Editor.
In 1974 we had to fight with scores of established English, Chinese and Malay newspapers! Our biggest "enemies" were "The Straits Echo", "The New Straits Times" and their afternoon tabloid, "The Malay Mail"!
Our founder Mr K.S.Choong, who was also the MD and Editor In Chief realised that the only way we can beat the others are by publishing "Scoop News" and "Scoop Pictures".
Choong has the vision to play up good news pictures BIG and that gets the attentions of our readers! Asked any Star readers that live through the 70's and they will tell you we had the BEST pictures!
Thursday, January 6, 2011
My New Remade Personalised Plates
Two days ago I placed an on line order for a remake of my car's personalised plates to replace the "old" one.
It cost me NZ$20.95 for the remake plates and NZ$9.20 for courier, total; NZ$30.15. I could have saved $9.20 if I waited a day or two for the plates to arrive through "normal" air mail ;)
Well, at least I do not have to pay a whopping RM300,000 (NZ$127,908) by some Malaysian for a political car plate!
This morning I found this slim cardboard box outside of my front door.
My address was blur-out by me, duh ;)
It cost me NZ$20.95 for the remake plates and NZ$9.20 for courier, total; NZ$30.15. I could have saved $9.20 if I waited a day or two for the plates to arrive through "normal" air mail ;)
Well, at least I do not have to pay a whopping RM300,000 (NZ$127,908) by some Malaysian for a political car plate!
This morning I found this slim cardboard box outside of my front door.
My address was blur-out by me, duh ;)Monday, January 3, 2011
G12's Close-Up, Sharp?
Most of you read my rant on how sharp the Canon G7's close-up is ;)
I even showed you a JPEG image I took of a Canadian bumblebee at the beautiful Butchart Garden on Vancouver Island, Canada!
I even blow-up the bee in a 100% crop and show you how SHARP the little zoom lens on the G7 can deliver!
I even showed you a JPEG image I took of a Canadian bumblebee at the beautiful Butchart Garden on Vancouver Island, Canada!
I even blow-up the bee in a 100% crop and show you how SHARP the little zoom lens on the G7 can deliver!Panasonic LUMIX G VARIO 7-14 mm F4.0 ASPH
The Panasonic LUMIX G VARIO 7-14 mm F4.0 ASPH is an ultra-wide-angle zoom lens for the Micro Four Thirds system.
This light weigh and compact lens provide a 35 mm equivalent focal range of 14-28 mm!
At it's 7 mm setting this solidly built lens gave a whopping 114-degree angle of view!
According to Panasonic and I quote:
"This high-performance lens system achieves outstanding compactness by combining 16 lens elements in 12 groups, including two aspherical lenses and four ED lenses.
This light weigh and compact lens provide a 35 mm equivalent focal range of 14-28 mm!
At it's 7 mm setting this solidly built lens gave a whopping 114-degree angle of view!
According to Panasonic and I quote:"This high-performance lens system achieves outstanding compactness by combining 16 lens elements in 12 groups, including two aspherical lenses and four ED lenses.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
MCA 1 plate taken in NZ ;)
This morning, I read with amusement this news item from Malaysia:
Melaka RTD to collect RM1.5m for ‘MCA’ licence plates
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 28 – The tender results for car licence plates bearing registration numbers from MCA 1 to MCA 9999 will be put up for public viewing at the Melaka Road Transport Department (RTD) starting tomorrow.
The Transport Ministry in a statement today, said the results would also be made available at the department’s website at www.jpj.gov.my.
A total of 965 tender applications for the MCA car licence plates were received between November 24 and December 15.
“MCA 1 received the highest bid price of RM300,100, followed by MCA 2 at RM101,000 and MCA 8 at RM88,168,” the statement said.
Melaka RTD to collect RM1.5m for ‘MCA’ licence plates
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 28 – The tender results for car licence plates bearing registration numbers from MCA 1 to MCA 9999 will be put up for public viewing at the Melaka Road Transport Department (RTD) starting tomorrow.
The Transport Ministry in a statement today, said the results would also be made available at the department’s website at www.jpj.gov.my.
A total of 965 tender applications for the MCA car licence plates were received between November 24 and December 15.
“MCA 1 received the highest bid price of RM300,100, followed by MCA 2 at RM101,000 and MCA 8 at RM88,168,” the statement said.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Xmas Turkey, Wellington...
Once a year, Christmas is the time we catch up with close friends and traditionally we always try to roast a turkey :)Through the years, we discovered if we buy our fresh turkey AFTER Xmas day; we can get a real bargain! The best time would be on the 27th of December.
This year however, since we are having a get together on Boxing Day with Boon & Jackie who came back from Brisbane; we went turkey hunting (no weapons needed, duh!) in the morning.
We found plenty of fresh birds at City New World. The price tags tell us the 6kg bird was $125.00 before Xmas and now, on Boxing Day; $68.00!!
We bought two, one for our gathering on the same night and the other for a dinner the next night.
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