Damn it’s July already! What happened to the first half of the year?

The July issue is sent for print, which means I have some time on my hands to blog .

The World Cup is really getting into me these days. I know England lost 1-4 to Germany. I watched that in the office with Cheah, streaming from Astro’s site (surprisingly watchable!). He was supporting Germany and I think you can pretty much guess what happened. Yeah, Cheah being Cheah..taunting me like nobody’s business! Hahaha…

This month is going to be pretty quiet I think. No invitations to attend overseas event so far, which means everyone will be in the office wrecking havoc, in a good way.

Oh yeah, a new coffee shop opened right below my office and it’s the very typical (although kinda clean, making it look a little high class), Chinese style coffee shop. We’ve been having lunch there since day one and I think we’ll be having lunch there more often.

Anyway, July is a pretty exciting month (personally) and I think it’ll be a pretty busy one as well. Can’t wait!

My mum came back from the UK recently and brought some goodies back.

Apparently, my uncle in Wales is a camera nut as well. He gave my mum an immaculate condition Nikon D80 with 18-55mm kit lens. That camera is now given to my cousin.

He also gave my mum a mint condition Nikon 70-210mm f4-5.6 AF lens. I claimed ownership of it. The lens is produced by Nikon from 1988 and discontinued in 1993. That makes it a 20 year old lens! It came with a CPL polarizer as well!

The 70-210mm is not exactly the 70-200 f2.8 I wanted but it is long enough for portraits. It’s a non-VR lens so I’ll need super steady hands when it’s at its longest focal length.

I didn’t know it was a push-pull zoom lens. I see the 70mm on the lens barrel and the 70-210mm engraving but I had no idea how to zoom it to 210mm. The aperture ring is also different from the one on my 50mm f1.8. This is the first time I had to Google for answers regarding a lens!

Now for some pictures of the lens.

That’s about it. Adios!

I’ve just added two pages to the blog, an ‘About Me’ page and a ‘Wish List’ page. It’s self explainable so I won’t go into details.

I was in Port Dickson last week for Microsoft’s media offsite event. We were put up at Avillion Port Dickson. While the hotel/chalet was nice, it was freaking hot!

All chalets are on stilts and open air bathroom. My room’s air conditioning was out I think, I wanted to open the window to sleep but the waves were too damn noisy. I ended up in a steaming hot room with no ventilation for the whole night.

The event was really good though. Microsoft always throws the best off site events! The last one in Langkawi is still one of the best trips I’ve been to since I joined the industry.

World Cup fever is on and I foresee plenty of late nights looming around the corner. I support England but I know they won’t win. Oh well.

I am sitting here at Starbucks KLCC, waiting for the rest to arrive. I am going to Port Dickson on Microsoft’s accord for the media offsite.

They are launching the brand new Microsoft Office 2010. The last Microsoft media offsite was one of the best media trip I’ve been to. It was in Langkawi and I think I blogged about it.

Anyway, I will most probably update my blog when I’m there. I will have internet connectivity and if there aren’t, I have my mobile unlimited plans. It’s in Malaysia anyway.

Until then, see you guys soon. Gotta finish pretending to be a yuppy and finish this: