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Awesome picture!

Maybe you should bring along a compact Kodak V570 with ultra wide-angle (23 mm equivalent... :)

JEFF OOI says: However, using a dSLR allows me the flexibility of having lighting and depth-of-field at my absolute command. Secondly, It gives me the manoeuvrity of shooting at low-lux or no-flash conditions I normally faced in high-powered functions.

Let me rephrase that

Jeff Ooi: Aku punya suka la apa lens yang aku pakai!

XD

ops, i been there and truly first class engineering that was built to last.

That reminds me of something. Why things built by Msian won't last that long. Pay a visit to Stadium bkt jalil and the maintainance is not up to par. Our road? even worse, i travel thousand of miles in US, their road seems much more better that us. Why?

Hey, shouldn't you be grateful?

Our road system is still one of the best in Asia!

Just like our fuel price is still one of the cheapest in South East Asia....=P

Hoover Dam was built under budget, delivered earlier than scheduled, and still looks and works as good as new because it was not contracted out to an UMNOPutra or crony or equivalent with a RM2 company.

Malaysia too has dams built during the colonial era that still work. UMNO had not been born yet then.

And of course they also did not have a Samy Velu or equivalent too!

JL,

First I am not trying to start something, just a comment because this comment by you and other's here in Malaysia has always bothered me, why should we be "grateful"? It is not that we should be grateful, it is what should be "expecvted" we as tax payers in a country that is almost fully developed should expect nothing less then high standards from our government and country,m it is the country and government itself that should be grateful towards the people here, not the other way around. Malaysia has some top rate creations here, but reason for more in other countries is because the people there demand it, hold their government accountable for mistakes and over spending and there is more transparency there then here. We do have excellent highways, the north-south highway here is great and on par with those in the US. However our customer service here is a long way off. But I believe we will get there one day, I have all the faith in it.

Hoover dam still working today because of Colorado river doesn't bring much silt compare to many dam in the world.

Dam frenzy has stop in many countries because of diminish return due to silt. Unfortunately, due to some politikus vision, Bolehland Bakun project will be the shortest live ever dam if it is build.

Similar to disasterous Aswan Dam , silt will shorten Bakun dam life to much shorter period.

I concur with rmo. If all your live you lived in a plantation where the roads and lanes were those normally found in rubber and palm oil estates that of the red surfaced pebble and mud roads, your expectation for development would be more of such roads..maybe even bigger and so on. Paved bitumen tracked roads would be stairways to heaven and would be out of this world for you.

Now ask yourself, what are we accustomed to? What have we been exposed to? What do we know of what can be had? What do we know of how we should live our lives? And yet we are told and we are given by our leaders the shoddiness and overpriced services that we now get. Why? All because of corruption!

rmo, I detect bucket-loads of sarcasm in JL's statement. Don't you? So chill out la, dude. I know it's a Monday, but live life like it's a Friday, ok? ;)

Samarium,

I am chilled, my comment was mostly nice I thought, but still true about what
I said in general, many ti,es we hear many of our leaders saying we should be grateful, like when they are talking about Jobs etc, It was just a couple weeks ago one of the ministers said new employees should be grateful for having a job and not leave the companies when offered more money from another company. Anhyway I did say we have great roads for the most part, we do have cheaper oil here then other countries (even if he was be sarcastic) and many great things here, but then we can stil stand to improve on so many more things. Anyway hope you have a great Monday and a good week ahead. :-)

Samarium, thanks for being observant...=P

anyway, i think we are the only country in the world where the local users are forced to use some sub-standard products(proton) while better version of their products(at least they have AIR BAGS!) are being exported...>.

anyway...saw a thread here...our mr samy is on the move again. http://www.skthew.com/2006/03/27/samy-vellu-together-with-his-first-drive-in-massage-parlor/

sheesh, can we claim to have the most creative ministers in the world?