Thursday, March 29, 2007

Time For A New Camera


Of late, my Canon Ixus 5000 has been giving me these kinda shots. On Tuesday afternoon, lunch time, I was actually at Sudu in KL Hilton, having the buffet lunch....and sms-ed Boolicious to say that I dont think I dare blog about it, lest people think I hang out in hotel buffets all the time. As I said, when it rains, it pours. Actually, I was buying my colleague lunch, and had every intention of trying the dim sum at CHYNNA after Lemongrass's write up recently. But as we walked past the Sudu buffet, my colleague was looking at it so longingly, and I asked him, "you SURE you can eat buffet at lunch time ah?"... and he replied in the affirmative, although politely saying, "but dim sum is okay too".

"Oh what the heck!" I thought, I was intending to go for Body Combat in the evening anyway. You'll have to rely on your imagination to picture my buffet spread. I did sneak a few pictures, (it seems even harder to take pics when its lunch time and the place is swarmed by very important looking corporate bumiputras....incidentally, in that short span of time, while walking from Sudu to the lift, we saw Mokhzani Mahathir and Tony Fernandez) but the camera was on the blink, so it was destined that I cannot play the devil and put forth temptation. Nevertheless, if a picture is worth a thousand words, then let me barter with you a thousand words.

Ya, how it works is, you have a choice of 88++, 98++ or 108++ for the lunch buffet, whereby the price difference is for your mains. I opted obviously for 88++, and had the grilled salmon, but more about that later.

Nahh, its too much work to produce a long write up with no pictures. No syiok. To cut a long story short, buffet starters got sashimi (even yellow tail), small sweet oysters, (I hate those monstrous one), steamed prawns, crabs, scallops, mussels, cornucopia of salads, cheeses (AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH, I FORGOT TO HAVE THE CHEEESE!!! SLAP FOREHEAD), steam boat, (with nice plump juicy scallops), naan, tandoori, etc etc...actually, it's way too much for lunch. I just stuck to the high ticket (and high cholestrol) items, like sashimi, prawns, scallops. Boolicious was right, the standard is up there with Lemon Garden, if not better.

The grilled salmon was VERY well done. Crispy skin, and moist flesh. How did they manage that!!! I suspect musta fried the skin first. The desserts, well, nothing much to really rave about, except the presumably home made ice cream. Very good. The cakes, well, I only had morsels of each, more as market research, (hear ye hear ye), and homework. No, I didnt take a big slice and waste.... I cut it up right there at the buffet table. Obviously, a lot of ppl do prefer smaller helpings, coz the smaller pieces that I left there (I generally halved all the existing portions) got snapped up rather quickly. Any of you guys running a hotel, please advise your staff to cut dessert portions smaller. Do not waste.

Okay, so, guys, what cameras yall using ah? Rasa Malaysia's one is out of my league. Lemongrass, Masak Masak and WMW? (she's in spain, pah)..???? Hallo?

10 comments:

boo_licious said...

oh no! Me using Lumix FZ7 but heard it's no longer in the market already as outdated! Sniff. Why don't you get the Nikon D40? If not, the new Lumixes are good.

Hee hee, I also saw lots of celebs yesterday. Must sms you the whole list and just during lunchtime too! If I wasn't with people I would have ooohed and aaahed.

Rasa Malaysia said...

Hey, you should buy Canon Digital Elph series...my old one is Canon SD450 Digital Elph series. I wouldn't have bought the new ones if not because I got sick of the limited macro angles.

fatboybakes said...

i'm just gonna wait to win the Linux FX100 since maxis is having a competition, and i've never won anything in a while, so I'm due for a win....

(and the OPTIMIST OF THE YEAR award goes to......)

fatboybakes said...

sorry, i mean LUMIX, not LINUX

Lyrical Lemongrass said...

I tried the Grilled Salmon in Sudu before. Not bad. That time, someone belanja me, so cannot go for the more expensive menu. hehehe.
I use the Panasonic Lumix FZ5 (one level below Boo's one). Bought it in 2005. I also think it's no longer in the market. Now got a lot of canggih Lumixes around.
Will be rooting for you to win. What must you do? Make lots of phonecalls?

fatboybakes said...

haha, no lah, just answer some questions and write a slogan. didn u get the maxis sms?

Lyrical Lemongrass said...

Maxis din send me anything. Maybe becoz I'm on prepaid? Good luck with the slogan writing, boy. Can't wait to see ur new camera. hahaha.

UnkaLeong said...

My point and shoot is a Casio Exilim ZX-3. Oudated di...I bought the Pentax K100D, but a little to clunky to take around on food excursions. The nex Lumix's are pretty good :)

If you are fickle like me, you'd be comparing a lot of reviews online and doing a lot of window shoppng before settling for the model of choice. Hahah!

MeiyeN said...

my digicam is a lumix fx-9... i really hope to own a digi slr but way too expensive :(

wmw said...

Hope you win the camera...I'm using the non DSLR but bulkier of the Lumix series, DMC-LZ3. It's got 6x optical zoom and only about USD200 then (records video with no audio). I'm pretty happy with this 9 months old digicam. The model is not available here though, got it from the States.