Today is the day for the traditional Lunar Chinese New Year. Since they don’t appreciate Chinese New Year as much as actually turning it into an official holiday here in Canada, it was a regular work day for me (pretty envy that the folks in China are all having a 1-week vacation). Anyway, I got a chance to have dinner with Alice and Matthew last night. Had a bunch of traditional Chinese food for New Years like dried oyster/mushroom, BBQ duck….etc. It was pretty tasty and I got to see the folks counting down for the New Year at Aberdeen Centre (a Chinese mall) on TV.

Today after work I went to visit Wendy’s family, I brought over some Ferrero Rocher, got some red pocket (=D) and was invited to go up to have a drink. Chatted about some random stuff like the economy crisis (that I really don’t care about), their newly installed floorings and decorations…etc.

Also I finished watching another Japanese drama called “Monster Parent”. It was pretty interesting and I will do a review soon.

I just sold my Fujifilm F50fd digital camera that I got from Ebay like 3 weeks ago…lol. Sold it to a guy on Craigslist for $350, not bad at all~ Reason selling it was to invest in this Canon G9 camera, much higher end than the F50fd even though both are 12 megapixels (here is a review, here is another one with sample images.) The F50fd was overall a great camera, slim, handsome looking, powerful… but the image quality was worse than expected so not too long after getting it I was already in search of a replacement 8O. After couple dozen hours of research, I ended up picking up the top-of-the-line Canon G9, which is a 12 megapixel with a 6X optical zoom and an image stablizer. Turned out to be one of my best decision made this year, the image quality is stunning. Great color, accurate focus, good low light performance (ISO 400 with not much noise), and solid steel sturdy body. Macro performance is amazing too, I was placing the lens as close as 0.5 cm from an object and it was able to focus with ease! Movie taking quality was great compared to the Fujifilm F50fd - color was accurate and I was able to zoom in/out during recording.

I’m looking forward to utilize my new camera to its max during my next vacation to China in the coming month!