Baby on YouTube

Please visit the link below to watch the speech rehearsal of my little daughter Alya in conjunction of her coming year end kindergarden annual concert

"Good evening, a warm welcome to all parent, teachers & friends to our Qdees Annual Concert 2010. First of all, on behalf of all Qdees children, i would like to say Thank You to all our teachers for their hard work and patience in training us for this concert. Also, a big Thank You to all parents who have shown great support by attending today concert. Please sit back, relax & enjoy the performances. Thank you"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAoZ_MkPm5E

My priced possession my precious

The One Ring was created by the Dark Lord Sauron during the Second Age in order to gain dominion over the free peoples of Middle-earth. In disguise as Annatar, or "Lord of Gifts", he aided the Elven smiths of Eregion and their leader Celebrimbor in the making of the Rings of Power. He then forged the One Ring himself in the fires of Mount Doom.

He intended it to be the most powerful of all Rings, able to rule and control those who wore the others. Since the other Rings were themselves powerful, Sauron was obliged to place much of his native power into the One to achieve his purpose.

Creating the Ring simultaneously strengthened and weakened Sauron's power. On the one hand, as long as Sauron had the Ring, he could control the power of all the other Rings, and thus he was significantly more powerful after its creation than before; and putting such a great portion of his own power into the Ring ensured Sauron's continued existence so long as the Ring existed. On the other hand, by binding his power within the Ring, Sauron became dependent on it — without it his power was significantly diminished

Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul

One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them,

One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

My Yashica 635 TLR series - another priced possession

Front

I got this masterpiece from a a very nice chinese man from Penang. He sold me at a very reasonable price and one should never resist it. This is one of the infamous camera manufactured by Yashica Corp in the 50's. My late father had this model when he was a correspondent for Bernama. A twin-lens reflex camera (TLR) is a type of camera with two objective lenses of the same focal length. One of the lenses is the photographic objective (the lens that takes the picture), while the other is used for the waist-level viewfinder system. In addition to the objective, the viewfinder consists of a 45-degree mirror (the reason for the word reflex in the name), a matte focusing screen at the top of the camera, and a pop-up hood surrounding it. The two objectives are connected, so that the focus shown on the focusing screen will be exactly the same as on the film. However, many inexpensive TLRs are fixed-focus models. Most TLRs use leaf shutters with shutter speeds up to 1/500th sec with a B setting

Viewfinder

ASA adjuster

Famous in the 50's

Note the dual fixed lens

For normal film setting

Aperture setting