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I was given a chance to experience staying on a cruise ship (Royal Carribean’s Legend of the Seas) during 22-27th November 2009 by Salsa Cruise Asia. Most importantly, for FREE! Well, i went there as an OP along with Euveng and Dwayne Foong for the dance cruise program onboard.

I’m writing this in order to help/show any future Royal Carribean’s Legend of the Seas passengers on what they’re gonna expect on the cruise ship before boarding

But first, I’ll write on what i experience onboard before this.

Basically the whole cruise trip program was about…

Ballroom dance..

Salsa dance..

Hip-hop dance..

Zouk dance..

and more dance, dance, DANCE!!

There’s salsa, hip hop, zouk, west coast swing, ballroom, latin, and many more… All types of dance performances and workshops on the cruise ship itself!

These are some of the international workshop dance instructors!

Most of the time, i hung around with these people below (3 of the girls are interns from my college lol!)

Dwayne, Vanessa, Pauline, ShuShan, Euveng

The cruise also stopped by a few places… This picture below was when we’re stopping by Phuket. The seashore was too shallow for the large cruise ship to sail through, thus we need to board a smaller boat to get over to Phuket, Thailand.

So yeah… Let me show you around the cruise ship!

This is the top deck of the cruise ship

The swimming pool on the roof top

The spa pool at the indoor spa deck

At the same spa deck place, there’s this Pizza & Burger Bar… They serve pizzas, burgers, sausages, and any other snacks you can find there! Most of the time when i’m hungry, i’ll just come by this bar and have my light meal lol.

Ohh i forgot to take a picture of the ice cream machine, but yeah they had this machine which looks similar to McDonald’s ice cream machine! Self-service free flow ice cream cones! Somehow the ice cream tasted nicer! I miss the chocolate ice cream onboard! It’s a MUST try ice cream if you’re onboard hahaha!

Anyway this is the outside of spa deck (which is at the back of the cruise ship)

And on top of the outdoor spa deck, they have this rock climbing wall

Beside the rock climbing wall, they also have a miniature golf course

Apart from that, there are many other facilities on the cruise ship such as…

Gymnasium

Table tennis table

24 hours internet place for you to check stuff online (you need to pay, and it’s quite expensive)

Casino! Hahah this casino, underage people like me can go in lol!

The cruise ship has this ’shopping area’ where some of the stuff are duty free! But can’t be brought out of the ship (especially liquor and so on)

We usually have our dinner at this fine dining restaurant called Romeo and Juliet (the food is not bad! depending on what you order from the list of daily set menu)

Oh when you’re dining at Romeo and Juliet, make sure you lookout for this waiter! (his name is Dwi) Sit at his serving table! You’ll not regret! Extra entertainment hahaha

This is the cruise ship lobby area

There’s also a lounge bar for people to have some drinks

Wanna see the toilet on the cruise ship?

And for you GIRLS who’ve not seen a urinal, here it is lol… Save you from being embarrassed trying to sneak into male toilet haha

And this is the corridor towards my room which is right at the end hahaha! Quite spooky if you’re walking alone at night hehe

Hmmmm i think that is pretty much it…

I have to thank Dance Cruise Asia for providing me an expensive experience (despite the seasick i had during the first two days which was blerghh -.-)

So… when are you gonna board on the Royal Carribean’s Legend of the Seas?

=)))))

Sony has just announced their THREE latest upcoming Alpha DSLR camera lineup two days ago.

Here are some of their main features:

Sony Alpha DSLR-A500

- 12.3 megapixel CMOS sensor
- BIONZ processor
- 180° tilt-angle 3″ LCD screen
- 5 fps
- ISO up to 12800
- Auto HDR mode
- Enhanced quick AF live view
- MF check live view
- Face detection & smile shutter technology
- SteadyShot INSIDE™

Sony Alpha DSLR-A550

- 14.2 megapixel CMOS sensor
- BIONZ processor
- 180° tilt-angle 3″ Xtra Fine LCD screen
- 5 fps / 7fps (in Speed Priority mode)
- ISO up to 12800
- Auto HDR mode
- Enhanced quick AF live view
- MF check live view
- Face detection & smile shutter technology
- SteadyShot INSIDE™

*(I’ve highlighted the differences above between the main features of A500 & A550 for comparison)

CMOS sensor! No more CCD sensor that my current camera has! +1

Woots 7fps! Can shoot sports photography liao lolol! +1

3″ tilt-angle Xtra Fine LCD! Means no more: “Aiyah, how come just now i see on my camera, the photo looked damn sharp but now transfer to computer the photo blur blur wan?”
*Trust me, i get this kinda situation alot of times ahaha +1

ISO up to 12800! Means the ISO performance should be much much better than! Low light photography without flash, CHUN! ahaha +1

Face detection feature! Means i won’t accidentally focus ‘wrong’ part of the body already +1

Now if you compare Sony Alpha A550 with Nikon D90, A550’s specs is a great challenger to Nikon D90 and it won over D90 in a lot of aspects (EXCEPT for the HD video feature which i’m kinda disappointed Sony didn’t include it). You try compare and see? At least it’s good enough for me la, better than my current camera

It’s a decent upgrade if you’re using an A200/A300/A350 previously (like me), but i don’t think it’s wise for A700 users to buy A500/A550 lor (=

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As for the,

Sony Alpha DSLR-A850

- Full-frame 24.6 megapixel Exmor™ CMOS sensor
- Dual BIONZ processor
- 3″ Xtra Fine LCD screen
- 3 fps
- Bright pentaprism viewfinder with 98% coverage
- ISO up to 6400
- SteadyShot INSIDE™

Basically, the Sony Alpha A850 would be considered as the cheaper alternative to Sony Alpha A900 Full Frame DSLR. Although i wouldn’t have the money to afford this camera, the offer is good thou because it’s cheaper than the A900! What’s more? The A850 is bundled with a 28-75mm f/2.8 as a kit lens! Nice right?
The retail price for Malaysia is not out yet, but it’s definitely cheaper than the A900 but with lesser fps and so on so fourth laa.

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Anyway, here’s a cool Sony Alpha a500/a550 advertisement from Denmark

So have you got poisoned to get a Sony Alpha DSLR camera already? Ahaha~ xD

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Source taken:
dpreview (a500/a550, a850)

Now everyone say HELLO to Joee~! (;

So yeah, welcome to the continuation post from the previous.

And this time, no more Estee’s picture d laa.
Again, don’t bother finding anymore of her missing hawt pictures in this post (;

So what do you think of her?

Pretty? Hawt? Cute? Ugly??

Come come feel free to comment!

And lastly, the awesome photographers+models group picture!
Taken from Jason Goh’s camera

Everyone say HELLO to Estee~!

Ohh wait, i forgot to mention.

Last Sunday i asked Jason Goh, Ewin and Kin Meng to join in for a model shoot @ Desa Park City.
My first time shooting at that place.

So these are few of the pictures..

The two models of the day are my classmates – Estee and Joee.

Today’s post got no Joee’s picture laa.
So don’t bother searching around this post for missing images lol.

You really want to see Joee?

Stay tuned to the next post lo.

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