Julianisms

Hit the road last weekend with some of my car club buddies to visit Nissan’s new car assembly plant at Serendah, which is slightly under an hour’s drive from KL.

Along the way, I shot some video and this is the result…

Needless to say, we had a lot of fun.

By the way, if you happen to be a Nissan Latio owner in Malaysia, you could do worse than check out our forum at www.mylatioclub.com. Say I sent you, okay?

With Jorja turning one in December and starting to toddle soon after, Meng & I figured it was therefore time to bring her to visit the kids playground at the KLCC park.

We chose to go on a weekday after dinner keeping in mind that (a) the weather would be cooler in the late evening, and (b) it wouldn’t be as crowded as during weekends. As it turned out, we were right on both counts. The only disappointment was that large parts of the playground were unlit - perhaps Petronas were beginning to feel the pinch of the monthly electricity bills?

Anyway, darkened playground or no, the girls were raring to go. I also took the opportunity to fool around with some slow flash night photography - I must say I’m rather pleased with the results!

From left to right: Large, medium, and small. Thumbnails are clickable.

Jorja’s a little bewildered at the whole thing but Meg and Kiki are clearly having a swinging good time, heh.

I recently decided to expand my collection of classic movies, thanks to a promotion of selected Criterion DVDs on Amazon. Managed to save up to 30% on Playtime by Jacques Tati, a DVD title that I’ve been eyeing for a while now.

I also could not resist picking up the remastered version of Carol Reed’s noir classic The Third Man, starring Orsen Welles and written by Graham Greene. It now comes as a two-disc Special Edition DVD set and is a huge improvement over the original single platter edition, also by Criterion. It’s on par with the remastered boxset for Seven Samurai which I already own.

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