it's odd, but did everyone get a canon digital camera this season?

raymond's uncle bought a canon s30

chuck got a canon s40 cor christmas

eric got a canon s45

and of course, i got the s230. if i had money in my stock account, i'd buy some canon...digicams seems like the hot item for christmas, and canon does have a lot of attractive cameras out. unfortunately i don't, and with my horrible luck in stocks, it might be a bad idea investing. more and more i realize what an amazing gadget the s230 is. and i found one exclusive feature today! the s230 is the only camera that will take a 30 second video clip at 640 x 480 at 15fps. not even the s45 seems to do that, even though the s45 is the s230 with a lot more features and bigger everything (lens/zoom, battery, megapixels, flash, size). so i would gladly hold on to a exclusive feature as long as i have it. even though it has nothing on the sony digicams which can take video up to the capacity of the card, but the size of the proprietary memory cards they use are pretty low it's not the perfect gadget either.



here's my weekend play by play.

i had my digicam with me the whole time this weekend, but i ran out of batteries on friday...and took pics at low res when i had some juice left. saturday it wasn't really a picture taking day because i spent most of it in the theater, and sunday, i had forgotten my compact flash card. oh well.



so friday, after work, we had a christmas party at work. it was my 5th time there. and yep, the same food. they start with ham, cheese, crackers, and vegetables. then they bring out fried shrimp and egg rolls. then comes the tostadas. then comes the roast beef. this happened the last 5 years in a row.....man i hope it was different 20 years ago. am i the only one that see's the need for change? anyways, i went to the gym afterwards, then i get a call from eric saying let's meet up with OG resnet at forever fondue in 10 minutes. so i blast out of the shower, and run out the door. the wait was about an hour long. had desert there, then we disbanded at around 10pm. so i came home and slept. saturday, woke up way too early, blogged the entry before this one, then i met up with wendy to do some movie hopping. last time that i had movie hopped was in my junior year of high school. me and richard kim...and maybe sang? decided to movie hop.....one of the movies we saw was three musketeers. can't remember the other ones. the theater was on the lookout for loomers, but how we managed to pull it off was tag along this asian family and basically walk behind them like we were with them. haha. it still amuses me to this day. yesterday, we were walking all over the place...the clean up crew all over the place but they pretty much didn't care. and a lot of people were movie hopping. we saw 3 movies. star trek nemesis, 007 die another day, and maid in manhattan. nemesis was okay at best. i thought the only clever thing in the plot was when Data did the switcheroo. but that only lasted a few minutes. other than that, i expect more out of a movie from a TV series. 95% of the movie happens on board the ships......which is fine if it were a TV episode. but for the movie, i thought they should go all out and bring the cast out of their element...take them somewhere new. isn't their thing, "to boldly go as no one has gone before?" well, being a big The Next Generation fan, it was an okay movie, but i don't think wendy would say the same. the next movie we watched was 007. it was my second time seeing that movie. i thought it was okay the second time around. the fact that it was free made the repeat viewing more enjoyable. the third movie we saw was made in manhattan with j.lo and ralph finnes. we were going to see the special screening of 2 Weeks Notice, but the theater was being clever. they weren't reflecting that in the signs of the doors and basically you had to find out what theater they were playing it at when you bought the tickets. so we came out of Maid in Manhattan, walked to all the entrances, and couldn't see the movie playing anywhere, so we went back to Maid in Manhattan and finished the film. went to go eat at sam woo's afterwards. then went home and i passed out early around 11 because my brain was seriously fried after 3 movies back to back. on a side note, i did manage to eat ever 2 hours. i took in 4 balance bars with me and ate those in between the movies.



sunday, went to resnet party at Erik's and checked out his awesome house at scripps ranch. the main bedroom was damn cool. but there was nothing in there. just a bed. oh and maybe a clock. after the feast, we went to play some ultimate frisbee. it was my first time playing, but damn, it is such an intensive game. basically you just keep running back and fourth from one end of the field to another. when you decide to sprint down to the one side of the field, the turnovers are high, so you have to sprint from the other end....and so on. won the first game. lost our last one. it was very fun though. my hamstrings are quite exhasted. i'm not sure if i'll be able to work out tomorrow. i did lightly sprain my ankle....but hopefully if just keep myself doing low impact stuff it should be alright. i think the glucosamine/chondrotin that i've been taking religiously for the last few months is really helping keeping the swelling down. after that, i came home, and eddie was feeling stressed so i invited him over to chill and play some GTA vice city. and after he left, ray called me up and wanted to do something. so being in the mood to eat, i had suggested we get a rotisserie chicken at ralphs, and get some salsa, and etc. we got to ralphs and they had sold out of their rotisserie chickens.....thinking of el pollo loco....we just opted to go to el cotixan instead. so we brought the food back to my place and matt came over. and we couldn't find a dvd to watch so we hit my divx stash and picked out "Dude, where's my car". we started watching it and was sooo bad. we decided to watch another movie. but as i was copying Enemy of the Gates into my computer from CD, it got interesting enough to where we let it roll till the end. it had its funny moments. baiscally brainless gag humor. but that is sometimes just what you need to get your mind off just anything and everything for a few hours.



nguyen is out of work all week. hopefully the week won't be too boring and full of holiday jollies.