Air pistol shooting....

It was last weekend, since I don't have anything to do... I went for air pistol shooting at Blok M, Jakarta Selatan. Actually before Ramadhan, I would went there for shooting session about twice a month. But since Ramadhan, maybe due to puasa, I only went there once. So this time, it's about a month plus, my finger haven't touch the trigger.

After saying Lebaran greeting and pay the fee (Rph 25k, for 25 bullets/pellets), I went on trying my skill. Not many people that day, perhaps the usual patrons still on Lebaran mood.

Not a bad shooting at all, considering it's had been more than a month I haven't try it. Perhaps due to not many people and the compressed gas still full, because I could felt the shot was quite powerful. For the information, the bull eye target size is the same size as the bullets, and the target is 10m away (Olympic air pistol target standard)... In Olympic game, normally the shooter hit target within the first 2 ring away from the bull eye.

Like the trainer over here said last time, shooting is a game about consistency, patience, high focus, good corrdination between eyes, hand and trigger finger. And you have to control your breathing, to avoid your hand shaking each time your finger press the trigger. Once you shoot, you would know, if you manage to hit the target.... without pulling the target paper.

I admit, I felt quite relaxed after shooting session...........

Paper plane...

Last year, during the long,.... year end school holiday, I took my son to his grandmother house in Muar. Since I am in between job (in other word, jobless), I have plenty of time to spend with Luqman. Normally, when it come to November, December.. the weather won't be so kind ... rainy all day long. But lately, the weather have been drifting and more unpredictable, probably due to global warming, ozone layer, etc.. 

The weather was windy and the sky was clear. I ask Luqman, what he want to do.... cause I don't want him to spend too much time in front of TV. (what a hypocrites, the father is building a new digital TV system (DVB-H) abroad, and yet.. he disapproved his son watching TV too much... well job is job... life is life.....I bet Astro guys also doing the same ). So I browse the WWW (using 56k dial up jaring service,...... crawling.....), searching anything that can give me idea... I found paper plane.... Eureka.. yes...  cheap, simple outdoor activity... 

There are many sites on paper plane, but i think Joseph Palmer (http://www.josephpalmer.com/planes/Airplane.shtml)  site is probably among the best, cause the design is not so complicated and doable. Well,..... I have to show to him that I can make the plane fly, as mentioned.... 

My chosen design is the second, PL-3 Squarenose... the designer mention the design base on Ken Blackburn world recordbreaking paper plane. 

If you want to spend your time with your kid, at almost no cost... try this.. your kid won't be dissapointed.. and so do you... but better clean up after that... or other people wont be happy.

You may think your current paper plane design is OK,.. no harm trying new thing. There is one site that has a good design, but I think due to copyright issue, i'm not putting the link.

My digital compact camera.... and maybe soon to be

.....I Bought my first digital compact camera, I think back in 2003... Samsung Digimax V4.. 4 Megapixel resolution (the best during it's time for digital compact camera)... 3 x Optical zoom. I bought Samsung maybe due to my pleasant experience with the normal compact camera (I own Samsung and Pentax "analog" camera). The lense is Schneider K.... I don't know much about camera, ..but I heard when you choose new camera, look at the lense manufacturer... if the lense is coming from a well known manufacturer like Leica, Schneider K, Nikor, Canon, Carl Zeiss etc... the camera will print it onto the camera.. sort of like advertisment...

My first impression on the camera, wow... it's small, compact and easy to use..... almost point and shoot... no more buying rolls of films and sending for processing.... I am quite satisfy with it's performance....

Then in 2006... I bought another compact digital camera... Pentax Espio A10... 10 Megapixel resolution, 10 x optical zoom, Pentax lense... reason being I bought it, just because I want (not need ya) which can capture video in DivX format... It's good camera, small compact, easy, .. you can edit photos directly from the camera without saving it first in PC. The photo quality is OK... but,...

I still think my first camera is better.. perhaps I took better picture then last time... maybe i getting older, or i just don't know how to fully utilize the features... Please do look into my online photo storage http://picasaweb.google.com/jalal1999 , the photos that have date on it was from Samsung, the others fromPentax...

Now... I'm thinking of buying new compact camera, Panasonic Lumix Tz15 or TZ5, 9 megapixel, 10 x optical zoom, wide angle 28mm... <---this is the feature that I want... W I D E  angle... I realize, using normal 35mm camera, it's impossible to capture all the image in tight and limited space (like taking pic of family members inside a house, taking pic of equipment inside equipment room)... perhaps this is the solution...

disclaimer: This attitude exhibit by the writer is a typical human behaviour..... hey, you dance poorly... no,  it's not me.,... it's the damned floor.. or my shoe is not right... heheh....

note: Panasonic Lumix TZ15 or TZ5 is highly recommended by http://www.dpreview.com/ , It's very rare the site recommend compact camera...