New ipad camera : cons

Up until recently, I use my Canon camera to take self-portrait photos and videos.  The video and image quality seemed decent enough, and I was happy with it.  And then, I brought my iPad, it comes with a front facing camera and another camera at the back.  So recently I tried using it to take some self portrait, and found that I have serious problem using the high quality 5 Megapixel camera at the back to take photos.  So instead, I used the front facing camera.  And the problem was pretty lame.  That make sense, because the resolution is just 640 x 480, but at least I am see what photo or video would be like by looking at the iPad screen.

So at the end, I realized that for self portrait videos and photos, I should stick with using my Canon Powershot SD880 IS.  At least I can:

• Hook up to my TV and see what the photo or video will look like.
• High quality video and photo
• Has easy to use timer

TaoBao Shopping Experience, 2012 edition

Everytime I go to Hong Kong for workation (work + vacation), I also try to buy some costume or dress from TaoBao since they have huge variety of dress and accessories that you can't find at any local store.  Since I tend to go to Hong Kong once each year, that means I also shop at TaoBao once each year.

My last year's TaoBao shopping experience was, unfortunately, less than enjoyable.  I experienced quite some of the problems, including:

•  The cheap dress I brought was indeed cheap in quality, for that purple dye stinted my skin after wearing for less than 15 minutes.
• The experience of waiting for SFExpress (順豐速運) to come by was extremely annoying to me.  Plus I had to pay additional delivery charge since my home was considered "rural location"

This year's TaoBao shopping experience was relatively better, mostly because:

• I only brought item from TaoBao this time, and that item was basically a different color version of a pair shoes that I brought last year.
• I chose SF Express self-pickup service.  That way I can work the pickup into my schedule, and no extra charge I need to pay.

My only problem this time is that I picked "九龍旺角大南街164號地下"  as the pick up location, which is actually in the middle between Price Edward and Sham Shui Po MTR Station.  I really should have picked "九龍深水埗大南街40號地下" which is very close to Prince Edward MTR Station.  Other than that, I was pretty ok with the whole process.  In fact I am a bit regretted that I did not buy more stuff from TaoBao this time.