Recently, on 16th September, I attended the Malaysia Day celebration at Padang Merdeka, Kota Kinabalu just like every other year. Every year, Sabah and Sarawak celebrate this day and it is also a public holiday to both states. But this year, this is the first time the whole nation enjoy the public holiday together… I’m sure a lot of you out there asking ‘Why only Sabah and Sarawak before?’… yea, seems Malaya don’t appreciate this day before… Every Malaysian must celebrate this day coz there was no country called Malaysia before that date 1963!

Anyway, I went there together with my colleague… and met with the others over there around 8pm… we arrived KK earlier and park quite a distance from the field… and we stop at one of the shop to have our dinner.

The atmosphere in the field is not very gallant… looks normal for a big celebration. As usual, almost everyone has a digital cameras, so taking photos is something a must. We actually entered some prohibited areas to take photos till one big rank police officer approached and explained to us politely that we must not stay at that area for too long else the rest of the crowd will join in 😛 OK boss…

So, the rest of the night went… errmmmm… ok lah… no big deal… but there was a bigger deal I have to go through after that… I was very thirsty, so we decided to go back 10 pm something… and we stop at the former Sugar Bun… I had my second dinner there… and that’s where I found out that my Canon EOS LCD cracked!!… holly crap… I can’t afford another new digital SLR camera… 😛

But lucky, when I bought my Canon EOS 40D about three years ago, I installed a LCD protector… not a plastic type but a scratch-proof glass… and in fact that glass has protected the LCD firmly… the side of the glass chipped more than a year ago… it did not crack… but this time but both side has chipped and that two chipped areas joined together to form the crack across the center of the glass… but no worries… 😀

I went to replace the glass protector a few days latter… and a new glass protector cost RM88… and when I was in the shop, I saw a Manfrotto  776YB monopod… priced at RM155, I took one of the monopod and together with the new glass protector, it cost me RM160… you do the math… 😛