Short trip to Pulau Tioman

Socata TB9 Tampico with Berjaya's DASH 7 in the background 


Sunset view of Renggis Island - photo taken by Denise Renggis Island is located infront of Berjaya Tioman Resort. Only a few hundred meters from Berjaya jetty (lalang village). Average depth is 9m and max depth is 12m. A truly wonderful dive site, this beautiful reef has many coral varieties - hard and soft - and teems with marine life - puffer fish, angelfish, butterfly fish, sting rays, moray eels, trigger fish, giant grouper and more. Renggis is one of the best sites for seeing turtles, and harmless black tip reef sharks are often spotted.

Apple Introduces New G5 iMac

The half-dome base is gone, and the iMac G5 is iPod-white in colour. This is my first impression of Apple's redesigned iMac. The new iMac G5 desktop tucks all of its components, including its hard drive, processor and DVD drive, behind a wide-screen LCD (liquid-crystal display). The LCD screen is about 5cm (2 inches) thick and is mounted on a curved metal stand, has proportions similar to those of Apple's Cinema Display flat panels.
The new stunning iMac G5
The new computer was unveiled by Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing at the Apple Expo 2004 in Paris yesterday. Apple Expo is Europe’s largest Mac-dedicated event, and this year’s show takes place at Porte de Versailles from August 31st to September 4th.
Worldwide distribution is to begin in the middle of this month. The new iMac G5 features the high-performance G5 processor running up to 1.8 GHz. For details of the technical specifications, look up here. Prices for the new iMac line are as follows:

• 17-inch model ... 1.6 GHz SIN $2,488
• 17-inch model ... 1.8 GHz SIN $2,788
• 20-inch model ... 1.8 GHz SIN $3,588.