30July:
I hear that BK @ Ion is direct from BK USA, not a franchise like the local BK here.
Hope they are good.
Good enough to say good riddance to bad rubbish.
Update 2nd Aug:
Wahj (he’s a teacher, hence i trust him) went and tried the burger . It’s good!
I have been on CaptureOne since its introduction in 2002/3. Graduated from the simply hard to use Canon DPP and found CaptureOne simply superb for nailing skintones and color.
CaptureOne gave us free licenses for upgrades for the last 7 years. It was USD500 in 2002, so it turned out to be great value despite the price.
I was tempted to go Lightroom by the presets (CaptureOne has very few 3rd party presets) but turned out to be pleasantly surprised by the hardcore B&W conversion, esp with ‘Clarity’ & ‘Black’. Makes B&W conversions about 100% more pleasant than C1Pro’s skimpy B&W options.
After about 2 weeks on LR2, I noticed that there were 2 things that it was weak in:
1. Straight white balance skin tones for RAW processing – C1Pro 3 & 4 were more ‘real’, or true to life in this regard. I couldn’t get LR2 to lock with a nice skin tone.
2. Skin texture and sharpness were better with C1Pro. Micro texture was better with C1Pro also.
For everything else, LR2 was way better done. The GUI is super intuitive and it doesn’t take a million years to reload the previews everything a folder is opened. So I am going to use C1Pro4 for straight conversions (ie straight portraits & stage performances with tungsent lighting, etc) and LR2 for much of everything else.
Haven’t had a BK Rendang burger in ages and thought I’ll go get one. Went at lunch time to IMM BK and ordered. Strangely, the place was pretty empty. I paid my $5.50, got the burger and it looked a bit small. Went to the seat, opened it up and it was way smaller than I remembered. Man, it was even smaller than a McChicken. I was so sad.
“Dear Burger King,
You sell burgers for a living.
Your restaurants are supposed to be selling great burgers. (hence your name)
You started with flame broiled burgers.
Then you microwaved factory flame broiled burgers.
Now, your burgers have shrunk so small that even the chicken restaurant sells bigger burgers than yours.
So what’s the point of going to your restaurant?”
Love,
Former BK fan
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