Bought a new Canon S5-IS yesterday

Hmmm a long time ambition got fullfilled yesterday. Took my frnd Manoj, who claims to be a good ameture photographer :-) (Hmm yes hez: visit http://www.ismanoj.com/) to a well known grey shop here in b'lore and took the latest Canon S5-IS with all accessories. Costed me around 19,700/-. Spec says 8mp, 12x optical zoom which is good enough for a starter like me to go for professional / non-professional shoots. Hmmm am happy that there is so much to learn now on this and get my time utilized in a fruitful way.