thanks! yeah x__x couldn't avoid the noise too much, I didn't have much control over things.
This pic was taken from a while ago with my first old ancient clunky point and shoot digital camera, those ones when digital cameras just came out.
It is difficult to avoid noise in low light with small sensors as with your old Canon Powershot S500 you used for this in 2006. Although I shoot Nikon now, my first decent digital camera was a Canon Powershot S30. Your Nikon D90 would have done the trick!