Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
Users of the micro-four thirds camera systems regularly debate on what are the best prime lenses for the system, and one phrase often gets bounced around – the “m4/3 Holy Trinity”. There aren’t any religious connotations to its usage of
Incredibly, it’s been more than 4 years since our blog posts about our choices for our first born child’s name. We should be knowing the gender of Hannah’s sibling soon – probably anytime from a couple more weeks onwards. I’m
The last two weeks of weekends had been madly busy for me at work, and I didn’t get to take as many pictures of Hannah as I’d like – apart from a couple using the new LX7 that I bring
I remember we used to have very basic sewing lessons in my secondary school education. Those lessons belonged to the girly subject called Home Economics. The other major component in the subject was cooking. I aced at sewing but fared
While the newly acquired LX7 isn’t the smallest compact camera around, it still fits very nicely into the side pockets of the bermudas I wear when we’re out of home on weekend trips. It’s a more discrete photo-taking device than
Small sensor compact cameras are a bit of in an odd state right now. They can be tiny and low-priced. On the other hand, they’ve also become pretty sandwiched between other competing classes of devices. A key indicator of small
We wrote in a Melaka post not too long ago that Hannah is still a relatively compliant girl. She’s normally still very willing to listen, accepting of our instructions, and her tantrums – if any at all – rarely last
I just realized that after the at least several thousands of pictures I’ve taken of our girl using the 20mm f1.7 and 30mm f2.8 prime lenses, I’ve hardly made a blog post of the pictures taken using the (boring and
I had a Windows Live Messenging conversation with the wife yesterday afternoon, and it went like this. “Dear, I have a confession to make.” “I know. You bought yourself a new toy?” “!!! Dear, you’re so clever.:)” “When you have
My parents are fond of giving us these small honey mandarin oranges whenever they are in season. Also known as satsuma orange or Citrus unshiu, they are mostly sweet and seedless. It took me a while to accept this fruit
Even if the age is taking its time to show on my facial features, the rest of me distinctly feels all of 41 years! Just a day after I turned 41 over the weekend, the very next day at work,
Since school holidays have started, Hannah started spending time at home with me. Despite my tiredness and morning sickness during this first trimester of pregnancy, I still prefer to have home-cooked meals. To make things easy going, I decided that
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