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After a storm

Posted on 13 Aug 20095 Apr 2010   by CY

One thing that’s changing around The Rivervale is that Hannah’s pair of lungs are getting, well, healthier by the day! Right after birth, when she was in one of her moods, all that we’d typically hear would be whimpers. These

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Upcoming films

Posted on 13 Aug 2009   by CY

Watching films at the theatre is harder these days now that Hannah’s around, and yeah no – watching films alone isn’t an option for me. Ling gives me dagger looks if I even broach the idea! Typically, our arrangement though

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Slumber

Posted on 12 Aug 2009   by Ling

My sleep pattern is largely determined by Hannah since the day she arrived. In the first month, I was extremely sleep-deprived. Hannah required breast-feeding round the clock, every 2-3 hours, every feed lasting an hour. Take away meal times and

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Men and their bags

Posted on 10 Aug 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

Women have their fascination with the Chanel and Gucci bags; men who’re photography enthusiasts have the same with their camera bags LOL. There’s actually a web site that’s about the epitome of this love, and simultaneously serving also as a

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More Hannah photos

Posted on 9 Aug 2009   by CY

We didn’t watch NDP on the TV – Hannah wanted her dinner. So I occupied myself taking more pictures – but this time with the Nikon 50mm f1.8D lens. This is the cheapest lens in Nikon’s line up, but is

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Feeding, Burping, Reading

Posted on 8 Aug 2009   by CY

Ling has a established pattern when it comes to Hannah’s meal times: it’s feeding, then burping, then reading. I’ve been wanting to try out the Sigma 24-60 mm F2.8 EX DG lens too that I bought last year but haven’t

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Sigma 18-250mm

Posted on 8 Aug 2009   by CY

So, after giving it a lot of hard thought, I decided a fortnight ago to get an all-in-one travel lens that would give me a bit more reach beyond 55mm, and which I hope will see extensive use when I’m

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Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku – Part 2

Posted on 5 Aug 2009   by CY

Continued from the previous post. On the upside, For those We Love touches on a theme we don’t see often in Western-made films. I certainly don’t think the American veterans will remember the Kamikaze units with fondness. The whitewashing and

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Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku – Part 1

Posted on 5 Aug 2009   by CY

Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku (2007) – on rental. Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku – or “For Those We Love” – opens with a scene of a kind-looking and elderly

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Bawling = Stress?

Posted on 1 Aug 2009   by CY

One thing about Hannah bawling is this – there’s always collateral damage involved! Specifically, I get scolded by Ling.:( Here’s the story: Hannah was doing her bawling yesterday Friday. Heck, from what Ling was telling me on MSN, the entire

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Where be the monkeys?… Part 1

Posted on 1 Aug 200914 Mar 2018   by CY

Funnily, Matt and I don’t always enjoy the same kind of games. In a nutshell, he’s a much more discriminating gamer than I am, whereas I’m more temperamental when it comes to video games when I’m not saddled with the

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B is for ?

Posted on 30 Jul 2009   by Ling

Burp. Burping Hannah has been a major occupation since we introduced the bottle. (Whenever she is breastfed, she requires little or no burping at all.) I started off with Avent bottles, believing that these are the better ones (they claimed

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