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Cebu 2024 – Day 07 – Sunset at Alona Beach Bohol

Posted on 14 Jun 202430 Jun 2024   by CY

This was my last island aerial video this trip, and the only one I’ve done at sunset to early evening. The sun sets pretty early here on Bohol – 6:05PM today – so at 5:35PM I was already ready in

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Bali vs Cebu

Posted on 14 Jan 202414 Jan 2024   by CY

In what might be a very Singaporean thing to do: we plan our next vacation as soon as the current one ends! Towards the tail end of our 18 days in Japan last month, I was discussing with the missus

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Chubu-Kanto – Japan Dec 2023 – Dining in Japan – Part 2

Posted on 28 Dec 20231 Mar 2024   by CY

Continued from the last post, and covering Days 09 to 18! That’s a wrap for our posts journaling selected dining experiences this trip. Next post: Final Notes!

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New Car Project 2022 – Part 2

Posted on 24 Oct 202226 Oct 2022   by CY

The two models we checked out were the Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid 1.6 DCT Sunroof (A), and the Kia Niro Hybrid 1.6 SX (A). We’re not car experts at all, so don’t have a deep sense of what finally mattered in

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New Car Project 2022 – Part 1

Posted on 24 Oct 202225 Oct 2022   by CY

While looking through the blog notes here for our purchase of our Mazda 3 seven and a half years ago, I realized something funny: the oddities that we noticed with the then new car persisted for the next 7.5 years.

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Kansai – Japan 2022 – Planning – Part 1

Posted on 3 Oct 20223 Oct 2022   by CY

With most of the world – or Asia at least – finally emerging from the almost three year long pandemic, the travel bug has pretty much hit home to many of us here on this island. We have, after all,

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Foldable Bikes – Part 2

Posted on 3 Jan 202125 Jan 2024   by CY

Our first post of 2021! Beyond our certainty that we needed two bikes and of the foldable variety, we knew otherwise little about bikes themselves. At this point, and several days after picking up the LitePro and 3Sixty, we’re still

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Foldable Bikes – Part 1

Posted on 21 Dec 202025 Jan 2024   by CY

The wife has been musing since last year whether we should enjoy Singapore in more outdoor fashion, especially given how much money the government here has pumped into building numerous parks, outdoor facilities and nature reserves and sanctuaries just so

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Xiaomi Viomi V2 Pro Robot Vacuum

Posted on 22 Mar 202025 Jan 2024   by CY

Covid-19 has certainly change everyone’s lives a lot. While our little island has been spared relatively well from the virus’ onslaught elsewhere – thanks largely to our government’s foresight and immediate action starting in mid-Jan – there’s nonetheless an unmistakable

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Musing about smartphone tech

Posted on 5 Mar 2020   by CY

The outbreak of Covid-19 a month ago here in Singapore really put a big dampener on people’s morale here. But credit really goes to the government here for reacting fast, decisively and with great foresight such that the local transmission

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Chinese New Year 2020

Posted on 25 Jan 2020   by CY

The Lunar New Year period this year in 2020 lands on the best possible date, weekday wise: eve on a FRI, and as both proceeding public holiday days are on weekday days, the country declares the following MON as another

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Chūgoku & Kyushu/Japan 2019 – Itinerary

Posted on 7 Sep 20198 Sep 2019   by CY

A week to go before my 11 day trip to the southern half of the first two of Japan trips this year, and I’m finally about done tweaking my leisure itinerary that wraps around the work segment of the trip.

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