Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
The Freedom Trail starts and ends on the east side of the Boston Common. On the west side is the Back Bay District, an upmarket residential and super high-class commercial area of the city. I reached the area past noon
I took a lot of video at the New England Aquarium using the Panasonic HDC-TM700 on its first overseas field trip. There were so many video segments that I’m putting them in their own separate post here.:) Entrance Marine tank
Whenever I’m visiting a city, there’ll be two manmade types of places I’m especially interested – architectural, and aquariums! The marine tanks in the San Francisco Pier 39 Aquarium last March were pretty good though a good part of the
Here’s a selection of videos that I took while on the Freedom Trail. I’ll insert them also into their respective posts later too to better associate the pictures with motion video.:) Massachusetts State House (From Part 1) The Old Granary
When someone tells me about Summer, I think about the 46°C heat I experienced in my years in Perth. It was so crazily hot that you could put an egg on a frying pan, hold it out in the sun
After crossing Charlestown Bridge, and continued walking along Chelsea Street past some really swanking looking residences, and for quite a distance until finally arriving at the Charlestown Navy Yard to visit two ships: the USS Constitution, nicknamed “Old Ironsides”, and
Past Paul Revere’s statue is the Old North Church, though the official name of Boston’s oldest surviving religious establishment dating to 1723 is really Christ Episcopal Church. The church is significant for its involvement in the American Revolution. In 1775,
The next segment of the Freedom Trail was a very long walk that took me about an hour to finish. Upon leaving the Old State House, the trail continued along Congress Street. Just further down this road is the current
Right in front of Borders was a small plaza area with status (below). I’ll need to find out what they are, but the two statues seemed to depict a happy family on the left hand side, and another suffering family
Just so that one doesn’t get the wrong idea that all the blog posts here that I’m in Boston for fun and sightseeing, I better mention again that I’m really here for work and my project with MIT! However, professionalism
The home I’m putting up is in Cambridge, a college town that’s dominated by Harvard University, MIT and other college campuses. The home is an about 8 minute walk to the subway station (which itself is 4 stops away from
My brother Tchung, sis-in-law Sharon and Ling were talking about during Hannah’s birthday event at Lentor last weekend, and the conversation ventured into the merits and disadvantages of DSLRs versus compact cameras. Sharon used to lug around a pretty light
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