Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
One of the most useful sites that I look at is Wikitravel, the Wikipedia equivalent for travelers. The information there is peer-contributed and edited, and it serves as a useful amalgamation or as a start point to get key pointers
Continued from the previous post.:) Planning for vacations is also a lot easier than ever before too. There are web sites that assist in every imaginable aspect of traveling – including searching for lowest airfares, checking of customs and Visa
Singaporeans are a pretty lucky lot when it comes to opportunities for vacation traveling. We’ve got a major aviation hub, and like a friend remarked when I was in Kumamoto – if an airplane landing at Changi airport overshoots the
Well, I think Ling will be thrilled to hear this: but after writing up an itinerary for a 10 day vacation to Taiwan (she chose Taiwan ahead of Boracay and Sabah), I decided to see if I could work out
A couple of months ago last year I started thinking about our year-end 2010 vacation, what with Ling haven’t been out of the country for a while now since becoming pregnant. June looks likely to be out as the coming
There are little observations I’ve made too throughout my 9 day stay. Service standards are incredible. I never met a single customer service person who failed to display the highest levels of courtesy, whether that person is a taxi driver
Matt and I were having an MSN chat the other day while I was still in Kumamoto, and one part of it went like this: Matt: “It is a shame you won’t get to see Nagasaki, though.” Me: “Yeah. But
The flight to Kumamoto City on the 12 December was packed with Japanese high-school girls. From what my Japanese counterpart remarked when I was at their college, at about this time of the year, as many as 20,000 of their
And the last stack of HDR compositions: of Kyu-Hosokawa Gyobutei. These were the hardest HDR exposures I’ve done so far: they’re all handheld shots taken indoors. Well, that’s a wrap for all the pictures taken of my stay in Kumamoto,
Another stack of HDR compositions taken in Kumamoto City, and this time of Suizenji Gardens Several of these I stabilized with the Gorilla Pod, with the composition itself was created from 9 exposures.
Time to work on the HDR compositions! Here’s Part 2.:) I finally managed to get some much nicer bracketed exposures of Kumamoto Castle on Saturday morning – the day before departure. Like the picture taken from my blog post “Meals
Though I decided to bring along the Sigma 18-250mm lens at the last minute while packing for the trip 9 days ago, funnily I never got round to using the lens. It sat in my luggage bag during my entire
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