Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
The idea of teaching emotions to Hannah never occurred to me. It all started from reading a Chinese story book where animals became happy, sad or angry when naughty children make friends with them or pull their tails. Little did
The MacBook Pro Retina (rMBP) arrived on Tuesday afternoon, about 8 days after placing an order for it. The notebook configuration I chose wasn’t the base configuration. Given that the new series of rMBPs can’t be user-upgraded later after it
One thing that Apple prides itself is in its product packaging, so much so that the iconic boxes that are used to pack its iPhone even features in the current lawsuit they’ve piled on Samsung. One change that has issued
I first started reading fantasy fiction nearly 30 years ago when my elder brother picked up the first book of the Dragonlance Chronicles. There’s been a lot of such epic fantasy book series – some spanning as many as dozens
Hannah – like us adults – goes through phases where she’ll get really excited about a fun new toy or object every now and then. About a year ago, it was the ingenious “Where’s My Water” on the iPad. For
Sigh. I’m so pathetic lah. No new recipes to share and now am going to blog about my way of cooking instant noodles! Maggi mee, remember? In my childhood days, my brothers and I used to buy their curry flavour
It’s been more than four years since my 2008 post recollecting the different notebooks I’ve used for the last twelve years up till that point. Right about time to do another update, since I’ve been used or owned several more
The Sigma 70-20mm f2.8 has been getting neglected, so it was time to take it out for a spin over the weekend. The amazing bokeh that Matt’s 1.8mm lenses on his full-frame D800 was still clear in my memory. A
One of Hannah’s favorite evening routines is to do sticker book exercises with us. Ling first bought her one such book at the start of the year, and it contained several hundred stickers spread out over 36 pages. That book
Couple of developments over the last fortnight. We found that Hannah was in the (bad!) habit of saying “What???” whenever we called out for her. Not sure where she picked that up from! We took to gently correcting her to
Despite my best efforts at selecting fresh foods sold at our nearby NTUC supermarkets, getting decent eating quality stuff can still be a hit-and-miss affair. The latest disappointment came from 2 boxes of blueberries sold at a discount. They were
It’s been more than two months since our last entry of our new home @ The Minton condo. We’d actually visited the construction site as recently as a month ago with Matt (the next time he visits us we’d probably
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