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Finally!! The Sigma 70-20mm f2.8 OS

Posted on 22 Feb 201022 Feb 2010   by CY

I was thrilled yesterday to read that Sigma has just announced a lens that I’d been hoping for: their 70-20mm f2.8 optically stabilized lens! I’d blogged about this class of lens just the other month ago, but had no idea

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Posted in Photography & Cameras   

Photography = Chaos

Posted on 21 Feb 20105 Apr 2010   by CY

Comical situations occasionally come up at home. Just 30 minutes ago, Hannah was sleeping and I was working on the PC when Ling came into the workroom and said in hushed tone: “Dear, want to take pictures of Hannah? She’s

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Posted in At Home, Photography & Cameras    Tagged Nikon D300, Sigma 24-60mm f2.8    2 Comments on Photography = Chaos   

Women Expectations

Posted on 21 Feb 201021 Feb 2010   by CY

There’s no pleasing Ling sometimes. When I showed her my draft itinerary for a possible Japan trip in December to the Kansai region, she gave the sort of look that said it all “But I want to go to Hokkaido,

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Posted in Traveling    7 Comments on Women Expectations   

Hannah @ Play

Posted on 21 Feb 20105 Apr 2010   by CY

Hannah was in one of her usual wailing moods mid-afternoon yesterday. Ling was preparing her solids feed, so it fell to me to have to ‘entertain’ and quieten her just so that the entire block of Rivervale residents don’t come

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Posted in At Home, Children Blues, Photography & Cameras    Tagged Nikon D300, Sigma 24-60mm f2.8   

Pirates of the Caribbean Revisited – Part 3

Posted on 21 Feb 201014 Mar 2018   by CY

There were several high and low points in my revisits to the three films too this week: memorable scenes that worked very well, and scenes that were just awful. For the former: the standout scenes included the introduction of Jack

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Pirates of the Caribbean Revisited – Part 2

Posted on 20 Feb 201014 Mar 2018   by CY

One of those challenges about producing film trilogies themed on fantastic premises is coming up with story arcs to string and relate the three films together. Ideally, you’ll want to write the entire story for the three films first before

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Travel for the Brave (or Foolhardy)

Posted on 20 Feb 201020 Feb 2010   by CY

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

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Pirates of the Caribbean Revisited – Part 1

Posted on 19 Feb 201014 Mar 2018   by CY

Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy – on HD. One of Disney’s most profitable film franchises is the Pirates of the Caribbean trio of films: starting with The Curse of the Black Pearl in 2003, Dead Man’s Chest in 2006 and

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Posted in At Home, Entertainment   

CPL + GND stack

Posted on 19 Feb 201013 Mar 2010   by CY

I was remarking to Matt over MSN the other afternoon that of the lot of lens filters I’ve got, the GND – graduated neutral density – one hardly ever gets used. The filter is a bit of a last resort

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Posted in Photography & Cameras, Toys & Technology    Tagged Nikon D300   

Updates on Hannah’s First Year Milestones

Posted on 19 Feb 201018 Apr 2010   by Ling

First Month: She smiled. Second Month: Started to mimick sounds of words, e.g. ‘er le’, ‘ok lah’. Slept through the night. Started to gain better support of her head. Third Month: Started to giggle. Mumbled what sounded like ‘mommy’. Stuck

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Posted in At Home, Children Blues    Tagged Panasonic HDC-SD20   

Travel Bugs – Part 2

Posted on 17 Feb 20105 Apr 2010   by CY

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

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Posted in Traveling    Tagged Boston 2010   

Travel Bugs – Part 1

Posted on 17 Feb 201019 Jan 2017   by CY

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

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