Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
The list of photography web sites that I bookmark and check everyday include Imaging Resource, The Photography Blog, DPReview, The Luminous Landscape and Clubsnap though funnily, the first three sites largely present similar articles when it comes to news items.
While I was in Kumamoto last December, Ling and Hannah spent a good amount of time at our Lentor family home, staying with my parents. After I got back home, Ling shared with me her experience of staying at Lentor,
Nearly a decade ago I marked an examination paper on a subject I was lecturing and also heading in one of my prior institutions. This was an international examination, and the candidates sitting for my paper numbered in the several
Step aside Newater, gold is the in thing now. I was reading this interesting article about many (and wild) possibilities of making sewage useful. The world’s population produces around 1.2 billion tonnes of faeces and 15 hundred billion of urine per year.
Inglorious Basterds (2009) – on rental. Quentin Tarantino is one of those film directors who can make any film he pleases: and even with the trademark eccentricities in his productions, everyone of them will still be critically acclaimed hits. The
Writing and preparing yet another Blurb book has become a regular ritual for me. As soon as I finished Book III of the series of Vita Una books last September, I began work on Book IV: The initial plan for
Just when I was marvelling at Yang’s dad for having his ex-students paying him visits year after year during the Chinese New Year season, I got one tonight too. Name is Jinju. I taught her biology and was also her
There are usually at least four festive dinners at our family home at Lentor: the Reunion dinner on CNY Eve, lunch event on Day 1 before we disperse to visit relative, another dinner event with relatives from my maternal side
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
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
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,
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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