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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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Posted in Traveling   

CNY Day 2: Hougang Point

Posted on 15 Feb 201015 Feb 2010   by CY

If there’s one thing I really dislike about CNY, it’s the humidity and heat of January to February that the festivities often fall on. Temperatures here have been a not very pleasant 33°C (but feels like 36°C), with Hannah being

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Posted in Children Blues    Tagged Chinese New Year   

Chinese New Year 2010

Posted on 14 Feb 201027 Jan 2017   by CY

The yearly Chinese New Year picture, for 2010 and with grandparents and kids!

Posted in At Home, Children Blues   

CNY Day 1: Grandparents and Grandkids

Posted on 14 Feb 20103 Apr 2018   by CY

Here’s the most current version of the grandparents + grandkids picture – and as happy as they look in the picture, you wouldn’t know how much trauma it involved getting the lot (grandparents excepted) to pose like this!

Posted in Children Blues    Tagged Chinese New Year, Sigma 24-60mm f2.8   

CNY Eve: Hannah’s First CNY

Posted on 13 Feb 20103 Apr 2018   by CY

The Chinese New Year festivities at Lentor are usually really just excuses to pig out and eat without care, so this year’s CNY eve dinner was no different: lots of good food. This year’s a little different also because it’s

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Posted in Children Blues    Tagged Chinese New Year, Sigma 24-60mm f2.8    2 Comments on CNY Eve: Hannah’s First CNY   

End-of-year Vacation v2

Posted on 11 Feb 201011 Feb 2010   by CY

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

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Posted in Traveling    Tagged Japan 2010   

Coco Chanels

Posted on 10 Feb 201014 Mar 2018   by CY

Coco Chanel (TV, 2008) and Coco avant Chanel (Film, 2009) – on rental. The only thing I know about Chanel really is the fashion giant has something called “Chanel No. 5”, though what exactly that item is I had no

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Posted in At Home, Entertainment   

Sextet of Torment

Posted on 9 Feb 201010 Feb 2010   by CY

There’s an absolutely horrid gauntlet of traffic lights I have to get through every morning at 7:00 AM, and it’s the series of traffic junctures from the infant care center I drop Hannah off at and then Ling. They’re marked

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Posted in Everything Else    3 Comments on Sextet of Torment   

End-of-year Vacation

Posted on 8 Feb 20105 Apr 2010   by CY

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

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Posted in At Home, Traveling    Tagged Boston 2010   

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