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Duplicity

Posted on 14 Sep 200914 Mar 2018   by CY

Duplicity (2009) – on rental. I know a lot of film goers like watching Julia Roberts. She was a relative unknown until her breakout role as a hooker with a good heart in 1990’s Pretty Woman, winning a deserved Golden

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Keeping An Eye

Posted on 13 Sep 200913 Jul 2018   by CY

When I’m at home rarely a day goes by where I don’t visit technology related sites at least several times a day. There’re a couple of identical sites that I’ve got on my Bookmark Menu on each of my desktops

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Posted in At Home, Photography & Cameras, Toys & Technology    Tagged Laptops   

Morning Tea with Parents

Posted on 13 Sep 20095 Apr 2010   by CY

The Foo and Ch’ng clans have a ritual for years now. Every Sunday morning, Lentor parents would drive to Ang Mo Kio Central for morning tea and brunch with uncles and cousins from the maternal side. Before Hannah ‘popped’, the

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Posted in Children Blues, Photography & Cameras    Tagged Nikon D300, Sigma 18-250mm    2 Comments on Morning Tea with Parents   

Hannah’s Blurb

Posted on 12 Sep 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

Over the last 18 months now I’ve been putting together a series of photo books with Blurb and titled Vita Una, or “Life in One” in Latin. The first volume covered the first four years between 2004 and 2008 of

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Lonely Planet’s Guide to Travel Photography

Posted on 12 Sep 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

I’ve been looking for a good travel photography book for ages now – and in every sense of the word. It’s got to be about travel photography, and also portable enough for me to bring during travel too. The photography

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When you’re happy and you know it…

Posted on 11 Sep 2009   by CY

… suck your fingers! Taken just before heading out to see Hannah’s pediatrician; and by daddy while balancing Hannah on his lap with one hand supporting the pillow and the other holding the compact camera!

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Roger Ebert’s Movie Yearbook 2009

Posted on 11 Sep 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

The last of three books I’d ordered from The Book Depository arrived yesterday afternoon: and it was Roger Ebert’s Movie Yearbook 2009. The book costs a hefty SGD38 including shipping from the store – compared to a hefty SGD58 from

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日本へようこそ

Posted on 10 Sep 200919 Jan 2017   by CY

“Welcome to Japan” Ling has had a fascination with visiting Hokkaido for ages now on account of the amazing flower blooms they’ve got each season. I’ve technically been to Japan before – but only in Transit and at Narita Airport,

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Serenity and Firefly – Part 2

Posted on 10 Sep 2009   by CY

Despite that the series comprised just 14 episodes before it was cancelled, the series was commercially very successful on DVD sales, and spawned a film called Serenity in 2005 that continued the stories that ended after the 14th episode in

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Serenity and Firefly – Part 1

Posted on 10 Sep 200914 Mar 2018   by CY

One wildly popular TV series that I watched but never quite got interested in was Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The long running series starring the (very) delicious looking Sarah Michelle Gellar ran for seven years, the last of

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Yet more reading material

Posted on 9 Sep 2009   by CY

Two books I’d recently blogged about here and here arrived this afternoon, but by way of a different book store this time: The Book Depository, a UK-based online book store. The store boasts free shipping to a long list of

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Dreaming Baby

Posted on 9 Sep 200918 Apr 2010   by Ling

I was awaken by Hannah’s cries around 5am this morning. In my mind, I was like “What?! I thought she had no problem sleeping through the night. Oh no…don’t tell me this is a start of her waking up …*mumbles*”

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