A Little Wedding Music Part I
It’s funny that it’s taken nearly 2 years for me to finally get round to writing an entry about the music I chose for our wedding in 2006. Perhaps it’s that of late I’ve felt the urgent desire to write
Marriage, Mozart and da Ponte Part II
One of the strange things I’ve never quite understood is our love for musicals. Yep I’m referring to the popular and widely-performed musicals by current composers like Claude-Michel Schönberg and Andrew Lloyd Webber, of which Les Misérables and The Phantom
Marriage, Mozart and da Ponte Part I
Here’s another multi-entry post about Le Nozze di Figaro, or The Marriage of Figaro. Yep, that favorite opera of mine for years now.:) Now, how I got acquainted to this opera by Mozart is a bit of a story. In
A Classical Revival: Part II
In the old days in the mid to late 90s when we were still using portable CD players, I had a CD wallet alongside the player in my haversack. I was commuting from Yio Chu Kang station where home was
A Classical Revival: Part I
Here’s another series of posts about an interest of mine for two decades now. No, it’s not about photography (again :P), but about classical music. Just prior to our Bali trip I’d blogged about my discovering Classics Online. One thing
Bali Notes IV: For Foodies
My apologies all round for the long lag time between part III and IV of our Bali notes.:( Strangely, dining in Bali had both its ups and downs. We sampled some excellent food, but in other places it was near
A picture paints, well er…
On our first day in Bali, we had hired a driver to fetch us from the airport to Tepi Sawah Villa, our pre-booked accommodation for our entire 6-day vacation in Bali. On our journey to Tepi Sawah, I kept seeing red
Bali Notes III: Mountains, Lakes & Waterfalls
The natural sights in Bali was really what I was keen on visiting. There were several new filters I’d acquired in the months before the trip that I was eager to try them out on landscapes, and specifically the graduated
Bali Notes II: Temples, Palaces & Monuments
There must be thousands of temples and shrines on Bali of varying sizes and importance, but each one is still beautifully decorated with status, carvings, and many also in Balinese-styled architecture and landscaping. That said, the sheer number of temples
Bali Notes I: The Villa
Over the next couple of days, I’ll be writing recollections of our Bali trip oriented around subject areas. This is gonna be mostly for our recording purposes so in a few decades’ time when we’re all old and forgetful, at
Bali Behind the Scenes
We’re safely back at home now, and amidst waiting for the laundry machine to clean up the first basket of laundry, I can finally do some photographic accounting. Over the 6 days, we took a total of 2,486 shots, of
Bali Bird Park
Our fifth day in Bali was mostly spent in photography subject-specific places; we started off in the early morning at the Botanic Gardens in Ubud for macro flower photography, then continued onto the Bird Park for animal photography, then the
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