Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
There’s been no shortage of hot debates on issues at The Straits Times discussion forum. There was the en-bloc debate I blogged about recently, and there’s another current one on an age-old debate: abortion in Singapore. Yep, it’s a tough
That’s about the amount of luggage I was hauling around this afternoon. How’s that figure? Well: Manfrotto 190CXPRO3 tripod + 488RC2 ballhead ~ 2 kg D300 ~ 0.9 kg Sigma 150mm macro ~0.8 kg Sigma 10-20mm ~0.7 kg SB-600 with
Ling has been rewatching the Planet Earth blu-ray set I bought her for Valentine’s Day several months ago. The series is still amazing even though this is repeated viewing. Thing is, the natural world isn’t all so hunky dory sunshine
The first digital camera I owned was a Canon S10, a compact camera I picked up in 1999 at a crazily expensive cost of $1.5K (ouch). That was followed by a better prouser digicam, the Minolta DiMAGE 7 in 2002
Faster, higher, stronger—or so the Olympic Games motto goes. It doesn’t feel so long ago when I wrote an entry here about the 2004 Summer Olympic games in Athens. This was during my doctoral program in Perth, and I followed
The SOC was the most ‘feared’ activity when I was doing my national service 18 years ago. In fact, I was so terrifically bad at the course during boot camp that I failed the course each practice run (and got
If this following entry offends, I apologize. It’s really intended to be a humorous take on the sort of things we’ve only up till this point seen on animal documentaries. Specifically, and depending on your point of view, the both
One of the comic books I read as a child and I still do occasionally is Conan the Barbarian, a fantasy character created by Robert E. Howard in the 1930s. This character has appeared in a lot of mediums outside
That’s Ling’s lifelong dream. Given a choice, she’ll really like to be a stay-at-home housewife and bake all day.:) But seriously; every so often, Ling will ask if I’m still keeping an eye out for academic openings at Universities outside
The two of us usually get back home at about 6:30 pm every evening. If either one of us is cooking, dinner will typically be at around 7:15 pm and we’ll usually dine with a couple of Seinfeld or Everybody
That quite literally means “Study books time”.:) But seriously, the last two of three books I’ve put on my photography reading list finally arrived from Amazon.com several days ago. I’ve ordered stuff from Amazon.com before, and they’ve typically arrived in
I follow The Straits Times forum and discussion threads quite a bit, though I almost always operate in lurk rather than participant mode. The posts run the spectrum of quality; some witty, some informative, some pointless, some just plain rude.
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