WYSIWYG
Ling needs a holiday. I mean, teaching in secondary school is absolutely no joke. After seeing how distressed she looks sometimes after school, I resolved to find us a nice vacation spot during the holidays. The March holiday period this
Bangkok by Metre
Use a metered cab—make sure it is metered! This is obviously good advice. And like most good advice I’ve received throughout my life, I chose to ignore it. At the Bangkok airport, taxi stand in sight, I ducked through the
UMPCs. Oh my… so kawaii!!!!
Notebooks have to achieve balance between weight, battery power, performance and form factor, and as satisfied as I am with the two notebooks I use, the want to carry around PDA-sized and truly portable and light notebooks is always somewhere
More CPL foolin'
More fooling around with the B+W circular polarizer filter coupled with the Sigma 10-20mm lens. This quick shot was taken at about 2 pm just outside the living room window over the last weekend, and at 20mm focal length. The
Lost Luggage and Found Cake
The day before my departure for Bangkok went by more quickly than I anticipated. Yang and Ling each had busy days, and I once again whiled away the morning at the The Rivervale awaiting word on the status of my
Pulau Ubin . . .
. . . AKA: The Mosquito Coast. Or so I’d been led to believe. So ferocious are the mosquitoes of Pulau Ubin, so insatiable is their thirst for human blood, that local custom demands that an ang moh devour a
Photographic toys
Here’s a picture of the equipment that Matt brought me, alongside a few other items I’ve picked up in the last month.:) From left to right: Nikon 55-200mm f/4-5.6G ED IF AF-S DX VR Zoom Nikkor Lens Nikon 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G
Singapore 1, Matt 0
Well played, Singapore. Not only at the end of each night did you relentlessly stuff me until I waddled back to The Rivervale like a cross-eyed duck, but your strategy of playfully misplacing my luggage for over 72 hours was
Ultra-wide angles
One of the best things about having an ang mo friend is that every time he comes by to visit, I go wild at Amazon and order all the lenses and accessories I need and have them sent to him,
Day Zero: Ang Moh Direct
Carry-on luggage, Lowepro CompuDaypack: 15.4’’ Dell laptop, Nikon D40 w/ kit lens, 80gb iPod classic, 8gb USB flash-drive, Samsung A-737 handphone, printed e-ticket, and accompanying itinerary—all mine; also containing: Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM Lens, Nikon 55-200mm f/4-5.6G VR
Checklist – checked
Ling posted up a checklist of things to do when Matt was in Singapore, and the foodie items for him to try out. Here’s the current report after Day 2.:) Paranakan Cuisine: laksa (Katong of course!), nonya curry, mee siam,
O Mosquito, Mosquito, wherefore art thou Mosquito?
Truth to tell, I wasn’t eager for the Pulau Ubin trip that Ling had planned on Day 2 of Matt’s stay with us. She’d been thinking of bringing us to this favorite school spot of hers over the years e.g.
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