Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
I’m beginning to think I’m the harbinger of catastrophe. Here in Singapore, accidents of all measure occur in my vicinity while I’m off in one direction or another. During my November, 2006 stay in Singapore I witnessed several traffic accidents,
I wrote this entry several weeks ago to post up when I’m too busy to write current entries. So here it goes.:) A student blogger on the other blog I write for was noting how quickly time has passed in
I was having a fun MSN conversation with a colleague several months ago, and it started off when I saw she had marvelous wallpaper on her notebook. Me: “Wow – Star Wars: Clone Wars wallpaper!!!” Friend: “nice anot… i compose
Along the hike up to the Treetop Walk near Bukit Timah, I smelled a distinct fragrance in the air. “What is that smell?” I asked. I just couldn’t place it, but it was familiar. Could it be lavender? No. Or
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
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
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 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
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
. . . 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
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
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
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