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Foldable Bikes – Part 1

Posted on 21 Dec 202025 Jan 2024   by CY

The wife has been musing since last year whether we should enjoy Singapore in more outdoor fashion, especially given how much money the government here has pumped into building numerous parks, outdoor facilities and nature reserves and sanctuaries just so

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Orchard Hotel Singapore

Posted on 17 Dec 202017 Dec 2020   by CY

It was pure coincidence that for both of our staycations this year, we’d booked hotels within a stone throw’s distance from one to the next. That said, the property we booked for our four day family staycation this week –

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Spice Brasserie

Posted on 22 Nov 202025 Jan 2024   by CY

We were on a hunt for a buffet lunch for our wedding anniversary staycation, in part curious how buffet dining experiences have changed since the start of Covid 19. And after the usual checking around for timings and pricing, settled

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Orchard Rendezvous Hotel

Posted on 22 Nov 202025 Jan 2024   by CY

At this point in the third week of November, it looks like we will indeed have spent the whole of 2020 in Singapore and not having stepped out for any kind of travel. At the start of 2020, we’d booked

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iPad Pro 12.9 4th Gen (2020)

Posted on 16 Oct 2020   by CY

No, I wasn’t planning initially to get one of these! I was however interested in replacing my four year old iPad Mini 4 later this year with the long expected iPad Mini 5, which according to rumours would be finally

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Star Wars: Squadrons

Posted on 8 Oct 20208 Oct 2020   by CY

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a detailed review of a video game, but the hugely anticipated Star Wars: Squadrons is just too good a material for a pass on it! The three films in the Star Wars sequel

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Epson L6170 Inkjet Printer

Posted on 7 Oct 20207 Oct 2020   by CY

There’s a long row of A4 sized framed photos of our extended family at my parents’ home, and most of those prints had been done using the Epson L550 inkjet printer we’ve had for just over five years now. Truth

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Accessories, Gadgets and Trinkets – Covid 19 Edition

Posted on 23 Sep 202023 Sep 2020   by CY

Since the pandemic began, the reporting in the newspapers around this part of the world have pointed to a general increase in online purchases. That’s to be expected of course, since for a good part of 2020, brick and mortar

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Oculus Quest – Part 4 – Apps

Posted on 22 Aug 202025 Jan 2024   by CY

Continued from the last post that discusses a first series of VR content and apps that I picked up for the Oculus Quest! Vader Immortal. There aren’t a lot of VR games set in the Star Wars universe at the

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Oculus Quest – Part 3 – Apps

Posted on 16 Aug 202016 Aug 2020   by CY

One of the best features of the Oculus Quest is its ability to access both tethered and also full-on mobile content i.e. the best of both ecosystems. At the point of purchase, I assumed that I would be full-on just

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Oculus Quest – Part 2 – The Device

Posted on 26 Jul 2020   by CY

My first comments two weeks into the Oculus Quest! Setting up the Quest and pairing it to my Samsung Galaxy S20+ was easy and worked without a hitch, as did also the  Windows app to enable Oculus Link. The Oculus

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Oculus Quest – Part 1

Posted on 16 Jul 202016 Jul 2020   by CY

It’s been nearly 4.5 years since I tried out VR gear, and that was with the Samsung Gear VR, blogged here. The technology was still in relative infancy – consumer-grade that is – back then, and suffered from issues that

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