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Home Recording – Part 4

Posted on 6 Mar 20196 Mar 2019   by CY

Ling mused the other day whether we should get Peter started on a music instrument, like his older sister. Apparently, the same question was asked by Hannah’s piano teacher, who actually resides at The Minton too. The wife wanted to

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Posted in Music   

Creative SXFI

Posted on 6 Mar 201925 Jan 2024   by CY

I taught an introductory subject to computer games to freshmen classes for several years some time back. One topic of discussion centered on key turning points in video games, and one such would be the introduction of the Sound Blaster

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Posted in Music, Toys & Technology   

Chinese New Year 2019

Posted on 5 Feb 20195 Feb 2019   by CY

Our yearly tradition of having taking our family pictures on the first day of the Lunar New Year. This year’s setup is different though, with the Sony A73 doing duties for the first of hopefully many years to come. The

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Posted in Children Blues    Tagged Sony A7 III, Sony FE 24-105mm f4.0   

Maldives 2019 – Staying @ Private Island

Posted on 24 Jan 20198 May 2019   by CY

Here’s an odd bit of travel fact: when it comes to the Maldives and these private resort islands, unlike the majority of many other island-type resorts elsewhere in the world, you get exactly what you see in those stunning pictures.

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Maldives 2019

Posted on 21 Jan 201923 Jan 2019   by CY

If our planning this week works out, the wife will finally got a life-long wish of visiting the Maldives: we’re planning to head there in June this year, and hopefully with our ang mo bud, Matt whom we have been

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Posted in Traveling    Tagged Maldives 2019   

Lowepro Passport Sling III

Posted on 18 Jan 20195 Aug 2019   by CY

The Billingham Hadley Pro and Sirui MyStory 13 that I recently just did posts on are great bags for traveling, but they’re really quite large to lug around for our weekend brunches and dinner outings – since the only things

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Samyang AF 35mm f/1.4 FE Lens – Part 2

Posted on 15 Jan 201915 Jan 2019   by CY

Continued from the previous post! I placed an order with B&H Photo Video for the Samyang lens on the 9 Jan WEDS afternoon, and it was delivered by DHL Express on 12 Jan SAT afternoon – two days ahead of

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Posted in Photography & Cameras    Tagged Samyang 35mm f1.4, Sony A7 III   

JooJoobs’ Leather Bifold Wallet

Posted on 13 Jan 201916 Jul 2024   by CY

One of the annual things I’ve found myself doing is replacing a worn wallet. They get wrecked/tear/go moldy really fast! I reckon it’s a combination of things: the way I carry wallets – usually in my back pocket – and

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Samyang AF 35mm f/1.4 FE Lens – Part 1

Posted on 11 Jan 201917 Feb 2024   by CY

My first lens acquisition for 2019! Thankfully again it’s not an impulse buy, but a considered one, and also for my favorite prime focal length too: 35mm. One of the nicest things about the Sony Alpha mirrorless cameras is the

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Posted in Photography & Cameras    Tagged Samyang 35mm f1.4, Samyang 35mm f2.8, Sony A7 III   

Pictures @ 35mms

Posted on 10 Jan 201910 Jan 2019   by CY

While writing my 2018 reflections on the Sony FE System last week,  I realised that my preference for primes against zoom lenses have changed alongside my change of camera system. Specifically, whilst I was on m4/3 cameras, I far preferred

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Posted in Photography & Cameras    Tagged m4/3, Olympus 17mm f1.8, Olympus E-PL6, Samyang 35mm f2.8, Sony A7 III   

Packing It In – Sirui MyStory 13

Posted on 8 Jan 20198 Jan 2019   by CY

Continuing from an occasional series on packed camera bags. Sirui is better known for its affordably-priced but yet decent quality tripods than for its camera bags. The sole distributor here in Singapore for the bags – T K Foto Technic

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Packing It In – Billingham Hadley Pro

Posted on 6 Jan 20196 Jan 2019   by CY

Several years ago, there was a photography enthusiast web site called Cam Bags, and it was a forum for enthusiasts to put up reviews and pictures of their packed camera bags. That site was really useful, since with the gradual

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