Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
A continuation from the series of posts about our upcoming June vacation spot in the Maldives! Deciding which private island to stay at was relatively easy compared to deciding which public island to stay at over the first six days
There’s something I’ve come to realize about the Surface Pros – and I’ve had two of them now. Microsoft’s hybrid laptops are beautifully constructed and well-spec as a rule (unless you’re in Singapore where the Surface Pro (2017) here was
With the the new digital piano happily sequestered in our master room, it was easy deciding which of the three ways I was going to get recordings: record video and audio on separate streams, then sync and merge the two
My requirements for the digital piano were relatively few: most of the models in the price roughly SGD1.5K to 2K bracket were all offering pretty decent sound, so the quality of the piano sampling wasn’t of particular concern. Rather, the
I wrote my first music compositions – and specifically piano pieces – almost 25 years ago, and largely working off a Korg music workstation at my old family home. This particular digital keyboard was one of those heavy-duty synthesizers used
Our two kids have taken a new love of staying overnight with grandparents at our family home. Besides the fact that our parents’ house is a lot bigger, they also get to play with the neighbors similarly-aged children. That’s quite
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
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
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
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.
If our planning this week works out, the wife will finally get 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
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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