Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
One would think that deciding which smartwatch to get would be rather similar to smartphones: as in out of three things – low price, features, and battery life – but you can only have two of these three. But there
This was a pretty hard itinerary to put together, and I’ve lost count of the major revisions we’ve had for it since June. Our broad workflow for writing out an initial plan wasn’t very different from the last semi-long vacation
It’s been more than two months since I wrote about our forthcoming December trip to Taiwan. The lull in notes about it hasn’t been because of a lack of activity in its preparation. Rather, things were so fluid for a
My trip to Hong Kong wasn’t one that was heavy on photography. Still, I had to decide which of my two camera systems to bring as I had colleagues presenting their conference papers and I’d promised to take pictures. The
There were a few moments of nervousness last Sunday while I was following the news of the devastation caused by Super Typhoon Mangkhut as it cut through Hong Kong island. A flight out of Singapore to the island normally takes
The main segment of the four day conference was a two day series of keynote speeches, talks and presentation of the papers – and hosted at the Hong Kong Science Park, which was right at the end of the Sha
After graduation from my first degree in 1995, I spent just over seven years working with an education provider who had numerous offices on the island. The work required me to move around the different locations scattered on all cardinal
We’ve been exploring getting a robot cleaner for our Minton home since moving in 4.5 years now, but kept putting it off on account that these devices were pretty expensive back then. The branded ones from LG, Samsung and Roomba
The new category of devices – Smart Speakers – seems pretty much like a natural amalgamation of several technologies that have surfaced over the last decade or two: voice recognition, natural language processing, and integrated services. Oddly, most of the
We actually wrote a series of posts 11 years ago during our visit to Rawa Island in 2007, but all but two (here and here) of those posts were lost when I migrated host servers around 2009-ish. Over the last
Between preparing for our Nov 2006 wedding and also looking for/buying/renovating/getting ready/moving into our first home @ The Rivervale, I think the both of us were pretty much not planning where we’d go for our honeymoon during the last quarter
Our blog has includes posts on the places we’ve been to, but it was only from the Bali 2008 vacation ten years ago when I got into the habit of really writing increasingly copious notes on our travels – with
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