Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
There’s a popular quip among some Singaporeans here that there’s only one reason why we toil at work: and it is to pay for our twice a year vacations in June and December. And our planning for a new holiday
Doing an update to this ongoing series of year-end review posts can be really distressing on account of how the year again just went past and that we’re all a year older again. Playstation PS4 – Mixed: our first toy-technological
Memory cards are a dime a dozen these days, with prices coming so low and capacity limits far outreaching camera sensor image resolutions. In fact, it’s quite common for new cameras to come bundled with Secure Digital memory cards. These
The Olympus E-PL6 spent the better part of 2016 in the cabinet: earlier this year, it started developing stuck shutter curtain issues alongside the touch screen becoming a little finicky. The latter was an annoyance but it didn’t affect photo-taking
We’ve got a rule of thumb, and it is to avoid 3D2N holidays as much as possible, even if it means forking extra to stay for a longer period and having to wreck our brains thinking of how to fill
The one significant good thing of our D’Resort staycation was the complimentary admission to Wild Wild Wet park. The price of the stay itself was $481, and the dollar value for daily admission over the four days would had been
After splurging for a fairly expensive Melbourne vacation in June this year, we decided we wouldn’t travel out of the country for the December school holiday break. I still had a ton of annual leave to finish clearing though, so
Stacy – our family Syrian hamster – is now four months old. She’s also grown noticeably larger from about 8cm when we first got her, to 13cm long from snout to her stump tail. From what we’ve read, this is
2016 was a comparatively slow year – new gear wise at least – for the cameras I use. I still keep a expenditure log of items I buy, and over the year, acquisitions were a low half-dozen items that totaled
We’ve been married ten years just a few days back, and it was as good an opportunity as any to offload Peter and Hannah at our parents’ Lentor home and for us to have a day and night out without
One of the key things I was looking forward to with our new piano was composing again – with the last piece I wrote being just about 20 years ago. Unlike trained composers though, I write while playing on the
More notes on my returning to the piano after a decade of hiatus! Scores Of all the whole bunch of things that’s different today compared to 38 years ago, the forms of sheet music probably offer the largest changes. Scores
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