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The Piano Project – Part 3

Posted on 7 Nov 201621 Feb 2017   by CY

I don’t have the faintest recollection of the purchase or delivery of our first family piano, 38 years ago from 1978. My mom did write in her diary though that the piano cost $3,950 – not $4,200 as blogged earlier

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Posted in At Home, Children Blues, Music    Tagged Olympus 12-40mm f2.8, Olympus E-M1, Piano   

The Piano Project – Part 2

Posted on 1 Nov 201621 Feb 2017   by CY

Truth to tell, when Hannah decided that she’d like to learn the piano rather than the violin, I was probably the more relieved – even happier – of the two of us parents. Ling’s neutral since she can play both

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The Piano Project – Part 1

Posted on 31 Oct 201621 Feb 2017   by CY

It’s been almost eight years since I last blogged here about piano-playing (have we really been blogging for that long?!). A new home project started though that will likely see an emergence of new posts on this topic in the

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The Pet Project – Part 3

Posted on 11 Oct 201621 Feb 2017   by CY

Apart from the new Savic Bristol cage, we’ve been on small shopping sprees over the nearly 10 days we’ve had Stacy the Syrian, accumulating a small stockpile of food items, treats and toys for her. Here’s our rundown of things

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The Pet Project – Part 2

Posted on 6 Oct 201621 Feb 2017   by CY

It took us just a day to conclude that the cage we bought Stacy the Syrian was going to be a little too small once our baby hamster gets past a few months old, more so that Syrians are larger

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The Pet Project – Part 1

Posted on 3 Oct 201621 Feb 2017   by CY

Pets. As parents of young kids, we’ve heard a lot in media about not letting kids pressure us as parents into buying pets, and the dangers of impulse buying. As cute as some the furry little critters like hamsters, guinea

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Amazonia @ Great World City

Posted on 15 Sep 201621 Feb 2017   by CY

Parents of young kids will readily attest to this: every time there’s a school holiday break, we’d have to wreck our brains to fill the break period with things for kids to do. Granted, there are typically enough toys and

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Soek Seng 1954 Bicycle Cafe

Posted on 13 Sep 201621 Feb 2017   by CY

There are a couple of places one can hang out to watch planes land and take-off. For persons who cannot do without air conditioning, there’s most people’s favorite hangout spot: the viewing galleries @ Changi Airport departure terminals. In fact,

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Kranji Countryside

Posted on 9 Sep 201621 Feb 2017   by CY

We didn’t get to spend as much time as we would have liked with the kids this one week of school holidays, what with my having to be back at work on several days and also that the car was

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Universal Studios Singapore

Posted on 6 Sep 20163 Apr 2018   by CY

I don’t think there are many Singaporean families who’ve yet to visit Universal Studio Singapore (USS) – our island’s very own theme park – since it’s opening 5 years ago. We’ve largely put it off because the kids, at various

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Mi Max – Part 2

Posted on 4 Aug 201613 Jul 2018   by CY

The TL:DR version of this long post about the new Xiaomi Mi Max phone is this: great phone especially considering its asking price and in my opinion, the best all-round Phablet at this price-point. But it’s also just too large

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Mi Max – Part 1

Posted on 3 Aug 201617 Jul 2024   by CY

I remembered when Samsung released their first Galaxy Note phone with a 5.3″ screen. A screen that size today is considered only ‘average’, but 5 years ago it was gargantuan, and many phone users wondered if the thing would even

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