Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
The Chinese or Lunar New Year means different things depending on what age you are. If you’re a grandparent or belonging to the older generation, it’d be a festive and joyous occasion where the extended family gathers for the reunion
The blood test for my second pregnancy showed that the baby I was carrying was high risk for chromosomal abnormalities. Just like my first pregnancy, I was given the option of going for amniocentesis to check whether the baby had
As Ling chuckled yesterday – because our new baby is going to be a boy! Thank God too that the chromosome results showed that the growing baby is healthy too. Hannah’s reaction was quite different though when we told her
Users of the micro-four thirds camera systems regularly debate on what are the best prime lenses for the system, and one phrase often gets bounced around – the “m4/3 Holy Trinity”. There aren’t any religious connotations to its usage of
Another month, another visit to see the ongoing construction of our new home @ The Minton condo. The site’s Facebook page is quite lively with at least a couple other photographers (besides myself) making regular trips to the place to
Incredibly, it’s been more than 4 years since our blog posts about our choices for our first born child’s name. We should be knowing the gender of Hannah’s sibling soon – probably anytime from a couple more weeks onwards. I’m
The last two weeks of weekends had been madly busy for me at work, and I didn’t get to take as many pictures of Hannah as I’d like – apart from a couple using the new LX7 that I bring
I remember we used to have very basic sewing lessons in my secondary school education. Those lessons belonged to the girly subject called Home Economics. The other major component in the subject was cooking. I aced at sewing but fared
While the newly acquired LX7 isn’t the smallest compact camera around, it still fits very nicely into the side pockets of the bermudas I wear when we’re out of home on weekend trips. It’s a more discrete photo-taking device than
Small sensor compact cameras are a bit of in an odd state right now. They can be tiny and low-priced. On the other hand, they’ve also become pretty sandwiched between other competing classes of devices. A key indicator of small
We wrote in a Melaka post not too long ago that Hannah is still a relatively compliant girl. She’s normally still very willing to listen, accepting of our instructions, and her tantrums – if any at all – rarely last
This is one post I have to put on my flame-retardant suit! Even though I’ve heard the musicals, I’ve never seen the stage versions nor had an inclination to – and it’s only because apart from the odd well-known and
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