Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
Eight days in Phuket, and as we still have an hour to kill before hailing a Grab Car for our ride from Sino House Phuket Hotel to the airport, I wrote up a retrospective post on the itinerary covering what
Even without kids, neither the wife nor myself are party animals, instead preferring very sedate leisure activities like gardening/baking/cooking for the wife, and photography/music/computing for myself. Still, and largely out of curiosity to see what the fuss is about, we
I’ll do a post on the places we dined at the end of our trip. But generally speaking, the eateries and restaurants’ menu prices around Cassia Phuket are a lot higher than those around Phuket Old Town so far. The
It’s been almost exactly a year since we checked out Wild Wild Wet @ Downtown East. The memories of our experience at the park still remained pretty fresh, which made comparisons between that and Phuket’s Splash Water Jungle Park inevitable.
When Ling and I were last in Phuket 8 years ago, we joined Simba Sea Trips for island hopping around Phang Nga bay. During that trip, I remembered observing several boats bringing visitors to kayak about the various limestone caves
And after a week of using the S8+, more comments on it! We use our smartphones to tell the time a lot, and the S8+’s Always-On Display (AOD) to show that is incredibly useful. Despite Samsung’s promise that there is
If I had to name one characteristic of the Huawei Mate 9 that’s both great and also annoying at the same time, it’d be its rear fingerprint sensor. The sensor is located at the camera’s back and where one’s forefinger
Just a few more posts in our WA series – honest! And this one is for tech junkies – comments on how various gadgets and toys fared during the trip! The Olympus E-M1 continued to perform admirably on it’s third
Last couple of posts of the Huawei Mate 9 here, here and here. Many of the larger Android phone manufacturers routinely load up their new phones with a lot of bloatware. Sometimes, it’s useful – like additional storage space on
I don’t think I’ll ever feel entirely at ease with the smartphone as a handy camera. A large part of it has to do with handling and ergonomics. Smartphones as a direct result of their form factor simply do not
Continuing from the last post. Well: It’s Huawei’s current flagship, and it especially shows through its choice of processor and camera functions. The Mate 9 feels well-built, dense and of good heft without any creaky joints. I doubt if it’s
One of the nicest things about living in Asia is access to a wide range of mobile technologies, more so with China’s emergence as a leading tech giant. The large telco providers invariably bundle their subscription plans not only phones
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