{"id":14785,"date":"2011-08-27T18:46:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T10:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=14785"},"modified":"2011-08-28T11:51:27","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T03:51:27","slug":"pe-weekend-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/08\/27\/pe-weekend-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"PE Weekend &ndash; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another long weekend for us, and this time for the hotly contested Presidential Election. As in the General Election in May this year, we didn\u2019t both go out to cast our vote at the same time. Little girl in tow etc. and we weren\u2019t sure if our polling center (just next door!) was going to let us bring a non-voter into the area.<\/p>\n<p>Still, plenty of photo opportunities again, with morning brunch at Qiji @ Hougang Mall. Hannah took a special interest in turning the pages of the Today newspaper.=)<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP2936-qiji\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/blog-2011-hannah-OLYP2936-qiji.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP2936-qiji\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">She isn&#39;t yet able to read though, though is able to recognize pictures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP2940-qiji\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/blog-2011-hannah-OLYP2940-qiji.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP2940-qiji\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">We get creative each time we bring her out with us. There&#39;s the iPad of course, but we don&#39;t want her to get too addicted to it!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Picked up a new set of spectacle lenses too. The old pair I\u2019ve been using since November 2009 had lost a good deal of its coating \u2013 despite my having paid for a multi-whatever-coated pair \u2013 at that point, and it was so bad that I could see blurred spots while wearing my classes. The replacement lenses was some kind of high tech gizmo that claimed to eliminate or at least repel all five impediments to clear vision: reflections, scratches, water, smudges, and even dust. You can read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crizal.com.sg\/introduction.html\">claim here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-rivervale-OLYP2948-new-glasses\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/blog-2011-rivervale-OLYP2948-new-glasses.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-rivervale-OLYP2948-new-glasses\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">S$130 lenses. Retained back my old titanium plated spectacle frames though.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The pair of lenses cost SGD130 (ouch), but whether it works as advertised, I\u2019ll have to see. Shouldn\u2019t have to wait too long, since I\u2019m a pretty rough user. =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another long weekend for us, and this time for the hotly contested Presidential Election. As in the General Election in May this year, we didn\u2019t both go out to cast our vote at the same time. Little girl in tow<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/08\/27\/pe-weekend-part-1\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  PE Weekend &ndash; Part 1<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[508,514],"class_list":["post-14785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children-blues","tag-e-pl2","tag-lumix-20mm","wpcat-7-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}