{"id":15990,"date":"2012-02-14T21:30:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T13:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=15990"},"modified":"2017-02-25T19:46:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T11:46:30","slug":"feb-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2012\/02\/14\/feb-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were expecting the worst when heading out for a family dinner this evening after work. It\u2019s Valentine\u2019s Day, and every Singaporean couple and family are out for a celebration dinner. We raced off after work, drove like crazy to pick up Hannah, and got into Hougang Mall and the Ichiban Japanese restaurant five minutes before every restaurant in the mall saw long, snaking queues forming (yep; even for Subway and Pepper Lunch).<\/p>\n<p>The D7000 and 35mm f1.8 went for the ride. Pictures of the two women in my life.=)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_5704-ichiban-valentine-day-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/blog-2012-hannah-N7K_5704-ichiban-valentine-day-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_5704-ichiban-valentine-day-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" border=\"0\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_5722-ichiban-valentine-day-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/blog-2012-hannah-N7K_5722-ichiban-valentine-day-flickr.jpg\" alt=\"blog-2012-hannah-N7K_5722-ichiban-valentine-day-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Both at ISO640; the first at f3.2, the second at f1.8. There\u2019s still some softness when I pixel peep, so I\u2019m going to have to check my focusing charts again.<\/p>\n<p>We were asking Hannah (just for fun, mind you, so <strong>don\u2019t read any more into it<\/strong>) if she would prefer a \u5f1f\u5f1f or a \u59b9\u59b9. She thought for a minute, and said confidently \u201c\u5f1f\u5f1f\u201d!<\/p>\n<p>For our ang mo bud in Missouri, \u5f1f\u5f1f means \u201cyounger brother\u201d, and \u201c\u59b9\u59b9\u201d means \u201cyounger sister\u201d. =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were expecting the worst when heading out for a family dinner this evening after work. It\u2019s Valentine\u2019s Day, and every Singaporean couple and family are out for a celebration dinner. We raced off after work, drove like crazy to<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2012\/02\/14\/feb-14\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Feb 14<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[519,518],"class_list":["post-15990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-children-blues","tag-35mm","tag-d7000","wpcat-7-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/blog-2012-hannah-N7K_5722-ichiban-valentine-day-flickr.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15990","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=15990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}