{"id":19228,"date":"2013-10-06T00:14:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T16:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=19228"},"modified":"2018-04-03T16:03:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T08:03:43","slug":"work-in-progress-part-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2013\/10\/06\/work-in-progress-part-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Work-in-Progress \u2013 Part 35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been experiencing some wet weather for the second half of this week, but that cleared up on Saturday past noon-time to reveal wonderfully sunny and clear weather for the rest of the day &#8211; enough to go by for a quick visit to The Minton site for pictures again.<\/p>\n<p>As in the last several visits now, there doesn&#8217;t seem to be major visible improvements to exterior works, though from the construction sounds going on still, I&#8217;m guessing interior works and touch-up are still going on. I remembered while working on the transitional montages this week that it&#8217;s been a long while since I&#8217;ve done stitched panoramas, so went about composing a couple. These really do show how large the project is &#8211; all 1,145 units and its supporting facilities and landscaping.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19229\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19229\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19229\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-01.jpg\" alt=\"Workers at Tranquil World's lily pond picking up debris and dead leaves.\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-01.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-01-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19229\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers at Tranquil World&#8217;s lily pond picking up debris and dead leaves.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19230\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19230\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19230\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-02.jpg\" alt=\"Tried a different perspective of the Fun World wallpaper pictures. This was taken by sticking out my hand out of a window ledge and guessing for the right picture angle! Had to ensure that the E-M5's leather strap was secure around my wrist for this.\" width=\"350\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-02.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-02-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tried a different perspective of the Fun World wallpaper pictures. This was taken by sticking out my hand out of a window ledge and guessing for the right picture angle! Had to ensure that the E-M5&#8217;s leather strap was secure around my wrist for this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19231\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-03.jpg\" alt=\"Workers scrubbing the tiles at Fun World.\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-03.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-03-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers scrubbing the tiles at Fun World.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19236\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-12.jpg\" alt=\"These are the normal wide-angle views of the front facade. \" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-12.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-12-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wide-angle view of the front facade and main guardpost.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19237\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19237\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-13.jpg\" alt=\"Lots of FB neighbors especially liked this picture. I was just casually taking the shot though without intending it to be this iconic!\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-13.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-13-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lots of FB neighbors especially liked this picture. I was just casually taking the shot though without intending it to be this iconic!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19238\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19238\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-14.jpg\" alt=\"The Retail Block from eye level.\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-14.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-14-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Retail Block from eye level.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19241\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19241\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19241\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-19.jpg\" alt=\"Casual banter with the construction workers and a FB neighbors revealed that one of the pools had been problematic and potentially caused complications in the recent TOP. Not sure if that was indeed the cause of the delayed TOP, but the heated pool had been completely drained this afternoon.\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-19.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-19-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Casual banter with the construction workers and a FB neighbor revealed that one of the pools had been problematic and potentially caused complications in the recent TOP. Not sure if that was indeed the cause of the delayed TOP, but the heated pool had been completely drained this afternoon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19233\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19233\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19233\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-07.jpg\" alt=\"Panoramic stitch comprising 9 images of Fun World and Blocks 8, 6, and 2.\" width=\"600\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-07.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-07-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Panoramic stitch comprising 9 images of Fun World and Blocks 8, 6, and 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19235\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19235\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-09.jpg\" alt=\"Another panoramic view of the same.\" width=\"600\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-09.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-09-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another panoramic view of the same but composed from level 5 of the opposing apartment block.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19234\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19234\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19234 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-08.jpg\" alt=\"Panoramic stitch comprising 6 images of Tranquil World and Blocks 14 and 12.\" width=\"600\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-08.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-08-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Panoramic stitch comprising 6 images of Tranquil World and Blocks 14 and 12.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19239\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-16.jpg\" alt=\"Panoramic stitch of 6 images with Block 2 as subject. This picture is a nice transitional contrast from the first picture in the earlier montage how far the development has come along. Just 3 years ago, this view showed an empty plot of land.\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-16.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-16-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Panoramic stitch of 6 images with Block 2 as subject. This picture is a nice transitional contrast from the first picture in the earlier montage how far the development has come along. Just 3 years ago, this view showed an empty plot of land.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19240\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-17.jpg\" alt=\"Panoramic stitch of 6 images of the front.\" width=\"600\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-17.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-17-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Panoramic stitch of 6 images of the front.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These panorama pictures, alongside others for this afternoon&#8217;s visit are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chekyang\/sets\/72157635999127645\/\">here<\/a>. And lastly, a third transition montage I did yesterday &#8211; and this time of Tranquil World.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19242\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10053983925_50dcf64f04_z.jpg\" alt=\"10053983925_50dcf64f04_z\" width=\"600\" height=\"677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10053983925_50dcf64f04_z.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/10053983925_50dcf64f04_z-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mega-sized version <a href=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7332\/10053983925_4bc1d01bc2_o.jpg\">here<\/a> too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been experiencing some wet weather for the second half of this week, but that cleared up on Saturday past noon-time to reveal wonderfully sunny and clear weather for the rest of the day &#8211; enough to go by for<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2013\/10\/06\/work-in-progress-part-35\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Work-in-Progress \u2013 Part 35<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,13],"tags":[609,515,532,544,531,508],"class_list":["post-19228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-home","category-photography-cameras","tag-m4-3","tag-minton","tag-12-50mm","tag-olympus-75-300","tag-e-m5","tag-e-pl2","wpcat-526-id","wpcat-13-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blog-2013-10-05-13.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19228","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=19228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}