{"id":4733,"date":"2009-08-08T16:14:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T08:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/08\/08\/feeding-burping-reading\/"},"modified":"2009-08-08T16:14:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T08:14:31","slug":"feeding-burping-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/08\/08\/feeding-burping-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeding, Burping, Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ling has a established pattern when it comes to Hannah\u2019s meal times: it\u2019s feeding, then burping, then reading.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been wanting to try out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigmaphoto.com\/lenses\/lenses_all_details.asp?navigator=2\">Sigma 24-60 mm F2.8 EX DG<\/a> lens too that I bought last year but haven\u2019t quite got round to it. This lens is pretty interesting: it\u2019s a full-frame lens, constant f2.8, and remarked elsewhere to be as good as L glass optically and much cheaper. I shipped the lens in August last year from Amazon and Vpost and about SGD340 + SGD40 for shipping, but when the lens arrived it needed back focus correction. So, it spent a couple of weeks at the Sigma service center but when it came back, the lens was perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the lens is no longer being manufactured. A few outlets are still selling it, but at twice the price now. E.g. Amazon\u2019s asking is now SGD690.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here\u2019s a selection:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"blog-2009-baby-DSC_1646-feeding\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blog2009babyDSC_1646feeding.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-baby-DSC_1646-feeding\" width=\"580\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"blog-2009-baby-DSC_1649-feeding\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blog2009babyDSC_1649feeding.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-baby-DSC_1649-feeding\" width=\"290\" height=\"437\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"blog-2009-baby-DSC_1653-feeding\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blog2009babyDSC_1653feeding.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-baby-DSC_1653-feeding\" width=\"290\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"blog-2009-baby-DSC_1684-burping\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blog2009babyDSC_1684burping.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-baby-DSC_1684-burping\" width=\"580\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"blog-2009-baby-DSC_1687-story-reading\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blog2009babyDSC_1687storyreading.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-baby-DSC_1687-story-reading\" width=\"580\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Flickr album links on the right have the larger versions.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d been planning to head opposite to Punggol Park for some family photography, but the weather\u2019s pretty hazy at the moment. Bleh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ling has a established pattern when it comes to Hannah\u2019s meal times: it\u2019s feeding, then burping, then reading. I\u2019ve been wanting to try out the Sigma 24-60 mm F2.8 EX DG lens too that I bought last year but haven\u2019t<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/08\/08\/feeding-burping-reading\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Feeding, Burping, Reading<\/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":[6,7,13],"tags":[137,364],"class_list":["post-4733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-children-blues","category-photography-cameras","tag-d300","tag-sigma-24-60mm","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-7-id","wpcat-13-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733","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=4733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}