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<\/p>\nPosting from Changi Airport.:)<\/p>\n
It\u2019s sort of ironical that my \u2018longest\u2019 short-trip isn\u2019t for pleasure but for work. At 24 days away from home, it would had been oodles of fun if the trip had been to say Europe or Japan. I could nearly cover the breadth of the continent across Europe, or the entire length of Japan and its key attractions in that time.<\/p>\n
But still; while it\u2019s not nearly the longest I\u2019ve been away from home, the feeling\u2019s quite different this time as I\u2019ve shared in the earlier post. That might be why amidst the portable hard disk, three thumb drives, three memory cards, and the MacBook Pro that\u2019s accompanying me for the trip, a good amount of that accumulative storage space has gone into bringing along most of the photos and videos we\u2019ve taken of Hannah in the last one year. Yep \u2013 including nearly about 3100 pictures of our baby girl.:)<\/p>\n
Balancing it off is the amount of other stuff: especially clothes. While I\u2019m reasonably certain that there will be laundry facilities at the home I\u2019m staying, I\u2019m not leaving it totally to chance. There are enough clothes packed in to last for more than a fortnight without having to recycle \u2013 after which I\u2019ll then worry.:)<\/p>\n
Optical equipment wise though: the Nikon D300 workhorse is packed in though supported with less lenses than in previous trips: just the 18-55mm and the Sigma 18-250mm, and their matching CPL filters. Joining in for still images is also the E-PL1 (terrifically handy for taking pictures without announcing it to everyone around you), and for video, the Panasonic TM700.<\/p>\n
3:30 AM: It\u2019s gonna be a really long flight: 3 legs, and 21 hrs 12 minutes with an additional 5 or so hours in between legs. I\u2019m assuming there won\u2019t be free wireless at Narita or the McNamara airports \u2013 so the next post that\u2019s coming from me will be when I\u2019m properly settled into my new if temporary home in Cambridge, Massachusetts on late Friday morning Singapore time. Till then, I think Ling has a number of posts queued up on baby food and behavior.:)<\/p>\n
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