Hard Decisions
I made what was one of the hardest decisions this year. I bought an IPad2 this afternoon during lunch hour. Yeah despite my intense dislike for the fruit company. I’d been planning to pick up an Android tablet for ages
Category: Toys & Technology
Going Underwater
Lentor parents was asking a couple of weeks ago if I could pick up a cheap digital compact camera for them to bring on their recent trip back to our ancestral home in Hainan Island. They’d heard a lot about
Year in Review – 2010 – Part 2
We had three fairly significant issues we had to decide for Hannah this year: Putting Hannah into Infant care (Bad): This was initially a pretty clear decision even if it was not easy to make because of compounding factors. We
Year in Review – 2010 – Part 1
The old year has come and gone past, and this was a post I was supposed to do before it ended! But well, better late than never. Long post again, so in multiple parts. Starting with my toys! Panasonic HDC-TM700
Day 10: Osaka – Yodobashi Umeda
Blogged at Kansai Airport! I haven’t taken too much of an interest in shopping itself so far in the three cities we’ve been to this trip. I find merchandise and product pricing to be quite expensive for many goods, and
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The obligatory birthday post.:) There was a funny conversation at home just now when I was getting prepped for work. Ling had laid out two presents on the bed; one was a new polo-shirt (I love these!), and the other
Dell XPS Studio 16 – Notes
The Dell XPS Studio 16 notebook I ordered more than a week ago was actually assembled and shipped to Singapore for local dispatch last Thursday evening; at which point it sat in the warehouse for the weekend before actual delivery
Dell XPS Studio 16
I’ve noticed a yearly activity that’s now becoming a bit of a ritual. When year end approaches, my mind starts wandering towards new notebooks! Almost exactly three years ago I picked up the NEC Versa (it still boots up though
iGrip
Two colleagues of mine – both Apple fans – and I were talking about the MacBooks and iPhones yesterday afternoon. One was surprised, like my Kumamoto colleagues last year during the teaching trip, that I used my MacBook Pro primarily
Cambridge and Abouts – Part 2
The posts on my MIT trip here are all tagged as ‘Boston’ – but that’s really a bit of a misnomer. Because while all the attractive sites of visitation are indeed in Boston, I’m really living and working in the
Discreet Picture Taking
My brother Tchung, sis-in-law Sharon and Ling were talking about during Hannah’s birthday event at Lentor last weekend, and the conversation ventured into the merits and disadvantages of DSLRs versus compact cameras. Sharon used to lug around a pretty light
iPhone 4, Androids and New Media
The iPhone4 was just announced a few hours ago at the Apple WWDC 2010. Not surprisingly especially considering the several prototypes that have got leaked then dissected in the earlier months, there wasn’t really anything terrifically surprising about Apple’s new
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