Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
The refurbished Dell XPS 13 9380 arrived on FRI after placing an order for it on TUES just three days earlier. That’s a quick turnover for the sales transaction to complete, especially considering that my last two Dell computers both
I’ve become a big fan of late of premium refurbished gadgets. These aren’t quite the same as typical pre-loved or used equipment where basically anything goes: you can get stuff that are basically mint and barely used, stuff that’s in
There are two f2.8 zoom lenses that are widely considered mandatory items for professional and enthusiast photographers; a 24-70mm, and a 70-200mm. So, whenever there’s a new camera system launched, photographers all around would be particularly interested to see where
Another year in review. Can’t believe I’ve been writing these since 2008 – my end of year summary of the tech toys, gadgets and major expenses we’ve had in the year! This will be a pretty long list, in part
Our 15 day vacation in Japan has been the longest family trip we’ve had, and in comparison to the next longest last December i.e. 12 days in Taiwan – this one has been longer by quite a bit! As is
The singularly largest difference between the kind of pictures I took in the September trip against this December one was that a lot of pictures would see backdrops that are in snow. I severely underestimated the amount of exposure compensation
After every major trip, I’d do a post commenting and making notes on how the various photographic and electronic gadgets that I brought along fared during the trip. A lot of stuff came along for this 15 day trip to
Our third and last property of stay for our trip. The initial itinerary from some months back required just a single night stay. We’d be arriving into Hakodate in the mid-afternoon and just to go up Mt. Hakodate for the
We stayed at the Vessel Inn Sapporo Nakajima Park for seven nights: not the longest we’ve ever spent in a single property – the record belongs to our eight night stay at Pegasus Apart’Hotel in Melbourne 2016 – but it’s
There’s a huge number of hotels that operate in Tokyo – not surprising of course given that it’s a huge city – and the prices of stay range from very budget capsule hotels to five-six star properties commanding obscene heaps
Continued from the last post! This post will cover Days 08 to 15 of our trip. Day 8 (Shikotsu-Toya National Park) Lake Shikotsu (1 hr+) [blog post here]: our tour bus allocated just 30 minutes here for us – not
Like the 11 day work-related trip to Japan in September this year, the preparation for this 15 day family trip was quite labor-intensive. Google Maps was heavily used and for the most part proved reliable, though there were a few
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