Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
The longest trip I had out of the country was a three week visit to New England in 2010, and arranged as part of a two year long work project I was in between my institution and Massachusetts Institute of
Hannah’s just two days to two years old! The researcher from MIT’s Media Lab I have been working with was coincidentally in Singapore for the week for a reciprocal visit from my trip to MIT last year. So, on the
When I was unpacking at home the 37kg of luggage I had with me from Boston, Ling made a remark that I thought was fun: “Wow dear; you really bought a lot of stuff there this time.” And just to
The third group of panorama compositions were created on the Sunday visit with our Ang Mo bud to Provincetown aka Gay town. The weather was foreboding the minute we left Boston harbor, and stayed cloudy for most of the rest
Part 2 of the series of posts on panorama compositions I did during the Boston trip, and this time from the Skywalk Observatory. These were taken in the late afternoon from level 50 of the Prudential Tower. Admission to this
I was doing a check on the number of pictures and amount of video taken during the Boston trip; and I have the final figures: 4,185 images on the D300, 945 images on the E-PL1 and about 6 hours of
My last day in Cambridge, Massachusetts was on Friday, and the morning went almost slowly. All the bags had been packed the night before, so I took my time for breakfast, and pictures around the house and with Blue: The
When I arrived at Blue’s more than 3 weeks ago, Blue asked if this was my first time to the United States. When I shared that I was in San Francisco last year, she jokingly remarked that Boston and Massachusetts
I had a bit of free time today just before I leave for home, so took up another whale-watching trip – this time out of Boston . There are about three whale-watching trip companies operating out of Boston city itself.
The Boston Common is a central public park right in the heart of the city, and is one of America’s oldest parks at 376 years of age. This park is prominently mentioned in many visitor materials as a must-see. The
MIT isn’t a small University. There are 10,000 students on campus – but what’s very different is that there are more postgraduate than undergraduate students of about 3:2 ratio. Compared to NTU whose ratio is 2:5, and I’m thinking that
The center I’ve been working from for the last three works is MIT’s Media Lab Complex, a futuristic looking glass-paned building that almost directly faces Charles River, Prudential Center and the Boston skyline. I didn’t do a lot of exploration
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