We were going to Wan Hao restaurant for our lunch at Marriott Hotel and decided to take a bus down instead of driving as the bus-stop is just outside our place.
Also Eugene likes riding in a bus and has been asking to ride in one.
Aiyoh, father and son got that 'smirk smile' , ha ha
Mommy's cool guy.
Gosh, he looked so grown up already.
My friend SY and I used to frequent Wan Hao for tim-sum.
It was a already a bit expensive at that time but now, the price has increased even more and the portion has decreased.
Most of the tim-sum in the basket comes in only 2 pieces! Usually you get 3 or 4.
Well, at least the food is good and service is very good too.
HOME - the wordings (lyrics below) and the music never fail to leave me teary and with a lump in my throat.
I like both versions though in the new version, I don't really like the rapping, kind of spoil the seriousness of the song but I guess they are trying to make it more upbeat for the youngsters - ya, I old fogey already.
Yes, HOME is where your family and friends are - otherwise as my fren QYL said, it would just be another cosmopolitan city to live in.
So this is dedicated to you QYL, yes you! QYL!
COME HOME!
The old version
The new version
HOME
Whenever I am feeling low
I look around me and I know
There's a place that will stay within me
Wherever I may choose to go
I will always recall the city
Know every street and shore
Sail down the river which brings us life
Winding through my Singapore
Chorus:
This is Home, truly
Where I know I must be
Where my dreams wait for me
Where that river always flows
This is home, surely
As my senses tell me
This is where I won't be alone
For this is where I know it's home
When there are troubles to go through
We'll find a way to start anew
There is comfort in the knowledge
That home's about its people too
So we'll build our dreams together
Just like we've done before
Just like the river which brings us life
There'll always be Singapore
Chorus:
This is Home, truly
Where I know I must be
Where my dreams wait for me
Where that river always flows
This is home, surely
As my senses tell me
This is where I won't be alone
For this is where I know it's home
Chorus Repeat
This is Home, truly
Where I know I must be
Where my dreams wait for me
Where that river always flows
This is home, surely
As my senses tell me
This is where I won't be alone
For this is where I know it's home
(For this is where I know, I'm HOME)
I was thinking of getting a camera. Was thinking of Lumix when I came across this advertisement of the latest Olympus camera - the Olympus XZ-1.
Wow, the pic got nice depth for such a small camera which is not a DSLR....... till I saw the small print that reads "Photo taken with Olympus DSLR (E-5 + 12-60mm F2.8 - 3.5 lens).
What the ????
The fine print - up close...
If you are going to show how a photo turns out, you use the camera that you're advertising, right? - not another camera range. What is the purpose?
If I had not read the fine print, I would obviously presume that the photo was taken by the XZ-1.
Now instead of wowing me , one gets a bit put off by the advert as well as doubting what was being advertised.
Why do you need to use another camera? Is it the XZ-1 is not capable of doing what is being advertised - which is as you put it - "DSLR can do it, so can XZ-1"?
(1) Walking back home together after Eugene's class, Eugene picked up a purple flower on the pavement.
Me : is it for me? Eugene : no, for me Me : I like flowers too... Eugene stopped in his track : I'll go pick another!
Eugene went to pick up another flower.
I thought that he would just pick any flower on the pavement but he actually looked and picked up a couple to look at it and discarded those that was really wilted and flattened.
He managed to pick the nicest one that he could find.
Aww........... I felt a lump in my throat.
(2) Eugene was hyper-active.
Me : stop being a monkey(sounding exasperated) Eugene : I'm not a monkey. I'm Eugene, Eugene L* Y* G***(his full name).
(3) Hubby going out to meet some friends.
Me : where is daddy going? Eugene :to meet galfren Hubby & Me : ???!!!
(4) We passed by an elderly Singh. He was chubby with a pot-belly, white moustache and beard and of cos wearing his turban.
Eugene :hello Santa Claus!!!
I quickly pulled Eugene away before the man could react. A young malay couple was behind us and had a good laugh.
The below photos were taken by Eugene! Again, no cropping, retouching etc on my part.
With my favourite cousin PH (actually PH is her nickname)
Peope tend to be less serious looking and more child-like when a small child is photographing them - like my cousin and his wife and also my dad!
Was my dad trying to act like a monster?
My sis-in-law said that she saw Eugene trying to photograph this stool. Eugene was in fact trying to take a pic of his feet through the holes! So creative and artistic hor!
Abstract art!
So I think Eugene is getting better at using the camera.
Of cos, there were shaky and blurred shots but he's having more in-focus, sharp and steady shots too.
As can be seen from above shots, he's able to frame his subjects or at least capture them reasonably well.
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Below photos were taken by my cousin using her Olympus Pen series camera.
I've found that Eugene have got a knack for photography.
Eversince I showed him my camera and how to hold and use it, he's being having a go at it and getting better and better.
His holding of the camera is steady (though not all the time). He has learned to look at the screen to frame his subject (though sometimes off-side).
He also shoots things which I would not look at and it's very interesting to see it from his perspective. I think it's fresh and imaginative and creative.
I'll post some of the photos that he took during the Chinese New Year and get to see things through his eyes.
(Note : Russel Wong is a famous Singaporean photographer.)
