My little blue helper

Ryo helps me out when chen-jie is not around

He pays attention to the under-the-sofas

He's now so efficient that he just uses one hand for mopping

Polar coordinates

Here's what I learnt and put to test today. It's the Polar Coordinate function in Photoshop. We can create our very own planet. Mine's a very rough one. I'll try something more exciting next time.

How many photos do you take per week?

Me? An average of 500 per week.

If we go to the zoo or someplace interesting I might hit about 800.

If we have a boring week and stayed mostly at home, I'll only have 200-300.

Did I hear you gasp? Out of these hundreds, only a handful of 10 to 20 gets to stay permantly on my computer. The rest are thrashed.

I'm a fanatic.

Ah gong's birthday

Well, ah gong spent his birthday this year in Tianjin, so we brought him to his favourite restaurant

Ryo 干杯, plain water that is

We bought him an ice-cream cake from Haagen Dazs

while chatting on MSN with the family in Singapore. I took a shot of Lankston and Brexton in the MSN window. They too are having ice-cream, together with us... haha. All thanks to technology, it brings us closer to home.

I baked a cake

Really, I can bake a cake. With a premix cake mixture that is... hahaha.

And since Ah gong's birthday is just round the corner, we sung him a song. Well the cake looks hideous but tasted quite ok. I should have taken home economics instead of arts when I was in Nanyang.

The future is worrying

It's kind of worrying, to read from the news that water levels are predicted to rise about 1m by year 2100. I quickly did a search, and found that except Bukit Timah hill, the rest of Singapore lies less than 2m above sea level.



What if the ice bergs decided to speed up its melting process? What if the prediction were underscored? What if by year 2050 it has started flooding and I am forced to swim all day long at age 70?



Although we stay in high rise flats, can u imagine your void decks flooded? Or can we make our way to the banks to get cash to buy food? Or your baby son walking knee deep to school, but still has clean water to drink from cos we can still afford water. Or the worst scenario of the whole island disappearing except the highest flats around, where are our children going to move to?



Today we use water to mop the floor, wash the clothes etc EVERYDAY. Tomorrow we'll be thankful for even a clean bottle of water.

A month of separation

These 2 buddies playing together after a month of separation.

It's March, spring time, but we still have to wear like it's winter

Katherina being a good model

While Ryo is not being cooperative for the photo shots