50 years are worth it
Tonight I’ve booked a flight to Germany. Just me. As it turned out, my parents are going to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary this year at the very restaurant they actually had their wedding at...
View ArticleI just love this watch face
I had lunch with Atichart and Koga-san today and they’ve asked me about my Apple Watch. I ran them through the things that I consider reasons why the watch is great and some little details like how you...
View ArticleA day on a yacht
You know, often you hear from these amazing multinational companies and the cool events they run for their employees. Like going places, or doing some kind of extravaganza. My company is one of the...
View ArticleA German from Belgium in Singapore via Malaysia
Andy is currently on business in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, just across the border to Singapore and so he dropped by at our place today. He got to meet Oskar and Thomas, Lamia made cake and Oskar and I...
View ArticleAudrey’s birthday party
Audrey is the little girl living next door and she celebrated her second birthday today in one of the function room. So when Oskar and I returned from the swim class, we all dropped by to wish her all...
View ArticleBaby Zac
Linda’s son Zac was born a month ago or so and today we finally got to visit him (well, I co-incidentally ran into them on Friday night at the Fairprice, too). We brought the play mat that we have as a...
View ArticleThe battery conundrum
Pretty much one year after I had bought them, my Jaybird Bluebuds broke down. They had worked really great for me so far, especially with the douchey looking but really practical “over ear” usage. If I...
View ArticleHow to kill a magpie…
“Elster” (English: magpie) is the German online software that is used for everything related to your taxes. I am not really familiar with it and I normally would not care. But I have to care, because...
View ArticleBad handwriting
On the latest episode of John Gruber’s “The Talk Show” Serenity Cadwell, who is a big iPad Pro fan, talked about a neat app, iFontMaker, which enables you to create your own fonts on the iPad....
View ArticlePhoto session on the terrace
Last week there was a message from Oskar’s school, asking for three photos: two of him and one of the family. Now, we have loads of photos of the kids, but we do not have so many photos of all of us...
View Article+/- 200 prints
We still had to go and have the photos for Oskar’s school project printed. There’s one of these photo shops at Junction 8 in Bishan. It’s always painful to upload the photos into this dumb Fuji kiosk...
View ArticlePlaying field
After lunch I took Oskar and we walked over to the upper pool area of our condo. From there we had a nice view on what used to be our street. Most of the rubble from knocking down the houses seems to...
View ArticleiPad thoughts
Oh, by the way: my iPad Pro gets lots of love from me. What an awesome tablet! Not sure I would recommend it to anyone if they did not draw, but if you like to draw, then the iPad Pro plus the Pencil...
View ArticleSo much to learn as a father… [update]
… but I am working on it every day, because it’s so worth it! Edit May 2: It’s interesting how much difference a RAW editing workflow makes… The above photo I had pulled from my camera onto the iPad,...
View ArticleThe birds
I did mention that we would definitely visit Jurong Bird Park again. The funny thing is that we visited last on May 1st, 2013 – nearly exactly two years ago. I’ve just remembered this because I recall...
View ArticleChallenge accepted!
Today was Mark’s first day in the office. In the afternoon he casually said something as he passed by my desk and the following happened… Mark: So, looks like you’ve lost your title of being the...
View ArticleWhat to feed?
I like to use Twitter more than I like using Facebook. While I would not debate that there is sort of social pressure to be on Facebook and while I do enjoy browsing through the Facebook feeds of...
View ArticleSpecial day
So the birthday did not start too badly. I ran 6k, then I showered, got a kiss from Oskar, a smile from Thomas and a clap on the back from Lamia. At the Starbucks I got again special treatment from my...
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