Gardens by the Bay
09:55 AM on Monday 31 March 2025

Since we have a membership, we like to come here to take a walk since it is air conditioned :-) Furthermore, just got the Sony A7R V with the 90mm macro so wanted to take some photos of the flowers. I feels very different using a full frame. The camera and lens is certainly much heavier but the view ...

Another one
05:53 PM on Saturday 08 February 2025

Another encounter with a mosquito. This time in my cup of tea.

Smashed a mosquito
03:16 PM on Sunday 26 January 2025

Was just walking to my room, minding my own business when this mosquito flew in front of me. I just instinctively clapped my hands to hit the mosquito and what do you know, I hit it. Unfortunately the end result as you can see below is rather poor for the bug.

macOS calendar not syncing
09:39 PM on Wednesday 22 January 2025

Sometimes macOS calendar will stop syncing my events which is very problematic since I depend on it so much. Good thing that the phone is not quite affected by this so I can still see my calendar items. Found an old article about this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254365894?sortBy=rank But u ...

Buffet lunch for the January babies
02:48 PM on Saturday 18 January 2025

My mother, Ernest and Theresa are all January babies so we typically have a lunch to celebrate. This year we had it at the Edge at Pan Pacific Singapore. The food quality and selection was very good.

Reunion dinner at KEK Seafood
06:59 PM on Friday 10 January 2025

We had our reunion dinner at KEK seafood. The food was really good, especially the fish.

Rotring
12:39 PM on Monday 06 January 2025

My 3 rotrings.

Headless Dropbox issue
05:55 PM on Saturday 04 January 2025

Doing a fresh install of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on the linux server and had an issue with headless Dropbox ( https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux ) wanting to use QT. The solution was to set the DISPLAY to an empty string.

The World of Studio Ghibli
02:08 PM on Wednesday 18 December 2024

We went to the The World of Studio Ghibli exhibit at the Art Science Museum. I think it was a wonderful experience.

Mac mini is here
08:45 AM on Wednesday 11 December 2024

The m4 Mac mini which I ordered is here :-)

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