Ernest in his scout uniform
11:26 PM on Wednesday 27 February 2013

Ernest has decided to join the scouts which Pauline and I thought matched his personality. A couple of photos on how he looks like in his spanking new uniform.

Chinese New Year open house
11:25 PM on Wednesday 27 February 2013

Had a couple of old friends over for a get together during the Chinese New Year period on the 17th of Feb 2013. It is always nice to meet old friends and talk about life :-) Enjoy the photos.

Drawing of a monster
09:51 PM on Wednesday 13 February 2013

Esther and Pauline made some monsters the other day using clay. This is my take using a drawing based on their monster.

Ubuntu scrollbars
02:24 PM on Saturday 09 February 2013

I am not a fan of the overlay scrollbar in Ubuntu and I finally took the time to find a solution. The solution that worked was from: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/04/how-to-disable-overlay-scrollbars-in.html I had to uninstall the packages before it would work.

Ernest's peanut ear rings
04:09 PM on Sunday 03 February 2013

Ernest having fun with the new year peanuts.

Face painting
03:15 PM on Sunday 03 February 2013

We got a face kit yesterday at Art Friend and we have a go at it today. Esther is now a little tiger.

Esther's froggy
02:56 PM on Saturday 02 February 2013

Esther's sketch of a froggy using a iPad.

Trip to Bukit Batok Nature Park
12:18 PM on Saturday 02 February 2013

Ernest and I went on a trip to the Bukit Batok Nature Park. He had a journal entry to make on a trip to a park and I wanted to photograph the flowers and insects. We had a short and good time there. Will definitely be back there again.

Ernest's birthday party
03:15 PM on Sunday 20 January 2013

How time flies, Ernest is now nine years old. So we had a small party for him and some friends.

Paint.NET - Free Software for Digital Photo Editing
08:10 AM on Friday 18 January 2013

I use mainly Windows at work and I frequently need a simple image editor which on the mac would have been Preview. But the one that comes with the Windows installation is rather hopeless and Gimp's interface is really not to my liking. Photoshop would be nice but an overkill for most things. After s ...

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