Over stimulating an infant’s brain with non-stop audios can cause permanent damage. Old-fashioned nuzzling, kissing and tickling is still a more effective way of communication.
Meanwhile, too much reliance on gadgets can affect the memory; specifically, the ability to remember dates and numbers. But then again, who wants to memorize dates and numbers?
Continue reading 'The problem with too much' →
When Sam took this self-portrait, the Canon EOS 350D was still mine.
As of 7.00 p.m. last night, she became the owner of the camera that had been an integral part of my blogging life for the past two and a half years.
Because Alex prefers a smaller camera, she got a Canon S3 IS.
Me? I am [...]
Continue reading 'Christmas came early for Sam and Alex' →
We have so many photo albums because we’ve always been a camera family. And you know how parents are especially when the kids are very young — films and processing were a necessary part of our monthly budget.
Well, photos fade. Even the negatives don’t last that long. For the past so many years — I [...]
Continue reading 'Why I want a flatbed scanner' →
Speedy’s phones are company issued. Mine aren’t. I don’t have a company. I have ME. And all my business expenses, I have to pay for. As Speedy so pointedly pointed out recently (how’s that for alliteration), if I want a computer upgrade and a dSLR upgrade, I should pay for them because they are considered [...]
Continue reading 'I want a Palm Centro' →
I used to scoff at cam phones. My gosh, how I snubbed the pathetic photos that cam phones coughed out.
That was then.
This is the Sony Ericsson K800i with its 3.2 megapixel camera, 16x digital zoom and image stabilizer.
I’m starting to change my mind about cam phones.
Continue reading 'Don’t mock this cam phone' →
There are places where cameras are not allowed. The glass doors at the entrances of Robinson’s Metro East, for instance, have no-camera-allowed stickers. I have been told that in some restaurants, taking photos of the food one has already ordered are not allowed too. Fortunately for me, I have never been told off in a [...]
Continue reading 'Canon IXUS i7 zoom' →
When the first CD player came out in the Philippines in 1990, I bought one. It was a Sharp CD player. I remember my brother and I talking about a stereo component system when I saw a newspaper ad of the new Sharp CD player. I said that was what I would get. He said [...]
Continue reading 'CD, VCD, Laser disc and DVD players' →
This is bad.
Taking the cue from a comment posted by Rhodora, I was going to write about sanitary napkins — wings or no wings — and I had completed an outline mentally while taking a shower (have I ever mentioned that some of my most inspired ideas were hatched in the bathroom?).
Then, the first newsletter [...]
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A third of what’s been written about me is true, a third is half-true and the rest consists of drug-induced hallucinations. I suppose I’d better let me, rather than them, tell you about me, this blog and a few irrelevant things as well.
