National Dental Centre Singapore (NDCS) has excellent
service-oriented staff & specialistsCanon R5, AV Mode, F/16, ISO
200. 9 am sunny sky, 9 Feb 2023. Focus on the NDCS textOblique view
is better than frontal view as there are no obstructions from
bollards. Use back focus. Lean on a pillar to anchor camera.
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Lee Fun Nam Kee Restaurant, opened in the 1960s
in Toa Payoh,
has excellent soy sauce chicken.
PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Use Back
Focus.
Canon R5, Back focus on LFKN logo, AV Mode, F/16, ISO 200
8
Feb 2023, 1 pm. Bright sunshine. Hand held. Elbow on table top.
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Photography Tip: Use back focus at LFNK logo. Support your elbow on table top. Avoid the altar to the right of the logo as it will distract the viewer from the logo. Use F/16 as it puts the people in focus than F/8 or F/4. Canon R5. AV Mode. ISO 200, F/16. I don't know whether the smartphone will give this sharp photo.
PHOTOGRAPHY TIP. The red bicycle-like separators stands out as
they are not cluttered up with too many parked bicycles.
6 Feb
2023. 10 am One Punggol
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PHOTOGRAPHY OF CPF LOGO.
[7:09 am, 07/02/2023] David Sing: Very rare to see a CPF
Board logo at eye level for photography. This logo is at CPF
Woodlands Service Centre.
[7:10 am, 07/02/2023] David Sing:
Usually the logo is high up on the CPF building or not attractive for
photography. I used a tripod, Canon R5, AV Mode, F/16, ISO
100
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A medium-sized hornbill with white belly and trailing edge to wings. Upperparts and wings dark. Pale yellow bill with black tipped casque. Female has smaller casque than male with black on bill tip. Juvenile less glossy plumage, smaller casque and all yellow bill.
Seen by Jin in Potong Pasir, 4 Feb 2023. handphone photo
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Good Morning from an Oriental Pied Hornbill
Sighted outside Toa Payoh Vets 19 Jan 2024 9.21am
Samsung phone image by Elina
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THE SYRIAN HAMSTER HAS A 'BLUEBERRY' LUMP INSIDE HER BLADDER AREA. What to do?
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VET CASE. Hamster lumps. What to do?
The Syrian hamster owner feels a "blueberry" lump in the "stomach area" of his 13-month female Syrian hamster. The hamster ate less for the past few days. He was very worried. He took leave to consult me on Thursday 2 Feb 2023.
The Syrian hamster does not bite. So, it was easier for me to feel
(palpate) her abdomen for the lump. My assistant Hsu was kind enough
to video my examination using her Samsung Galaxy Fold 4. Very sharp
videos unlike my Canon R5 which has difficulty in focusing, producing
blurry videos.
You can see the "hair loss" on the
left belly area of around 1 cm across. It is not obvious during
physical examination, but on review of one of the 2 videos, you can
see that the hamster had been licking this belly area.
What
is the "blueberry" lump in the abdomen? I palpated a firm globular lump in the bladder area of around 1 cm across or the size of
a small-sized grape. What is it?
Possible causes are:
1. Bladder stone
or tumour or infected full bladder.
2. Splenic tumour.
3. Close
pyometra (uterus swollen with pus).
4. Abdominal tumour.
As the hamster released much urine (1
ml or more) during my palpation (see one of two videos), the retained
urinary bladder could be the "blueberry" lump in the
stomach area.
Antibiotics and painkiller for next 10 days
first. If the lump is still present, I will do X-rays and ultrasound.
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PHOTOGRAPHY TIP - USE "BACK FOCUS" button
GOOD MORNING
from the newest Artease Cafe at the newest Regional Library in Singapore at One Punggol.
TIP: Canon
R5. I used Back Focus - head of man in orange T-shirt - AV
Mode, F/16, ISO 400, 24-105 mm lens, seated.His strands of grey hair
are visible at 100% view. 3 Feb 2023.
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SINGAPORE WILDLIFE
In late 2022, this red junglefowl roams
freely on the grounds of the Singapore General Hospital with his
flock of around 4 others. He crows loudly. I saw a little girl,
probably China National with her parents, cupping her ears with her
hands as she stood listening. He looked young and knew no fears about
human beings. I don't see them in early 2023.
The red
junglefowl is kept as pets in some houses or permitted to roam the
outside as in Lentor Estate.
The roaming ones are rarely seen
after a few days.
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17 Sep 2022: A group of 16 senior citizens (aged over 60) and two younger ladies had a packaged tour of Vietnam. We visited SAPA in North-West Vietnam, the Mount Fansipan and Ha Long Bay.
This video relates a memorable risky event. We had dinner at a
restaurant below road level.The food and service were good. After
dinner, we had to walk uphill to the main road. We lined up along the
heavy traffic as the road had no pavement, being elevated two storeys
above the restaurant.
"I am going to die here," I
thought to myself as motorbikes and vehicles whizzed past us, within
3 feet of distance separation literally. This was an expressway and
we were at the edge of very fast moving traffic! We were safe and I
forgot the incident. But history repeated itself. Same situation.
I took a video of the pink bus to prove it. The motorbikes whizzed so close. If I had walked backwards, I would fall off the slope as this expressway was elevated and was level with the 2nd storey of the restaurant! Fortunately all were safe and sound and made it to the Hanoi Airport to arrive home in Singapore!
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