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September 10, 2003

US to suspend stricter visa rules

Filed under: Round-The-World-2003,Singapore — stephane @ 3:31 pm

I have been reading in the newspaper today that the US will probably delay the visa rules by one year (assuming the countries applies for it). The decision has not be made yet, but it looks like they are thinking about it due to the mess it creates. CNN and BBC both have an article about it. The BBC states the truth in its article about the France situation: Some European countries, such as France and Spain, are reported to be struggling to provide MRPs to their nationals. Even then, only one machine would be available to produce MRPs for all French nationals living abroad[...]. I have had the same information from the French consulate in Singapore, they expect to receive the machine by next year at least…ridiculous.

Singapore Botanic Garden bis

Filed under: Round-The-World-2003,Singapore — stephane @ 3:22 pm

I went back (again) to the botanical garden to try to make better pictures of the orchids. Unfortunately the weather was not very nice to me as it was very cloudy. I spent countless hours messing around with the settings trying to understand the camera better. I find that it sometimes get confused with the autofocus and that you are better off to switch to manual focus. Also it might be me but it looks like it is often overexposed and that I need to correct it by about 2 EVs.
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September 7, 2003

Jurong Bird Park

Filed under: Round-The-World-2003,Singapore — stephane @ 11:38 am

I took the local metro, the MRT (S$1.60 OW) to go the Jurong Bird Park (S$12) today to try out the new camera. I miserably failed most of the shots with a focus or overexposure problems :? as I’m still learning the features of it. It is very much different from the C4000Z. Notice, you need at least a 300mm to get there (and of course a tripod).
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September 6, 2003

Singapore Botanic Garden

Filed under: Round-The-World-2003,Singapore — stephane @ 12:09 pm

I spent a couple of hours in the morning at the Singapore Botanic and Orchid Garden. I will have to take the bus next time. This is about the 6th time that I’m doing the walk to this place or around and I’m starting to get tired. I did not take any public transport until now but rather I chose to walk and my personal counter leads me to believe that I’m way over 20km a day (in sandals which does not help ;) )
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September 5, 2003

Can you elaborate ?

Filed under: Round-The-World-2003,Singapore — stephane @ 4:25 pm

This is basically the question I’m burning to ask when I have to deal with an insurer that is switched in ‘claim’ mode. All replies to emails become evasives, do not answer all the questions about the procedure and takes suddenly days. Sun Tzu’s tactic at its best.
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