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First Night on Hand Made Bed

I felt like I was in the Princess and the Pea.

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Putting together a bed

It all began with me leaving my bed at my old house. It was an Ikea Lillehammer $90 bed for the frame and $30 for the slats. And I thought, I’ll just get another. But Ikea had replaced it with a brown coloured equivalent called Eina ($139) which was of even lower quality.

Then I got the wrong sized sheets – super single instead of single and thought of upgrading a few more centimeters.

Looking at the Lillehammer, which was a four sided frame on four legs, I thought, this shouldn’t be too hard.

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Bosch GSR 10.8 V-LI cordless screwdriver

Well, after many years of consideration, I finally did it. I invested in my new toy, the Bosch GSR 10.8 V-LI. $110.21 out of my pocket and into those of Teck Cheong Hardware. FYI, the same at Home Fix, is $120.

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How to tie a knot

Okay, there are a lot of ways to tie a knot, but this is more for me so I don’t forget how I tie a knot that I like.

A good knot, my cousin once told me, will never unravel but is easy to take out. As a sailor, he should know a thing or two about knots.

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GPS cable for Garmin Foretrex 101

I wrote about how I was monitoring my position with a GPS and then later using software to tag those positions to each photograph based on the time stamp.

What I didn’t mention is that you need a cable to connect the GPS to the computer. For this, Garmin charges you US$25 a piece.

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A DIY tilt shift lens

For the benefit of my curious friend – maybe even friends – I shall describe the steps used to make my tilt shift lens ver 2.

Tilt Shift Experiment Shot

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Diamonds are forever…

… hard to photograph.

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