Lions at Dubbo [Flickr]

Lions at Dubbo, originally uploaded by Jin Han.

Mudgee [Flickr]

Mudgee, originally uploaded by Jin Han.

The family and I spent a night at Dubbo visiting the Taronga Western Plain Zoo, this photo is taken on our way back along Castlereagh Highway near Mudgee.

Enjoyed the sceneries along the long drive.

Blue Mountains (Again)

Wifey's cousins Tsui and Cuong and their two girls, Mun and Tung live in a Sydney and we've been having gatherings a lot because of their two girls whom had form good friends with Xian Ning when we arrived.

Recently, Tsui's brother and his family came over for a visit from Singapore. So we brought them to the Blue Mountains for some bushwalking. That suits us a lot as Xian Ning loves to do bushwalkings and of course me, likes to take landscape photos.

There are technically a thousand trails around Blue Mountains and you could spend days walking all the way into the deep forest. But if you don't fancy a good long camping trip, there are a few 40 minutes - 4 hours day trip you can do with your kids and family.



Having our lunch before the long walk.



Bit of games on the iPhone.



and bubles of course, Xian Ning just loves them.



Family portrait before we start our journey.



At the Wentworth Falls lookout. Enjoying the majestic view of the Blue Mountains in it's full glory.



Weeping Rocks water fall.

A rare portrait of me and Xian Ning, we don't have a lot of pictures together because I am always with the camera. So this is really rare.



At an unknown water fall. I should remember all the names of the places next time.

We'll definitely come back again to do some other trails as all the sceneries were just mesmerizing. 

The Unfinished Song

Wentworth Falls Lookout [Flickr]

Wentworth Falls Lookout, originally uploaded by Jin Han.

Although I've been here a few times already, still I can never grow tired of the lookout from here.

Androidized

So after more than a month of used, how do I find my new HTC Desire HD Android phone?

Likes

• Touch sensitivity is better/on par with iPhone
• Drop down notification
• Picture from the 8mp camera really look good
• Google Contact sync and integration
• Google Calender sync and integration
• Easyness of adding and searching contacts - Start typing name from keypad and searches start coming up, like the good old windows mobile 6 which I sorely miss from my old dopod
• Crisp screen is unbeatable - except by the iPhone4
• The awesome Google Voice!
• Google map navigation
• Airsync! Phone unplugged while transfering files.
• Widgets!
• The recently added google reader is great.
• Kindle app as well, works well with whisper sync.

Dislike

• Setting up personal wallpaper is crap, the need to crop pictures killed it.
• Slide up/down to unlock, answer/reject calls is stupid! Pulled up my phone from my pocket and call is either answered/rejected
• Battery life was disappointing
• A hundred and fifty six settings/tweaks do not help at all
• Can't zoom when reading emails. HTML email can only be viewed at original size.

Conclusion

I really like the google contact and calender sync on the fly as I use them a lot. No more worry on phone backing up any more. Love the widgets. Also the dial search is awesome.

All in all it is a really good phone, suits me really well as I use google apps a lot - Gmail, contacts, calender. Other than that, facebook, twitter and kindle are the other apps I often use and the rest, well, I couldn't care less as that's all I would use anyway.

Here are some more pictures of the phone. Enjoy.

Xian Ning's Christmas Concert

Just want to post some pictures of Olivia's Christmas Concert at her child care.

Entering the stage. Notice her jeans are coming undone there. Later on during the concert while doing the singing and dancing standing up, she had to hold on to her jeans. lol. She did really well despite of the wardrobe malfunction.

Waving to the crowd.

She sat in the middle despite her small size but later we found out that's because she can sing and performed well.

Practicing herself

Posing with mummy after the performance.

Off they go rip the playground after all has been done.

Finally, a video of her captured with my Nikon D300s, not a very good steady pair of hands though, beware of nausea after watching it.

Wentworth Pass [Flickr]

Wentworth Pass, originally uploaded by Jin Han.

A view from the trails of Wentworth Pass. 40 minutes walk that took us 2 hours because of me busy taking photos.

Great view indeed

Weeping Rock [Flickr]

Weeping Rock, originally uploaded by Jin Han.

Hidden amongst the bushwalking trails at Wentworth falls, will definitely come back again