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Dec 25 2010
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Dec 25 2010
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Nov 25 2010
Testing 640px480 output from l…
Testing 640px480 output from lower quality front-facing camera on an HTC Touch Pro2 (using PockeTwit) via Posterous http://post.ly/1FOiU
Nov 23 2010
Third of three PockeTwit video…
Third of three PockeTwit video tests. This time using mobypic. Anna watching Teletubbies and Kara on the sofa http://moby.to/3gja2f
See the comment below. Embed code has silly resolution automatically placed. Can probably manually edit it to original video resolution, however hoping that posterous will have both an embed code easily accessible and also play the video in native resolution…
Nov 20 2010
TGI Was My Birthday!
After taking Anna to the playground in the morning, we went to TGI Friday here in Astana. Although some friends comment on the prices, occasional staff attitude issues and better alternatives, I hadn’t tried the Astana branch at this point (20th April). The burger was tasty, the cocktail (custom ordered as the menu didn’t match what I remembered from a UK edition) well made and just right ratio of ingredients. Irina’s Mum came with us, Anna was very well behaved (I was a little concerned she’d try throwing the big girls ceramic plate on the floor) and by the end of the meal I was very glad we went there, and perhaps a little tipsy 🙂
We have since visited again once or twice, and given that there are other expensive restaurants in Astana, and sometimes you just want a Western style burger, I’d happily recommend you try it at least once – if nothing else you’ll at least be able to criticize from personal experience, if you don’t end up liking it 🙂
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Nov 19 2010
Arresting Roundabouts
The pictures and videos of Anna have now moved onto the 20th April, meaning I have about a month and a half to catch up with 7 months worth of backlog! Anyway, this was shot on the morning of my birthday this year, in the play area near our flats. Anna can now hold on to the roundabout by herself, and she seems to enjoy giving me a heart attack by trying to get off the ride whilst it is still spinning round. A lot of the time she now just sits on the foot rest and watches the world go by, occasionally pushing the roundabout around with her feet. As the winter gets colder, we spend less time out doors, and as no locals go and play there already (I’ve only had a few people tell me off for letting my daughter play in these sub-arctic (it was around 5-10 Celsius at the time!) conditions) there aren’t any children for her to play with right now. However, there is now one other child in her weektime playgroup sessions, and I’m hoping tomorrow’s goes as well as Tuesday’s did.
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Nov 12 2010
Leg Stretching
After a long time sat in her pushchair (we were visiting the Mega Shopping centre near us on the 12th of April earlier this year), Anna had an opportunity to stretch her legs and have a walk around. Unfortunately the camera wasn’t zoomed in at all (and it is fixed once you start recording a video), but at least you get a glimpse of what the area looks like. Pretty soon we’ll be moving back into the sort of weather we had back in April, with colder temperatures and some snow. Last I heard, minus 25 degrees Celsius was forecast for the later parts of November. Another month or two could see it drop further again.
You can also hear the music that Mega play outside. There has been a lot of studies on the effects of music, smell and shop layout, when it comes to increasing how much people buy, however given the choice of tunes they sometimes play, I don’t think that part of the theory has made it over here just yet.
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Nov 12 2010
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Just shot this clip (#qik) http://qik.ly/Dd5pT
Sorry, it looks as though Qik have changed their embed code so videos auto-play when you load the site. I’ll try and see if there is a fix.
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Nope, they are indeed autoplaying any embedded videos right now. I’ve left a comment asking if it can altered. For now, I’ll hide the video of Anna on the way to playgroup from the front page – you’ll need to click the (0) link to see the post on its own, which will then allow the video to play. (Asides to don’t display the read more link I’m using. Oh, the video is cut off before we arrived at the playgroup, as the teacher was ill and cancelled the session.
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Nov 05 2010
No Subs Yet
However, here is the video I mentioned earlier in the week. I’ll see if we can get some sort of translation done by the weekend, but the basic idea is a discussion on whether black cats are lucky or unlucky. I’d personally be more inclined to say they are just cats. If you push me on the point, I’d agree some are black. However as the journalist was a friend, and she needed a foreigner to give her a nice quote on some interesting good luck omens we apparently have back in Britain, I was happy to oblige 🙂
You’ll see Karra and Muska in there, as well as Anna enjoying playing with the cats’ toy.
Nov 05 2010
Discs, Stairs And A Phone
This is the second batch of videos from the 11th of April (new visitors note that I don’t have an OCD issue with stating the date for all of Anna’s photo and video posts, I just want to make sure that we have the date recorded somewhere, and I don’t always remember to include it in the YouTube description).
The first clip is of Anna finding motivation to climb the stairs in the form of Dedushka’s mobile phone
Here we have Anna attempting to split apart the stacking pots (to be fair they are quite difficult even for adults to open up) and eventually giving up and returning to her favourite type of toy – gadgets 🙂
There was a time when Anna didn’t know where the eject button was on all gadgets within her reach. Sadly that time has passed. We still need to work on her disc handling skills (fingerprints all over the shiny side mean they sometimes won’t play properly), however she knows how to clean them with a quick breath over them and wiping on her t-shirt. This works a lot better when she isn’t cleaning the label side 🙂
The final clip from that day is Anna deciding not climb the little flight of stairs this time.
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