As actress-host-Canon spokesperson, she is always either filming or at photo shoots.

But in her free time, the mother of two is the one behind the lens instead, capturing all the special, and even not so special, moments, in her children's lives.

'I've always wondered about what I used to do as a kid, but my family didn't have the habit of taking pictures when I was young, so I don't have many pictures of myself,' said Li Lin. 'When I do interviews and people ask for my childhood pictures, I have to dig really hard to find one.'

That's why she's now a trigger-happy Mummy.

'I decided that I will take every opportunity to shoot pictures and videos of my own kids,' she added.

Even when daughter Sage Cadence, four, and son Jonas Leif, two, are just playing in the backyard, Mum busies herself making home videos.

'It doesn't have to be any special occasion, I try to document everything,' she said.

That's why Li Lin is never without her camera and camcorder.

Other than aiming them on her kids, she sometimes shoots short clips of herself or her husband, Allan Wu, for casting purposes.

It was her clip that landed her Chinese-American actor-husband the role of a contestant on Fear Factor.

'For these short casting clips, I just do them myself,' said the petite and effervescent woman.

But when it comes to family vidoes, only close friends and family get to see them.

To share the photos and videos with Allan's family in Los Angeles, she prints the photos, burns the home videos onto DVDs and mails them over.

Li Lin does not post her children's photos on blogs or video-sharing sites, preferring to keep them out of the limelight to protect their privacy.

Which is why she asked to do the photo shoot with a child model instead of bringing her own children.

Besides, they might be too active with Mum around.

During family trips and 16-hour flights to Los Angeles, she brings along a portable DVD player and laptop to keep the kids entertained.

'They come in handy when you need to drive and keep your kids entertained at the same time,' she said.

After all, she is someone who likes silence.

'When I travel, I don't need to bring any music player. My husband needs them but not me,' she said. 'I prefer quiet.'

Li Lin sees her mobile phone as both a necessity and liability.

Her cellphone rang at least five times during the morning photo shoot.

'Sometimes, I prefer not to have a phone,' she said emphatically. 'Like when I go for holiday and people can't get me. I like that.'

When database systems get buggy, it is the pint-sized technical specialist they depend on.

But when she needs help balancing work and family, she turns to her own technical support team - her Blackberry and her Sony Ericsson W880i mobile phone.

She records important family dates in her Blackberry calendar and makes video calls to her seven-year-old son while at work.

'I've always been intrigued by computers and gadgets,' said Angie. 'So after six years as a personal assistant, I decided to make the switch even though I didn't have a technical background,' she added.

Challenges have never daunted the 32-year-old.

After all, the single Mum has juggled career and parenthood for seven years, and doesn't look worse for the wear.

'I really love my son. He is the most important person to me, so I will do anything for him,' said the energetic Mum.

Which is why keeping track of his daily life is her top priority.

Her son Shane, who just started Primary One, takes home announcement slips from school very often.

These are reminders about events like Sports Day, when the school will be closed for a day or when the students will be going on excursions.

'Being a working single mother, I have only myself to depend on to handle so many schedules, and I'm very forgetful,' she said.

'So I set reminders for myself on my Blackberry and even sync it with Microsoft Outlook on my computer, so the alerts can remind me when to pack an extra pair of shorts or a T-shirt. I set the alerts to start days before the event because I sometimes need a few reminders before I get things done,' she added.

When these still don't work, she can always depend on the personal reminders that Shane records and sends to her.

Surrounded by gadgets from young, he learnt to send his first SMS at the age of five and has now moved on to sending multimedia messages (MMS).

He records the messages with the voice-recording function of his mobile phone and sends them to Angie.

One of his recent: 'I love you too'.

These are the most important alerts, she said, as they are reminders of her son's love.

Besides MMS, her mobile phone is also good for making video calls.

Work takes her out of Singapore once every two months and video calls are the only way the doting Mum gets to 'see' her son every day.

'I got my son a 3G phone so that I can make video calls to him whenever I miss him,' she said.

The gadget lover also has a coterie of other gizmos - an Archos media player and two iPods - in which she loads pictures and videos of her son.

They are in her bag for entertainment purposes, as are her Sony PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS game handhelds.

'I have many gadgets and I always bring them with me when I travel. In case I get bored, there's something to do,' said the serial phone-changer who buys a new mobile phone every six months.

And Diana Ser wants it all the time

In case you're mistaken, she is not a diva who insists on being given access to clubs and parties just because of her celebrity status.

Instead, it is Internet access that the former news reader and TV personality is interested in.

Now the director of a PR firm she co-owns, Diana heads a media training team that coaches top-level executives on speaking confidently and projecting the right body language in front of the camera.

And being able to go online wherever and whenever is important.

'It's not just e-mail, because I can just check that on my phone,' said Diana. 'I do a lot of research. If I need to train executives from a bank or a manufacturing company, I need to know about their business. So I need to go online a lot.'

For that, the 36-year-old always has her Apple Macbook and Vodaphone 3G modem with her so she can work anywhere, any time.

After all, the road warrior is usually not in her office during office hours.

She's usually at a client's office, hotel training room or meeting room.

Or she's at home with her 18-month-old boy, Jake, watching TV non-stop, all in the name of work

'I watch news bulletins a lot more than I used to and a lot more closely now,' said the former newsreader with a sense of irony.

She looks out for relevant clips that she can use in her training sessions - examples of what executives should and shouldn't do - then records and edits them on her DVD recorder before burning them onto DVDs to use for training later.

Because of her job, she has now become more 'techie', said Diana.

The first time she recorded a DVD to use in training, she forgot to 'finalise' it. And she only found out when she was already at her client's office, halfway through training.

'I learnt a lesson - that with all machines, check, check and check again,' she said.

In her personal life, Diana is decidedly less techie.

She has her husband James Lye to thank for learning how to use Skype.

The former actor travels often for work, at least once a month, so the family makes many long-distance calls.

'He wants to talk to our son every day, so I learnt to use Skype. I call from the computer, and I'm still struggling with it, but my husband says it's very cheap so I have to learn,' she joked.

Diana, who is expecting her second child, said the phone is, in fact, the most important gadget to her. And she's not even talking about mobile phones.

For the trendy Mum, the old-fashioned fixed line telephone will do, because it's the voice that matters.

'The most important technology between me and my son is the phone. When I was pregnant with him, I talked to him a lot, so he's very sensitive to my voice,' she said. 'Even over the phone, he knows when it's mama or dada. So my husband and I take turns to call him throughout the day.'