YowCH & Grace

Dinner on 7 June (glass-pot chicken rice):

Lunch of Ronnie’s chicken rice on 8 June:

Grace ordered the imitation ‘Dyson’ vacuum cleaner, arrived on 8 June, works well enough at 20% the price.

Dinner on 9 June:

Dinner on 10 June:

YowCH took a photo of Esther for her driving license and other official use.

The Odyssey managed to clock very good efficiency given the empty roads during this Covid season, achieving 14.6km/L fuel over 36km distance!

Dinner on 11 June (zhong from Grace’s mom):

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19 April 2021, Joseph had a fracture in school, playing-horse with his friend. It is a buckling fracture of the right radius just above the wrist.

We ordered dinner and topped up with some chicken nuggets.

On 20 April, David ran 2.4km in school in 11m15s, rather slow and needs to train harder.

For dinner we had tapao Western food.

YowCH bought some dates earlier, always available at Ramadhan period.

Grace made a nice sling for Joseph’s arm.

One day of home-based learning for Samuel on 22 April 2021.

On 23 April, we received the chess set ordered from China, nice in gold and silver.

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YowCH took his first shot of Covid vaccine on 5 April at Radin Mas. Only a short wait in the morning.

A simple home-cooked dinner.

On 7 April, we got official news that David was given several awards in Gan Eng Seng Secondary School for his academic performance in O-levels. Here are the screenshots from the YouTube video of the online-awards ceremony.
GESS Progress Award:

Gan-clan Academic Value-added Award:

Academic Excellence Award:

YowCH had some yam cakes (made by Grace’s mom) for snacks.

On 8 April, Grace cooked dinner.

Salted-egg sauce with scallops (and prawns in another plate, Esther is allergic to prawns).

And a dessert made from old bread.

YowCH added 2 more sets of the head-rests to the Odyssey for the middle row seats. Very nice to sleep on.

Here is a photo of Samuel at Kids For Christ (Junior Sunday School) on Saturday.

We received our kalimbas orders online from China, with 17 keys. They both sounds great! We had a smaller one made from coconut shell from Bintan quite some years ago (only 7 keys).

Dinner at home with mussels, and long ‘finger’ grapes.

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David went to Kallang for canoe camp over 27 and 28 Mar (no photos). YowCH fetched Grace from work after her morning shift and had lunch at Kallang, then picked David before we went to church.

David’s birthday continues to Sorrento after church on Sat 27 Mar, Grace’s mom made a cake for David, and we had dinner together.

YowCH noticed that the Odyssey rear right wheel had a puncture. We limped to Alexandra Village to try to get it patched, but the damage was too much (due to the side wall crushed with insufficient air), so we had to change to another tyre.

Managed to get a replacement of the same model Goodyear Eagle F1 A5, but not the same size, 225-45-18 instead of 235-45-18 (so the wheel is 1.1% smaller). $70 for the 2nd hand rubber.

On Sunday, we had lunch at Kallang again after swim (David at canoe, Grace at work).

And dinner at Ichiban Sushi, Novena Square, prior to picking Grace from work. David resting at home after canoe. We packed some food for Grace.

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YowCH has been maintaining his fitness with gym and swim, now that running is not possible while the leg fracture is healing.

Two new female Transformers – Moonracer and Chromia.

Grace made a simple dinner on 22 Mar, chicken feet soup!

24 Mar, David’s birthday. He is now 17. We had dinner at Carrara.


YowCH bought him a Chinese chess set. They played a short game after dinner, took more than 1 hour.

On 25 Mar, YowCH attended a BCA seminar. 50 persons in the auditorium, everyone seated more than 1.0m apart.

Later at night, YowCH and Grace had dinner after Grace’s afternoon duty, at Sin Hoi San.

YowCH added a set of sleep head-rests to the Odyssey, very nice and matching, and very comfortable to sleep on. Good buy at $33 with postage included (shipped from China, through Lazada).

At work, YowCH organised a meeting with all of Chye Joo’s project managers. Had a nice and casual time discussing work matters over dinner. YowCH paid for the chicken rice (from Fook Sing) and drinks (beer, light beer and root beer).

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After breaking the Chinese New Year hampers at Chye Joo, YowCH received 1 jar of bird’s nest drink and 1 can of abalone.

An update photo of our terrapins, they are very huge now.

On Sunday after swim, we had lunch at the school canteen along Henderson Road.

Simple Western dinner at home on 9 March.

David went for blood donation on 10 March.

We packed wonton mee, satay and grilled chicken wings for dinner on 10 March.

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2 Oct, Grace and YowCH had breakfast together.

Then YowCH met Hoi Hoong and Hong Kian for lunch at the ‘school canteen’ opposite Connection One.

Some very expensive grapes with rubbery skin.

YowCH went for his regular 4.0km run. The Airmax Dynasty 2 burst at about 380km. For the next run, he wore the fake Adidas Ultra Boost bought in Vietnam.

YowCH had lunch with the children, noodles at Tongue-tip.

Samuel did craft for KFC, which arrived in a mail package a few days back.

Dinner at So Pho.

Sunday, 4 Oct, restarted swim training with coach Francis.

YowCH and Grace made a bespoke sunscreen for the Odyssey, works well! It had to be bespoke because the standard ones are too small!

Our lunch at Great World City after swim.

Samuel wearing Vietnamese Coffee next to Starbucks.

Samuel led worship in the online KFC!

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YowCH had lunch at the old school canteen opposite Connection One, which is now converted to gym and food. Not bad.


For dinner, we had KL-style black thick noodles.

More food, 200825:

YowCH managed to buy a charcoal stove from a neighbourhood shop near Redhill Market.

Made some tong-yuen to try it out. Works fine.

Food on 26 Aug, lunch:

We used the stove to charcoal grill chicken hearts and sausages for dinner.

29 Aug, we bought Burger King for lunch:

YowCH tried out a new thing, coffee pork-ribs for dinner. Turned out pretty well.

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Food 200810, fried bananas for lunch:


Grace had regular brisk walks in the evening.

Dinner.

YowCH bought a chopping board (mail-order from China), good stuff. After unpacking, the board was soaked in water for 24 hours.

It feels very good to chop on the thick timber board.

YowCH had leftover pasta for lunch on 11 Aug.

Simple lunch on 12 Aug:

And we bought noodles for dinner.

YowCH runs strictly to his schedule. Starting August, he runs 3x 4.0km weekly, on mornings of Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, even when it rains.

After running, he does his gym routine.

Samuel had fun at home doing some craft we bought from China.

Food on 200813:

200814:

With the restrictions reduced and having gone for regular swab test, YowCH can visit his sites on 15 Aug, bridges at Simpang Kiri and at Sentul Crescent, both HDB jobs which he took over from SJ.

Later that evening, we had dinner at home with Grace’s parents and Gene.

Food on Sunday, 16 Aug:


Monster Curry at Novena Square, we sat at 2 separate tables.

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YowCH bought Xiaomi Air-dots, much cheaper than Apple Airpods, for $28. Works well. Given to Joseph.

20 June, we saw the Church Youth Service worship with Esther playing guitar.

YowCH made a flat tray to put on the stove, this is very useful to temporarily place the cooking utensils like the spade, chopsticks or tongs.

On Monday 22 June, the whole family went out for school and work.

Samuel had some free time at home, he did some craft which YowCH bought from EZbuy or Lazada.

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