Boys in-line skating, tea set
Samuel really enjoys in-line skating now. He wears Joseph’s skates, Joseph wears David’s and David wear YowCH’s.
We picked up a beautiful and undamaged tea set from the dump under our house. Things people throw away…
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Esther cycling and sewing, playground, Joseph sawing and Air Max repair
Esther went cycling, and YowCH took some nice photos:
Esther also made some cloth cases using the sewing machine:
Joseph and Samuel had some fun time at the playground.
Joseph can saw, he helped YowCH saw pieces of wood to fix the bed.
David’s Air Max was worn out and the bubble burst, but everything else was OK. So YowCH though of an idea to use silicone to fill the bubble to repair the shoe.
The shoe works fine after silicone injection – but heavier and not so bouncy.
Food we ate, YowCH’s meeting with Chinese delegates, Soju
Here are some photos of the food we ate:
Mexican from Food Panda:
Home cooked pasta with meat slices:
Eating at Kay Lee with our swim coaches after swimming lesson.
Japanese food at Star Vista.
On Friday, 26 July, YowCH had a meeting with some Chinese delegates from Vanke. Here’s the group photo and YowCH’s name plaque on the table. Hong Kian also attended the meeting.
Grace ordered soju online, and with discount. Got these 10 at $85.00, usual would be about $150.00.
Odyssey 1st inspection, Sorrento flooded, David’s Airmax worn out
The car is almost 3 years old, and YowCH sent the Odyssey for inspection ($70.62) with total traveled distance of 55,573km.
The inspection passed, and we can continue to renew road tax and drive the car.
While Gene, mom and dad were away from home, the washing machine hose burst and and Sorrento was flooded! Neighbours called Gene after seeing water floor out from the floor. YowCH went over to help rescue the situation, and managed to clean up the water in about 2.5 hours, using a makeshift squigy and a mop. Hair dryer was used to help heat up and dry under the cabinet.
Lesson learned: turn of the mains when water not in use.
David has worn out his Nike Air Max. He wore this for runs and to school, and the air bubble had burst after all the rubber was gone.
YowCH’s running shoes are also getting there.
LED lights for our home
Over several weeks, we have replaced the lights in our home with LED at many locations.
The cove lights are replaced with LED tubes.
The kitchen lights with LED panel.
The back yard florescent tubes with LED tubes.
The main bedroom with switchable (cool-warm-all) LED panels.
The boys’ room with an LED panel with glare-reducing mask (they broke the glass cover several months ago), while the girl’s room is a naked LED panel within the glass cover.
We kept the living, dining and computer rooms on fluorescent tubes, but removed the warm yellow light tubes, hence we can have very bright white lights throughout the house.
Joseph was very helpful in giving a hand to YowCH as he set up the lights with some minor re-wiring works to cut off the starters and to bypass the ballast.
Redhill Close to be demolished and redeveloped
We bought our first flat in Redhill Close.
It was announced in 2011 that Redhill Close 7-storey flats will be demolished and redeveloped. Subsequently, the exercise to move the residents out started in Oct 2018 and completed in Jan 2019. As YowCH was making his regular runs through this estate, he noticed that there were lesser people around progressively.
On 31 May, after meeting Joseph’s teachers at the end of term, YowCH walked pass the estate and noted that the whole place has been cleared and locked up.
It was a nice neighbourhood we stayed in after getting married, and frankly, the old and lousy flats were all we could afford.
Odyssey update: tyre ruptured and hit on the tailgate
On 24 May, as YowCH drove into the carpark at work, the rear left wheel hit the kerb, but the damage was quite bad as the tyre side wall suffered a cut. YowCH realised the rupture while driving home, and stopped at the nearby Caltex petrol station to change to the spare tyre. Esther and David walked from home to help.
With the spare wheel mounted, we drove to dinner and then sent the car for replacement tyre the next morning.
Returning to YowCH’s favourite tyre shop, Arrow Tyres at Ang Mo Kio, we are so blessed that the shop had 3 second hand pieces of the same tyre model, size and age (same manufacturing week!). The replacement cost was $80. The replaced tyre is actually in better condition than the other 3 that is on our car.
On 25 May (Saturday), YowCH drove Grace to work (starting 8:30am) and had breakfast in KKH together, as Arrow Tyre starts at 9:00am. Upon getting the car in the carpark, a note was left on the windscreen that the tailgate has been accidentally hit by a reversing car. YowCH called up the gentleman and had a quick discussion, and Kwan agreed to pay for the damages.
After the tyre replacement, YowCH got a recommendation from the boss of Arrow to look for Sau Hock Motor at AMK Autopoint, and got a quote to repair the dent and re-spray at $280. YowCH informed Kwan and Kwan transferred $330 to YowCH, with $50 for the inconveniences. Reasonable and gentlemanly. Matter closed.
Turtles laying eggs again, car accident conclusion and fuel economy
Perhaps it is another season, the turtles started laying eggs again. Lots of cleaning to do.
YowCH was dropping a colleague at West Coast Plaza on 2 Jan 2019, when a cyclist crossed the entrance without looking or stopping, and YowCH hit the bike. The guy claimed to have injury on his left ankle and YowCH called the ambulance/police. On 23 April, we received a letter from the police concluding the case as the cyclist’s fault. Thank God for justice. Nothing serious on the car, but the bike’s front wheel was damaged. Having a car cam is very very important.
Along the week, YowCH drove to Tuas for a meeting and managed to clock 16km/L on a casual drive, good economy.
Weekend update
Samuel built our Year-of-the-Pig Lego set.
And Samuel has grown a bit more, he is above the 1.0m line now.
We had “Hawker” food with Grace’s parents after church. Interesting pairing of hawker food like chilli crab, satay, mala chicken or chicken rice with burger! Not too expensive but nice.
Sunday evening, we had waffles and spaghetti at the nearby Carrara, a small reward for Samuel playing well at football training.
SJ lion dance, car alignment, children in uniform, old photos
On Friday, 8 Feb, SJ had lion dance in the office.
YowCH also took the Odyssey to servicing on Friday, but Honda screwed-up the alignment. The next week, on 12 Feb, the car was sent to Kenny Alignment for a proper job, much better drive now.
Kenny also re-centered the steering wheel.
13 Feb 2019, the first day Esther wears her CJC uniform. 4 children in 4 levels – kindergarten, primary, secondary and junior college.
We dug up two old photos of ourselves, taken back in 1995. That’s 24 years ago.
