Chee Kean has been helping us check on any traffic summons n Malaysia, and recently (on 18 April 2016) 2 speeding tickets were issued, for offences in 2012 and 2014!
The summon is 2 to 4 years after he offence! Whatever happened to time-bar.
Grace bought a frozen fruit grinder that makes sorbet or smoothies for $40 (usual price $99). The Yonanas classic machine makes smoothies from frozen fruits.
Here you see Joseph grinding honeydew.
We have also tried banana and mangoes, and will continue to experiment.
Esther’s school works include machine-craft. She used some heavy machineries and built this nice pencil holder shaped like a peacock. One of the best in class, it seems.
Here is a photo of our very large terrapins, and they are eating the cuttle-bone imported from Australia (we brought the cuttle-bone back from Melbourne). This will save us some money on turtle chalk.
And here’s the big surprise, David suddenly wanted to try out the violin. after 30 minutes of very basic training, he can play Twinkle-twinkle Little Star!
We bought a second-hand full-sized electric violin for $100, a Cecilio, for Esther, David and YowCH to practice with Joseph. The seller says only played 2 time!
Looks new, feels good, sounds OK, and we can amp the violin. Without the amplifier, the violin still plays, but not loud, hence good for practice.
On 8 Oct, the childcare centre celebrated children’s day. There was a dress-up party, with the theme of ‘superheroes’ and using recycled materials. Samuel went as a Spartan, with armour made by YowCH and David!
He won the best-dressed for toddlers, and brought home this push-dragon as the prize!
At close to 50,000km and 27 months, the Good Year Eagle F1 Asymmetric tyres have worn off quite badly at the edges although the general tread is still deep.
So, for safety in cornering and handling on wet roads, we changed the tyres, to the same model. The stock from Arrow Tyres is from Germany and marked 1815 (made in April 2015!) very new. At $155.00 each, the price is good for our 225/45/17.
At Arrow, the Amaron 55B24R is selling at $100.00 each, so we also changed it at the same time. The previous battery lasted 31 months with no problems at all, but being close to 3 years, we can change it. We will probably stretch this battery unit until we scrap the car at 10 years.
We got Swap-force (second hand) and plenty of Swap-force characters, too.
The Skylanders family has grown to a large one, with the original Spyro set, the Giants (all 8) and now some Swap-force guys.
The car tyres will be changed by next month, the general wearing and age is about right at 48,000km and 2+years. But the front left has worn more than the front right.
So YowCH took the opportunity get the girls to swop the tyres manually, using the spare donut (undersized) as temporary support.
As the lug-nuts were rather tight, YowCH did the release and tightening of the nuts.
Above is the donut standing in temporarily. This tyre cannot be used for the front when the car is driven.
Successfully done in about 40 minutes.
The front-left tyre outer-edge has been wearing out heavily, probably due to the multi-storey carpark ramps and YowCH’s hard U-turns. After alignment check by Kenny Car alignment (at Ang Mo Kio), the front wheels were re-cambered to be more “A” rather than “H”.
Third party bolts were installed to allow the tuning of the camber.
The alignment results of the left here has been cambered, but the right has not.
The last photo shows the slightly angled front wheel.
The car has more stability now, especially at cornering and hopefully the wear on the front-left outer-edge reduces.
Today is Esther’s 13th birthday. We had a family dinner at Sakae Sushi after church.
David was at Batam last Monday and Tuesday with his school, to teach English to the Batam students. He bought some snacks: fried fish balls and Malay layer cake.
Our drum set is finally complete, Grace managed to get a 2nd hand throne for $30.
We spent the morning at Sungei Buloh Wetlands with YowCH’s colleagues. It was a nice hike. Click on the photos below to the page.
This weekend is the start of the June holidays. On Sunday morning, Joseph played soccer at Yusuf Ishak Sec Sch in the Under-7 team (the Under-9 team was also playing). David helped manage the U-7 team, and Esther was helpful in bringing Samuel about. There were 8 teams of U-7 and U-9.
While Joseph was playing, YowCH went swimming at Jurong East Swimming Complex with Esther and David. Samuel was asleep, so Grace looked after the small boy. After the swim, we returned to Joseph’s games, for the closing ceremony. Madam Halimah Yacob, MP for Bukit Batok, gave way the participation medals.
Later in the afternoon, Esther went to ballet class, and David played in a friendly match with BB East and Ulu Pandan at Queenstown Pri Sch. Joseph helped with the warm-ups and cheered for the Under-12 team.
A very tiring weekend. Thankfully, Monday is a public holiday, Vesak Day.
Here’s Samuel at KKH garden, after lunch:
With Grace at work with afternoon duties, YowCH picked up some 2nd-hand items which Grace have arranged for:
1. 1 pair of Timberland hiking boots for the children. The other two pairs were picked up some time last week.
2. 1 toy carry-box, Playmobil, for Samuel:
3. 1 Paper Jamz ultra-thin finger drum pad.
The pad has outlet, and sounds great when patched to our 40W amp! The built-in speakers are good enough for Samuel.
Lastly, here’s a look at our program for June 2015 (prepared by the children). We are fully booked!
