We picked-up a unit of 2nd-hand Roland Cube-30 guitar amp at $200 to pair with the drum-set. At 30W with 10″ driver, the amp is not as loud and powerful as the Fender Mustang-II, but fits nicely within the drum-set frame and works well, but certainly loud enough for our HDB flat, with reasonably rich bass. It looks very similar to our portable Roland Micro-cube.
On Saturday morning, while Grace is at work, YowCH mounted a new wall fan in the bedroom with Esther’s help.
We also update on some of our Skylander figures, which Grace manage get through 2nd-hand sales, all of good value.
After church, we also picked up a 2nd-hand digital drum set, the Yamaha DTXplorer from our church friend, Theolynn, for $500. A good buy, as the set is low-usage and in fantastic conditions. David and Esther did most of the assembly.
The set sounds great when connected to our Fender guitar amp.
Here’s David playing the drums. Samuel likes the drums, too.
The old acoustic set shall be sold, all packed and ready.
On Sunday morning, YowCH took part in the HometeamNS REAL run at Sentosa, successfully completing 10km of road, trail and sand. Click the photos below for the page.
With the terrapins growing up, we fill the tank with more water and have just installed a larger pump-filter. Now both are large pumps.
Compare with the previous pumps (one large and one small).
We bought a manual slow juicer. It works, but the user works very hard, too to grind the fruits. Particularly hard fruits like apples. But it is slow, in order to squeeze the juice out. From Brand name is GDL, Gao Dalai.
But it works nicely.
Esther got second place at her school Scrabble competition and got a $10 Popular Bookstore voucher. She also won the school Instagram for food photography, she submitted 6 entries, and there were total of 42 entries.
With the double sided tape working well, we continue to fight the bedbugs with natural non-toxic repellents.
With change of repellents, the resistance build-up will hopefully be less.
Samuel upgraded to the forward facing car seat today. He is very happy with it. With this car seat, he can look forward and has a better view out of the window.
Our fight against the bedbugs is doing well, the larger bugs may get through the sticky double-sided tape around our mattresses, but once they feed (filled with blood), they get stuck, and we nail them in the morning. The young bugs have no chance of crossing the tapes.
With the young not feeding and can’t grow, and the adults being trapped, we reckon that the bugs will be gone soon. We are still using the ‘natural’ repellent-spray to further fight against the bugs.
Grace bought the smallest (and cheapest) Nespresso machine today, the Inissia, fresh Western-style office from now on!
The set has a milk froth maker, Aeroccino3, too, for cappuccino.
Our car had a minor puncture, where YowCH noted a little bulge on Wednesday. After filling air again, and checking again on Friday, the bulge returned. So YowCH brought the car to Arrow and patched the hole. The puncture was due to a very small nail.
Could have been hit back when we were in Malaysia last weekend!
The ultrasonic emitter we got 2 weeks ago was not very effective, the bugs were somewhat annoyed, but did not leave. It shouldn’t be so easy…
Next step, Grace bought some natural repellent scents placed near the beds and non-toxic (to humans) spray which we spray onto the bed-frames.
Another defence we employed: double sided tape. We taped all round the mattresses to trap bugs crawling up to us when we sleep.
Rather effective, as most of the bugs get stuck and we did not have bites during our sleep.
A few did get through and took some blood, the last photo shows a freshly fed bedbug squashed, and our blood spilled.
The steaming continues, too, and we will also regularly vacuum the house.
Today we replaced the car wipers with Bosch Aerotwin wipers. Slightly more expansive than the Crystal silicone wipers, but Bosch claims better durability. We shall see…
The Bosch is black, the blue ones are the old pair we picked up (someone discarded, but new and usable).
The next phase in our bedbug fight (refer past post no. 1, post no. 2 and post no. 3), we bought the Maier Pest-out repeller with effect on both ultrasonic and electromagnetic to annoy and chase the bugs away. Again, let’s see how well this works.
We are still steaming them regularly.
