YowCH & Grace

Samuel did his Chinese tuition homework with Joseph helping:

Esther’s team lead worship on recorded video, Esther on the ukulele, Rihika played the drums on our drum set:

Lunch on 19 June, Esther torching cod bones (from swim coach):

Dinner on 19 June (fish head curry, the fish head from swim coach):

Sunday lunch: frog leg porridge, torched cod, salted egg prawns:


Esther went for the driving class, including simulator training (for accident situations and such) and road drive:


Sunday dinner, 20 June (waxed meat rice):

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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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This is the cheesecake baked by Grace using the air fryer:

We celebrated Esther’s 19 birthday as a family on Sunday, 6 June:

The siblings:

With parents:

The family:


The cake looks good after being cut (5 pieces because YowCH doesn’t eat the creamy cake).

We bought Esther a set of good headphones for her recording use:

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29 May, YowCH’s second brisk walk of 2.5km, covered in 21m15s, much faster than last Tuesday night.

Completed the walk just as the rain started.

Saturday lunch:

Esther was in the worship team (recorded) for Youth service.

Grace made lava cake using the air fryer:

Resulting cake was good, but seems overcooked, no flowing lava.

YowCH recorded teaching memory verse for church juniors, presented on 29 May.

For dinner, we had wanton mee. This time, we had pork and prawn wantons.


Pork wantons were fried in the air fryer, and the prawn wantons were cooked in soup.

Sunday breakfast.

Samuel attending his Chinese tuition online.

Lunch with fresh oysters and scallops (from Sheng Siong).

YowCH did the shucking, a very new experience.

YowCH made egg tarts (with flaky skin) using the air fryer.


Cooked gong bao frog legs for dinner, very nice. Frog legs from Sheng Siong.

On Monday, we took leave to help the Yongs move home from the Bishan HDB flat to The Scala (at Ang Mo Kio).

While helping with the move, we saw Esther’s music video cover of the song “At My Worst” premier on Youtube. Then we ordered Fat boys burgers and picked them up from the Thomson outlet for dinner at home. YowCH tried the ‘impossible’ burger, which is vegetarian but tasted just like meat, quite good, but not worth the high price.

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YowCH and Samuel recorded 3 worship services for Church Junior Sunday School in one afternoon on Saturday, 15 May.

On Sunday, we went for swim, the pool was very empty.

We had dimsum lunch after swim.

In the afternoon, YowCH recorded 听海 (Ting Hai) with Esther’s help. YowCH played guitar, bass and sang.

Esther played the keyboard, electric guitar and drums (using midi on keyboard).

She did the editing and balancing.

Click on the photo below for the video.

After the recording, we had a simple dinner at home.

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Dinner with the younger boys at Vivocity, nice Ramen, on 7 May.


David sprained his ankle in school, but nothing too serious.

We joined a Church event to support our missions, in this case Bali. This even was held online on 8 May 2021.

And we ate Indonesian food, ayam penyet while learning about the mission field in Bali.

We ordered Subway for lunch on Sunday, 9 May.

Esther went for her driving practice.

We had dinner with Grace’s parents and Gene, popiah!

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YowCH took his first dose of Moderna Covid-19 vaccine on 3 May.

Got some freebies.

We invited the Lims over for Korean BBQ dinner, as Hong Kian will be leaving for his long posting in China soon. YowCH could prepare this dinner as he was on leave. David made Japanese garlic fried rice.

We had so much food!



Then the grease in the grill plate water-ring caught fire!

After dinner, we had a nice cake brought by the Lims to celebrate the upcoming birthdays of YowCH and Hong Kian.

The Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) accepted Esther for Physiotherapy. We rejoice and thank God!

Our dinner on 4 May.

YowCH and Grace went out for dinner on Wednesday, 5 May. This was after visiting a friend’s mother’s wake. Hinode is at Lavender very near Singapore Casket.

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Esther got a second-hand effects pedal from a local guy, and she enjoys pairing it with the electric guitar. It is a Boss ME25, and she got it at $150 (new is about $300+).

David’s swim headphones (second-hand) spoilt after more than 30 months (since Aug 2018). He found the new Finis Duo on Amazon for $150.

YowCH, Grace and Samuel had instant noodles for lunch on Saturday before church. The older children went to church to eat.

YowCH took his KFC class (Primary 3) out to Clementi Woods Park for the KFC class outing.


Samuel didn’t get any photos because his Primary 2 class didn’t want to take any photos.

On Sunday, Grace went to work (afternoon shift) while the rest went for swim, followed by lunch at AC Master Prata.

Back at home, YowCH renewed his hair dye.

In the afternoon, Esther went for her driving class. She has been regularly driving on the road with the instructor.

For dinner (before fetching Grace), we went to United Square for dinner at Yayoi.

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YowCH had a dinner with contractor friends from Ssangyong at Brewerks on 1 April 2021, and bought some tapao beer. Brewerks is still a nice dining place by the river.

On Good Friday, we had lunch at West Coast Plaza, Upin Sichuan Hotpot.

For dinner, we invited the Ngs over to our place for Korean BBQ. We had good fellowship and fun over the food. The chicken hearts were well loved!

On Saturday, we had the Yongs over for dinner, again BBQ but we had satay instead.



For dessert, we had nice ice-cream!

On Easter Sunday, Grace got a nice cake for Samuel as a snack.

We met Grace’s parents and Gene for lunch at Sorrento.

Esther took her second Covid vaccination injection in the afternoon.

We ordered Shake Shack burgers for dinner, while we watched Justice League (Snyder) on our big-screen.

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YowCH’s morning medicines – 2 for high blood pressure, 1 for blood lipids, 1 glucosamine, 2 for calcium and 5 vitamin C.

On 29 Mar, YowCH stayed over at Sentul Crescent site to observe the overnight beam launching. works started at 1:00am (after the last LRT train) and completed launching 3 T-girders at 4:30am.

On 31 March, YowCH took Grace to a nice supper at Kyoten, Tiong Bahru. We ordered omakase (for 1) and fried rice (for 1) and 1 bottle of cold sake.




The food was very nice, and we were the last customers.

Esther started driving on the road with her driving instructor, Paul Ong. Here are her training routes on 28 and 31 Mar.

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