YowCH & Grace

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!

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Thank God the haze cleared up over Singapore. Parents and Gene have moved to their new home at West Coast, and stayed since last Friday.

Esther went for the Garfield Run with Gene on Saturday afternoon (19 Sep) 5:30pm in Sentosa. It was supposed to be 4.0km, but due to the lingering haze, reduced to 2.5km. Here are the girls at the Start:


And Esther finished at 17 minutes (together with Gene, who ran with her).
This is Esther’s GPS tracking.

And a nice photo after the run, with Garfield.

The rest of the family attended church at that time.

On Sunday, again blue sky, so we went for our swim in the morning. Esther, David and Joseph took their swim exam (which was supposed to be taken during the week we were in Melbourne). And in the afternoon, Esther attended Chinese extra class at the tuition centre, and skipped ballet (which is at Funan, partly affected by Formula 1 road diversions). Grace and all the boys went to West Coast for football training, but the training was cancelled due to the afternoon rain and lightning.

We went home, and fixed ourselves a simple dinner to watch the Singapore Formula 1 race on TV.

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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.

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On Saturday, after sending Esther to Church for worship leading practice (she plays the guitar), YowCH took the boys to West Coast park for playground fun:

That’s the boys resting on the bouncy wave bridge.

Samuel gets zip-line with David’s help.

David climbed the high tower.

And Joseph climbed the smaller one.

We met Oliver there, with Anya and Timothy. Kelly brought Sarah along for shopping.

At home on Sunday, after the usual swim, football and ballet, Esther practiced piano for upcoming exam.

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Last week, before the Singapore 50th National Day, our school-going children each received one set of the SG50 Lego set. There are three possible designs (although only enough parts to build one at a time) within each box. With 3 children, we got three sets and we can pose for this photo.

Today is the wedding day of Saw and Grace (church friends). Joseph served as the page-boy, leading the procession with the Bible.

Joseph did very well, and walked-in very nicely.

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Sunday Times 12 July 2015, Sports section featured the Borussia Dortmund football clinic at People’s Association HQ held on 11 July 2015. The photo has Joseph right in the middle!

The online Sunday Times here.

This morning, Esther ran 2.7km, with YowCH who ran 3.5km. Just a little exercise.

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David and Joseph joined a group of 25 from West Coast CSC in attending the football clinic at PA HQ today, conducted by German team Borussia Dortmund coaches under the sponsorship of Evonik. We started the session at 9.00am.

The children were given BVB training jersey, shorts and socks.


It was a fun event, but the training was real.


Above is Lars Ricken (retired BVB striker and Germany national player) signing David’s T-shirt. Samuel had lots of fun running about.


The bee is the mascot, Emma. Esther was very helpful in looking after Samuel and taking care of our stuff.


The Evonik manager gave medals and Lars gave certs to the children.


A Q&A session, and we ended at 11.15am.

Each player received lots of BVB freebies: jersey, shorts, socks, Puma training ball, water bottle, medal, cert and sunshades.

Thank God for the good weather.

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Sunday afternoon, Joseph and David were at training again, and they played very hard in the hot sun!

Then, we had dinner at Cedele (GWC) with Gene and parents to celebrate Esther’s birthday.

Esther was busy taking photos of the food.

Here’s the birthday cake she got, a sea-salt caramel cheesecake.

And Samuel was also happily enjoying the dinner, eating mostly by himself.

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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.

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Last Sunday, we spent the morning at Rumah Tinggi Eco Park before our swim.



Samuel really loves to climb!

Up on the hill, it looks like some holiday scene!



Pillar hugging at the multi-purpose porch.

Back at home, Esther and David played the guitar and drums together, sounds good.

We managed to sell the acoustic drum set, at $200 which gives us $20 to cover the transportation expenses. Worthwhile for the short time we played the drums.

In the afternoon, the boys went for soccer training as usual, at Tanglin Secondary School.

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