Mid-autumn is certainly coming, with mooncakes being sold everywhere!
Here are the children with very authentic piggy baskets from Kei Wah “奇華” from Hong Kong.
David is NOT smiling, he had his tooth plucked this very afternoon at the school dentist.
The baskets are woven from rattan strips!
Today is Grace’s birthday, we spent the day playing with the Ngs and Leongs.
Firstly, cycling (and gliding for the younger ones) and rounders.
Then, Mega Pizza for lunch.
After lunch, Esther went to school for National Day Parade rehearsal (as audience). The rest played football and chased bubbles.
[Updated later the night]
This is Esther and her National Day Parade Rehearsal goodie bag contents:
Samuel, Hwee Leng and their 5 children left for Melbourne on 1 June 2013 on a 23:55 flight. Yows and Lims were at the airport to send them off.
Today, we had dinner at MOF Tiong Bahru Plaza for Esther’s birthday. Mum, dad and Gene were with us for this Japanese meal.
Today, Grace works half day, so YowCH brought the children to Dairy Farm Nature Park for a short 4.0km hike. Click on the photo to get to the page.
YowCH’s project, the NUS Link Bridge won the Building and Construction Authority’s Design and Engineering Safety Excellence Award 2013. The QP, Er. Yong Fen Leong received the prize during the dinner on 16 May 2013 at Resorts World Sentosa. The bridge is curved on plan, and the cantilevered construction over AYE was a huge challenge to design and construction engineering.
YowCH brought the children to the NUS Link Bridge on 18 May 2013 after our morning hiking trip to walk the bridge.
Very nice to roll on the carpet grass of Town Green next to the Education Resource Centre in University Town.
The shorter Billy shelves we have for our DVDs are grossly insufficient for the growing collection, so we went over to IKEA today and bought 2 tall Billy shelves with 4 extra planks, all for $198.00.
This was the condition before:
And this is the new:
The whole family helped out (except for Grace, who is at work the whole of today).
1. Joseph cleared the toys from the area.
2. YowCH had to transfer the light switch about 4 inches to the right to be outside the shelf.
3. Esther helped move the shelf into place, note the good fit of the cut-outs for the wall power point and the switch cable.
4. David helped loading up the planks.
As a matter of fact, the assembly was mostly done by the children, YowCH provided guidance and strength. All detailed works are by Esther and David, and Joseph helped bring the tools, parts and gave support.
A final picture to show the cut-outs for the power point and light switch.
We got two more sets of Wall Tracks, one from Taipei and one from Malaysia. Just added them on today, now the tracks starts much higher and the car takes 20 seconds to run down the wall.
Refer here for the previous posting with the initial set-up.
Thanks to Kum Yuen for bringing the 3 sets of trains back from USA, our train tracks set has moving trains again. Really fun!
Warning to all who own such battery operated toys – take out the batteries before storing or the batteries will leak and spoil the toy. Our original 4 sets of trains were all spoilt when batteries leaked and destroyed the circuit boards.
The Gan Eng Seng Primary School Choir performed at Amara Hotel (Sentosa and Tanjung Pagar) for Christmas on 21 Dec. Esther is standing on the left (front):
YowCH and Grace got 3 sets of 2nd-hand Hotwheels Wall Tracks for the children at $50 (these three sets totals about $130 new) after studying them while on holiday in Malaysia. The advantage is that the tracks are all on the walls, minimising floor space, and allows fast action at the slopes. The bad news is that Tomica cars runs better on the tracks than Hotwheels cars. Note that the tracks can go round a corner!
Esther and David had a round of golf at the Marina Bay Driving Range with YowCH this evening. Tomorrow is Deepavali holiday and school holidays are starting, so we will try to give them some time to learn golf.
These next two photos are screen captures from videos, showing that both Esther and David can hit the ball and make it fly.
