The Bible Church, Singapore celebrated Children’s Day on Sunday 3 Oct 2010 with a fun event from 8:30am to 12:00 noon. We have games, worship, more games, a message through a skit and snacks.
Stanley was the worship leader, and for musicians, YowCH and Esther joined his son, Daniel forming a small ukulele band. We played 5 songs!
YowCH conducted a session of Outdoor cooking for the Kent Ridge Secondary School Boys Brigade on 28 Aug 2010. There was a briefing last week where the menu and technique was discussed.
The menu is simple, instant noodles in a soup made with minced meat, fish-balls and cabbages, and a side dish of eggs and sardines.
Here’s a photo at the start:
That’s our stove and pot of eggs and sardines:
Esther and David was very helpful in getting the stuff in place for the cooking.
Some of the boys moved on to boiling the soup already.
The photo of the day, burning oil!
The cooking was quite serious for some:
Here’s Esther, David and YowCH eating the food:
We started at about 10:30am and ended at about 12:15pm.
The Stikfas band set was on offer (for $19.00), so we got a set for Esther (there’s a pink girl singer in the set!)
Their website is at www.stikfas.com
Grace is currently most attracted to shopping for old and discontinued Lego sets online. Of great interest is the very girlish Paradisa range, which she had managed to get from UK two sets at good prices. The sets, 6402 and 6403 reached YowCH’s office (the default parcel delivery address for us) on 12 Aug, and Esther put them together on 14 Aug.
Over the long weekend (Singapore national day is on 9 Aug, Monday), YowCH’s parents, together with sister Loon and her boyfriend Daren, came over for a few days from Saturday to Wednesday. YowCH and Grace took leave on Tuesday and Wednesday (but Grace worked on Saturday) to spend time with them, and to get some household things done.
Here, we were at Don (opposite Far East Square) eating crab noodles and pies with Yan and family, too.
Among the household things done were the new wall mounted fan for Room 2 (blows onto all three beds!) and two new bookshelves in Room 3 put together with shelving planks salvaged from Grace’s workplace, they are very solid plywood.
Esther is also able to play about 10 chords on the ukulele after about 10 days. She’s learning very fast. David is also keen to start now.
Joseph pulled the stool to the parapet of the balcony and climbed on the stool to see cars on the road; and he did that all by himself. Smart guy, but rather dangerous…
Nowadays, for the last feed at night, he can down 10 ounces of milk (full bottle).
David is enjoying some Lego time while Esther does her homework, with some help from Besta (the Chinese-English digital dictionary).
These last three photos were taken using our new Tamron 17-50 f2.8 lens bought two weekends ago. The lens has very good colour contrast and is very sharp, but the S5pro camera under-exposes by about 0.7 to 1.0 stop on this lens.
And today is Grace’s birthday! “Happy Birthday”.
Today Esther turns eight. We did not get a cake, but had lots of good food.
Esther received a boxed set of 3 Barbie DVDs from us.
Today, we spent the morning at Pulau Ubin under TYLin’s Staff Club activity. Grace was at work, and Joseph with in school, but dad joined us. As Esther and David are not yet cycling, they were carried on childseats.
Esther took a photo of YowCH:
Handlebar view, while cycling:
We left earlier than than the rest as we have some afternoon activities.
Thank God for a very cool and shady morning.
Esther, David and Joseph had a fun weekend with the Ngs (Nate, Hannah and Daniel) last saturday.
Some outdoors fun with all six children:
Here are the girls, Esther and Hannah:
The boys, Nate and David:
And the toddlers, Joseph and Daniel:
On 3 Feb, Esther’s ears were pierced and she now wears a pair of nice deep blue ear-studs:
This morning, eFG had an outing to Botanic Garden and the children had lots of fun running around the Symphony Lake.
