YowCH & Grace

On 23 Dec, YowCH visited Chye Joo office (his new employer starting from 4 Jan 2021).

His cubicle, large space in the middle of the office.

And his Asus Zenbook 14 UX434 laptop with touch screen and second screen at the mouse pad.

Esther wanted to play an electric bass guitar, and YowCH found a unit on Carousell. It was $320 with bag, and it is actually very new (the previous owner didn’t play much with it). The Ibanez Gio Bass:


Here are our 4 Ibanez guitars, basses (acoustic and electic) and guitars (acoutic and electric):

Grace took Joseph and Samuel out to cycle, they both did well.

Today is the last day and the Lego Advent sets (Star Wars and Harry Potter) are both completely opened.

Our Christmas eve dinner.

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Samuel had his Junior Church Camp (Z-Supa, organised by Scripture Union) which was held on-line this week.


YowCH continued this regular runs.

Our dinner, with young coconuts as dessert.

David tried out making caramel sweets, very nice! Grace helped.

Youth camp started on Friday, 11 Dec, with online meetings.


Samuel wasn’t in Youth Camp, he was just playing games on the iPad.
After the Youth Camp meeting, YowCH and Esther recorded the Christmas song for the choir, with Grace’s help.

YowCH runs, and also does his gym exercises.

Esther bought some strong sour and hot noodles online for the family. Very tasty, can buy more!

Samuel at tuition again, extra-time again.

Samuel at church.

We bought peanut snacks which is a type of traditional sweets, very nice.

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On 01 Dec, YowCH brought Samuel and Joseph to the school carpark for more cycling practice. Joseph is back in good shape and Samuel is now able to cycle quite well, proper balance and going a long distance before stopping or falling.



Grace and Esther went to do their hair colouring. After the hair-do, they had lunch with Grace’s parents and Gene.

Here’s a photo of Esther teaching Samuel piano at home.

On Thursday, 03 Dec, we went to Ang Mo Kio to have lunch at this bak kut teh place, very nice.

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27 Oct lunch.

28 Oct lunch and dinner.


29 Oct lunch. Esther and David remained at the School Canteen to study.

YowCH visited his site at Tanglin Halt.

YowCH also met his doctor who prescribed medication to control blood lipids, following the health check report. Taking “Lipanthyl Penta 145″ which is 145mg of Fenofibrate daily.

30 Oct breakfast.

At the swab test on 30 Oct, YowCH also collected the Blue Trace token used for contact tracing at construction sites.

Lunch

A photo of Samuel doing his Chinese writing homework before going for Chinese tuition.

We had lunch at Xin Wang, WCP before the youths’ Church service, which had just restarted following the Covid lock-down.

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Joseph’s PSLE exams ended on 6 Oct, we took him out to Vivocity for some fun.

On 8 Oct, YowCH and Grace went for a massage and then had some snacks.

Later that evening, YowCH met the Beacon CG men for dinner ad Mad Charcoal.

9 Oct, Esther’s last day of school (thereafter only to go for the A-levels exams).

YowCH went to site for a meeting, so he had breakfast while working.

Our 10 bottles of soju arrived, each bottle about $8.00, much cheaper than usual.

10 Oct, we had dinner with Grace’s parents and Gene.

Pork, lamb, beef, clams and salad.


After dinner drink, soju-bomb (somec) with Hite beer and soju that Gene brought along.

We went for swim training on 11 Oct. the pool looks empty because the previous time-slot had left and our time-slot had just started, Covid controls.

After swim, we ate at Henderson Market.

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Lunch on 14 Sep 2020:

Joseph transferred his phone to a new iPhone SE2 on 15 Sep 2020.

Lunch on 15 Sep 2020:

Lunch on 16 Sep 2020:

Lunch on 17 Sep 2020:

Esther transferred his phone to a new iPhone 11 Pro Max on 18 Sep 2020.

Grace ordered meat! BBQ time!

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Lunch at Thai Kway Chap (Holland Village) with Esther on 1 Sep 2020.

YowCH suffered from tennis elbow, probably due to carrying heavy loads or accident during gym.

YowCH continues his runs, night or rain.

With weeks to O-levels, David started working hard, studying while having breakfast.

Brinda’s for lunch.

On 6 Sep 2020, we invited the Lims over for wonton mee dinner.




Tong-yuen and games after dinner.

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Esther has been recording worship services for Youths. The production gets more complex and professional as the days of Covid continue. Here she is the worship leader.


Some of our food, 200801:

Not supposed to seat 6 per table, but this restaurant closed an eye for the small boy!

200802:



YowCH bought a massage gun (mail-order from China) and the boys tried it!

YowCH returned to office and found a acrylic screen erected at his table (and other directors). Also done for meeting tables!

More food 200803:

200804, nice ayam penyek:

200805:

200806:

200807:

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With the restrictions lifted due to lower cases of community Covid detected, we can eat out! However, still restricted to max 5 persons per table.

200702, YowCH and Grace at ABC, met Lee Hsien Yang canvassing for Progress Singapore Party (PSP).

200703, YowCH with Grace’s parents.

200716

200717

200719 (as we sent Samuel to Chinese tuition).

200720

200721, all 6 of us, but in 2 separate tables (max 5 per table).

200726, while Samuel is having Chinese tuition.

200727, with Esther.

200728, with David, Joseph and Samuel.

200729, after school, Mister Prata.

200730, after school, Encik Tan.

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Racial harmony day, the boys in traditional clothes.

Esther and YowCH having Parents-Teachers video meeting.

Samuel attending church service online.

Grace’s Singer sewing machine is cleaned and packed up, now that she has gotten the more powerful Futura CE-250.

Samuel at Chinese tuition, he needed some extra lessons just before leaving.

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