Esther got full marks for her fitness tests (NAPFA test) and the school gave her a T-shirt for the perfect score.
YowCH will end at TYLin this Friday and joins KTP from Tuesday. Here are two new ‘studio office’ photos.
As before, the set-up for the studio was our bedroom. Here are the outtakes (uncropped photos).
Compare with the one taken on 2009 here.
Here’s Samuel sharing instant noodles with Joseph for breakfast. He is trying to use the chopsticks but has not fully gotten the correct technique and doesn’t have much strength yet. We will continue to train him.
On Wednesday, 21 Sept, Esther got her new phone, an iPhone7 32GB, rose gold. Here’s the new phone, in a black Spigen case. She bought it partially with her own savings.
Here’s the phone, taking a dip in the swimming pool, it is waterproof.
Esther played the guitar while David played the cajon as musicians for church Kids for Christ worship leader Ezra on both Saturday and Sunday.
That afternoon, as we prepared to go for football, we hung out at the playground for a while:
For Esther’s 14th birthday on Monday, 6 June, Grace took the children and Esther’s friends to J-Cube for ice-skating fun. Samuel didn’t get to skate as the minimum age is 3.
They were all rather good at skating. After skating, they had lunch together.
That evening, YowCH joined them at Westgate for Japanese dinner:
Esther received the prefect appointment certificate, badge and tie on Monday, 16 May 2016.
We had pool fun again:
YowCH still runs sporadically, this is run at West Coast:
YowCH and Samuel took a walk in the Jalan Rumah Tinggi Park to measure the length, we walked average speed of 3.3km/h on the 430m track.
Joseph started playing the ukulele properly, and now he can manage about 10-15 common chords, good enough to play songs like I’m Yours, As The Deer and When You Say Nothing At All.
Here are Esther and David chilling in the Sorrento pool after church.
And Samuel chilling at our flat level 1:
Samuel also had some time at the playground at Kim Tian while waiting to pick Esther from tuition.
Esther ran 3.3km in 21m34s, at Macritchie, in Queenstown Sec School annual cross-country. She got 10th place in the sec 2 girls category.
Today the children had distance test in swimming. 1.5km for Esther Yow and David within 1.0hr, and 800m for Joseph within 45mins. Esther did it in 56mins06secs, David in 46mins27secs, and Joseph in 44mins37secs. All passed and very well done.
Grace Chan also swam 700m total, the most she ever did in one session.
For Queenstown Secondary School’s 60th anniversary celebrations, Esther performed for in choir. We went to Singapore Polytechnic on 31 March 2016 to watch the performance from 7:30pm to 9:00pm, with Grace’s mum (dad was not free to go).
Other than the choir, there were performances by the band, dancers and drama group, too.
After Grace got her Lenovo Miix 2, the Acer AspireOne (2009) was given to Esther. But the Acer was really rather slow and not too effective, and with a dying battery. So Esther asked for a newer laptop. We searched around and found a good deal in the Asus TP200SA, with several good features: Intel N3050 processor with 2GB RAM, 11.6″ 1366×768 10-points touch-screen, built-in 64GB memory, light-weight and low-power (8 hrs on battery), tablet mode, decent processor and memory, USB2, USB3 and USB3.1 (type-C) ports, micro HDMI, Micro-SD slot and full keyboard with touch-pad. The dark-blue unit costs $499 and runs on Windows 10. Comes with 3 years free anti-virus.
We bought a 64GB micro-SD card to function as a built-in data hard drive.
Here’s a look at the keyboard details
The dark-blue cover and body is rather nice.
Unfortunately, there is no bundled office software, so we downloaded and installed Apache Openoffice. Esther paid out of her savings half of the total cost for the laptop and accessories.
