YowCH & Grace

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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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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This weekend is the start of the June holidays. On Sunday morning, Joseph played soccer at Yusuf Ishak Sec Sch in the Under-7 team (the Under-9 team was also playing). David helped manage the U-7 team, and Esther was helpful in bringing Samuel about. There were 8 teams of U-7 and U-9.



While Joseph was playing, YowCH went swimming at Jurong East Swimming Complex with Esther and David. Samuel was asleep, so Grace looked after the small boy. After the swim, we returned to Joseph’s games, for the closing ceremony. Madam Halimah Yacob, MP for Bukit Batok, gave way the participation medals.

Later in the afternoon, Esther went to ballet class, and David played in a friendly match with BB East and Ulu Pandan at Queenstown Pri Sch. Joseph helped with the warm-ups and cheered for the Under-12 team.


A very tiring weekend. Thankfully, Monday is a public holiday, Vesak Day.

Here’s Samuel at KKH garden, after lunch:

With Grace at work with afternoon duties, YowCH picked up some 2nd-hand items which Grace have arranged for:
1. 1 pair of Timberland hiking boots for the children. The other two pairs were picked up some time last week.

2. 1 toy carry-box, Playmobil, for Samuel:

3. 1 Paper Jamz ultra-thin finger drum pad.

The pad has outlet, and sounds great when patched to our 40W amp! The built-in speakers are good enough for Samuel.

Lastly, here’s a look at our program for June 2015 (prepared by the children). We are fully booked!

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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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This is the first time YowCH managed to cover 10km in a run. Well, there was included about 1.2km of walks (should have persevered and walked less for better timing).


Just short of 2 minutes and 37 seconds to keep the 10km under 1 hour.

The target was originally 8km, but along the way, high in adrenaline, he decided to push to the 10km.

The swim with the family after the run (and breakfast) was very relaxing!

In the afternoon, Joseph and David went for soccer while Esther went to ballet. The boys had new shoe bags, matching colours with their water bottles.

For dinner, we went to Star Vista. Samuel carries his own backpack with water bottle and diapers and changing stuff.

Dinner was Thai food at Porn’s (Pornsak’s). Very nice!

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We spent some time at the Church playground after Good Friday service.

Samuel really enjoys the slides. But he likes to slide head down!

Here are the children playing.

The 4.

Esther invited her friend, Chloe, over to our place and practiced baking cupcakes for her school exams.

While waiting for the cake to bake, they played Wii for a while.

David was also inspired and he did some crepes, filled with Nutella, peanut butter or marmalade.

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Today is Samuel’s last day as Infant (2-18 months). He joins toddler class (with school uniform!) tomorrow, 1 April.

We forgot to post David’s birthday celebrations last week. We had a dinner at Brotzeit (his preferred food) on Monday evening and gave him the Blockopedia (Minecraft info book) on Tuesday (his birthday).

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Our church cell group, eCG, had our lo-hei at the Leongs’ place on Friday night.

Esther and Grace made some really nice cupcakes and shared them.

On Saturday, at about lunch time, YowCH’s parents arrived with Loon, Daren and Yen Li. We had lunch at Goldhill Chicken Rice.

Then the Tans went to visit relatives, and the Yows had dinner at Great World City’s Crystal Jade. With the CNY crowd, the adults were seated away from the children, at two distant tables.

After dinner, we sent parents to Bishan.

On Sunday, we spent some time at home in the morning, and we took some photos of Samuel happily walking about. Here’s Samuel taking a fun-stroll outside home.

As usual, we went for our swim before lunch. The boys then went to the Community Football League friendly matches at Rainforest, Turf City.

David was rather tired after the swim, but he played very well.


Joseph was not very focused and didn’t play too well, but he tried.

For dinner, the whole family (parents, us, Yongs and Tans) met at Star Vista and had seafood at Boston Seafood Shack.

This morning (Monday) is the start of David’s 3-day camp with his school. Here’s David with his camping bag fully packed.

The Tans and parents returned to PJ after breakfast.

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