On Sunday, we bought snacks for church-friends, serving angku kueh and glutinous rice. We pre-packed the rice into bags, with help from friends and Esther.
After church, we went out shopping for a while, the first time Samuel goes to Orchard Road.
Later, David and Joeph went for soccer training, they trained very well and played seriously.
We attended Matthan and Yi Ling’s wedding at church. Joseph served as the pageboy, bearing the ring. He did a very nice job of it.
Esther helped with the opening of the doors, also did a good job.
David was also helpful, he was in-charged of lighting the candles of the bride’s maids, but unfortunately, the lighter broke, and some adults ran to get the back-up lighter and lit those candles very urgently instead. Nevertheless, he was on standby for any candle that might be snuffed.
Samuel sat through the entire 2-hour ceremony without crying, mostly carried by David who took great care of him, and by YowCH.
Here’s a post-event photo of us.
And this is a photo of the ring-bearer, door-opener and the bride and groom.
ACES-YPC, which YowCH is a member, organised a trip to Chek Jawa at Pulau Ubin today from 1;30pm to 5:30pm. YowCH brought the children along.
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We prepared the baby’s clothes and drawers next to the cot.
YowCH’s head injury is healing very well after 6 days, some bruise still visible, but the wound has fully closed.
Yesterday, the naked chef made pancakes with his sister, while the younger brother set up the table. Pancakes for lunch was a great idea, tasty, filling and nutritious.
The maintenance cost is rising, we added a larger filter ($12) on 25 Sept to keep the tank cleaner in order to change water less frequently. You can see it in the left side of the photo.
Today, we visited the new site at Jurong West again to look for some old structures, and here are our trail biking photos:
That’s a big ‘frog’ looking at a real one.
On the roadside drain top (and this drain is really a huge canal), YowCH managed to clock 35km/h on the mountain bike. The children reached 32km/h.
YowCH needed to visit a new earthwork site at Jurong West which is still very wooded, and the children are on school leave for PSLE Listening and Comprehension Exams, so we went to the site for mountain biking. Grace and Joseph went to work/school. We had breakfast at Block 37, then went to TYLin office for a short while as YowCH needed to sign some drawings and give some instructions. We reached the site at about 10.45am and took out the bikes.
The trails are partly metalled, partly dirt path and sometimes very rough.
We crossed a very rusted steel bridge.
We left the site at about 12.15pm, drove round the site boundary and then went to Colbar for lunch at 1.00pm.
After lunch, we reached home at about 2.15pm.
It is mid-autumn. This year we did not buy any mooncakes, spending about $500.oo less! We ate only a little mooncakes from relatives and friends.
Yesterday, Thursday, Joseph joined Esther and David in the Gan Eng Seng Primary School mid-autumn celebrations, and they made some snow-skin mooncakes and lanterns. The children went with Grace, YowCH was at the Association of Consulting Engineers (ACES) Networking Night.
Tonight, we had some standard mid-autumn fare: yam, water caltrop (菱角), pomelo, ‘pig-basket’ cake and of course, mooncakes.
The pomelo was peeled by David, although he doesn’t eat it.
This is the water caltrop top (菱角车) that YowCH made.
Last Sunday, the team’s two new coaches started. The coach in red T-shirt is Mr Yasni and the older one in blue cap is Mr Hatta (Yasni’s father). Both are qualified professional coaches, and runs the training very well, with discipline and control.
After 1 hour of training, the children played friendly games where each player must stop the ball and then kick it onwards. They can’t dribble at all. The 4 teams each has big and small children, and Joseph was in the same team as David. Both played actively and well.
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, David and Joseph played in friendly matches against Bukit Batok East View and Ayer Rajah. Here they were briefed and were getting ready.
The coaches met for game arrangements, rules and other arrangements.
Here are the teams (green = BB East View, orange = Ayer Rajah):
David played goal keeper very well (although he still let in a few goals) and Joseph was mostly just standing there.
