On 19 Feb 2018, SJ started work with a lion dance. YowCH was on leave and school opens on 20 Feb, so YowCH brought the children to watch (Grace just ended her night shift, so she slept at home).
When the lion tossed an orange at Joseph, he very coolly caught it, while being on the stairs landing.
Not many colleagues were working on Monday, here’s a group photos of Infra and Geo combined.
West Coast Wolves hosted the West league at Clementi Stadium on Sunday, 27 Feb 2018 from 7:00am to 5:00pm.
YowCH was the photographer and odd-job guy.
Grace and Samuel were there, too.
David arrived at the field at about 2:15pm for the U15 games.
After lunch, it was the U12 and U15 games, and Grace took Samuel and Joseph to Sorrento.
Due to pouring rain and lightning risks, the finals were cancelled and the U15 had joint winners West Coast Wolves and Taman Jurong.
Senior Minister S Iswaran was present to give away the medals.
We had friendly games with Shoot Academy, a Japanese football club on 14 Jan. They were really good and we were practically trashed, but fun time playing.
After a tough game, and with very low temperature in Singapore, eating Korean BBQ was great.
Esther and David attending Church Youth Camp from 11 until 15 Dec. During the week-long program, they had good time learning about God and bonding with their church friends.
Esther was in the Camp Organizing Committee.
For the week where Esther and David were in church, Joseph stayed over at Sorrento. Joseph had a good time baking cakes, bread and cookies with grandma.
On 17 Dec 2017, Sunday, we went to watch Star Wars VIII, courtesy of our Prudential insurance agent, at Vivocity. Very complex story, and nice effects.
After the camp, Esther and her friend Rebecca, baked some cookies for their church Disciple Group friends at Grace’s mom’s kitchen.
YowCH have been travelling weekly on Mondays to KL for meeting on the Tugu project for the month of Dec. Tiring and time consuming, but a challenging and exciting civil engineering project 1n homeland.
On Friday, 17 Nov 2017, David received an Exceller’s Award from Gan Eng Seng Primary School for being admitted to Gan Eng Seng Secondary School’s Express Stream.
The award comes with $100 Popular Bookshop vouchers. There were ten recipients.
YowCH, Esther and David served in the Church Junior Camp from 10 to 12 Nov 2017.
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We visited the Jurong Eco Garden on Saturday morning. Click here or on the photos below to go to the dedicated page:
After the Garden, we dropped Esther at Church and went for lunch at the nearby Formosa Delights, before visiting parents and Gene.
For dinner, we went to West Coast market area for curry fish-head and other Chinese dishes.
On Sunday, we had our usual swim, and then lunch at McD.
In the afternoon, David played friendly game against ACS Barker Road, wile Joseph had regular training with those under-10.
After football, David and Joseph joined some of their friends in the neighbourhood for a game of basketball.
YowCH was to be a spy for the church Juniors Camp publicity, so he tried two set-ups – terrorist spy and elegant spy:
The church of course chose elegant, without the Guinness, of course.
And David was helping with the games and cajon during the KFC session.
At home, David helped train Samuel in cycling, still a long way to go for Sam.
Joseph and Samuel also enjoyed playing Wii together.
On the Odyssey, sadly, YowCH grazed against the wall of a very tight carpark ramp at Spring building.
Didn’t look too bad after cleaning and touch-up. He also touched up the front bumper.
Here’s a photo of Joseph and YowCH relaxing in the Sorrento pool.
During the week, David helped guide Samuel in constructing the 3D diorama of a T-Rex foam model.
On Sunday, we had friendly games for football at Clementi Stadium.
Today, 7 September 2017, saw Esther, David and Joseph taking their distance swim test. Grace happened to be on off today and she joined them at the pool, with Samuel, too.
At 10:15am, they were briefed by the coaches/examiners:
At 10:20am, they took off:
Joseph was doing the 1500m (30 laps) test while Esther and David were doing 2000m (40 laps) test, all within 1 hour. They did their 800m and 1500m tests earlier in April 2016. While they were swimming, Grace had fun with Samuel in the pool.
After about an hour, here are the results:
Joseph was swimming breast-stroke along with 2 other boys who are 2 years and 4 years older than him. For 2000m, Esther was the only girl and David was the youngest. Esther took 5 minutes more than the 60 minutes (probably due to lack of practice in both swimming and running) while David completed the fastest (free-style all the way).
Last photo, very tired children after the long swim.
Last Sunday, Samuel swam an entire lap by himself, with no floats, and he did that twice!
