YowCH & Grace

On Saturday, 26 August, Samuel and Joseph performed 2 songs in church for the Sunday School teachers for Teachers’ Day.



The children performed “You Never Let Go” and “The Lord’s Prayer”.

Sunday, 27 Aug, West Coast Wolves played friendly games against Choa Chu Kang CSC. YowCH was referee for the under-8 games. Joseph played in under-12 and then the adults played against WCW under-15.
Joseph:

David:

YowCH:

We invited the Yongs over for dinner to celebrate Si Wan’s birthday and we had Western food.


After dinner, the cousins had fun playing with each other.

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Today is the day after Singapore National Day, and schools are on holiday. This afternoon, Esther, David and Joseph went to Tiong Bahru Plaza to watch a movie by themselves, The Emoji Movie.

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We continued our on-line ordering with Indian food from Brinda’s:

Grace worked night, so she skipped swimming, but here are the rest of us:

Samuel enjoyed the Engineering toy set, so we took out the larger box, and he was absolutely delighted with the increase in building materials!

Here’s a little miscellaneous post: our neighbour, bought a grey Honda Odyssey recently, and his plate is very similar to ours!

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We are now ordering dinners through Food Panda. Options are plenty and we can save time on travelling, parking, walking and waiting at the restaurant.
24 June: Sichuan food:

1 July: Korean food:

Thanks to Paul Ng in helping us bring home some cheap Soju from Seoul, we had this nice grapefruit-flavoured Soju at home.

We took out Esther’s old set of Little People Zoo (which was also enjoyed previously by David and Joseph) for Samuel. He really liked the Zoo set.

And a strange thing happened – David says he wants to learn guitar, so YowCH and Esther started coaching him. Starting with basic chords like C, G, D, E, Am, and F. Hopefully he can persevere and learn enough to play.

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We have slowly moved the books, clothes and toys for the boys’ room, and managed to shift everything nicely into place on Sunday afternoon.

Now, David, Joseph and Samuel share one room.

We had dinner with the Yongs at Sichuan Dou Hua, a Sichuan restaurant, at Parkroyal, Beach Road. The food was good.

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David turned 13 on 24 March. We got him a Molten GG7x Composite Leather outdoors basketball and had Korean food dinner with the family at The Gogi (Alexandra Central) on Saturday evening.

The Odyssey had been covered by a tough layer of dust sometime early March that wasn’t easy to wash off, so YowCH sent it back to Honda for the Threebond Glass coating on 28 March, which includes washing and polishing. With a 20% discount, the deal was good as we a about $540 to get rid of the sticky dust, got the car polished, cleaned the interiors and protected the paintwork with the glossy glass coating.

We had a 9-day holiday in Korea from 11 to 19 March, but we have not finished processing the photos. Here is a teaser photo and our trip map.

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Our four children are now in 4 different schools, and here they are in their uniforms:

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We bought David an advanced Christmas present, the G-Shock AW591-2A, a black-and-blue G-shock, which is Baby-G sized but not a Baby-G. Good for his sporty lifestyle. It is the same series as Grace’s black-and-red G-Shock.

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David received his PSLE results today, not too bad at ABBC, passing Chinese. We went to school with him to collect his resuts. He has been admitted to Gan Eng Seng Secondary School via Direct School Admission for his basketball captaincy.

By next year, we will have 4 children in 4 different schools.

Today is also Joseph’s 8th birthday. We went out to have lunch at Vivocity with Grace’s parents and Gene (but Esther was away in school). After lunch, they watched Moana, while YowCH went back to work.

He met Spyro along the way, and received Galvatron and Blurr from YowCH and Grace as his birthday presents.

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David received the EAGLES Award from Gan Eng Seng Primary School for outstanding performance as the Captain of the Basketball Team.

Edusave Awards for Achievement, Good Leadership and Service (EAGLES)
All Singaporean students from primary 4 onwards in Government and Government-aided schools, junior colleges/centralised institute, independent schools or institutions, specialised schools or Institute of Technical Education who demonstrated leadership qualities, service to community and schools and excellence in non-academic activities, and demonstrated good conduct are eligible for the Edusave Award for Achievement, Good Leadership and Service. The award is given based on their achievements in co-curricular activities and contribution to community services over a one-year period.
The awards are given to a maximum of 10% of Singaporean students in every school selected by the school at the end of the year. The values of the awards are as follows:
$250 for Primary 4 to 6
$350 for Secondary 1 to 5
$400 for Pre-University 1 to 3
$500 for Institute of Technical Education/Specialised School

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