TYLin soccer jersey
YowCH received the TYLin soccer team jersey yesterday.
It’ll probably blind the opponents!
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Joseph on Sunday Times
Sunday Times 12 July 2015, Sports section featured the Borussia Dortmund football clinic at People’s Association HQ held on 11 July 2015. The photo has Joseph right in the middle!
The online Sunday Times here.
This morning, Esther ran 2.7km, with YowCH who ran 3.5km. Just a little exercise.
Samuel on bike with YowCH
Here’s the Yow-family cycling method for small children:
Weekend – fan, Skylanders, digital drums, YowCH’s 10km run
On Saturday morning, while Grace is at work, YowCH mounted a new wall fan in the bedroom with Esther’s help.
We also update on some of our Skylander figures, which Grace manage get through 2nd-hand sales, all of good value.
After church, we also picked up a 2nd-hand digital drum set, the Yamaha DTXplorer from our church friend, Theolynn, for $500. A good buy, as the set is low-usage and in fantastic conditions. David and Esther did most of the assembly.
The set sounds great when connected to our Fender guitar amp.
Here’s David playing the drums. Samuel likes the drums, too.
The old acoustic set shall be sold, all packed and ready.
On Sunday morning, YowCH took part in the HometeamNS REAL run at Sentosa, successfully completing 10km of road, trail and sand. Click the photos below for the page.
YowCH ran 10km, Joseph & David shoe bags, Samuel with backpack, dinner at Porn’s
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!
YowCH’s run gear, Samuel’s iPod casing
In preparation for the run, YowCH got some useful stuff:
A belt pouch to hold essentials, a clip on blinker light (from his bike, for night runs), a small water bottle (advice from friend, the water point is often too crowded with people), and glucose tablets (advice from CCK, wrap in paper for ease of access).
Grace got a nice second-hand ($8) Fisher-Price iPod/iPhone holder for Samuel, nice handles and he can be prevented from pressing the screen accidentally.
RealRun race pack, Salvation Army, dinner at Moc Quan, Skylanders
We collected the Hometeam NS RealRun 2015 race packs at Novena Square during lunch time, meeting up with YowCH’s colleague, Geoshua.
YowCH is no. 0980.
As there was no queue, all 24 packs for TYLin (including 1 for Gene), each with T-shirt, bib, radio-tag, and some goodies, were very quickly collected.
In the afternoon, we visited the Salvation Army Thriftshop at Tanglin (near home) and bought ourselves plenty of cheap stuff – bags, umbrella, CDs and DVDs and coffee cups.
For dinner, we went out to collect some second-hand Skylanders and ate at UE Square, Vietnamese Restaurant. This is the second time we ate there, nice food.
Here are the Skylanders, together with the Wii game. All second-hand.
Samuel’s new uniform, YowCH running, Drum set, Transformers
Firstly, we bout the new school uniform for Samuel, the smallest size XS, and yet he is too small to wear. We’ll keep them for later.
As YowCH started running again, the building up progress is good, with records up to this morning as below:
Here are some selfies of the very sweaty YowCH after this morning’s 6.0km.
Target to reach 10km before the HomeTeamNS REAL Run 2015 Sentosa run on 17 May.
Yesterday, we got ourselves a second hand drum set, Fender Starcaster, with hi-hat, snare, bass, floor tom, 2 tom-toms and a crash. All for $180, not too expensive, but taking up lots of space at home.
Esther can play pretty well, David is picking it up fast, and Joseph is keen.
Samuel was also very excited over the drums! Very loud.
We will need to sell the set and buy digital instead (for space and also lower noise).
We got ourselves Superion (Aerialbots) and Menasor (Stunticons), for Joseph and David respectively. The models are not too nice, but simple and fun enough for the boys, and rather affordable (each set about $140). Both can be posed very nicely.
Swim, YowCH running and dinner with Yongs
The usual of Sundays, we went for our swim, and Samuel is now wearing a new and bigger swim suit. He loves it.
Esther and David can swim butterfly now, but will need more refinement. Joseph’s frog-style is good, and he can swim non-stop now.
Samuel enjoys being in the pool, plays well in the water and no longer cries.
Other than swimming, YowCH has started training his running after 6-year stop, for a 10km run in mid-May. He started 3 weeks ago, and can now run for about 3.5km. Long way to catch-up.
We had dinner at United Square with YowCH’s sister and family. The Yong-children are very grown up now, and able to interact very nicely with the Yow-children over dinner, at Bangkok Jam.
We ordered a nice selection of food, and desserts. Grace had petai spaghetti (weird), YowCH had phad thai (kuay teow), Esther had olive fried rice (no photo) and David had chicken kebab. Joseph had the free kid’s meal of a rather miserable burger. For desserts, we had coconut ice-cream with red-rubies, mangos with sticky rice, and durian pannacotta.
It is always nice to have dinner with family.
YowCH’s football coaching course 13-15 March 2015
In order to coach the junior football team better, YowCH attended the FAS (Football Association of Singapore) FIFA Grassroots Football Coaching program from 13 to 15 March 2015 held at the People’s Association HQ at King George’s Avenue (Jalan Besar). The course was conducted over Friday evening 6:30pm to 10:30pm, Saturday 8:00am to 6:00pm, and Sunday 8:00am to 12:00noon.
With the coursework on training children, the program ended on Sunday with an actual organisation of a Football Fiesta. YowCH, being appointed the Deputy Chief, arrived at 7:00am to check the field, set-up and get things ready. The children rom various neighbourhoods arrived at 8:00am and the coaching team registered them, divided into teams and lined them up.
This is the setting up for the official group photo.
And here are the coaches ready to receive the children. YowCH is at the end (red shorts).
And so the games started, with 8 stations for various drills and short games, rotating the 16 teams to try each of the stations.
The medic was rather busy with minor injuries. The idea to number the water bottles for ID is fantastic.
Here’s a nice pano view of the PA field with Jalan Besar Stadium in the background.
At the end, after the 8 rounds to rotate among the 8 stations, the field was divided into 2 and the children were split into 2 great teams to play against 2 teams of coaches, great fun chasing after 1 ball!
After everything, a short de-brief by the Chief, followed by catered food.
YowCH received a certificate of attendance for the course. good experience to share with the West coast team coaches, in the approach, warm-ups, training plan and event organisation. Here’s the official photo of the Volunteer Coaches who attended this training course.
Updated 20 March 2015:
Added several photos taken by the event photographer.
