Due to rough handling by guards (changing the IC for entry pass) at government buildings (LTA, PUB, HDB, etc.) the very poor quality Singapore IC is broken. The replacement is $60.
If a person loses the IC, $60 is certainly reasonable as a fine and replacement, but the IC was broken due to poor materials…
24 Jan 2015 marks the official ground-breaking of the MRT Mount Pleasant station under YowCH, part of the Thomson-East Coast Line. Works had already begun on site several months ago. The ceremony was shared with Stevens station, which is not under TYLin.
Minister for Transport, Lui Tuck Yew was the guest-of-honour.
Today, Samuel was walking unsupported for quite a good distance. He also enjoys the playground rides.
Here’s the link to the low-res video posted on Facebook. It is about 25 mins long, and the first song starts after 1 minute.
TYLin’s annual dinner was held at Novotel Liang Court on 12 Dec 2014.
YowCH played in the home band “Ourselves”.
That’s YowCH (guitar, vocals), Mark (keyboard, guitar, vocals), Riyan (guitar, back-up vocals) and Vincent (drums).
We sang “Isabella”, “I Will Survive”, “That Thing You Do”, “Your Body Is A Wonderland” and “Christmas Is All Around”.
After the dinner, we walked to Brewerkz with our Malaysian office colleagues for beer.
YowCH received a Sony SmartWatch 3 in the lucky draw:
Cool stuff, but not really useful.
YowCH painted some henna tattoos on the children.
After the henna dried, we rubbed the stuff off, but the stained part wasn’t very dark.
For YowCH’s Facebook “Close Friends”, you can watch this video of Esther, David and YowCH doing “That Thing You Do” with Joseph handling the video camera.
Grace gave YowCH a surprise e-bay buy – Dinobot Snarl.
Now the set is complete with Grimlock (brown), Strafe (blue), Slash (cyan), Slug (purple), Scorn (red), Slog (silver) and Snarl (green):
Trouble: Kit Kat (Android 4.4) restricts apps from writing and accessing the SD Card directly as a form of security. You can Google “Kit Kat SD Card” and learn about this issue. One example is here.
After transferring most of the files and data from the “Desire X” to the new “One M8″, YowCH spent the night shifting manually data from Whatsapp, YouVersion Bible and Docs-to-go files. This is problem as the data will reside on the phone and when the phone crashes, the data is not on SD card hence not independent!
With re-contract and new hand-set purchase, YowCH got a large phone, HTC One M8 with a free HTC 8000mAh Powerbank and 3 months free subscription to Amped (online music, not useful), for $148.00, street price is $750, RRP $1000. The phone is a nice gun-metal gray, and comes with a silicone wrap to protect the brushed aluminium casing.
This is the package that arrived from Singtel:
The phone is really large, as compared to YowCH’s previous phone, the HTC Desire X.
It runs on Android Kit Kat (4.4.3), had stereo speakers, front and back cameras (4MP), and a 5″ full HD screen. Also available in gold or silver, but gun-metal looks best for YowCH. The large screen is helpful for aging long-sightedness.
On Wednesday night, 3 Sep, YowCH played futsal with his colleagues at The ARK Taman Jurong (Fourth Chin Bee Road).
Great fellowship and fun, but YowCH was rather out-of-breath and had back-ache.
