YowCH & Grace

We have this duster, and we used for quite a while. Good time to change it.

YowCH is still recovering from the fracture of the shin, but looks like the muscles on the right leg has gone down already.

We visited Yan’s family and had dimsum which Yan ordered. We met to eat together to celebrate mom’s birthday.

On Sunday, Grace and YowCH having breakfast while Samuel attended his Chines tuition class.

We joined the Leongs at their home for lunch.

Nice steak! Perfectly cooked by Hoi Hoong.


Used a gas torch to flame the beef! We need to get a torch for ourselves.

While the family continued their time at the Leongs, YowCH took Samuel to the West Coast Wolves soccer practice at Clementi Stadium, the first since March 2020 due to Covid.

Samuel was very enthusiastic about the training, even in a very hot afternoon.

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Esther got a second-hand effects pedal from a local guy, and she enjoys pairing it with the electric guitar. It is a Boss ME25, and she got it at $150 (new is about $300+).

David’s swim headphones (second-hand) spoilt after more than 30 months (since Aug 2018). He found the new Finis Duo on Amazon for $150.

YowCH, Grace and Samuel had instant noodles for lunch on Saturday before church. The older children went to church to eat.

YowCH took his KFC class (Primary 3) out to Clementi Woods Park for the KFC class outing.


Samuel didn’t get any photos because his Primary 2 class didn’t want to take any photos.

On Sunday, Grace went to work (afternoon shift) while the rest went for swim, followed by lunch at AC Master Prata.

Back at home, YowCH renewed his hair dye.

In the afternoon, Esther went for her driving class. She has been regularly driving on the road with the instructor.

For dinner (before fetching Grace), we went to United Square for dinner at Yayoi.

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YowCH needed a larger screen to read news, scroll Facebook and other sites, given his deteriorating long-sightedness, and so he bought a local (Singapore) Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 (wifi-only). At just slightly above $320, it came with accessories, cover and tempered glass screen protector. the tablet is 10.4″ with 64GB memory. Arrived on 15 April 2021.

On 16 April, we went out to Alexandra Retail Centre to eat Bak Kut Teh for dinner.

On Sunday, 18 April, YowCH brought Joseph to MacRitchie Reservoir for his canoe competition. Unfortunately, he did not make the timing to the next round, due to tipping over into the water once. The race distance was 2.0km.

While Grace was at work, YowCH and the children had peranakan dinner at Great World City, The Blue Ginger. Samuel enjoyed buah keluak.

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YowCH took his first shot of Covid vaccine on 5 April at Radin Mas. Only a short wait in the morning.

A simple home-cooked dinner.

On 7 April, we got official news that David was given several awards in Gan Eng Seng Secondary School for his academic performance in O-levels. Here are the screenshots from the YouTube video of the online-awards ceremony.
GESS Progress Award:

Gan-clan Academic Value-added Award:

Academic Excellence Award:

YowCH had some yam cakes (made by Grace’s mom) for snacks.

On 8 April, Grace cooked dinner.

Salted-egg sauce with scallops (and prawns in another plate, Esther is allergic to prawns).

And a dessert made from old bread.

YowCH added 2 more sets of the head-rests to the Odyssey for the middle row seats. Very nice to sleep on.

Here is a photo of Samuel at Kids For Christ (Junior Sunday School) on Saturday.

We received our kalimbas orders online from China, with 17 keys. They both sounds great! We had a smaller one made from coconut shell from Bintan quite some years ago (only 7 keys).

Dinner at home with mussels, and long ‘finger’ grapes.

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YowCH’s morning medicines – 2 for high blood pressure, 1 for blood lipids, 1 glucosamine, 2 for calcium and 5 vitamin C.

On 29 Mar, YowCH stayed over at Sentul Crescent site to observe the overnight beam launching. works started at 1:00am (after the last LRT train) and completed launching 3 T-girders at 4:30am.

On 31 March, YowCH took Grace to a nice supper at Kyoten, Tiong Bahru. We ordered omakase (for 1) and fried rice (for 1) and 1 bottle of cold sake.




The food was very nice, and we were the last customers.

Esther started driving on the road with her driving instructor, Paul Ong. Here are her training routes on 28 and 31 Mar.

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YowCH has been maintaining his fitness with gym and swim, now that running is not possible while the leg fracture is healing.

Two new female Transformers – Moonracer and Chromia.

Grace made a simple dinner on 22 Mar, chicken feet soup!

24 Mar, David’s birthday. He is now 17. We had dinner at Carrara.


YowCH bought him a Chinese chess set. They played a short game after dinner, took more than 1 hour.

On 25 Mar, YowCH attended a BCA seminar. 50 persons in the auditorium, everyone seated more than 1.0m apart.

Later at night, YowCH and Grace had dinner after Grace’s afternoon duty, at Sin Hoi San.

YowCH added a set of sleep head-rests to the Odyssey, very nice and matching, and very comfortable to sleep on. Good buy at $33 with postage included (shipped from China, through Lazada).

At work, YowCH organised a meeting with all of Chye Joo’s project managers. Had a nice and casual time discussing work matters over dinner. YowCH paid for the chicken rice (from Fook Sing) and drinks (beer, light beer and root beer).

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We had a one-night staycation at Pan Pacific from 18 to 19 March 2021, part of Grace’s benefits as a healthcare worker during the Covid crisis. click on the photos below to enter the page.

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YowCH saw the doctor for his leg injury on 11 March and also took X-rays. There is a very small hairline fracture, so he will need to avoid load bearing for 3 months.




The tongkat wore off after 2.5 weeks!

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We went to Alibabar for dinner on 25 Feb. Nice food, as usual.

On 26 Feb, after Grace’s afternoon shift, YowCH brought her to eat fermented tofu at Mini Star (HK) along Geylang Road.

The business started in 1997 and the place looks very classic.

On Saturday, while the older children had gone to church, YowCH, Grace and Samuel had duck at Duckland (Tung Lok) at United Square.

The food is good!

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On 21 Feb, Esther invited YowCH to try out her new Audiotechnica AT2020 mic, and did this impromptu recording of “Have You Ever Seen The Rain”. Click on the first photo to watch the video:

YowCH did the vocals, guitar and bass, Esther did the backing vocals, more guitar, keyboard, digital drums and arrangements.

We then had homemade popiah for dinner:

On Monday evening, we had Japanese fried rice (egg and garlic) and wagyu steak for dinner.

On Tuesday night, YowCH went for his run after work, and at about 3km, felt a sharp pain on his right leg.

He stopped running and walks for a while and later, called home to have Grace pick him up.

Likely to be shin splints, with swelling and pain. So he got a walking stick to relief the load on the leg.

For lunch during work, his colleagues helped him tapao food. Some examples:

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