YowCH & Grace

On 4 Feb, YowCH had dinner with some friends from work at Hillview area. Nice Italian restaurant “iO Italian Osteria”.


On 4 Feb, Grace received her 2nd dose of Covid vaccine. Her first does was taken on 14 Jan 2021.

5 Feb, David’s first day in his CJC uniform.

A pre-CNY dinner at Sorrento on Saturday, 6 Feb:

We fried some niangao for snacks on Sunday:

Monday night, YowCH and Grace had supper at a Japanaese bistro Izakaya Hikari after Grace ended work at 9:00pm.

The on Tuesday night, YowCH attended ACES’s appreciation dinner at Ah Yat (probably the last since he is no longer consulting engineer). Max 8 to a room, and ACES booked 4 rooms.

A photo of Samuel at his piano class:

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YowCH was consistent in his runs, rain or shine, day or night.

In fact, sometimes, Esther and David also ran.

For the month of January, YowCH managed 6.0km runs on Tuesday nights and Saturday mornings, and also gym and stretching on Saturdays.

This is the run summary of the 30 Jan run, 6.0km in 34min00sec, his second fastest 6.0km run (the fastest was 5 secs faster at 33m55s). Heart rate ave 162 and max 176 (which is quite consistent with all the other runs). Average pace of about 5m40s or ave speed of 10.6km/h.


This calendar shows his runs for the month of January.

We also have our regular weekly swim (about 45 mins), typically about 500m each person. On 31 Jan, Grace had just finished night shift and missed swim. Here are screenshots of videos of Joseph, YowCH, Esther and David doing butterfly, and Samuel (middle) swimming freestyle.

We fried some nian-gao in the afternoon after swim, wrapped in spring roll skin. Tastes great!

We shared the dessert with friends, neighbours and the Yongs.

In the evening, we visited the Yongs and had dinner at Bishan.

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We had our weekly swim on 24 Jan. Here are screenshots of Esther and David swimming videos taken by coach.

After swim, we had chicken rice for lunch.

Then YowCH re-dyed his hair again using Dixmondsg hair dye he bought online to maintain the blue. Also bought matte brown for Grace.

We had satay and yakitori dinner with the Yongs, while we watched the announcement of results for Siu Hei’s Maths Olympiad. He got Gold!

Esther made cookies, cake and sandwiches at Rainbow Centre for the children. She also did balloon crafts.

On 28 Jan, David received news that his first choice of ACJC was not successful although he is exactly at the cut-off points. Instead, he has been posted to CJC. He has made an appeal. In the meantime, he attended CJC on 29 Jan (Friday!) in his secondary school uniform.

YowCH picked Grace from her afternoon duties and had dinner together at Josh’s Grill, Bugis Junction.

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Grace went to the dentist and removed 2 wisdom teeth on 18 Jan. MC of 5 days (whole week).


She will return to the dentists in about 1 week’s time to remove the stitches.

YowCH visited HDB Lower Seletar site (HDB Group Director’s visit) and then Simpang Kiri bridge site.

We collected our TraceTogether tokens on 20 Jan. This is part of Singapore’s plan towards controlling the spread of Coivd-19. With Bluetooth technology, the tokens will help with contact tracing.

Our dinner on 21 Jan, YowCH got home from work and fried pork-leg beehoon.

On Saturday, we went to NTUC and got a huge load of food!

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YowCH teaching at KFC, Samuel’s in class too.

Sunday’s lunch after swim at Gyu Kaku, Novena Square.


We fried arrowhead as a snack.

Wanton mee dinner with Grace’s parents and Gene. Has assam prawns, and bought braised duck and char siew.

A gift from Gene to Esther, Steinberg UR22C Interface to record analogue and digital inputs into the computer.

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Grace received her first does of Covid Vaccine on 14 Jan 2021.

YowCH had dinner with the BCG men on 14 Jan after work, and had Western food at West Coast near Patrick’s place.

On 15 Jan, we had Korean BBQ with our swim coaches, Francis and Tobby.

We met Francis’ wife and children.


After dinner, the children had a good time playing together.

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David wrapped nian-gao with dumpling skin and fried them. The skin wasn’t right-tasting, but the result is not too bad.

YowCH had a trip to Tampines site (KTP job) and had breakfast with Grace at Tekka Market.

Some photos taken at the Tampines site (including inside a drainage culvert).

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Joseph started secondary school at Gan Eng Seng School (same school as David).

Esther and YowCH started working.

Esther works as a temporary helper at Rainbow Centre, Margaret Drive, while waiting for the A-levels results. It is near home.

YowCH started working at Chye Joo Construction Pte Ltd, as Commercial Engineering Director.

His seat, a view from his seat and eating packed lunch at the roof garden.

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2021 started with Samuel frying bananas for breakfast!


Then we went out to Star Vista for lunch at Morganfield’s.

While the rest of the family went home, YowCH spent 4 hours doing his hair blue. Needed 3 rounds of bleaching to get to strip the hair of melanin.


The result is rather nice!

On Saturday, YowCH went for his first 6.0km run in the morning. The plan is to do 2x 6.0km weekly.
In the afternoon, YowCH started teaching Junior Sunday School at church.

On Sunday, the children went for swim, YowCH wasn’t feeling very well and Grace went to work.

After swim, we had lunch at Vivocity, and YowCH bought a G-shock GSteel GST-B300SD. This is a watch with ‘silver’ stainless steel bracelet, carbon fibre body (instead of resin), and solar powered, with Bluetooth connectivity to a smartphone for settings. The face has a large digital display which helps with YowCH’s long-sightedness.

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Last post of 2020. Our dinner on 29 Dec before getting Grace from work.

YowCH had lunch and dinner with some colleagues, as he will end his work at KTP (and SJ) on 31 Dec 2020.

Thursday, 31 Dec, last day of the year, last day of YowCH’s job as a Civil Engineering Consultant and also his last run of the year.

Throughout 2020, YowCH covered 562km in 171 runs.

The fake Adidas shoes bought in Vietnam in 2019 lasted only 3 months. Next year, he will run in $25 Decathlon shoes.

In the afternoon, YowCH packed the last of his stuff in KTP and moved them over to Chye Joo. This was done over two days (30 and 31 Dec) with David’s help.

And our last dinner of the year – McDonald’s.

After dinner, we joined the church online thanksgiving service, and the song Blessed To Be A Blessing was shown. YowCH and Esther recorded for this song.

After thanksgiving service, the family played mahjong, and YowCH cooked fried beehoon for supper.

An end to the pandemic ridden 2020 and the start of the new year!

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