YowCH & Grace

Another round of dinner for Samuel, this time with the Yongs, who treated us to Lao Beijing.

We had popiah, of course!

Here are the presents Samuel received, a chicken game from Grace, a 3-D maze puzzle from the Yongs, colour pens and waist pouch from YowCH.

Joseph’s iPhoneSE (which was David’s previous phone) was in use since he had his own phone line about 1 year ago. The screen had a big black spot and numerous white-out lines, and not very legible, but Joseph wasn’t complaining. We asked around for a secondhand phone, and Gene gave him her old iPhone7.

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We took a short holiday with Joseph and Samuel during the PSLE marking holidays from 14 to 17 Oct 2019. We visited Ho Chin Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam from 14 to 17 Oct. Esther and David did not go as they had regular school.

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With the Indonesian fires causing haze, it is not so good to run. But we had a lower haze rating on Wed night, 18 Sep, so YowCH wore a mask to make his usual 2.5km run.



His run was quite slow, difficult to breathe through the mask.

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YowCH has been running regularly (2x 2.5km each week), even when the haze from Indonesia is attacking Singapore. He ran a decent 12m50s 2.5km, which completed 2.4km in 12m15s (Napfa standard A for age 45+). The haze was about PSI 90, getting a bit high.

In the evening, for Church, YowCH, Esther and David lead worship. It was fun and exciting to have an uplifting worship with the children.

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Some of our dinners:



And our nice liquors:

Rambutans from YowCH’s colleague’s tree, nice.

Roku Gin (Japanese) from Paul, very very nice.

Samuel is in white shoes for photo taking. He will wear them next year when he enters Primary School.

YowCH’s Air Max covered about 360km of runs and very little walking, about to be worn out.

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Esther was the worship leader for Youth Sunday this year:

Her voice was clear and the delivery of the songs, bible reading and prayer was very nice.

The team went through the Saturday service and the 2 Sunday services.

On Sunday, Grace swam 20 laps, David and YowCH swam 10 each, Joseph swam 8 and Samuel swam 4 (Esther was leading worship). After swim, we had football training. David helped out on the field as part of his school volunteer community service. After training, we stayed on and watched the football friendly match between The Bible Church, Singapore and Mount Carmel Bible Presbyterian Church. David played for TBC,S for a short while.

There was a case of a Mt Carmel payer getting a bad cramp, and YowCH helped him off the field.

Our church was in red. We lost 1:4.

The group photo of both teams.

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YowCH was in the camp committee and Joseph attended the church juniors’ camp from 21 to 23 June 2019. Click photos below for the page.

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Grace and YowCH attended the Church Mid-lifers’ Camp from 15 to 17 June. Joseph and Samuel tagged along, while Esther and David attended the youth 3D2N prayer camp in church. Click on photos below for the page.

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Some updates:
Esther had a stay-over in CJC on Friday night, while David had a 2-nights stay over in church. Esther then joined David in church on Saturday night.

YowCH was teaching cajon to the church Juniors over Saturday and Sunday.

Samuel can now do 1 full lap (50m) in freestyle. Although his kicking is still not strong and his stroke is not nice, he managed to complete the lap.

Here’s a little problem of having a sun-roof, you get to see the bird shit on the car.

After swim, we had soccer practice as usual, and Joseph sprained his wrist while playing as goalkeeper. Nothing serious. YowCH did the bandage, to help immobilise and let the sprain heal faster.

We had dinner at Carrara Cafe, and bought some Mao Shan Wang during for supper.

Here’s Samuel trying to lift 6kg of durians. Being a bumper crop this year due to hot weather, MSW was selling at $16/kg rather than the usual $28/kg.

Samuel can help to open durians now, he is quite good at it.





A family photo without David, as he doesn’t even like the Durian smell.

After durians, we watched a nice thriller-superhero movie “Glass” at home.

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We bought our first flat in Redhill Close.

It was announced in 2011 that Redhill Close 7-storey flats will be demolished and redeveloped. Subsequently, the exercise to move the residents out started in Oct 2018 and completed in Jan 2019. As YowCH was making his regular runs through this estate, he noticed that there were lesser people around progressively.

On 31 May, after meeting Joseph’s teachers at the end of term, YowCH walked pass the estate and noted that the whole place has been cleared and locked up.

It was a nice neighbourhood we stayed in after getting married, and frankly, the old and lousy flats were all we could afford.

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