YowCH & Grace

Grace made masks for our family, a very needed protective gear in this time of Covid-19 pandemic.

Church service is not held due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the children attended Youth Service (Teenacity) via webcast with interactive responses through their phones.


After the sermon, they went to their terminals for the Discipleship Group studies.

Thank God for technology, allowing group interaction even when we cannot meet each other.

In the evening, the Yongs visited to have dinner with us, a small celebration for David’s birthday.



As David is now past-16, he can drink alcoholic drinks, and his favourite is cider.

On Sunday, we went to the pool for our swim, and the pool was very empty.

After swim, we went to Tiong Bahru Plaza for lunch, buying some provisions and equipment (for the upcoming ‘work from home’) and to replace Joseph’s spectacles which was broken accidentally. YowCH managed to make an emergency repair, but new glasses were needed as Joseph’s power went up.

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YowCH’s favourite fruit, ciku (sapodilla in English). Grace bought a few large ones, sweet and fragrant.

Driving the Kallang-Pay Lebar Expressway (KPE) is very fuel efficient, having speed limit of 70-80km/h and smooth flowing traffic most of the time. Able to get 11.8km/L over a distance of 130km.

As a reward for Samuel’s good swim, we had dinner at Handlebar. Samuel shared a large platter, and then fell asleep.

Grace bought a serger on Saturday, 29 Feb 2020 before church. This machine is for sewing the edge of cloth. A good partner for the sewing machine. She can now have trimmed edges for the clothes or bags that she makes.

On Sunday, we had our swim followed by chicken rice for lunch.

Football training in the afternoon after a few week’s break, and Samuel did well at football, being very enthusiastic and active.

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We had one more niangao which we sliced it up, battered and fried. The children loved it.

On 14 Feb 2020, YowCH and Grace had a lunch at Handlebar. Rather fun.

We cooked simple dinner on Sunday night (16 Feb), wantonmee which we bought in PJ. We used meatballs, eggs and abalone-soup!

On Tuesday, 18 Feb, YowCH had another review and the doctor continued the Micardis Plus 40/12.5 daily for the next 2 months.

Joseph’s cast was removed on 13 Feb 2020, after review and x-ray by the doctor.

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YowCH’s high blood pressure medication increased after 14 days with review from his doctor. He now take Micardis which is the same Telmisartan 40mg as before, but with Hydrochrolothiazide 12.5mg added. Started on 5 Feb 2020.

YowCH ordered a Marantz SR5013 receiver/amplifier from Lazada last week. The model is a few years old and shops doesn’t seem to carry it. This is to replace the Denon 1708 which we have been using since start of 2008, and is very sickly already. This Marantz SR5013 still has analogue 7.1 input, which is great for playing back SACD.

Then we found out that the Velodyne CHT8R sub-woofer had no sound, so YowCH brought it to be checked and found that the circuit board is burnt, repair is $250 and not guaranteed to work, so we bought another sub-woofer, the Mirage MM8 with 3 speakers. Nice bass sound from a small sub-woofer, and with the low-frequency sounds of movies, our windows and walls rattle!

Grace was not working on Thursday, 6 Feb, so she made a caramel cheese cake for Beacon FG. We had our new-year meeting on Friday night, 7 Feb, where we tossed the lo-hei (also prepared by us, with abalone instead of fish).

Here’s a photo of Grace swimming. She has been swimming 20 laps a week recently.

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Our new West Coast Wolves uniform:

We had soccer training in our new red West Coast Wolves uniform. David helps out with coaching.

That’s Joseph in training.

And that’s Samuel. Nowadays, YowCH trains the youngest age group.

Here’s a photo of Esther at her piano class.

And here’s YowCH in his running garb. He now runs 2.5km once on a weekday after work and 5.0km on Saturday morning.

And here is Grace lying in the pool.

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Grace made draw-string bags for Samuel to be his birthday giveaways to classmates. They got Paw Patrol cloth to make the bags, and Samuel helped flip the bags inside-out and also thread the ropes.

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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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Grace attended the Church Ladies’ retreat over the weekend of 3 to 5 Aug. Click on the photos to view:

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We had a nice Greek dinner at Blu Kouzina (Dempsey) with Mom, Dad and Gene. Big thanks to Gene for the dinner.


We had lots of good food.




And the birthday cake for the 45-year-old lady!

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YowCH saw a rainbow from his office window back on 5 July 2019.

We bought some stools to put in YowCH’s office as spare seats, Samuel helped assemble them.

YowCH bought a sewing table for Grace as her birthday present.

But a normal chair is a bit too short, so he bought a high stool, too.

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