New coffee machine
Grace bought the smallest (and cheapest) Nespresso machine today, the Inissia, fresh Western-style office from now on!
The set has a milk froth maker, Aeroccino3, too, for cappuccino.
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Grace’s new laptop
Grace got a new laptop today, actually a tablet hybrid, the Lenovo Miix 2 10″ which s running on Windows 8. Bought at Challenger, the unit was $559.00 with a free Belkin bag, free McAfee Anti-virus for 3 years and free Microsoft Office Home/Student edition.
This unit will replace the aging and slow Acer AspireOne bought in 2009.
Here the unit is set up in laptop mode.
Why this model? Full HD (1920×1200) touch screen, JBL speakers, 2 full size USB ports and 1 micro USB port, 64GB eMMC storage, and we added a 64GB SD card. The build is nice and solid (unlike the newer Miix 3, which is rubbery and has no full sized USB ports).
Here you see the unit as a tablet, closed and a display.
End-of-2014
31 Dec was a busy day. Grace went with Esther and parents to renew their phone contracts, and got away with new phones.
Dad took an iPhone6+ (huge!), so Esther gets the older iPhone5 that dad was using.
Grace went for the Samsung Galaxy S5 4G+ (16GB) for $168 with contract.
The S5 comes with a free Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Lite (7.0″, Wi-Fi) tablet, which we will redeem later, and sell, probably about $150. Her old HTC One SV LTE went to David.
In addition, having gotten a new line for David, we got a ‘free’ blue HTC Desire 610. Nice. We will sell this phone.
After buying phone the phones at Singtel Com-Centre and setting them up at home, and after a day’s work for YowCH, we went to church for the year-end Thanksgiving Bi-lingual service. After service, we went for supper with the Leongs, the Lims and the Behs. We had great frog porridge at Sin Ma (Cheong Chin Nam Road, off Bukit Timah Road).
Thank God for a wonderful 2014.
Update 6 Jan 2015: Collected the free Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Lite (7.0″, Wi-Fi) and sold it to a friend.
The HTC Desire 610 is also sold to a buyer from internet.
Swim update, Transformers (T4)
A little update on the swimming progress.
Grace is now swimming her 10 laps in breast-stroke every week. YowCH was having bad back-pains since last Monday (probably due to work stress), so he didn’t swim laps, but was floating and diving in the water to help relieve the back pains (and it helps!).
Samuel is more tolerant to the pool now, and quite enjoy the swim. Drank some water, though, when we threw him about! He can kick himself back to the surface from under water.
Joseph is practically swimming now, but the stroke is not perfect, and his playful nature makes it hard to teach him. David is as playful as ever, also making it difficult to teach, but he can swim well now. Esther is swimming great, but needs more build on her muscles to carry the distance, and she can handle the life-jacket, clothes and somersaulting 4 times in the water.
And here are our non-Dinobots from Transformers 4 range:
Bumblebee, Hound, Drift, Crosshair and Lockdown (the Lamborghini Aventador).
We are probably not getting anymore, perhaps rusty Optimus Prime and Stinger. Galvatron is not very nice as a toy. With recently gotten Slog, we are short of 1 more Dinobot, Snarl, and the set of Dinobots will be complete.
Weekend post
David climbed a tree near home! This is really fun.
We bought a plastic planter box in Malaysia and transplanted our mint plants. With fertilisers and soil, we hope that the mint will grow and gives us endless mojitos.
Dinobots! We got Slog (silver), the tall guy on the right. This adds to Grimlock (brown), Strafe (blue), Slash (cyan), Slug (purple) and Scorn (red). Last one to get is Snarl (green) which is not yet on sale.
On Sunday morning, we went to Shuqun Sec School at Jurong East for friendly football match with Yuhua and BB East View. A nice cool shady morning and had great fun playing. Esther was helpful in taking photos.
Samuel had a great time rolling about the artificial grass. And the football friends were all very happily playing with him.
David and Joseph both played very well. David was either defender or goal keeper, and defended very well. Joseph was playing striker and scored a goal!
After football, we went for our swim. Grace is regularly doing 10 laps now (with rests in between) and YowCH is pushing for 10 laps in less than 15 minutes, but so far only got to 15’35″.
In the afternoon, Esther had ballet for 2 hours and we shopping in Funan Centre. Then we had Brotzeit dinner at Star Vista.
Thank God for a nice weekend.
Grace’s birthday dinner
We had a dinner at Cedele, Great World City to celebrate Grace’s birthday, with Grace’s parents and Gene. She’s 40 now.
Yesterday, we at ate dinner at Paradise Inn, Thomson Plaza with Yan’s family.
Joseph turns 5, Fuji XF1 camera for Grace
Today is Joseph’s birthday, he is now 5 years old. For lunch, Joseph asked for beef noodles from Xin Wang.
This is how 5 years old look like.
You can compare with age 1, age 2, age 3 and age 4.
For dinner, we had pasta and pizza at Pastamania (Funan Centre). David and Joseph skipped football training today due to some rain and also to celebrate Joseph’s birthday together rather than to rush around.
While we were at Funan, YowCH bought Grace a present for the delivery of Samuel, a new COOL camera, the Fujifilm XF1. Although it is almost one year old, it is still a very cool camera. Super high quality images with a mechanic zoom lens! Review at DPReview is here.
Sample image at ISO800 25mm (widest):
100% crop:
Sample image at ISO800 100mm (longest):
100% crop
The colours are FANTASTIC.
Samuel updates
We planned to bring Grace and Samuel home today after church, but it seems she needs to remain for observation, so they are still in KKH.
YowCH’s parents arrived in Singapore this morning, and visited Samuel after lunch.
Baby 4 at 35 weeks
We visited the doctor today and everything is great, praise the Lord. 1 ultrasound image of his face added to Baby 4′s page.
Baby 4 update
We went for the growth scan, with David and Joseph (Esther was in school), everything is fine, praise the Lord. 3 images updated in Baby 4′s page
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