YowCH & Grace

YowCH worked from home for a few days on the last week of June due home-based learning for Samuel and Joseph due to the Covid situation. Here are photos of Sam and Jo doing HBL:


YowCH made simple lunch for the boys (David was also home on Monday, 28 June):

YowCH then sent Joseph to buy a stove from the electrical shop in Bukit Merah Central (Trend Enterprises):

With the stove, we had Korean army stew hotpot (budae jigae) for dinner:

Lunch on 29 June (chicken rice):

Snacks in the afternoon:

Dinner on 29 June:

YowCH has been very consistent in his walks, doing 2.5km walks every Tuesday and Saturday.

Can see improvements in the walking time:

For working from home, this is the set-up in the bedroom, with KTP’s laptop, Chye Joo’s laptop + monitor, and the tablet:

During the Covid restrictive period, YowCH sometimes ate out, in the kopitiam or even in the car:

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David received his first Covid vaccination dose on 8 June and Joseph got his on 14 June.

It is also duan wu jie on 14 June, we had zhong.

Dinner on 14 June:

The first time a major error by Lazada, ordered some sports shorts but 10 hair brushes came instead. YowCH returned them:

Samuel had online story-time organised by the National Library. This will be over a few weeks on Wednesdays, part of school holiday activities.

Dinner on 15 June (zhong from Grace’s mom):

Some of YowCH’s tapao food at Chye Joo:

Dinner on 16 June (mussels):

Very good fuel efficiency on the Ody, at 12km/L over 400km, Covid period has some good points, too.

Dinner on 18 June (breaded chicken wings):

Samuel made a hook:

YowCH recorded a video to teach memory verse online to the church Juniors

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YowCH doing his gym exercises at home, while he also does his brisk walks and swims:

Samuel attended the online KFC camp (YowCH was conducting it, too in)

Lunch on 12 June (torched Wagyu beef cubes):


YowCH cleaned the kitchen wall and mounted the Ikea stainless steel wall-shields savlvaged from the Yong’s Bishan flat.

Dinner on 12 June (fried instant noodles)

YowCH bought some live oysters from Sheng Siong (while the children were swimming):

We had a simple lunch:

Also bought some live crabs, Samuel and Joseph had fun killing the crabs!

YowCH’s chilli crab:


Nice to be eaten with mantou:

Dinner on 13 June (crabs):

Also made one slice of siew yuk in the air fryer:

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Some dinners we cooked, 1 June:

2 June:

3 June (mantou pork belly):

On 4 June, YowCH replaced the kitchen tap with the much better one salvaged from the Yong’s Bishan flat:

Dinner on 4 June:

The first session of our Church Camp (online Camp, called Camp-ference) was after Friday dinner. Esther is under adult now, so she joined us.


The speaker is Bishop Solomon.

Saturday, Joseph had online tuition:

Grace, YowCH and Esther had Church Camp sessions.



YowCH hosted the BCG small group discussion.

We had lunch at home, lots of seafood:

Grace made a cheesecake for Esther’s birthday (on 6 June).

Our Saturday night dinner:

On Sunday, YowCH cooked laksa instant noodles with lots of garnishing for breakfast with Grace.

Church Camp-ference continues.



Lunch:

As the Church Camp ended in the morning, we celebrated Esther’s birthday after lunch, refer to the next post. YowCH made some Portuguese egg-tarts, and…

… siew yuk, using the air fryer.

We had pan-fried steak and backed seabass for dinner:

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Update on Joseph’s fracture on 27 April, the X-ray shows the slight compression (buckling) fracture near the wrist. Changed to Air-cast which is more convenient.

YowCH visited Chye Joo’s Lower Seletar site on 28 April.

We had family dinner at The Gogi on 29 April. Due to safe distancing, we are all seated on one side of the table to be far from the next tables. the boss of the shop also changed, but the food and style remains the same.

On 30 April, Esther and David had their own dinner plans. The rest went to Start Vista and had mala dinner (not nice and expensive).

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19 April 2021, Joseph had a fracture in school, playing-horse with his friend. It is a buckling fracture of the right radius just above the wrist.

We ordered dinner and topped up with some chicken nuggets.

On 20 April, David ran 2.4km in school in 11m15s, rather slow and needs to train harder.

For dinner we had tapao Western food.

YowCH bought some dates earlier, always available at Ramadhan period.

Grace made a nice sling for Joseph’s arm.

One day of home-based learning for Samuel on 22 April 2021.

On 23 April, we received the chess set ordered from China, nice in gold and silver.

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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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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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On Sunday, after our regular swim, the older children went SCUBA diving at Queenstown, under Yen. This intro class is $60 per person for 3 hours.

Swim coach Francis and his children joined too.

Esther:

David:

Joseph:

Fun diving!

While the older children were diving, YowCH, Grace and Samuel had lunch and dessert at Star Vista.

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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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