YowCH & Grace

David was awarded a prize for his artwork for SG51. The prize was presented by MP Indranee at 118A Jalan Membina on Sunday morning. We had breakfast courtesy of our Chinese tuition centre.

That afternoon, the boys collected the new soccer uniforms, which is blue. Unfortunately, the game against Jurong Green is cancelled due to lightning warning.

On Monday night, we had dinner at Alibabar, near our home at ARC, with Grace’s parents. Here’s Grace with Fucking Hell.

And here’s a resigned man:

The children got to taste the beer.

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After sending Esther and David to church, YowCH brought Joseph and Samuel to West Coast Park for playground fun. Grace was working.

On the evening, Samuel played with his toy car, which he has to assemble with a little help from YowCH.

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Esther played the guitar while David played the cajon as musicians for church Kids for Christ worship leader Ezra on both Saturday and Sunday.

That afternoon, as we prepared to go for football, we hung out at the playground for a while:

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The West Coast Wolves hosted a friendly game with Ulu Pandan and Bukit Batok East at Clementi Stadium. WE had nder-7, under-10, under-12 and adults. David played under-12 and Joseph was under-10.

David and Joseph played goal-keeper and defender at different times.



The games were fun and fast, both David and Joseph played well. 15 minutes to the end of the day, David (goal-keeper) made a slide tackle to push the ball away from a striker, and his left ankle was injured by the striker falling on him. With the possibility of a fracture, we tool him to see Gene and then Gene drove YowCH and David to NUH for X-ray under A&E. Thank God that all is fine, not a fracture, and he will only need to bandage the ankle for a week.

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Joseph is now playing under-9 soccer, as both player and goal-keeper. On 29 May 2016, the game was hosted by Bukit Batok.

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We had pool fun again:

YowCH still runs sporadically, this is run at West Coast:

YowCH and Samuel took a walk in the Jalan Rumah Tinggi Park to measure the length, we walked average speed of 3.3km/h on the 430m track.

Joseph started playing the ukulele properly, and now he can manage about 10-15 common chords, good enough to play songs like I’m Yours, As The Deer and When You Say Nothing At All.

Here are Esther and David chilling in the Sorrento pool after church.

And Samuel chilling at our flat level 1:

Samuel also had some time at the playground at Kim Tian while waiting to pick Esther from tuition.

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Today the children had distance test in swimming. 1.5km for Esther Yow and David within 1.0hr, and 800m for Joseph within 45mins. Esther did it in 56mins06secs, David in 46mins27secs, and Joseph in 44mins37secs. All passed and very well done.
Grace Chan also swam 700m total, the most she ever did in one session.

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Esther had school prefect camp over this weekend, so she stayed over in her school.

David went to youth service early on Saturday, leaving Joseph adn Samuel to play in Sorrento pool with yowCH while Grace was knitting.
This is Joseph’s dive.

And this is Samuel’s dive (actually, YowCH threw him):

He loves being thrown into the water!

For dinner, we met up with the Phans (from Taiwan) and Wei Yeu who is in Singapore, and yowCH’s sister for dinner at Tunglok Signatures. Nice time for the families.

Lastly, on Sunday, at the wedding reception of Grace’s colleague, the boys had some playground fun, before going for football.

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We had a short 2-day trip to PJ for YowCH’s company KL office annual dinner and to visit YowCH’s parents and sister. Click here for the page.

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We had some fun time in the pool after our swimming lesson, the coach lent us his whale floats and we played in the water. Another advantage of having lessons from 11:30 to 12:30, the pool is almost empty as it is lunch time and the sun is hot!


This is where we explained to the children that the weekly training prepared them for fun like this. If they can’t swim well, they won’t be playing like this. Even Samuel enjoyed the whales.

In the afternoon, while the boys were at their soccer training (including Samuel), YowCH went for a short 1.5km run. It was very hot and the air was stifling. A re-start after several months of not running at all.

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