YowCH & Grace

It is a long weekend, with Hari Raya Haji on Sunday, Monday becomes a holiday.

Joseph went on an excursion to the hydroponics pond and the brought some plants back.

For Children’s day on Friday, Samuel dressed as a ‘farm animal’.

Samuel is also very fast in crawling and climbing, as seen here with him inside his toy box. Rather dangerous. But he has yet to learn to stand up and walk.

David and Joseph had soccer training, even in the rain (as long as no lightning risk).


Esther has no exams and no ballet, so Grace, Esther and Samuel were at soccer training.

Lastly, after soccer, we had dinner with Yan’s family at Brotzeit, Star Vista.


It is October Fest. We had knuckles, rosti, grilled pork and a beer mix. Samuel had some pork knuckle meat, too.

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Due to Esther’s baptism class on Sunday lunch time, we shifted our swim to Saturday night for the month of September. Rather chilling air at night.

An update on the terrapins, they have certainly grown up over the past 1 year, and one of the two actually grew really huge.

Compare against the same pump/filter.

Joseph is now able to help us go down to the coffeeshop to buy coffee.

This is Esther in her baptism class.

On Sunday afternoon, Grace was at work, so YowCH brought all 4 children to soccer. Esther helped look after Samuel while Joseph had training and David had a friendly match against ACS.

Joseph trained well and played well in his game.

David was playing goalkeeper and defender, didn’t concede any goals during his time on the field.


Seems more like having a picnic between the Lims and the Yows.

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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.

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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.

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Esther received her Stage 2 swim cert today. Cool!

Here is are photos of Joseph practicing dribbling and shooting goals, and David playing in a friendly game of under-10-years 9-a-side against Anglo-Chinese School. We won 3-2 in a good and nicely matched game.

And here is a photo of Samuel crawling up the stairs at the playground! No stopping this guy. (Sorry about the poor photo, it is a screen capture of a low-res handphone video.)

In the swimming pool today, he was also able to lie on his back in the water and kick to stay afloat!

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On Saturday, for Church life-story at the Kids for Christ (Junior Sunday School), YowCH impersonated Benny Prasad, who is the world’s most travelled man having visited all countries, and a Christian gospel witness. You can Google “Benny Prasad” for more info.

David took this nice photo.

Here’s a nice photo of the children on the slide at the playground downstairs of our flat.

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A little update for early-July:

Samuel’s teeth is erupting, and he feeds happily on durians!

Learning Vision KKH is moving to Alfa Centre (across Bukit Timah Road) as KKH needs more hospital space. They had already moved several admin departments away, and now the childcare has to go. The Centre is on ground floor, and only 350m away but without covered walkway, it can be tricky during rainy days. Taxi is also a big concern. Driving distance is about 2.0km more!


Here are some views of the inside, Samuel is already using the facilities during the open house on 5 July, that’s Joseph in his new classroom, the new toilets and an underground (basement) playground.

After the Learning Vision open house, we had lunch at Tekka Market, nice raw-fish porridge and Sri Lankan rice.

Lastly, our friend, Paul, brought back from the USA our Transformers orders, the Transformers4 Dinobots (Grimlock, Strafe, Slug, Slash and Scorn), Bumblebee and Drift. Half the price compared to buying in Singapore, and some of the models are not even sold here yet.

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We played against Taman Jurong this morning. Both David and Joseph played well, and won both their groups (Under-8 and Under-10). YowCH coached the Under-8 team for this match.



Nice photos, taken by Esther.

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YowCH brought Esther, David and Joseph, together with friends Isaiah and Nathaniel to hike at Macritchie, covering both the Tree-top Walk and the Jelutong Tower this morning. Please click on the photos below to get to the page:

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Good news, Joseph is now a cyclist. He can go around unassisted and makes good turns and stops. Time to teach him traffic rules.


Esther and David took the time to practice slide-braking and tight turns, and to help guide Joseph. Each clocked max speed of 25km/h at this carpark. The full-face helmets look very fierce.

The three older children had a good time cycling around the carpark at the school near our flat.


Samuel enjoyed the shade and the fun, too. He sat nicely in the Aprica, not once crying!

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