YowCH & Grace

The day started with the 13th servicing for the Isis.

After lunch, YowCH went to church with Esther and David for carolling to Alexandra and National University Hospitals.


As with past years, it was a joy to see the patients happy with the Christmas songs and the package that church gave to them.

For dinner, we met up with the Yongs and the Loos. We ate Western food at Canopy (Bishan Park) and all the children ate nicely and behaved well.

Joseph completed his Lego Advent set as soon as we got home. Opening only 1 item a day for the past 24 days, Joseph patiently put the set together with some help from Esther and David.

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On Sunday, we bought snacks for church-friends, serving angku kueh and glutinous rice. We pre-packed the rice into bags, with help from friends and Esther.

After church, we went out shopping for a while, the first time Samuel goes to Orchard Road.

Later, David and Joeph went for soccer training, they trained very well and played seriously.

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Today, Joseph celebrated his 5th birthday in school with his friends. He asked for a longan cake!

Unfortunately, no guests were allowed into the Childcare Centre due to disease outbreaks, so the family did not join him. All the photos by his teacher.


We gave goodie packs of Lego Chima to his friends.

After picking Joseph up from childcare at about 4:15pm, we brought Samuel to the Lab and met Grace’s colleagues. We also brought angku kueh for them.

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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.

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We attended Matthan and Yi Ling’s wedding at church. Joseph served as the pageboy, bearing the ring. He did a very nice job of it.

Esther helped with the opening of the doors, also did a good job.

David was also helpful, he was in-charged of lighting the candles of the bride’s maids, but unfortunately, the lighter broke, and some adults ran to get the back-up lighter and lit those candles very urgently instead. Nevertheless, he was on standby for any candle that might be snuffed.
Samuel sat through the entire 2-hour ceremony without crying, mostly carried by David who took great care of him, and by YowCH.

Here’s a post-event photo of us.

And this is a photo of the ring-bearer, door-opener and the bride and groom.

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This is a nice photo of the 4 Yow-minions, on a Sunday morning.

Samuel attended Church for the first time today.


It has been a few years since we sat in the baby room.

After church, we had lunch at Xin Wang, West Coast Plaza. This is our second family photo. Can’t see Samuel’s face, though.

With our friend’s wedding coming up next week and Joseph being the ‘ring-bearer’, we dressed him in the James Bond suit.

Cool!

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After struggling for 3 weeks with the eye-infection, the terrapin finally died.

The problem is that they won’t eat when they can’t see, and they will then die of hunger. Terrapins only eat when there is light. The eye-infection, causing swelling, shuts off the eye, effectively making it blind.

Joseph has upgraded to booster seat without the back-rest. He is large enough now, able to buckle himself into the seat and the booster is smaller and easier to store in the car.

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ACES-YPC, which YowCH is a member, organised a trip to Chek Jawa at Pulau Ubin today from 1;30pm to 5:30pm. YowCH brought the children along.

Please click photos below to get to the page.

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Joseph started using chopsticks on 15 September 2013, and tonight, he ate dinner by scooping rice from a bowl using chopsticks. We were at Mouth Restaurant at Vivocity, eating Sam Sui Chicken.

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It is mid-autumn. This year we did not buy any mooncakes, spending about $500.oo less! We ate only a little mooncakes from relatives and friends.

Yesterday, Thursday, Joseph joined Esther and David in the Gan Eng Seng Primary School mid-autumn celebrations, and they made some snow-skin mooncakes and lanterns. The children went with Grace, YowCH was at the Association of Consulting Engineers (ACES) Networking Night.

Tonight, we had some standard mid-autumn fare: yam, water caltrop (菱角), pomelo, ‘pig-basket’ cake and of course, mooncakes.

The pomelo was peeled by David, although he doesn’t eat it.

This is the water caltrop top (菱角车) that YowCH made.

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