Mum and dad made a short overnight trip to Pontian and returned on 3 Aug with 5 durians (RM12 only) which we ate at dinner.
The children were great helpers in opening them:
And Joseph loves to eat durians:
There’s a bandage around David’s head because he fell down in school on 2 Aug and knocked his head (the wound is at the back).
Today, we ate dinner at Cafe Amigos, Funan Centre, with Grace’s parents and sister, as celebration for YowCH’s birthday and Mothers’ Day. We discovered that Joseph loves garlic-butter baked escargots (French snails) and foie gras (liver of fattened duck/goose).
Yesterday, we had dinner with Yan, PQ and Siu Hei.
With the HTC Touch Cruise 09 coming to 2 years, the aging problems became quite unbearable: dead vibrator, sms not waking the phone from sleep-mode, erratic battery life and sudden shut-downs. YowCH moved from Windows Mobile on the Touch Cruise to Android 2.2 (Froyo) on the HTC Desire, bought from Singtelshop at Junction 8 on 12 Feb 2011. Nice phone, but took quite some time to import the data. With a 2-year phone contract, the $700 phone was only $98, with free ‘egg’ shell and screen protector (worth $25).
The next day 13 Feb 2011, Grace managed to arrange with a seller on eBay and got an iPod Touch (G4) for $293 (shops selling at $328).
Here, you can see Joseph playing with it.
Just an update in the middle of the month. We had finally printed photos, since Feb 2010! The total for the stack was about $1,100.00!
Here, you see Joseph practicing a new trick, mouth stretching:
We joined Yan and PQ in celebrating Siu Hei’s first birthday last weekend:
Finally, YowCH, Esther and David had a walk this morning with 3 of YowCH’s colleagues at Wessex Estate for some hobby photography:
We have a small dedicated page here or you can click on the photo above.
We had a short 2D1N trip to Pontian from 26 to 27 Nov to visit Grace’s grandma and to bring some of Grace’s books and stuff back to Singapore. It was a great trip as we met relatives, ate and ate, and ate.
Here you see the children playing bubbles at the backyard:
Grace’s uncle prepared very tasty “babi hutan” (山猪, wild boar) for our dinner, greatly loved by the children:
And Joseph had his first ever haircut at M.Ravi’s, a local Pontian barber chain for RM4.00 (S$1.75):
Joseph is two years old today. We celebrated in school, as usual.
Grace managed to get some VERY good deal for Lego Duplo party favour packs, shipped from Greece!
It’s a few days to Joseph’s second birthday, and we ate dinner at O’Leary’s (Singapore Flyer) again with mum and dad.
We arrived earlier, about 6:15pm, so we walked a little along the Fourmula One racing track next to the Flyer. The second photo (Flyer in the background) was taken by David.
Joseph really did enjoy the dinner, which mum and dad paid for, although this photo suggests otherwise.
The live band really made the place cool.
Like any other Yow, Joseph drinks soup straight from a bowl.
Thank God for keeping Joseph safe, the unofficial blood culture results shows negative for anything serious. So it was just a prolonged flu and fever bout. He’ll still be on MC until 16 Oct.
