YowCH & Grace

We continued our sports to stay healthy, even with the lockdown situation.

Joseph went for some runs, 1.6km.

YowCH was regular in his 2.5km (3x per week) and 5.0km (Sundays).

Samuel went in-line skating (2.0km) while Grace went for brisk walks of 2.0km).

YowCH was also regularly doing weights and planking.

Instead of running, sometimes Joseph also skated.


Esther also joined in the skating.


As shown in the software records on the phone for his runs, YowCH has very regular in his runs, not skipping even in the rain.

Only David got lazy in May.

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We bought through EZBuy Xiaomi hair-clipper (and a fake Kenwood hand-mixer) in early-May, but they arrived only on 29 May 2020. Just in time to cut hair for school re-opening on 2 June.

That’s Joseph’s before and after.

YowCH’s did the barber duties.

And that’s Samuel’s before and after.

Somewhat more experienced after working on Joseph first.

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Samuel’s church meeting, big group on Zoom.

We watched the Michael Bay Transformers movies, and took out the toys for Samuel to have some fun.

We did some home improvement works (in this case adding a shelf to Esther’s table), but the drill spoilt. YowCH opened it and found that the problem is the electrical direction switch, with the forward drive spoilt and the drill only works in reverse. So YowCH shifted teh wires around to make teh drill work in forawrd, but no more reverse now. Replacement part is too expensive and not worth the money.

YowCH received a cheque from Prudential for $500.00, benefits for having served Quarantine Order due to Covid. Good pocket money!

Another BCG meeting online.

The whole family recorded another church choir session (David was conducting and doing the filming on the camera). We had 3 good takes, but about 12 bad starts, mostly with us laughing due due to Samuel’s behaviour.

Esther also contributed to the church Youth Service worship.

Samuel doing church activities online.

We contacted our friends, the Lims, in Melbourne, Australia, to catch up with them in this Covid period.

We still drove the Odyssey around, mostly sending and picking Grace as she is working daily at KKH. But the roads were quite empty and we had great fuel efficiency, covering more than 600km in 1 tank (55L) of petrol!

Things in the house keeps needing maintenance, the plug point plastic broke, and YowCH had to buy the part (the box against the wall) to replace it. The face was changed about a year ago.

YowCH bought a sound mixer for Esther, to let her have better mixing controls for the worship and other musical recordings.

Joseph built his Gundam robot.

YowCH had to visit his construction site prior to the planned worksites re-opening on 2 June.

We picked up an old light cover that a neighbour thrown away, and it serves well as a Bey Blade arena.

Grace and YowCH went out to buy some food, and picked up the government-issued “improved” masks on 30 May.

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Home-based Learning became necessary during the Covid-19 lock-down. Here are some photos of the children attending online-lessons.




In addition to HBL, YowCH and Grace also tutored Samuel.


They had exercises (PE lessons).


Even group dance lessons!

And Samuel actually had class meetings!

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On Monday, 30 Mar, YowCH started WFH (work from home). The old monitor helps much as a second screen, and he bought new keyboard, mouse and USB hub to ease the work. The webcam is our old Logitech, and he uses the Samsung phone headphones-mic.

Esther’s piano lessons became home-based.

Joseph and Samuel had home-based learning (HBL) on Wednesday, followed by home-based piano lessons.


In fact, given that they are not in school, Joseph picked up the ukulele to practice playing, too.

David will have his HBL on Thursday and Esther hers on Friday.

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Grace made masks for our family, a very needed protective gear in this time of Covid-19 pandemic.

Church service is not held due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the children attended Youth Service (Teenacity) via webcast with interactive responses through their phones.


After the sermon, they went to their terminals for the Discipleship Group studies.

Thank God for technology, allowing group interaction even when we cannot meet each other.

In the evening, the Yongs visited to have dinner with us, a small celebration for David’s birthday.



As David is now past-16, he can drink alcoholic drinks, and his favourite is cider.

On Sunday, we went to the pool for our swim, and the pool was very empty.

After swim, we went to Tiong Bahru Plaza for lunch, buying some provisions and equipment (for the upcoming ‘work from home’) and to replace Joseph’s spectacles which was broken accidentally. YowCH managed to make an emergency repair, but new glasses were needed as Joseph’s power went up.

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Esther hit her shin on the car back row seat a few time, because there is a steel loop for the buckle to hold down the seat after folding down. So YowCH used a sheet of aluminium and folded a cover for the loop, and padded it with materials salvaged from a old sock. Softens the impact when the leg strikes the loop.

On Sunday, 15 March, Joseph returned to soccer after his ‘no-sports’ M.C. for the fracture of his little finger. Samuel was playing well, too.

Our dinner 19 March, pan seared salmon. The salmon was bought from a vending machine, not too bad, and very cheap ($3.00 each piece). the soup is tong-o with eggs.

On 20 March, we had meatballs, eggs, vege-siewyuk and can soup with bread for dinner.

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We cooked some simple dinner at home on Wednesday, 4 Mar:

Esther got herself a guitar looping pedal. This allows several tracks to be recorded and looped (played round after round) to have layered (multi-track) playing. $200, second-hand from Esther’s friend.

The steering wheel cover for the car is all cracked up and loose after 3.5 years. So we bought a replacement, exact same model.

Our church gave out 3 nails for the season of Lent, as a reminder of Christ’s suffering for our sins. We are free to use the nails in whichever way, and most people glues them together to make a cross. Joseph did this:

It is nice and cool, but too dangerous, so after taking photo, he took off the nails.

On Sunday night, we watched Robin Hood (2018) with Taron Egerton and Jamie Foxx, in our bedroom because the blu-ray disc can’t play on the living room player.

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We had one more niangao which we sliced it up, battered and fried. The children loved it.

On 14 Feb 2020, YowCH and Grace had a lunch at Handlebar. Rather fun.

We cooked simple dinner on Sunday night (16 Feb), wantonmee which we bought in PJ. We used meatballs, eggs and abalone-soup!

On Tuesday, 18 Feb, YowCH had another review and the doctor continued the Micardis Plus 40/12.5 daily for the next 2 months.

Joseph’s cast was removed on 13 Feb 2020, after review and x-ray by the doctor.

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Here are photos of Joseph and Samuel at ther piano class with D-flat Studio, Tanglin.

YowCH has been running 3x 2.5km weekly, and going fast. On 1 Feb 2020, he had a fast run of finishing 2.5km in 12m05s.

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