YowCH & Grace

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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After church on Saturday, we had dinner with Grace’s parents at Old Street Bak Kut Teh at ARC (Alexandra Retail Centre). The food is costly, but tasty. Grace had her favourite tea, Small Bitter-sweet Moon (小月甘) which is previously called Xiao Ye Gan (小叶甘). Too bad the furniture design of this brand of Bak Kut Teh is not very good as the iPad for ordering is stuck to only one side of the table.

Samuel was asked to work with parents to build a guitar for craft. We assigned siblings Esther and David instead.

The shoebox guitar can actually make sounds.

YowCH wanted to get back into sports-mode after the 4 weeks of travelling and eating for TYLin KL Annual Dinner, TYL Chongqing Annual Dinner and CNY holidays and feasts. On Sunday, at the swimming class, he swam 500m in 15 minutes, then in the afternoon, while the boys trained soccer, he ran 1.5km (short run only, very hot day) in 8’40″.

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YowCH visited Salvation army and saw a very good condition 1/10 violin for only $30. It is a Eurostrings 200 (about $230 new).

He bought it for Samuel, but Samuel will still need to grow more before being able to use this 1/10 violin.

David’s school team played against Holy Innocent on Friday 12 Feb, and YowCH took leave from work to watch the game with Esther and Joseph. While Gan Eng Seng Primary School lost the game (17-42), David played well.

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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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On the eve of New Year, we went to church for the Thanksgiving Service, then returned home to have some quiet family time. Grace worked on 1 Jan 2016, and YowCH brought the children out to cycle.


We even rode to the home of our friends, Quincy and family. Later, we had chicken rice for lunch, and started Samuel on the small bike to see if he can balance. Not ready yet:

Then we had a nice Western meal at The Ship to start off 2016.

This restaurant was where YowCH brought Grace out for a nice meal the first time when they dated back in 1994.


A nice dinner!

On Saturday we went to church, and just before reaching church, we had the children pose for this photo, showing all our children rolling their tongues:

Then we had a nice grill dinner at Grace’s parents’ place.

On Sunday, just before school re-opens, Grace went to work again. YowCH brought the children to swim class and chicken rice lunch thereafter. Then Esther took bus to ballet class while YowCH brought the boys to the West Coast Wolves soccer training. Samuel was happily joining in the fun.



This is Joseph:

And David:

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We went to church early in the morning. Samuel was very excited over the beautiful Christmas decorations.

He was also very enthusiastically singing along the Christmas songs during service.

Here’s a family photo taken after church. Thanks to Bernard Wee.

After church, we went for an early lunch at MacDonald’s followed with groceries shopping.

And here is Joseph, having completed the Lego Advent Set.

In the evening, we went to Gene’s place, Sorrento, for a swim, followed by dinner with the family and a nice time of singing.

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As we did for the past few years, we went singing carols with our church on Christmas Eve. YowCH was with David and Joseph at NUH lobby, while Esther went to the wards of NTFH.

Here’s Esther leaving church, getting on to the bus.

And this is the NUH lobby.



David played the cajon, Joseph played tambourines and maracas, while YowCH sang and played guitar or, ukulele.

We gave Joseph a set of Lego City Advent Calendar, which he started last night.

And Samuel, now older than 2 years, we took out the Duplo box, and he was overjoyed, saying “Samuel’s Lego” immediately.

We then had dinner with Grace’s parents, packed Indian-Muslim food from Al-Amaan.

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