YowCH & Grace

We celebrated Joseph’s birthday at eCG meeting with a simple salted caramel cheese cake (very nice), together with Sonja and Eli, on Friday night.

Today is TYLin Family Day. We reached the zoo at 8:00am to mange the TYLin staff and walked the zoo from 9:30am until 2:15pm. We saw the newborn giraffe! Click on the photos below to get to the page.

After the zoo trip, we went to church, and Samuel started attending the toddlers’ class today.

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Samuel was dedicated to the LORD on Saturday, 14 Nov 2015 in church by Pastor Beh Soo Yeong. These are photos taken during the dedication service, thanks to Quincy for helping take the photos:


Esther, David and Joseph were all at the service, too!

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We stayed home on Deepavali (Tuesday) but Grace had work. While Joseph and David were having violin lessons at home, YowCH brought Samuel to the playground.

On Wednesday night, we arranged to meet the violin teacher, Joyce, at Johann Strings and with her expert guidance, bought a full-sized Johann violin (model 200) for David. This will be used until he complete his lessons, hopefully all the way to Grade 8.


This unit costs $380, there are cheaper and more expensive ones, but as a start, the sound is good and the teacher liked this unit, too. Here’s David playing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and Variants, his practice piece.

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With Grace’s parents having moved to West Coast, we have been preparing our own dinners after work, here are some examples:

Grace has been busy with her revived hobby, knitting:

She has made some beanies, pull-overs, and soft toys, here is Esther with her pull-over and a bear in progress.

On Sunday, after the weekly swim, David played a friendly game of soccer against ACS Barker Road. He was the goalie (given his basketball training, he was the best candidate). It drizzled for about 30 minutes during the game.

Joseph had his regular soccer training.

In the evening, we went to Bishan Park to meet up with YowCH’s sister for dinner. Samuel was happily rolling about on the Y-glider, although he is not really driving it yet.


Joseph was really fast on the Y-glider!

Dinner was at Cornerstone, we had a great time with the Yong family.

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Grace and I got back from TYLin annual trip to Beijing on Sunday night, in time to spend Monday 26 Oct with Samuel for his birthday. We had dinner with Gene, and grandparents at Brotzeit Star-Vista.



We will update on the Beijing trip later.

Esther’s school project, Life-straw, is on display in the school. It is a project to improve the filtration straw to may muddy water drinkable.

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We bought a second-hand full-sized electric violin for $100, a Cecilio, for Esther, David and YowCH to practice with Joseph. The seller says only played 2 time!


Looks new, feels good, sounds OK, and we can amp the violin. Without the amplifier, the violin still plays, but not loud, hence good for practice.

On 8 Oct, the childcare centre celebrated children’s day. There was a dress-up party, with the theme of ‘superheroes’ and using recycled materials. Samuel went as a Spartan, with armour made by YowCH and David!

He won the best-dressed for toddlers, and brought home this push-dragon as the prize!

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Grace got Samuel new school uniforms and T-shirts. He looks so smart! The clothes are very large for hi, but hey are already of the smallest available size.

While David was playing basketball ins school, he fell and sprained his left wrist quite badly. That’s bandage wrapped by YowCH.

In the evening, TYLin took part in the inter-consultants futsal competition organised by L&S. The team played well, but we were just not strong or skilled enough, and didn’t win any of the top positions.

Here are two photos of YowCH in action during the gaems.

And these are photos of the team and the supportive colleagues, taken before and after the games.

Grace and the children were there to support YowCH. The photos were taken by Esther.

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On Saturday, after sending Esther to Church for worship leading practice (she plays the guitar), YowCH took the boys to West Coast park for playground fun:

That’s the boys resting on the bouncy wave bridge.

Samuel gets zip-line with David’s help.

David climbed the high tower.

And Joseph climbed the smaller one.

We met Oliver there, with Anya and Timothy. Kelly brought Sarah along for shopping.

At home on Sunday, after the usual swim, football and ballet, Esther practiced piano for upcoming exam.

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David and Joseph joined a group of 25 from West Coast CSC in attending the football clinic at PA HQ today, conducted by German team Borussia Dortmund coaches under the sponsorship of Evonik. We started the session at 9.00am.

The children were given BVB training jersey, shorts and socks.


It was a fun event, but the training was real.


Above is Lars Ricken (retired BVB striker and Germany national player) signing David’s T-shirt. Samuel had lots of fun running about.


The bee is the mascot, Emma. Esther was very helpful in looking after Samuel and taking care of our stuff.


The Evonik manager gave medals and Lars gave certs to the children.


A Q&A session, and we ended at 11.15am.

Each player received lots of BVB freebies: jersey, shorts, socks, Puma training ball, water bottle, medal, cert and sunshades.

Thank God for the good weather.

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Sunday afternoon, Joseph and David were at training again, and they played very hard in the hot sun!

Then, we had dinner at Cedele (GWC) with Gene and parents to celebrate Esther’s birthday.

Esther was busy taking photos of the food.

Here’s the birthday cake she got, a sea-salt caramel cheesecake.

And Samuel was also happily enjoying the dinner, eating mostly by himself.

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