YowCH & Grace

Esther received her Stage 2 swim cert today. Cool!

Here is are photos of Joseph practicing dribbling and shooting goals, and David playing in a friendly game of under-10-years 9-a-side against Anglo-Chinese School. We won 3-2 in a good and nicely matched game.

And here is a photo of Samuel crawling up the stairs at the playground! No stopping this guy. (Sorry about the poor photo, it is a screen capture of a low-res handphone video.)

In the swimming pool today, he was also able to lie on his back in the water and kick to stay afloat!

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Samuel is now able to crawl all over the house, and he can pull himself up to stand supported. He is also taking first steps towards cruising.

And his teeth have started erupting, lower front, and that means time to start brushing.

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On Saturday, for Church life-story at the Kids for Christ (Junior Sunday School), YowCH impersonated Benny Prasad, who is the world’s most travelled man having visited all countries, and a Christian gospel witness. You can Google “Benny Prasad” for more info.

David took this nice photo.

Here’s a nice photo of the children on the slide at the playground downstairs of our flat.

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Samuel’s development is really quite nice, he is now sitting up by himself, even in the bath tub, and he pulls himself up to stand.

We collected some stuff that we handed to YowCH’s sister’s family, and they are now Samuel’s:

This morning, we went to Science Park Drive to open the newly constructed extension road to Normanton Park, linking Queensway flyover into Science Park which should relief South Buona Vista Road significantly.

And after the opening of Science Park Drive extension, we visited the Science Centre before church. Please click on the photos to go to the page.

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Our insurance agent under Prudential threw a movie outing for their clients, and we had 5 free tickets to watch Transformers 4 at Lido Theatre, Shaw House, Orchard Road. This is therefore Samuel’s first movie outing and we are pleased to report that all our children sat nicely and quietly throughout the entire 3 hours of the movie! Even Samuel, who slept for half the show and had some milk and crackers snacks when he was up.


The movie was not much of good story or dialogue, but the effects were fantastic. Factual errors are plenty, particularly the driving distance between Beijing and Hong Kong.

This afternoon’s lunch was the first time we gave chicken to Samuel, he likes chicken+potatoes.

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A little update for early-July:

Samuel’s teeth is erupting, and he feeds happily on durians!

Learning Vision KKH is moving to Alfa Centre (across Bukit Timah Road) as KKH needs more hospital space. They had already moved several admin departments away, and now the childcare has to go. The Centre is on ground floor, and only 350m away but without covered walkway, it can be tricky during rainy days. Taxi is also a big concern. Driving distance is about 2.0km more!


Here are some views of the inside, Samuel is already using the facilities during the open house on 5 July, that’s Joseph in his new classroom, the new toilets and an underground (basement) playground.

After the Learning Vision open house, we had lunch at Tekka Market, nice raw-fish porridge and Sri Lankan rice.

Lastly, our friend, Paul, brought back from the USA our Transformers orders, the Transformers4 Dinobots (Grimlock, Strafe, Slug, Slash and Scorn), Bumblebee and Drift. Half the price compared to buying in Singapore, and some of the models are not even sold here yet.

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We got ourselves a larger tank, and with more water, the smaller pumps and filters can’t filter enough, so we got ourselves a much larger pump/filter for $22.50. Comes with charcoal pack for smell removal. And another 2 bunches of plants to decorate. You can’t see much as the water is rather murky.

Samuel is now able to sit for a short while and play, he really likes to sit.

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The Isis wiper has bad streaks and we changed to new silicone frameless pair. However, the blue silicone is NOT our choice. YowCH found this pair discarded in the carpark, apparently the previous owner ‘broke’ the clips off when he tried to install them. However, nothing was actually broken and a small ‘click’ got everything back together again. The sizes were about right and fits our Isis. David helped install them. Thank God for free wipers.

Samuel is no longer vegetarian. He had meatball porridge made by popo and he really enjoyed it.

Here’s a photo is Samuel sleeping, rather lean and long now, but still under-weight and under-size according to National charts.

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Good news, Joseph is now a cyclist. He can go around unassisted and makes good turns and stops. Time to teach him traffic rules.


Esther and David took the time to practice slide-braking and tight turns, and to help guide Joseph. Each clocked max speed of 25km/h at this carpark. The full-face helmets look very fierce.

The three older children had a good time cycling around the carpark at the school near our flat.


Samuel enjoyed the shade and the fun, too. He sat nicely in the Aprica, not once crying!

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A small birthday dinner at Tunglok Signatures Vivocity on 7 May with Grace’s parents and Gene. This is YowCH at 40 years of age:

YowCH insisted on ordering the “Dragon paw”, which is actually stewed crocodile hand! Nice.

After dinner, we drove to Holland area and picked up some second hand Lego Primo for Samuel. The blue aeroplane and pilot on the left was actually Joseph’s, the train set is what we got this time ($15).

The white Lego brick is there for scale.

Samuel loves the Primo, nice colours, nice size for grip and good to chew on.

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