We brought Samuel to Bishan for some Bishan Park fun with his cousins. Also gave away Esther’s mountain bike to Sui Hei and Si Wan.
As the sun set, we returned to the Yong’s place and had some more fun time before our dinner.
Samuel had his Junior Church Camp (Z-Supa, organised by Scripture Union) which was held on-line this week.
YowCH continued this regular runs.
Our dinner, with young coconuts as dessert.
David tried out making caramel sweets, very nice! Grace helped.
Youth camp started on Friday, 11 Dec, with online meetings.
Samuel wasn’t in Youth Camp, he was just playing games on the iPad.
After the Youth Camp meeting, YowCH and Esther recorded the Christmas song for the choir, with Grace’s help.
YowCH runs, and also does his gym exercises.
Esther bought some strong sour and hot noodles online for the family. Very tasty, can buy more!
Samuel at tuition again, extra-time again.
Samuel at church.
We bought peanut snacks which is a type of traditional sweets, very nice.
We bought some satay from NTUC to grill on our charcoal stove, very nice!
Here’s Samuel at the Chinese tuition centre, he couldn’t finish his work, so he had extra-time at the front counter.
After tuition, we ate noodles, while Esther, David and Joseph settled their own lunches as they went to church in the afternoon.
5 Dec, our church service resumed the week before, and this week, BCG attended.
That’s Samuel in his junior class.
And we had dinner at Sorrento with Grace’s parents and Gene.
On Sunday, we had our regular swim, followed by lunch at Henderson.
YowCH ordered an amplifier from China to hook-up with the old mini-hifi speakers (from 1995). Costing only $25 including postage, the amplifier works well, and even has Bluetooth to pair with the children’s phones. We placed the set in the kitchen to have music while cooking.
We went to United Square for dinner before picking Grace from her afternoon shift.
On 01 Dec, YowCH brought Samuel and Joseph to the school carpark for more cycling practice. Joseph is back in good shape and Samuel is now able to cycle quite well, proper balance and going a long distance before stopping or falling.
Grace and Esther went to do their hair colouring. After the hair-do, they had lunch with Grace’s parents and Gene.
Here’s a photo of Esther teaching Samuel piano at home.
On Thursday, 03 Dec, we went to Ang Mo Kio to have lunch at this bak kut teh place, very nice.
26 Nov, YowCH visited his Sentul Crescent site.
He has also been consistent in his runs of 4.0km every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
On Saturday, Samuel did his Chinese tuition homework and prepared for his tuition class. He is always slow in Chinese, so he has to stay back after class to finish his class work.
In the afternoon, we sent Samuel to church to attend his Junior Sunday School. Covid restrictions had been reduced and 100 persons can attend church at any one time.
We visited Grace’s parents after church and had dinner bought from nearby coffeeshop.
On Sunday, YowCH brought the young boys cycling. Joseph now uses Esther’s mountain bike.
And Samuel had just learnt to cycle on his own!
With Christmas just around the corner, we took out our very old but functioning fibre-optic lights Christmas tree (probably bought around 2001). Samuel was very delighted!
On 17 Nov, Joseph made some tags from balsa wood planks to give to his classmates as parting gifts.
He used the solder iron to burn teh markings on!
YowCH and Grace starting on 18 Nov 1994, that’s 26 years ago.
We went to Vivocity for shopping and food.
Joseph also made pencil cases for some of his classmates and teachers.
Samuel took his class photo on 20 Nov, but not as a group due to Covid.
YowCH got some bamboo clams and we fried them for dinner.
21 Nov, we got a Visions 5.0L pot from NTUC, it is huge, but nice and fits into our microwave oven.
We made soup with it, works great!
On 22 Nov, we invited the Yongs over for dinner. We cooked crab-meat (tomato base) pasta and other seafood for dinner, including conches, cockles, bamboo clams, assam prawns and shishamo fish.
We went to the Jurong Bird Park on 16 Nov with Joseph and Samuel. Joseph had a great time taking photos on Esther’s DSLR. Click on the photos below to visit the page:
YowCH visited his Simpang Kiri bridge site and briefed a group of young engineers from HDB on the segmental bridge construction.
11 Nov, we ordered burgers for dinner:
13 Nov, Samuel walked to school and met a friend along the way, not driving this day.
On 01 Nov, we made Korean Army Stew (budae jigae) for dinner.
Samuel also built his 3 Minions from the 2 sets of Lego given to him for his birthday over the past week. One set can build Stuart (1-eyed) and either Kevin or Bob. So Grace bought 2 sets, to have all three, and YowCH worked with Samuel to design ‘Carl’. From left: Bob, Stuart, Carl and Kevin.
Kevin and Bob:
Stuart and Carl:
7 Nov, we ordered Rougamo for dinner, very nice Chinese burgers.
27 Oct lunch.
28 Oct lunch and dinner.
29 Oct lunch. Esther and David remained at the School Canteen to study.
YowCH visited his site at Tanglin Halt.
YowCH also met his doctor who prescribed medication to control blood lipids, following the health check report. Taking “Lipanthyl Penta 145″ which is 145mg of Fenofibrate daily.
30 Oct breakfast.
At the swab test on 30 Oct, YowCH also collected the Blue Trace token used for contact tracing at construction sites.
Lunch
A photo of Samuel doing his Chinese writing homework before going for Chinese tuition.
We had lunch at Xin Wang, WCP before the youths’ Church service, which had just restarted following the Covid lock-down.
