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.
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.
Here’s Samuel having a class meeting, from home.
Grace made many face masks for the family to use once the lockdown ends.
We had our cell-group meetings on-line.
The family also recorded songs for the church virtual choir.
This song is Jesus Shall Reign, and YowCH, Grace, Esther and Joseph participated.
We also had mahjong time. The children loves the game.
Well, Samuel wasn’t ready, and Grace took over.
Gene ordered some nice burgers and such for YowCH’s birthday on 6 May 2020. We ate over video conferencing with Grace’s parents and Gene.
On 7 May, we had dinner at home, and had video conferencing with YowCH’s family.
Our food photos are here:
FOOD!
We will update again in June.
On 1st May, we celebrated YowCH’s mom’s birthday with a lunch meeting. We bought lots of good stuff from Morganfields
We also ordered yam-cake in PJ and had it delivered to mom (via Chee Kean).
In the evening, lead by Esther, we made the tapioca flour balls for bubble tea, using gula melaka.
Tastes ok, but lots of work for a small thing, not worth the effort.
Our sub-woofer died earlier and YowCH spent some time to remove the parts and salvage the case and the working speaker. The case is now a seat for wearing shoes (and also a cajon) and the speaker is up on Carousell for sale.
Grace made nice covers for the cupboard in our room.
Here’s Esther helping Samuel with his church activities.
In the middle of the Circuit Breaker period, the brothers play online game together.
Joseph built a few of his Gundam models, adding to his army.
YowCH’s work table, upgraded from 2 screens to 3 screen, having bought the new Samsung curved full-HD monitor from Lazada.
Our insurance agent sent some Maracons, a little gift durign the lock-down.
Our printer suddenly died, and we had to order another one from Lazada. Thankfully it was delivered in 3 days!
More game time, with all 4 children playing Brawl Stars together.
We had a Zoom meeting among YowCH’s cousins on a Saturday afternoon.
On 26 April, we recorded a worship session for the 17 May 2020 junior worship.
Samuel received a mail from church, with activities!
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!
With the Covid lock-down to stay at home, our church immediately started online service:
We bought some toys for Sam from internet orders:
YowCH and Esther recorded their parts as part of the church online choir, singing O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing:
You can watch it here on Facebook.
This is Samuel attending his Junior Service, with activities which we printed for him to do.
We collected the reusable masks issued by the Singapore Government for citizens and PRs.
Our shower heater died, and thankfully, we can call the electrical shop owner and arranged for a replacement unit, which YowCH installed immediately.
Our cell group met online through Zoom. The juniors held their own meeting.
When we went to NTUC, we bought some beer – Corona, to celebrate the virus!
Gene arranged for a Zoom meeting dinner, where she even bought the food to be delivered to our place.
We recorded another song for the church online choir, this time, with YowCH, Esther and Samuel, singing The Revelation Song.
You can watch it here on Facebook.
We are still quite active in sports during the Covid-19 Circuit Breaker period.
YowCH runs 3-4 times weekly, and also does weights.
David also runs and does weights.
Esther prefers indoors exercises, and David sometimes joins her.
We take Samuel out for in-line skating about 2.0km, while Joseph runs 1.6km a few times weekly.
