Some miscellaneous stuff:
Esther at piano class:
The Odyssey can actually be driven very economically (on the 70-80km/h KPE, Kallang – Paya Lebar Expressway). Managed to clock 16.7km/L over a distance of 47km in smooth traffic.
We had dinner with the Lims on Saturday night (15th of CNY) at Putien Vivocity. Due to COVID-19, the carpark was rather empty and the restaurants had no queue.
The pool on Sunday was also very empty.
Our lunch after swim with Cheng Siang and coaches Francis and Tobby.
And dinner at Jollibee.
YowCH’s high blood pressure medication increased after 14 days with review from his doctor. He now take Micardis which is the same Telmisartan 40mg as before, but with Hydrochrolothiazide 12.5mg added. Started on 5 Feb 2020.
YowCH ordered a Marantz SR5013 receiver/amplifier from Lazada last week. The model is a few years old and shops doesn’t seem to carry it. This is to replace the Denon 1708 which we have been using since start of 2008, and is very sickly already. This Marantz SR5013 still has analogue 7.1 input, which is great for playing back SACD.
Then we found out that the Velodyne CHT8R sub-woofer had no sound, so YowCH brought it to be checked and found that the circuit board is burnt, repair is $250 and not guaranteed to work, so we bought another sub-woofer, the Mirage MM8 with 3 speakers. Nice bass sound from a small sub-woofer, and with the low-frequency sounds of movies, our windows and walls rattle!
Grace was not working on Thursday, 6 Feb, so she made a caramel cheese cake for Beacon FG. We had our new-year meeting on Friday night, 7 Feb, where we tossed the lo-hei (also prepared by us, with abalone instead of fish).
Here’s a photo of Grace swimming. She has been swimming 20 laps a week recently.
We got this from PJ, creamer and gula melaka in tubes! Very convenient.
This are screen captures of David in action playing basketball for his school in competition game. The video was taken by a parent who attended the game. Unfortunately, games will be postponed due to the nCoV virus pandemic. David is no. 7.
So, to help prevent spread of nCoV, masks are recommended.
YowCH bought cheap OEM air-filter to replace the very dirty one in the Odyssey. $16 per piece, better than originals at $80 each.
Here are photos of Joseph and Samuel at ther piano class with D-flat Studio, Tanglin.
YowCH has been running 3x 2.5km weekly, and going fast. On 1 Feb 2020, he had a fast run of finishing 2.5km in 12m05s.
The car air-con broke down when we went on our trip to PJ for CNY. We sent the car to the workshop for repairs once we returned to Singapore. So o Wednesday morning, Joseph and Samuel walked to school while YowCH walked to work.
Esther, David and Grace took bus to school/work.
Here are some TVB wuxia series that we have watched (except for The Duke of Mount Deer, 鹿鼎記, which we just started watching).
Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, 天龍八部
The Return of the Condor Heroes, 神鵰俠侶
New Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre, 倚天屠龍記
The Duke of Mount Deer, 鹿鼎記
We have posted The Legend of the Condor Heroes, 射鵰英雄傳 earlier.
We prepared the page for CNY2020 and here are a few teaser photos. Click on he photos for the page.
YowCH got his health check (done on 13 Dec 2019) on 21 Jan 2020 and consulted a doctor at Whitecoat clinic which is in the building next to his office. Started high blood pressure medication on 22 Jan 2020.
YowCH and Grace brought Joseph to KKH for a follow up on his finger fracture. The fracture needs a cast, and likely out of action for several weeks. Here are the X-rays.
The finger are still swollen after 1 week.
He chose purple for his cast.
Our soccer team, West Coast Wolves had the annual meeting and dinner on 19 Jan 2020. The children had their weekly games/training, while the parents met at West Coast CC. David helped with the training, and Joseph had to sit out because of his fracture. Here is a photo of the meeting to discuss training needs, strategies, development and plans for football leagues.
At 5:30pm, the children joined the adults at West Coast CC for dinner. We catered nice food.
Grace helped get 2 sets of ‘yu sheng’ (we paid for these). Unable to find the prepared sets, she bought the ingredients from Sheng Siong and sliced the raw vegetables in Church before bringing over to the CC.
We had fun at the party.
Just as he clocked his fastest run the previous Saturday 11 Jan, YowCH’s run on Saturday morning, 18 Jan was yet another personal record, the fastest since 2015! He did 2.5km in 12m05s and covered 2.4km in 11m34s. Very fast.
With this, his top 3 fastest 2.5km runs were all in Jan 2020 – fastest on 18 Jan, then 11 Jan and 3rd place 4 Jan. Perhaps he can still improve on the timing.
