YowCH’s company, KTP, had a Chinese New Year lunch on Friday 17 Jan 2020.
Later in the evening, YowCH, Esther and David prepared dinner for BCG as we hosted the cell group at our place.
Some miscellaneous stuff:
Wi-fi biscuit:
Pomelo skin helmet for Samuel:
Joseph was playing in a basketball league game (representing his school) on 16 Jan 2020 and he fell badly. His little finger on the left hand had a minor fracture. After the game (GESPS won), the teachers brought him to KKH A&E. YowCH picked Samuel from school and met them there. Grace was there, too.
The finger was swollen, and the doctor applied a buddy bandage and the thermo-plastic cast. Looks very serious for a small fracture.
The next day, he was back in school (ignoring his 4 days of MC).
YowCH increased his running from 2x weekly 2.5km to 3x weekly 2.5km in 2020. On 11 Jan, Saturday morning, he clocked his fastest ever 2.5km run since he started regular running in 2015. He covered 2.5km in 12m10s (2.4km in 11m40s). Perhaps it was the compression tights that helped!
The step counter is 1972, usually he takes about 2050 steps for 2.5km. Perhaps longer strides helps.
What’s interesting is that the fastest runs (1st, 2nd and 4th) all happened within the last 2 weeks. The 3rd fastest was in Oct 2018.
We invited Siu Hei for dinner for his birthday, but he prefers to eat at our place, so we prepared home cooked salmon, pork, beef and lamb, with sides of portobello mushrooms, mussels and egg-salad.
After dinner, failing to have a cake, YowCH made a stacked-up-ice-cream-potong cake.
Esther decided to cook a dinner on 8 Jan, so she when to Ikea after school and bought the stuff to cook for the family. Nice!
YowCH bought some durians from a vendor who delivers to KTP, 3 fruits of Mao Shan Wang ($18/kg, total $72) on 9 Jan. We had durians as part of dinner, after YowCH’s regular run.
Just a nice screen capture of the Parents Gateway app on our phone, showing that all 4 children are registered with MOE (Ministry of Education). Esther will be out next year.
This was Esther’s bag for a few years, then Joseph used it for a few years (David needed a new bag because he overlapped with Esther), and finally Samuel used it for 1 week before the strap broke. The straps were just too old and the plastic deteriorated, and too much trouble to replace them, so we threw the 11-year-old bag away. Deuter Scholar series is very good as school bags. This old one is Small size.
Now Samuel uses Medium size (David’s bag). A little too big for his small body.
YowCH attended the meet-the-parents session for Primary 1 students at GESPS on Monday, 6 Jan 2020.
Here’s Samuel’s first piece of work in primary school:
His classmates:
His buddy (P5 assigned to guide P1), and his classroom:
And the pinning-of-the-badge ceremony to mark end of orientation.
Our first soccer training in 2020 on Sunday, 5 Jan. Joseph and Samuel both trained well.
On Sunday night, David helped cut and fry arrowroot for snacks. Not easy to slice them evenly and thin with a knife, and frying takes a long time.
Here are some final photos of Redhill Close, our home from 2001 to 2005, before they are demolished (likely some time in 2020). YowCH regular runs and the daily commute to Gan Eng Seng Primary School still goes past these flats. We stayed in Block 10 unit 04-122, the corner unit at level 4 furthest from Jalan Bukit Merah.
Refer earlier post here.
Samuel enters primary school today, joining Joseph at Gan Eng Seng Primary School.
And here is a photo of all the children on the first day of school. This is the year of major exams, Joseph taking PSLE, David taking O-levels and Esther taking A-levels.
We pray for God to bless them with focused minds for their studies.
YowCH ran 2.5km on the morning of 31 Dec 2019 and again the evening of 1 Jan 2020. Both runs were quite fast, at 12m40s.
We went for the Church Thanksgiving Service on 31 Dec 219 (7:30pm to 9:30pm), then visited Grace’s parents until past midnight. Esther and David went out with church friends for their youth groups activities.
We stayed at home on 1 Jan 2020, mostly to prepare for school, to clear the home and to rest.
Here’s a photo of Samuel, his is well above the 1.0m line on the wall now.
Compare with Feb 2019.
Esther and David reached home in the morning. We had chicken rice for lunch and then walked to Carrara for dinner.
We slept early at about 10:30pm to prepare for school and work in the new year.
Esther had a school trip to Chiang Mai from 21 to 27 Nov 2019, just before our trip to Korea. Click below for the page:
We watched Star Wars 9 at Vivocity, courtesy of our insurance agent from Prudential on Sunday, 29 Dec 2019, 4:00pm show.
They had goodies bags including coke, pop-corn and a water tumbler. One for every seat!
The story was good, and a reasonable ending to the saga.
