YowCH & Grace

190907: Grace, YowCH, Samuel and Joseph had lunch at Tiong Bahru Plaza Tino’s, eating two very smelly pizzas (4 cheeses and durian) and a rice.

Samuel was rather tired after lunch, he slept in the car.

190909: We had a late dinner (more like supper) at Sin Hoi San. Samuel enjoyed his gong-gong. We enjoyed the chicken essence bull-frog. We also had petai, venison, pork ribs, mushroom-vege and fried beehoon.

190915: After swimming in the haze (PSI 120) we ate at the nearby Mei Ling food court. Grace did 20 laps, YowCH did 20 laps + 1 lap butterfly, Esther, David and Joseph each did 10 laps + 1 lap butterfly, and Samuel did 5 laps (4 breast and 1 free).

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YowCH has been running regularly (2x 2.5km each week), even when the haze from Indonesia is attacking Singapore. He ran a decent 12m50s 2.5km, which completed 2.4km in 12m15s (Napfa standard A for age 45+). The haze was about PSI 90, getting a bit high.

In the evening, for Church, YowCH, Esther and David lead worship. It was fun and exciting to have an uplifting worship with the children.

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Samuel wore his Chinese suit for mid-autumn celebration in learning vision.

YowCH drove over after work, with Joseph, and joined the celebration.

Samuel performed several songs.

We had fun eating and we shared our home-made mooncakes, too.

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We had lots of fun making mooncakes, with interesting flavours and colours.



Purple for lotus paste, orange for grapefruit flavoured lotus and brown for jackfruit flavoured lotus.

We shared them with our church friends!

Then Esther and David made some red (red bean paste) and blue (yam paste) ones!

And then Grace, YowCH and Joseph made some durian lotus and coffee lotus mooncakes.


And of course, for mid-autumn, Samuel had fun with lanterns.

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We have shifted from Delta to Queenstown for swim because Delta is starting renovations (for at least 1 year)

The Queenstown main pool is deeper and wider (9 lanes). It uses salty water.

In the afternoon, we had our regular football training. Samuel is still not too interested, but Joseph is doing well. David helps out with coaching as part of his community service activity.

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We bought readymix flour and stuffings and made mooncakes! Actually, Samuel was very interested to do so. After mixing shortening (vege oil) and water into the flour, we left it to rest for 30 minutes.

Then we rolled the stuffings into balls and wrapped with the flour before putting into the mould to make the shape.

David wasn’t really keen on this activity, but he helped with cutting the butter paper for storing the mooncakes.

The finished product:

We made about fifty pieces and game a bunch of them away to swim coaches and neighbours.

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Some of our dinners:



And our nice liquors:

Rambutans from YowCH’s colleague’s tree, nice.

Roku Gin (Japanese) from Paul, very very nice.

Samuel is in white shoes for photo taking. He will wear them next year when he enters Primary School.

YowCH’s Air Max covered about 360km of runs and very little walking, about to be worn out.

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Esther went cycling, and YowCH took some nice photos:




Esther also made some cloth cases using the sewing machine:

Joseph and Samuel had some fun time at the playground.

Joseph can saw, he helped YowCH saw pieces of wood to fix the bed.

David’s Air Max was worn out and the bubble burst, but everything else was OK. So YowCH though of an idea to use silicone to fill the bubble to repair the shoe.


The shoe works fine after silicone injection – but heavier and not so bouncy.

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We had some fun in the pool last weekend on 4 Aug after our weekly swim (but Joseph was ill and Grace was away at work).

YowCH collected the deed of Rumah Tinggi flat from the lawyer on 6 Aug. The flat is now ‘fully owned’.

We had dinner with the Yongs at our place on 9 Aug (which is the Singapore National Day), hot plate food after some games.






After dinner, Siu Hei go to try out using the sewing machine!

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Grace attended the Church Ladies’ retreat over the weekend of 3 to 5 Aug. Click on the photos to view:

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