Joseph and YowCH attends Church Juniors’ Camp
YowCH was in the camp committee and Joseph attended the church juniors’ camp from 21 to 23 June 2019. Click photos below for the page.
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Church Mid-lifers’ Camp
Grace and YowCH attended the Church Mid-lifers’ Camp from 15 to 17 June. Joseph and Samuel tagged along, while Esther and David attended the youth 3D2N prayer camp in church. Click on photos below for the page.
Trip to PJ over the weekend 7 to 10 June
We took leave from work on Fri 7 Jun and Mon 10 Jun for a short trip to PJ. Click on the photos below to go to the page:
Esther’s 17 birthday and CJC performance
Esther had a performance at CJC today,she sang with the choir, and the big-band (Music Ministry).
Grace brought the boys to watch.
After the performance, YowCH drove the family to Star vista Morganfields for Esther’s birthday dinner.
We ordered meats and seafood.
And of course, cakes for Esther.
Weekend – swim, football, durians
Some updates:
Esther had a stay-over in CJC on Friday night, while David had a 2-nights stay over in church. Esther then joined David in church on Saturday night.
YowCH was teaching cajon to the church Juniors over Saturday and Sunday.
Samuel can now do 1 full lap (50m) in freestyle. Although his kicking is still not strong and his stroke is not nice, he managed to complete the lap.
Here’s a little problem of having a sun-roof, you get to see the bird shit on the car.
After swim, we had soccer practice as usual, and Joseph sprained his wrist while playing as goalkeeper. Nothing serious. YowCH did the bandage, to help immobilise and let the sprain heal faster.
We had dinner at Carrara Cafe, and bought some Mao Shan Wang during for supper.
Here’s Samuel trying to lift 6kg of durians. Being a bumper crop this year due to hot weather, MSW was selling at $16/kg rather than the usual $28/kg.
Samuel can help to open durians now, he is quite good at it.
A family photo without David, as he doesn’t even like the Durian smell.
After durians, we watched a nice thriller-superhero movie “Glass” at home.
LED lights for our home
Over several weeks, we have replaced the lights in our home with LED at many locations.
The cove lights are replaced with LED tubes.
The kitchen lights with LED panel.
The back yard florescent tubes with LED tubes.
The main bedroom with switchable (cool-warm-all) LED panels.
The boys’ room with an LED panel with glare-reducing mask (they broke the glass cover several months ago), while the girl’s room is a naked LED panel within the glass cover.
We kept the living, dining and computer rooms on fluorescent tubes, but removed the warm yellow light tubes, hence we can have very bright white lights throughout the house.
Joseph was very helpful in giving a hand to YowCH as he set up the lights with some minor re-wiring works to cut off the starters and to bypass the ballast.
Laptop for Esther’s birthday
Esther’s current laptop is rather slow and restrictive for her school work, so after much planning, we got a new laptop for her, an Asus TP412UA from Challenger. The brochure shows a lower spec, but the one we got from Challenger is the higher spec model, discounted from $1598 to $1398.
It is Intel i7, 8GB RAM and 512GB SSD, 14″ Full HD touchscreen, and comes with Asus Pen (a stylus), a lousy laptop bag and 1 year anti-virus.
Looks very nice and elegant, and runs faster than the older Asus.
This will be her birthday present (next week), but she’ll have to share the usage with the boys sometimes.
Redhill Close to be demolished and redeveloped
We bought our first flat in Redhill Close.
It was announced in 2011 that Redhill Close 7-storey flats will be demolished and redeveloped. Subsequently, the exercise to move the residents out started in Oct 2018 and completed in Jan 2019. As YowCH was making his regular runs through this estate, he noticed that there were lesser people around progressively.
On 31 May, after meeting Joseph’s teachers at the end of term, YowCH walked pass the estate and noted that the whole place has been cleared and locked up.
It was a nice neighbourhood we stayed in after getting married, and frankly, the old and lousy flats were all we could afford.
Samuel builds shelf, and food we eat
Samuel is able to follow the printed instructions and assemble the shelf by himself.
Here are some of our recent food:
We had dinner with Grace’s parents and Gene at West Coast:
We had a dinner with the Yongs on 12 May, having popiah (and other food) at Novena Lao Beijing.
Grace’s mum did some chung and roast pork on 18 May.
And on 25 May, we had Nasi Ambeng at JEM (Jurong East Mall) Penang Culture.
Swim – butterfly
The children has gotten to swimming butterfly. Firstly, a photo from last week, of Samuel making a good dive:
This is David on butterfly, with Esther doing freestyle. The two had the same timing.
This is Esther doing butterfly:
And Joseph:
And Samuel, trying to do butterfly:
After all the hard swim, we had lunch with coaches Francis and Tobby at Henderson Kay Lee (roast meat):
