David turned 15 on Sunday, 2 Mar. We had a nice Korean BBQ dinner at Nanta BBQ, near United Square.
Here’s a look at the young man.
The food we had were great.
We got him a pair of cool looking running shoes: Nike Air Max.
Grace brought her mom, Esther, Joseph and Samuel to watch Disney on Ice. A little holiday treat. David and YowCH not interested.
YowCH had a 2-day work trip to Ipoh from 11 to 12 March 2019. The team took Scoot at 6:30am from Changi Terminal 2, and arrived at Ipoh at 7:30am.
The airport is very small, mostly for domestic flights. International flights only from Singapore and via Scoot or Airasia.
The local host (Projalma) drove the team (with contractor Eng Lee, client HDB, QP Er. Tham, and consultants YowCH) in a van and had dim-sum (halal) breakfast at Canning Garden.
After breakfast, we went to Projalma’s precast factory, and this company will be casting segments for a HDB bridge (YowCH’s project).
After a short briefing, the team visited the mould and the factory.
The Qualified Persons carried out inspections.
For lunch, we were taken to Little Elephant, a Western-Asian fusion restaurant. YowCH had nasi kerabu (blue rice).
The host order some snacks for sharing, and YowCH had sago for dessert.
After lunch, we continued with the site discussions on quality control, delivery schedules and other related matters.
At about 6:00pm, we arrived back in Ipoh town and checked into Weil Hotel, a new and very nice business hotel with affordable rates.
After a short rest, YowCH brought the team out to the old streets of Ipoh for dinner at Lou Wong bean-spout chicken.
After dinner, we walked the streets a little and returned to the hotel for some discussions and work.
Here are some night scenes of Ipoh taken from the hotel roof.
Next morning, we woke early to have breakfast at Sin Yoon Loong at 7:30am.
We continued to inspect the first segment, for readiness to be cast in concrete.
At about 11:00am, we left Projalma, and was taken to see the queer Kellie’s castle (YowCH suggested this). We just viewed the castle from the carpark.
After that, we drove a bit out of town to the pomelo farm to buy some fresh pomelos, before returning to the hotel to check-out.
Again views from the roof top, in daylight.
We checked out at 12:20pm and we were taken to lunch at Tuck Kee, Big Tree Foot.
After lunch, the hosts brought us to 362 Gunung Rapat Heong Peah, where the biscuits are still baked in traditional style earth ovens.
Then to the nearby Yee Hup shop for buying snacks.
And finally back to Ipoh old street for Lai Kee soya bean curd with ginger black sugar.
We reached the airport at 4:00pm, checked-in smoothly and the flight took off on time at 5:25pm.
However, the plane had to circle at Changi due to heavy traffic and we landed only at 6:45pm. YowCH reached home at 7:45pm, and brought along lots of goodies (mostly food).
Thank God for a smooth trip, work done during the trip, positive interactions between the team from the contractor, client and consultants and safety. Also thank God for all the good food in Ipoh.
The West Coast Wolves hosted the South-west League games at Clementi Stadium on 10 Mar 2019.
Samuel played a in the Under-6 team, and participated quite well.
Samuel’s team took 2nd place of 4 teams.
After the games, he sat around while Joseph’s games were played.
YowCH was assigned to manage the Under-15 team, and they play at the last sessions of the day.
Joseph’s team faced very tough opponents and they were knocked-out quite early (playing 3 games and losing all).
But Joseph played well during the games, especially in the third game.
The Under-12 team got medals for participation.
The Under-15 team got first place.
Overall, West Coast Wolves did quite well in this league.
It was a hot morning, and playing from 7:00am to 2:00pm, we went over to Sorrento for lunch followed by a dip in the cool pool.
YowCH decided to bring the family for dinner and a movie on Friday night at Tiong Bahru Plaza. We ate dinner at Old Street Bak Kut Teh at about 8:15pm and then watched Captain Marvel from 9:30pm to 12:00mn.
Nice story and presentation, but not as visually exciting as other Marvel movies (Samuel felt bored, Joseph slept at the last 5 mins). Good twists and turns, and the lack of technology back in the 90s is a very clear struggle for the movie makers.
Some of our food:
Vietnamese:
Pasta by David:
Pasta by YowCH:
Popiah at Lao Baijing:
Food Panda delivered from Refuel:
Portuguese egg tarts:
Joseph’s head wound is healing well.
We bought a roll-up piano from a local guy through Carousell, $112.50 including courier. The buttons are hard to press, but better than no piano. With output to the external speakers, the sound is pretty good.
Samuel had his first piano recital just 3.5 months since he started lessons with D-Flat Studios.
That was Aaron Goh (owner of D-Flat) introducing the session before many little children performed (mostly piano, but there were two singers).
Samuel’s turn was almost at the end, and he introduced himself and the songs he was to play. That’s his teacher, Valerie Tjota.
His playing wasn’t too bad, but rather soft (perhaps not confident).
Incey Wincey Spider, the last song had Esther accompanying him.
Supermoon (full moon and nearest to earth) happened on Tuesday, but the moon was still very full on Wednesday night. YowCH brought Samuel out to see the moon and had some fun at the “O” of Block 38.
Saturday morning views from the bedroom window, before the regular run.
This is YowCH’s office tower.
This morning, YowCH ran 4.0km, and David did 2.4km.
Joseph attended an adventure camp organised by his school, at MOE Outdoor Adventure Learning Centre at Changi East, ran by Touch Community Services. He left on Monday morning for the 3-day-2-night camp.
On Tuesday night, when he was going to the toilet at about 10.10pm, he slipped off 3 steps and hit his head on the floor. A small cut resulted and due to the head injury, the teacher and camp commandant sent him to Changi General Hospital A&E. YowCH and Grace went to the hospital, too.
The cut was rather small, 10mm, and not deep, and there was no other pain or injury.
We waited for the doctor, the treatment, and the medication.
The wound was cleaned and glue was applied to seal it. Finally we left the hospital at 2:00am, reaching home at 2:30am.
Joseph was given 4 days MC and will miss the last day of camp. But he returned to school for lessons on Thursday.
Samuel built our Year-of-the-Pig Lego set.
And Samuel has grown a bit more, he is above the 1.0m line now.
We had “Hawker” food with Grace’s parents after church. Interesting pairing of hawker food like chilli crab, satay, mala chicken or chicken rice with burger! Not too expensive but nice.
Sunday evening, we had waffles and spaghetti at the nearby Carrara, a small reward for Samuel playing well at football training.
