YowCH’s cousins Phan Wei Lian and family (from Taiwan) and Phan Wei Yeu visited us. We had a sumptious Korean dinner at The Gogi and adjourned to our home for more chit-chat time.
We had a great time catching up, and the children had a great time playing together, too.
West Coast Wolves hosted the West league at Clementi Stadium on Sunday, 27 Feb 2018 from 7:00am to 5:00pm.
YowCH was the photographer and odd-job guy.
Grace and Samuel were there, too.
David arrived at the field at about 2:15pm for the U15 games.
After lunch, it was the U12 and U15 games, and Grace took Samuel and Joseph to Sorrento.
Due to pouring rain and lightning risks, the finals were cancelled and the U15 had joint winners West Coast Wolves and Taman Jurong.
Senior Minister S Iswaran was present to give away the medals.
We had lunch at Colber:
And an afternoon swim before church for Sam and YowCH
We had our first cell-group meeting at the Tan’s new place at Upper Thomson on Friday 19 Jan.
For Grace’s 20th anniversary with KKH, she received a certificate, a notepad, $400 of vouchers and $100 in a cash-card.
YowCH has been running regularly, from 2.5km to 5.0km. Even on 14 Jan when it was drizzling and the air temperature as the lowest in Singapore (since 2016) at 22°C.
YowCH also managed to swim 500m (10 laps) non stop in free style for the first time. Grace is now regularly doing 20 laps of breast stroke with some breaks in between laps.
We had friendly games with Shoot Academy, a Japanese football club on 14 Jan. They were really good and we were practically trashed, but fun time playing.
After a tough game, and with very low temperature in Singapore, eating Korean BBQ was great.
Our Church celebrated 60th anniversary with service followed by dinner at Orchid Country Club. Officially, our church started on 12 Jan 1958.
We took a family photo when we arrived on that rainy day.
Service and dinner in the main hall.
Esther was part of the choir.
The choir sang in serveral segments of the service and dinner.
Beacon CG and eCG table photo.
That’s the children in their children program (separate room).
The children performed (and so did the older folks). Samuel and Joseph were very enthusiastic.
Final event, birthday cake and prayers.
We had dinner with the Yongs at their place. We called Foodpanda to deliver Bak Kut Teh.
On Sunday, we went for the first football training of 2018. Samuel said he wanted to join the team, but he was focused only at the warm-up and a short while of ball skills training.
We picked up a nice DeLorean model (Back To The Future) from the trash area at our flat, with intact box!
New Year’s dinner at home.
Tuesday 2 Jan, first day of school.
And Samuel enjoys his Y-glider with our neighbour’s boy.
Gene organized a great Korean dinner at Hyangtogol, Amara Hotel on Saturday night to celebrate dad’s 71st birthday:
We had hotpot and grill!
And soju to drink, too.
Friday, 22 Dec, was mid-winter (冬节). We had a simple dinner at Xin Wang, Anchorpoint where we also ordered starch-balls (汤圆).
On Sunday evening, Christmas Eve, we had dinner at home with Grace’s parents and sister. Nice meaty grill!
And after dinner, we had a great time playing Christmas songs for a sing-along! Click on the photo below to connect to the Facebook video of “We wish you a Marry Christmas”.
On Christmas day, we went for the earlier Christmas service in church. Then we took Grace’s parents out for lunch at Westgate, as Esther and David had lunch with friends in church. We bought a Transformer for Samuel:
When we got home, we opened of Christmas presents.
For dinner, we had Korean hotpot at The Gogi, Alexandra Centre. The main hotpot was fish-roe soup.
After the nice dinner, we went downstairs to Alibabar for beer, truffle fries and fired onion rings.
The red bottle is non-alcoholic beer.
