YowCH had prepared in advance since August a stack of books as resignation gift to his staff. The book is a nice engineering reading, To Engineer is Human, by Henry Petroski.
We sent the Odyssey to the carwash for the first time on 6 August 2016 (previously only washed by Kah Motors during the 1st servicing).
With the contracts expired and eligible for handset change, and the old phones were starting to give problems, Grace and David changed phones shortly after Esther did.
David got his iPhoneSE on 4 Oct 2016 to replace his HTC Desire 510. Here’s the iSE with UAG armour case, not seen is the matt surface tampered glass screen protector.
Grace got her Samsung S7 (silver) also on 4 Oct 2016, which is the same model as YowCH’s S7 (black), to replace her S5.
Grace later got herself a transparent red UAG armour case.
Automobile Association of Singapore conducted an online test and YowCH took it, scoring very high, hence a good driver, earning an extra year of membership for free.
On 29 Sept, YowCH colleagues threw a farewell dinner for him and 3 others collegaues (Kenneth, Yiwei and Fidelino) at Indochili, Zion Road. Nice fellowship and great taasting Indonesian food. Grace and Samuel was also at the dinner.
Here’s Samuel sharing instant noodles with Joseph for breakfast. He is trying to use the chopsticks but has not fully gotten the correct technique and doesn’t have much strength yet. We will continue to train him.
On Wednesday, 21 Sept, Esther got her new phone, an iPhone7 32GB, rose gold. Here’s the new phone, in a black Spigen case. She bought it partially with her own savings.
Here’s the phone, taking a dip in the swimming pool, it is waterproof.
We borrowed the float board from the coach and had some fun on it after the swimming lessons.
Samuel has VERY good balance standing on the float board!
On 17 Sep 2016, Saturday, we attended the PA Sports event at Sports Hub under West Coast Wolves. We arrived early and roamed the new National Stadium and had breakfast before we played football.
But the soccer pitches (8) were very small because there was a Zumba event taking up more than half the field.
Samuel happily joined the team in their warm-up session.
Here’s a view of the stadium from our seating area.
There were also some fun-items for children like a bouncing castle.
Here are some action shots of David and Joseph.
Here are some mid-autumn fun photos.
We bought piglets for Joseph and Samuel. Samuel started with biting off the nose…
We also bought a balloon lantern for Samuel (Thomas the Train). The wire broke after 1 night.
Traditional candle lanterns are still the best:
4 Children, but 5 lanterns.
Kah Motor registered the Odyssey on Wednesday and managed to issue the car to us on the morning of 18 Aug 2016. We met the agent to go through the car at 10:15am and drove off at 11:45am.
Here’s one last look at the Isis (we bought in 2009) that served us very well for the past 7 years and 4 months:
The Isis was driven 161641km in total.
At collection, here are the two cars with the same plate:
The Isis now bears SLF1912M.
Here’s the new car (more info on the Odyssey page):
Some internal views, with Grace, Joseph and Samuel (Esther was in school, David was taking his PSLE English Oral, and Joseph had PSLE leave).
And here’s a look at the panel at night.
Thank God for the new car, nicely comfortable for passengers and driver, but not as aggressive driving due to the CVT and weight of the car.
David’s PSLE English Oral is on 18 Aug, and Chinese Oral on 19 Aug. Then it will be the final preparations for the PSLE written papers.
David was awarded a prize for his artwork for SG51. The prize was presented by MP Indranee at 118A Jalan Membina on Sunday morning. We had breakfast courtesy of our Chinese tuition centre.
That afternoon, the boys collected the new soccer uniforms, which is blue. Unfortunately, the game against Jurong Green is cancelled due to lightning warning.
On Monday night, we had dinner at Alibabar, near our home at ARC, with Grace’s parents. Here’s Grace with Fucking Hell.
And here’s a resigned man:
The children got to taste the beer.
