Happy birthday, Grace
It’s Grace’s birthday and we had dinner at Cedele, Great World City, with Grace’s parents and sister. Here’s a nice photo Gene took for us.
And the slice of birthday cake that Esther bought.
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Joseph on Sunday Times
Sunday Times 12 July 2015, Sports section featured the Borussia Dortmund football clinic at People’s Association HQ held on 11 July 2015. The photo has Joseph right in the middle!
The online Sunday Times here.
This morning, Esther ran 2.7km, with YowCH who ran 3.5km. Just a little exercise.
Soccer clinic with Borussia Dortmund at PA HQ
David and Joseph joined a group of 25 from West Coast CSC in attending the football clinic at PA HQ today, conducted by German team Borussia Dortmund coaches under the sponsorship of Evonik. We started the session at 9.00am.
The children were given BVB training jersey, shorts and socks.
It was a fun event, but the training was real.
Above is Lars Ricken (retired BVB striker and Germany national player) signing David’s T-shirt. Samuel had lots of fun running about.
The bee is the mascot, Emma. Esther was very helpful in looking after Samuel and taking care of our stuff.
The Evonik manager gave medals and Lars gave certs to the children.
A Q&A session, and we ended at 11.15am.
Each player received lots of BVB freebies: jersey, shorts, socks, Puma training ball, water bottle, medal, cert and sunshades.
Thank God for the good weather.
Fat Boy burger dinner with Yongs
We had dinner with YowCH’s sister’s family at Upper Thomson Road Fat Boys.
We ordered 6 burgers, 2 plates of beer-batter onion rings, 10 chilli drumlets and 1 plate of truffle fries.
The food was great, and we ate up much of what we ordered.
We also realised that Samuel can hold a glass and drink water directly, all by himself!
9 days in Malaysia for family and church camp
We were back in PJ from 13 to 21 June for Church Camp (at Putrajaya) and family time. Click on the photos below for get to the page:
Soccer training, Esther Birthday dinner with family
Sunday afternoon, Joseph and David were at training again, and they played very hard in the hot sun!
Then, we had dinner at Cedele (GWC) with Gene and parents to celebrate Esther’s birthday.
Esther was busy taking photos of the food.
Here’s the birthday cake she got, a sea-salt caramel cheesecake.
And Samuel was also happily enjoying the dinner, eating mostly by himself.
Esther’s birthday, David’s Batam snacks, throne for the drums and TYLin hike at Sg Buloh
Today is Esther’s 13th birthday. We had a family dinner at Sakae Sushi after church.
David was at Batam last Monday and Tuesday with his school, to teach English to the Batam students. He bought some snacks: fried fish balls and Malay layer cake.
Our drum set is finally complete, Grace managed to get a 2nd hand throne for $30.
We spent the morning at Sungei Buloh Wetlands with YowCH’s colleagues. It was a nice hike. Click on the photos below to the page.
Samuel on bike with YowCH
Here’s the Yow-family cycling method for small children:
Weekend – Soccer games, Samuel, 2nd hand boots, box, paper-drum, holiday program
This weekend is the start of the June holidays. On Sunday morning, Joseph played soccer at Yusuf Ishak Sec Sch in the Under-7 team (the Under-9 team was also playing). David helped manage the U-7 team, and Esther was helpful in bringing Samuel about. There were 8 teams of U-7 and U-9.
While Joseph was playing, YowCH went swimming at Jurong East Swimming Complex with Esther and David. Samuel was asleep, so Grace looked after the small boy. After the swim, we returned to Joseph’s games, for the closing ceremony. Madam Halimah Yacob, MP for Bukit Batok, gave way the participation medals.
Later in the afternoon, Esther went to ballet class, and David played in a friendly match with BB East and Ulu Pandan at Queenstown Pri Sch. Joseph helped with the warm-ups and cheered for the Under-12 team.
A very tiring weekend. Thankfully, Monday is a public holiday, Vesak Day.
Here’s Samuel at KKH garden, after lunch:
With Grace at work with afternoon duties, YowCH picked up some 2nd-hand items which Grace have arranged for:
1. 1 pair of Timberland hiking boots for the children. The other two pairs were picked up some time last week.
2. 1 toy carry-box, Playmobil, for Samuel:
3. 1 Paper Jamz ultra-thin finger drum pad.
The pad has outlet, and sounds great when patched to our 40W amp! The built-in speakers are good enough for Samuel.
Lastly, here’s a look at our program for June 2015 (prepared by the children). We are fully booked!
Eco-park, guitar & drums, soccer
Last Sunday, we spent the morning at Rumah Tinggi Eco Park before our swim.
Samuel really loves to climb!
Up on the hill, it looks like some holiday scene!
Pillar hugging at the multi-purpose porch.
Back at home, Esther and David played the guitar and drums together, sounds good.
We managed to sell the acoustic drum set, at $200 which gives us $20 to cover the transportation expenses. Worthwhile for the short time we played the drums.
In the afternoon, the boys went for soccer training as usual, at Tanglin Secondary School.
