YowCH & Grace

Our neighbour, Steven, has many fish tanks, and a few extras, and after a polite request from David, he gave an unused one to us. This is now the upgrade from HDB studio apartment to landed property for the terrapins. We washed, set-up and transferred the terrapins all in 1.5 hours this morning.

The complete set-up at the corner of our living room.

To separate the food (smelly and dirty) from the pond water, there are turtle feeding tanks available for $50. We did it at home instead with an egg tart cup and a take-away container.

Here’s a look inside the new tank. The terrapins will climb up and dip their heads into the feeding pond it seems (we have not seen it happen).

Next is to set up the lights system properly.

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Today, Joseph had eye check-up and then dental again. Eye check-up shows that his sight is fine.

At NUH, he ran straight to the dentist’s room. But today’s extraction wasn’t so smooth as the tooth was rather decayed and there was damage to the nerve (very painful) and Joseph cried a little. But he sat still throughout and the tooth was extracted. Another 2 teeth were patched. He had chicken porridge with raw fish for lunch right after the extraction.

This is the X-ray which was shot about 1 month ago in the first appointment, photo taken off the computer screen.

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We bought 2 new terrapins on Friday night, and we found one of the new ones dead on Sunday morning. Sad. The living two other are in the left of the photo under the “horse”.

But this guy seems to be not too active from the start and not eating well. There was some skin hanging from the eye, which might make it blind, too, hence it couldn’t see the food to eat.

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We bought 2 more terrapins from the neighbourhood shop at Hoy Fatt Road. Now we have 3.

The dark deep dirty green is the one from the first batch.

We also got the UV-B bulb, and we manually load the UV-A and UV-B bulbs into the lamp to alternate the different exposures.

Next we are looking at a larger tank for them.

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Grace went to work and YowCH brought the children to Ricardo to service the car.

After servicing the car, YowCH went to work (with the children), then lunch and groceries shopping. Upon reaching home, we prepared 12 Ramly burgers for this evening’s BBQ. Esther and David were of great help, and they even did the laundry.

After picking up Grace, we went to the Leongs’ place and met up with the Lims, and the Ngs for BBQ.

Thank God for good weather and great fellowship time.

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Today went for a routine check-up for Baby 4 and a scan. Please go to the page for Baby 4 for the latest scans.

Joseph also had his first tooth extraction today with 2 fillings done at the same time at NUH Dental Clinic. He did not cry throughout the whole injection, extraction and drilling.

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We had dinner with the Lims, Leongs and Ngs at some Bukit Panjang back-street seafood restaurant Hup Choon at Upper Bukit Timah Road, looks very Malaysian. But we first dropped all the children at the Lims’ place first where they had pasta dinner followed by a movie and play time.

Our menu included salt-baked crab, curry fish head, egg-steamed crab and herbal chicken among others.

When we returned to the Lims’ place, we got a surprise party for Grace’s birthday (yesterday). Very nice cake.

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Today is Grace’s birthday, we spent the day playing with the Ngs and Leongs.

Firstly, cycling (and gliding for the younger ones) and rounders.

Then, Mega Pizza for lunch.

After lunch, Esther went to school for National Day Parade rehearsal (as audience). The rest played football and chased bubbles.

[Updated later the night]
This is Esther and her National Day Parade Rehearsal goodie bag contents:

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Today is a holiday for schools as yesterday was Youth Day. Grace took the children to the zoo while YowCH went to work.

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Firstly, we got a rather necessary UV-A light for the terrapins, $50.00 for $3.00 animals:

To make it complete, we need UV-B, too, and we are still looking. Not exactly low maintenance pets.

On Saturday, we had crepes at Out-of-the-Pan at Raffles City. We remembered having crepes with Esther when she was an infant, and went there for a very late 3:00pm lunch.

Back to soccer training on Sunday afternoons after the school holidays break which was also affected by the haze. David is wearing his new boots bought in PJ.

Nate joined us, too.

Joseph was ok during training, but went ‘tired’ during the last 30 minutes of friendly match.

YowCH was wearing his new boots, too, from PJ cheap sale.

In the evening, the Ngs came over and we had pizza (thanks, Alison) and watched Astro-Boy.

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