Trip to Chek Jawa under ACES-YPC
ACES-YPC, which YowCH is a member, organised a trip to Chek Jawa at Pulau Ubin today from 1;30pm to 5:30pm. YowCH brought the children along.
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YowCH at conference and seminar
From Monday 7 Oct to Wednesday 9 Oct, YowCH attended the Singapore International Transport Congress and Exhibition (SITCE2013) at Suntec City (organised by LTA and UITP)
There were more than a thousand international delegates from authorities, consultants, researchers, contractors and suppliers.
LTA’s Land Transport Master Plan 2013 was launched at the SITCE opening ceremony.
But he missed Monday afternoon’s session as YowCH was a speaker at HDB’s Erosion Control Measures Seminar held in the HDB Hub Auditorium.
The audience was mostly HDB’s project staff, contractors and consultants.
Terrapins’ 2nd filter, Jurong West biking again
The maintenance cost is rising, we added a larger filter ($12) on 25 Sept to keep the tank cleaner in order to change water less frequently. You can see it in the left side of the photo.
Today, we visited the new site at Jurong West again to look for some old structures, and here are our trail biking photos:
That’s a big ‘frog’ looking at a real one.
On the roadside drain top (and this drain is really a huge canal), YowCH managed to clock 35km/h on the mountain bike. The children reached 32km/h.
Mountain biking at Jurong West
YowCH needed to visit a new earthwork site at Jurong West which is still very wooded, and the children are on school leave for PSLE Listening and Comprehension Exams, so we went to the site for mountain biking. Grace and Joseph went to work/school. We had breakfast at Block 37, then went to TYLin office for a short while as YowCH needed to sign some drawings and give some instructions. We reached the site at about 10.45am and took out the bikes.
The trails are partly metalled, partly dirt path and sometimes very rough.
We crossed a very rusted steel bridge.
We left the site at about 12.15pm, drove round the site boundary and then went to Colbar for lunch at 1.00pm.
After lunch, we reached home at about 2.15pm.
A very busy Friday
Friday’s busyness started on Thursday, after the normal work hours, YowCH went for the ACES YPC meeting and then the Choa Chu Kang site for launching of the pre-cast sewer bridge over the existing MRT line, which can only be done between 1:30am and 4:30am.
After the successful bridge launching and sending his colleagues home, YowCH got home at 5:30am and took a short 2 hours nap. By 9:00am, we left home for SEA Aquarium at Resort World Sentosa.
We reached the Aquarium at 9:45am, and enjoyed it until 1:30pm. Click on the photos below for the page.
After the Aquarium, we took a fast lunch at Tunglok Signatures at Vivocity, and then sent Esther to school at 2:50pm for her choir performance at SGH. The rest went home where YowCH and Grace took a short nap.
At 6:30pm, we left home to get Esther from SGH, and then got to Church for the 100% Praise at 7:30pm.
After a night of powerful worship and praise, we had supper at The Cheese Prata Shop (Clementi Road) from 10:30pm until 11:15pm.
We then got home and slept at 12:00 midnight.
NUS Bridge wins BCA DESEA Award
YowCH’s project, the NUS Link Bridge won the Building and Construction Authority’s Design and Engineering Safety Excellence Award 2013. The QP, Er. Yong Fen Leong received the prize during the dinner on 16 May 2013 at Resorts World Sentosa. The bridge is curved on plan, and the cantilevered construction over AYE was a huge challenge to design and construction engineering.
YowCH brought the children to the NUS Link Bridge on 18 May 2013 after our morning hiking trip to walk the bridge.
Very nice to roll on the carpet grass of Town Green next to the Education Resource Centre in University Town.
YowCH’s Soundstage project completed
“Infinite Studios” boasts two soundstages of 18,000 sq-ft and 10,000 sq-ft (huge movie-making studios with live-sound recording capability) at Media Circle, off-Postdown Road. Tenants are starting to operate from this new media-based techno-building with satellite broadcast capabilities. Anchor tenants include Infinite Studios, Globecast and Discovery Channel.
Developer: Ascendas + Infinite Studios
Architect: DPA
Structural Engineer: T.Y.Lin International
Mech & Elect Engr: JRP
Quantity Surveyor: KPK (Now Davis Langdon KPK, AECOM)
Main Contractor: Incorporated Builders
YowCH is the Professional Engineer responsible for the civil and structural engineering of this building.
TYLin Malaysia annual dinner at Eastin PJ
TYLin Malaysia’s annual dinner was held at Eastin PJ, very near YowCH’s parents’ place. We drove up to PJ on Saturday 26 Jan 2013 at about 12:30pm after YowCH’s in-house training in the morning. We reached PJ home at 4:45pm (keeping mostly to 120km/h). Esther, David and Joseph had fun with Yen Yen and Yu Yu while YowCH and Grace prepared for the dinner.
We drove off from home at about 5:45pm and reached Eastin at 6:00pm for the dinner. We met Tina and James (Taiwan) and Dr Tang (China) in addition to the close friends in KL office. YowCH’s colleagues Yew Shin and Swee Tong were there, too.
Dinner started punctually at 7:00pm and ended at 10:30pm.
The next morning, Sunday 27 Jan 2013, we met Chee Kean and Ming Meng for dimsum breakfast in Taman Megah.
After breakfast, we went home. Kum Yuen and Josephine visited, bringing Grace’s dad’s books and our 3 sets of Geo-trax trains, which KY helped buy when he was in USA.
After lunch at home, we went out and met CCK and MM for coffee, then drove off to Singapore, keeping closely to the speed limit.
We reached Gelang Patah at 8:00pm and had KFC dinner, then bought some pepes (chicken otak-otak)
We reached home at 10:00pm. Thank God for good drives to and from PJ, fun time with family and friends, and a good dinner with TYL KL colleagues. A short but very fruitful trip.
TYLin Taiwan annual dinner at Taipei
Tagging along with the TYLin Taiwan annual dinner at Taipei on 16 Jan, YowCH and Grace had a short work/holiday trip from 15 to 17 Jan 2013. We met up with YowCH’s cousin, Wei Lian, too.
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Joseph tried golf, family cycling
YowCH brought Joseph along to the driving range on Monday (3 Dec) to try out golf. He can hit the ball, but unable to keep the posture. The club also seems to heavy for him, maybe next year.
Esther and David continued to train, perhaps best to get a professional trainer for them soon.
Today, we took some time to cycle, also to let Joseph train on 2 wheels, but he is not yet ready for 2 wheels yet as he can’t balance. We had to raise the seats on Esther’s and David’s bikes, they must have grown taller!
But he is great on the Y-Glider.
We also updated an earlier post (TYLin 40th Anniversary Dinner) with a group photo of the TYLin Pricipals on stage for the birthday cake. Click here.
