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TYLin Trip to Jiuzhaigou

YowCH and Grace left home on Thursday to catch a flight at 2:00am to Chengdu for the TYLin company trip to Jiuzhaigou. The children did not join this trip, as it is mostly bus rides and walking, with sightseeing in between, none of those children friendly activities. Big thanks to Grace’s parents for looking after them.

Here we are, just landed in Chengdu on 29 Oct morning.

We then visited Luodai Ancient Town and the Dujiangyan irrigation system. The river and scale of the system is huge.

We had dinner with the TYLin Congqing office colleagues at a Sichuan hotpot restaurant, and enjoyed great numbing spicy hot soup steamboat and a nice strong liquor “Wu Liang Ye”.

The next day, 30 Oct, we went to the airport to fly to Jiuzhai Huanglong Airport at 10:20a, but due to heavy fog, the flight was delayed by over 4 hours. We reached Jiuzhai at 3:10pm, after waiting in the plane for 4 hours and a shot 40 minutes flight. The plane took us over the clouds and mountains, beautiful views.

After we landed, and having lost 4 hours, the first stop is a tea house where we were expected to buy some tea (typical tour shopping stopover). The scenery of the rural area was fantastic.

This is a short trip update. More updates later on, and a dedicated page to file the trip.

NUS Bridge on STOMP, Joseph the ice-cream king

Whoa! YowCH’s NUS Link Bridge project is featured on STOMP, obviously written by someone pretty malicious and ill-informed. The comments are all blasting the person who posted. Currently the bridge is about to be completed, with 6 more segments to go (out of 29), and should be structurally done by end-June.

Also, we see Joseph the ice-cream king. Here, he is eating a Mini Cornetto blueberry at grandparents’ place after dinner.

Just a note, he took a few bites, but didn’t finish the whole thing, the whole Mini would have been too much for a little boy.

TYLin Pulau Ubin morning cycling

Today, we spent the morning at Pulau Ubin under TYLin’s Staff Club activity. Grace was at work, and Joseph with in school, but dad joined us. As Esther and David are not yet cycling, they were carried on childseats.




Esther took a photo of YowCH:

Handlebar view, while cycling:

We left earlier than than the rest as we have some afternoon activities.

Thank God for a very cool and shady morning.

Trip to PJ for TYLin M’sia Dinner

We drove up to PJ on Saturday morning (30 Jan) from 6:30am arriving at PJ at 11:30am for lunch. then we went to TYLin Malaysia’s Annual Dinner at Sime Darby Convention Centre. The children had lots of fun with Zi Yen.

Sunday was spent with YowCH’s parents and sister Loon. We went shopping and then had dinner with the Lims (YowCH’s aunty’s family).

We left PJ at 6:30am and reached Singapore home again at 11:00am, just in time to send Esther to school after a comfortable lunch at home.

E&D visits ER251 site and 1-day Malacca Trip by TYLin

On 15 May 09, Esther and David visited the TBSE addition ramp site (LTA’s Contract ER251), which is YowCH’s job. The visit was for YowCH to have one final check on the structure and rebar prior to casting the first span of the new ramp.

Then, TYLin’s Staff Club organised a Family Day Trip to Malacca on 16 May 2009, called ’1-day trail of the Little Nyonya”. You can see photos from the trip here.

YowCH’s “office photo”

Today, Grace took a photo for YowCH, as a formal photo to use for office matters, which we call the “office photo”.

The studio is actually our bedroom with some minor modifications and tight cropping. The chair that YowCH is seated on is actually our bed’s headboard! With some contruction photo and engineering books as background, the setting is quite OK for a ‘studio’ shot of an ‘office’! Here is the out take:

We have also updated the page for the Isis, scroll down to 14 March 2009 to see new photos.

Trip to PJ, 090116 to 090118

We had a trip to PJ on 16 Jan, hitching a ride with Swee Tong, as 15 members of TYLin SG went to KL for the TYLin KL annual dinner on 17 Jan at Cititel, Midvalley.

This was Joseph’s first trip out of Singapore. We had a great time at home. Esther and David played with Yen Yen, and we met with Chee Kean for shopping and food on Saturday, before YowCH went to the dinner.

On Sunday, we took train back to Singapore. It was a great trip. The children were not too difficult and we successfully travelled by train with all three of them. We bought 4 2nd class seats and Joseph slept in the pram at times.

Added page for TYLin Southern Ridge walk

Added a page for the TYLin Staff Club organised Southern Ridges walk held on 2 Aug 2008.

Parties for Joseph’s 1st month

We had three parties for Joseph’s first month:

19 Dec 2008 evening for Cheong Hoe’s colleagues (T.Y.Lin):

21 Dec 2008 morning at Church, shared with Daniel Ng (born one week before Joseph):

21 Dec 2008 afternoon for church friends, neighbours and Grace’s colleagues (KKH):

Thank God for all the fun. And thanks to all Joseph’s friends for the gifts.

Added TYLin’s durian trip page

The durian trip on 12 July can be viewed here.