YowCH & Grace

Chye Joo has a very festive CNY, with ‘start work hong bao’ for everyone:

The a nice lion dance (permit from Government):

Lion at YowCH’s seat:



The company provided packed lunch:

And later, order some pizzas and fried chicken for afternoon snacks.

Esther had pizza at Rainbow Centre for CNY!

Esther’s A level results were released on 19 Feb 2021, she got BCCCD.

Beacon CG had a small CNY gathering at Patrick’s place. We made siew yuk 2 nights before and cooked the sea cucumber stew the night before.

We also bought the stuff for the lou-sang.

Our friends made nice chapatti and humus, and a very different type of niangao (very nice).

Some photos of YowCH doing his regular 2x 6.0km weekly.

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On 4 Feb, YowCH had dinner with some friends from work at Hillview area. Nice Italian restaurant “iO Italian Osteria”.


On 4 Feb, Grace received her 2nd dose of Covid vaccine. Her first does was taken on 14 Jan 2021.

5 Feb, David’s first day in his CJC uniform.

A pre-CNY dinner at Sorrento on Saturday, 6 Feb:

We fried some niangao for snacks on Sunday:

Monday night, YowCH and Grace had supper at a Japanaese bistro Izakaya Hikari after Grace ended work at 9:00pm.

The on Tuesday night, YowCH attended ACES’s appreciation dinner at Ah Yat (probably the last since he is no longer consulting engineer). Max 8 to a room, and ACES booked 4 rooms.

A photo of Samuel at his piano class:

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Grace went to the dentist and removed 2 wisdom teeth on 18 Jan. MC of 5 days (whole week).


She will return to the dentists in about 1 week’s time to remove the stitches.

YowCH visited HDB Lower Seletar site (HDB Group Director’s visit) and then Simpang Kiri bridge site.

We collected our TraceTogether tokens on 20 Jan. This is part of Singapore’s plan towards controlling the spread of Coivd-19. With Bluetooth technology, the tokens will help with contact tracing.

Our dinner on 21 Jan, YowCH got home from work and fried pork-leg beehoon.

On Saturday, we went to NTUC and got a huge load of food!

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David wrapped nian-gao with dumpling skin and fried them. The skin wasn’t right-tasting, but the result is not too bad.

YowCH had a trip to Tampines site (KTP job) and had breakfast with Grace at Tekka Market.

Some photos taken at the Tampines site (including inside a drainage culvert).

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Last post of 2020. Our dinner on 29 Dec before getting Grace from work.

YowCH had lunch and dinner with some colleagues, as he will end his work at KTP (and SJ) on 31 Dec 2020.

Thursday, 31 Dec, last day of the year, last day of YowCH’s job as a Civil Engineering Consultant and also his last run of the year.

Throughout 2020, YowCH covered 562km in 171 runs.

The fake Adidas shoes bought in Vietnam in 2019 lasted only 3 months. Next year, he will run in $25 Decathlon shoes.

In the afternoon, YowCH packed the last of his stuff in KTP and moved them over to Chye Joo. This was done over two days (30 and 31 Dec) with David’s help.

And our last dinner of the year – McDonald’s.

After dinner, we joined the church online thanksgiving service, and the song Blessed To Be A Blessing was shown. YowCH and Esther recorded for this song.

After thanksgiving service, the family played mahjong, and YowCH cooked fried beehoon for supper.

An end to the pandemic ridden 2020 and the start of the new year!

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On 23 Dec, YowCH visited Chye Joo office (his new employer starting from 4 Jan 2021).

His cubicle, large space in the middle of the office.

And his Asus Zenbook 14 UX434 laptop with touch screen and second screen at the mouse pad.

Esther wanted to play an electric bass guitar, and YowCH found a unit on Carousell. It was $320 with bag, and it is actually very new (the previous owner didn’t play much with it). The Ibanez Gio Bass:


Here are our 4 Ibanez guitars, basses (acoustic and electic) and guitars (acoutic and electric):

Grace took Joseph and Samuel out to cycle, they both did well.

Today is the last day and the Lego Advent sets (Star Wars and Harry Potter) are both completely opened.

Our Christmas eve dinner.

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On 21 Dec, YowCH visited the North-south Corridor N111 site at work.

In the evening, the BCG ladies met at our place for dinner.


YowCH and the boys went to ARC for sushi dinner. Also went to 3 different NTUC to get tong yuen, but couldn’t get any as it is mid-winter today. Finally settled for the small ones.


The small tong yuen, shared with the BCG ladies.

And the highly alcoholic (but very nice) fruit cake.

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YowCH visited the dentist for routine cleaning, and also got advice to wear a mouth guard to prevent grinding during sleep.

Our dinner, with 6 pieces of pork shoulder meat fried on the large skillet all at one go!

YowCH visited his Simpang Kiri Bridge on 18 Dec.

On Saturday, after Samuel’s Chinese tuition, we had lunch at Shi Li Fang.

Our church had a Star Wars themed Christmas service for the juniors, Samuel dressed up!

Roll back to the past, Grace bought a Tetris game.

We had lunch at Tiong Bahru Market after swim on 20 Dec.

Mom made a fruit cake, and YowCH marinated the cake with rum, brandy and Cointreau.

We had satay and otak-otak (bought from NTUC) for dinner with Grace’s parents and Gene, followed by tong yuen, as tomorrow is mid-winter.

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26 Nov, YowCH visited his Sentul Crescent site.

He has also been consistent in his runs of 4.0km every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

On Saturday, Samuel did his Chinese tuition homework and prepared for his tuition class. He is always slow in Chinese, so he has to stay back after class to finish his class work.

In the afternoon, we sent Samuel to church to attend his Junior Sunday School. Covid restrictions had been reduced and 100 persons can attend church at any one time.

We visited Grace’s parents after church and had dinner bought from nearby coffeeshop.

On Sunday, YowCH brought the young boys cycling. Joseph now uses Esther’s mountain bike.

And Samuel had just learnt to cycle on his own!

With Christmas just around the corner, we took out our very old but functioning fibre-optic lights Christmas tree (probably bought around 2001). Samuel was very delighted!

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4 Nov, Monday, YowCH visited his Tampines and Tanglin Halt sites.

That evening, we celebrated Joseph’s 121th birthday. First, his present of Swiss Army Knife (Huntsman) from Grace and YowCH.

We ordered noodles and ate with Grace’s parents and Gene.


Then it was a nice cake from Gene, custom made with anime prop.


Some family photos:

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