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Christmas eve

The day started with the 13th servicing for the Isis.

After lunch, YowCH went to church with Esther and David for carolling to Alexandra and National University Hospitals.


As with past years, it was a joy to see the patients happy with the Christmas songs and the package that church gave to them.

For dinner, we met up with the Yongs and the Loos. We ate Western food at Canopy (Bishan Park) and all the children ate nicely and behaved well.

Joseph completed his Lego Advent set as soon as we got home. Opening only 1 item a day for the past 24 days, Joseph patiently put the set together with some help from Esther and David.

The weekend before Christmas

On Thursday, Esther and David made some cornflakes cookies. Ingredients includes cornflakes, butter, raisins, cashew nuts and honey.


Feedback from a friend: better than Garrett’s pop-corn!

On Saturday, we had eFG Christmas gathering over lunch. Yows brought roasted pork (thanks to Grace’s mum), cornflake cookies, tomato juice (for Bloody Mary) and 5L of Golden Ale from Brewerkz (the last unopened keg from Samuel’s parties).

Lots of very nice food.

Fellowship was great, we sang Christmas songs with piano and violin accompaniment.

After the lunch, we went to church for the final rehearsal, followed by Esther’s performance with the Church Juniors choir at West Coast Plaza, singing Christmas songs.

Esther was also playing the ukulele for the final medley of songs.

Updated 23 Dec 2013:
On Sunday, we got to church in the morning, then stayed on for the carolling practice from 12:30pm to 3:30pm, and then continued to the children choir practice at 4:00pm ending with the West Coast Plaza performance from 6:00pm to 6:30pm (similar to Saturday).

We then drove over to W-Singapore hotel at Sentosa Cove and met up with YowCH’s cousin, the Loos. We had dinner at the one of the eateries there, where we had Belgium food at “Brussels Sprouts”. After dinner, we spent a little time in the hotel room and got home at 11:00pm.

Weekend updates – super busy

We had a super busy weekend, starting with clearing some stuff and furniture for new cabinets arriving next week.

On Saturday, after lunch at Square2, we bought new in-line skates at Novena Square / Velocity for Esther and David, as the second hand skates were getting small and Esther’s skates actually cracked (plastic was just too old). They are Bladerunner skates, adjustable from sizes 5-8.

David, Esther and Joseph also built their own Mindcraft Biomes with our bits and pieces of Lego.

We had dinner at Star Vista, using mostly vouchers we got in a lucky draw at this shopping centre.

A little update on Samuel, napping at the bouncer with the siblings’ gift, the penguin squeezy.

Then on Sunday, we had carolling practice after lunch, David was playing a drum, Esther the ukulele and YowCH on the electric guitar. On Christmas eve, we will be playing for either National University Hospital or Alexandra Hospital.

Unfortunately, the electric guitar was knocked early in the morning and the neck slightly dislodged, so we bought a new one after the carolling practice. We got a display unit Ibanez Gio GRX140BK for $299 (original price being $499) from Cristofori at Funan Centre.


This is heavier than the now limping Suzuki but plays better and sounds richer. It has 4 pick-ups, but only one tone dial.

The afternoon soccer practice was cut very short with a heavy afternoon pour.

Leaving soccer early, we picked Esther, Grace and Samuel from Funan and had dinner there. Esther got her ballet results, not too bad for Grade 3 getting “Commended”. She had 3 months less practice due to her bicycle fall last year!

After dinner, we drove over to Queensway and got David his basketball shoes (needed as the timber floor at the school hall is very slippery). It is rather difficult to find child-size basketball shoes, but much easier to get soccer boots.

A very busy weekend indeed.

Samuel’s party at church, shopping and soccer

On Sunday, we bought snacks for church-friends, serving angku kueh and glutinous rice. We pre-packed the rice into bags, with help from friends and Esther.


After church, we went out shopping for a while, the first time Samuel goes to Orchard Road.

Later, David and Joeph went for soccer training, they trained very well and played seriously.


Washing communion cups, dinner with mum

Today, we started our duty in washing the Holy Communion cups. Esther did most of the washing, with David drying and Joseph helping with arranging.

Some friends in The Well also helped, and Grace did the final checks on cleanliness.

Later in the evening, we had dinner at Sin Hoi San with mum (and dad and Gene, of course) to celebrate mum’s birthday.

We ate a grand feast of great food:
Coffee ribs, tofu-mushrooms-spinach and garlic fried mantis shrimps.

Ginger fried bull-frog and Hong Kong style steamed Green Wrasse (青衣). The fish is very tender and sweet.

Finally, the dish-of-the-day, Alaskan King Crab (2.5kg, split into black pepper fried and cheese steamed). Very expensive but tasty and nice meat.

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.

Church Camp 2013 at Kuantan

Our church camp was held from 10 to 14 June 2013 in Kuantan. We drove to PJ on 8 June and then went to Kuantan on 10 June. After camp, we returned to PJ and stayed one night, returning to Singapore by Saturday night.

Click on the photos below for the dedicated page.



Sending the Lims off, Esther’s birthday dinner

Samuel, Hwee Leng and their 5 children left for Melbourne on 1 June 2013 on a 23:55 flight. Yows and Lims were at the airport to send them off.



Today, we had dinner at MOF Tiong Bahru Plaza for Esther’s birthday. Mum, dad and Gene were with us for this Japanese meal.

eFG CNY dinner

We had a CNY dinner with eFG friends at the Leongs’ place on 15 Feb 2013. We had with us two other families of friends.

There was lo-hei again, of course.

The food was fantastic, lo-hei, some packed dishes and porridge from HH’s mum:

And Q’s waxed meat rice, fried flour sticks (油炸鬼), chicken wings, waxed meat fried rice.

We thank God for the fellowship and the great food for dinner.

Church 55th anniversary

The Bible Church, Singapore had the 55th Anniversary celebration service at SAJC on 12 Jan 2013 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm.

YowCH was the lead photographer (using the trusty Fuji S5pro) with a team of 3 other photographers (Calvin, Jovian and Steven). For this event, YowCH also took video on a hand-held cam (our new Canon HF-M56), together full-time static cam (Church’s Sony) and a microphone-laptop to record the live-audio.

Grace, Esther, David and Joseph served as extras for the skit of our Church history, and you can see all 4 of them in this photo (Esther, Joseph and Grace on the left, David in the middle):

After service, we drove over to Harbourfront Centre, Ban Heng Restaurant for the celebration dinner from 7:00pm to 10:30pm. All the children (ours and others’) were seated together in a ‘back-room’, most havoc situation. To quote Han Wei, “The doors to the Chamber of Chaos has opened”.

We thank God again for his goodness to our Church.