YowCH & Grace

YowCH worked from home for a few days on the last week of June due home-based learning for Samuel and Joseph due to the Covid situation. Here are photos of Sam and Jo doing HBL:


YowCH made simple lunch for the boys (David was also home on Monday, 28 June):

YowCH then sent Joseph to buy a stove from the electrical shop in Bukit Merah Central (Trend Enterprises):

With the stove, we had Korean army stew hotpot (budae jigae) for dinner:

Lunch on 29 June (chicken rice):

Snacks in the afternoon:

Dinner on 29 June:

YowCH has been very consistent in his walks, doing 2.5km walks every Tuesday and Saturday.

Can see improvements in the walking time:

For working from home, this is the set-up in the bedroom, with KTP’s laptop, Chye Joo’s laptop + monitor, and the tablet:

During the Covid restrictive period, YowCH sometimes ate out, in the kopitiam or even in the car:

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Dinner on 21 June (torched squid):


More of Samuel’s online story time.

Dinner on 22 June (pasta):

Keropok lekur (fish sausage) bought from Sheng Siong, fried in air fryer:

YowCH visited Tampines site for handing over the land on 23 June 2021.

Dinner on 23 June (soup wanton given by swim coach):

YowCH bought electro treatment from China through Lazada, worked well to heal his tennis elbow. Grace uses it for bunions on her feet.

Dinner on 24 June (torched and air-fried salmon):

A view from YowCH’s office balcony, Jurong West area.

Some of YowCH’s tapao food at Chye Joo:

Dinner on 25 June:

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24 May, YowCH visited his KTP and SJ sites, N111 and Simpang Kiri.

Grace made egg tarts using the air fryer.


We had clam pasta and braised pork-ribs with bitter gourd.

On Tuesday, 25 May, YowCH restarted distance exercise with brick walking, exactly 3 months after the fracture on the shin.

Managed to cover 2.5km in 24m30s. Not fast, but it is a start.

26 May, Vesak Day holiday, YowCH repaired the small green knife which handle had shattered. Carved a wooden handle as replacement.

Dinner included air fried chicken wings.

After dinner, YowCH used the air fryer to make nian gao wrapped with spring roll skin.

Dinner on 27 May, with durians!

With duan wu jie upcoming, we had Zhong for dinner on 28 May, made by Grace’s mom.

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YowCH’s current medications and supplements. Almost like a whole meal.

This is YowCH’s new profile photo at Chye Joo.

Dinner on 17 May.

Dinner on 18 May.

Dinner on 19 May.

Samuel received a small pack of Minecraft Lego from school!

We bought an air fryer from Lazada, Mayer, $80, received on 20 May.

We cooked some nuggets as a first try on the air fryer:

Dinner on 20 May, with nice mojito from a bottle of mojito mix that Grace bought.

Dinner on 21 May.

Here are some of YowCH’s tapao food at work.

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Update on Joseph’s fracture on 27 April, the X-ray shows the slight compression (buckling) fracture near the wrist. Changed to Air-cast which is more convenient.

YowCH visited Chye Joo’s Lower Seletar site on 28 April.

We had family dinner at The Gogi on 29 April. Due to safe distancing, we are all seated on one side of the table to be far from the next tables. the boss of the shop also changed, but the food and style remains the same.

On 30 April, Esther and David had their own dinner plans. The rest went to Start Vista and had mala dinner (not nice and expensive).

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YowCH had a dinner with contractor friends from Ssangyong at Brewerks on 1 April 2021, and bought some tapao beer. Brewerks is still a nice dining place by the river.

On Good Friday, we had lunch at West Coast Plaza, Upin Sichuan Hotpot.

For dinner, we invited the Ngs over to our place for Korean BBQ. We had good fellowship and fun over the food. The chicken hearts were well loved!

On Saturday, we had the Yongs over for dinner, again BBQ but we had satay instead.



For dessert, we had nice ice-cream!

On Easter Sunday, Grace got a nice cake for Samuel as a snack.

We met Grace’s parents and Gene for lunch at Sorrento.

Esther took her second Covid vaccination injection in the afternoon.

We ordered Shake Shack burgers for dinner, while we watched Justice League (Snyder) on our big-screen.

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YowCH’s morning medicines – 2 for high blood pressure, 1 for blood lipids, 1 glucosamine, 2 for calcium and 5 vitamin C.

On 29 Mar, YowCH stayed over at Sentul Crescent site to observe the overnight beam launching. works started at 1:00am (after the last LRT train) and completed launching 3 T-girders at 4:30am.

On 31 March, YowCH took Grace to a nice supper at Kyoten, Tiong Bahru. We ordered omakase (for 1) and fried rice (for 1) and 1 bottle of cold sake.




The food was very nice, and we were the last customers.

Esther started driving on the road with her driving instructor, Paul Ong. Here are her training routes on 28 and 31 Mar.

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YowCH has been maintaining his fitness with gym and swim, now that running is not possible while the leg fracture is healing.

Two new female Transformers – Moonracer and Chromia.

Grace made a simple dinner on 22 Mar, chicken feet soup!

24 Mar, David’s birthday. He is now 17. We had dinner at Carrara.


YowCH bought him a Chinese chess set. They played a short game after dinner, took more than 1 hour.

On 25 Mar, YowCH attended a BCA seminar. 50 persons in the auditorium, everyone seated more than 1.0m apart.

Later at night, YowCH and Grace had dinner after Grace’s afternoon duty, at Sin Hoi San.

YowCH added a set of sleep head-rests to the Odyssey, very nice and matching, and very comfortable to sleep on. Good buy at $33 with postage included (shipped from China, through Lazada).

At work, YowCH organised a meeting with all of Chye Joo’s project managers. Had a nice and casual time discussing work matters over dinner. YowCH paid for the chicken rice (from Fook Sing) and drinks (beer, light beer and root beer).

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After breaking the Chinese New Year hampers at Chye Joo, YowCH received 1 jar of bird’s nest drink and 1 can of abalone.

An update photo of our terrapins, they are very huge now.

On Sunday after swim, we had lunch at the school canteen along Henderson Road.

Simple Western dinner at home on 9 March.

David went for blood donation on 10 March.

We packed wonton mee, satay and grilled chicken wings for dinner on 10 March.

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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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