YowCH & Grace

We threw a party for YowCH’s office, this time only for close friends and direct colleagues, on Friday evening, 29 Nov.



Mum, dad and Gene also came.

We had great food from Stamford Catering, and drinks-menu. We also served liquors and Esther was our bartender.

On Saturday afternoon, 30 Nov, we had another party for Grace’s KKH friends (current and previous), some relatives (Grace’s cousin, YowCH’s sister), eFG and YowCH’s old ASEAN scholar friends from Temasek JC.

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Today, Joseph celebrated his 5th birthday in school with his friends. He asked for a longan cake!

Unfortunately, no guests were allowed into the Childcare Centre due to disease outbreaks, so the family did not join him. All the photos by his teacher.


We gave goodie packs of Lego Chima to his friends.

After picking Joseph up from childcare at about 4:15pm, we brought Samuel to the Lab and met Grace’s colleagues. We also brought angku kueh for them.

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Today is Joseph’s birthday, he is now 5 years old. For lunch, Joseph asked for beef noodles from Xin Wang.

This is how 5 years old look like.

You can compare with age 1, age 2, age 3 and age 4.

For dinner, we had pasta and pizza at Pastamania (Funan Centre). David and Joseph skipped football training today due to some rain and also to celebrate Joseph’s birthday together rather than to rush around.

While we were at Funan, YowCH bought Grace a present for the delivery of Samuel, a new COOL camera, the Fujifilm XF1. Although it is almost one year old, it is still a very cool camera. Super high quality images with a mechanic zoom lens! Review at DPReview is here.

Sample image at ISO800 25mm (widest):

100% crop:

Sample image at ISO800 100mm (longest):

100% crop

The colours are FANTASTIC.

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We attended Matthan and Yi Ling’s wedding at church. Joseph served as the pageboy, bearing the ring. He did a very nice job of it.

Esther helped with the opening of the doors, also did a good job.

David was also helpful, he was in-charged of lighting the candles of the bride’s maids, but unfortunately, the lighter broke, and some adults ran to get the back-up lighter and lit those candles very urgently instead. Nevertheless, he was on standby for any candle that might be snuffed.
Samuel sat through the entire 2-hour ceremony without crying, mostly carried by David who took great care of him, and by YowCH.

Here’s a post-event photo of us.

And this is a photo of the ring-bearer, door-opener and the bride and groom.

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Today, we celebrated Samuel’s first month with a party at T.Y.Lin (the first of several such parties). We got nice pastries and tarts from Prima Deli, soft drinks and 4 mini-kegs (5L each) of Golden Ale from Brewerkz.

Samuel was very happy throughout, and YowCH’s colleagues passed him around!

However, there was plenty of leftover food and drinks. Only about 8L of beer consumed although we opened 3 kegs. So we called in some friends to help drink up the remaining 7L. There was great fellowship, but the beer still remaining another 3L or so.

More parties next week.

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This is a nice photo of the 4 Yow-minions, on a Sunday morning.

Samuel attended Church for the first time today.


It has been a few years since we sat in the baby room.

After church, we had lunch at Xin Wang, West Coast Plaza. This is our second family photo. Can’t see Samuel’s face, though.

With our friend’s wedding coming up next week and Joseph being the ‘ring-bearer’, we dressed him in the James Bond suit.

Cool!

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We went downstairs for breakfast, and realised that the baby carrier/pram is in the car. Grace came up with the great idea of putting Samuel in the laundry basket lined with a blanket.

Later in the evening, we went out to Great World City for dinner (at Poulet) and a little shopping. This is Samuel’s first trip shopping.

This is Joseph pushing the pram, but Esther and David also helped.

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Just an update, Samuel is doing well, although we still go for regular check-ups for his jaundice.

Samuel has gotten his Malaysian Passport.

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TYLin Management organised a golf game at Ria Bintan Golf Club (Indonesia) from 9 to 10 Nov 2013 (Saturday to Sunday). There are 2 courses, Ocean (18 holes, very pretty) and Forest (9 holes, rather normal). The players (8 total) left Singapore at 11:00am.

Once we reached the Resort, grabbed a quick lunch and started the first 18 holes on Ocean Course at 12:45pm (Indo time). The photos are of holes 8 and 9, very pretty sea view.


This faraway photo is the first flight, the better and faster players. YowCH is of course in the second flight.

The first game ended at 5:15pm, with YowCH losing 12 balls and scored nothing (5 actual +3, the rest more than +3). We then left for seafood dinner at Restaurant Kampoeng Nelayan, and the food was great. The 8 of us drank 4 bottles of wine at the restaurant and after dinner, another 2 bottles during chit chat (one colleague did not drink, being Moslem).

We slept at 11:00pm.

The next morning, we started playing at 6:45am, but it was drizzling (rather heavy at times) for the first 3 hours.

Again nice sceneries on the Ocean Course.


The first 18 holes on Ocean Course was completed at 11:45am. After a short 15 minutes lunch, we played the next 9-holes on the Forest Course, ending at 2:00pm. YowCH lost 13 balls in the first 18 holes and 6 more in the second 9 holes. But scoring wise, there were 7 actual +3 and once a +1!

After a quick shower, we departed and reached Singapore at 6:45pm (Singapore time), and YowCH reached home at 8:15pm after dropping off the overseas colleagues at their hotels (having shared a cab).

Big thanks to Grace and the children for supporting this outing. Also big thanks to Grace’s parents who helped out and sent David to the Scouts campfire, and to Quincy for fetching Esther to ballet and back, and to Hong Kian who took the boys to soccer. Not easy to get away for a game of golf! And also to Fen Leong for lending YowCH his golf set.

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After picking Joseph from school on 5 Nov 2013, while turning into Scotts Road from Cairnhill Road, a taxi squeezed into the left lane. Below are the car-cam captures showing the taxi cutting so much into the left turning lane that YowCH had no where to go to avoid a collision.


Another good reason to get a car-cam.

The damage on the taxi was on the hub cover and the advertisement artwork, and our bumper had some scratches, paint cracks and got a little shaky.

Both parties agreed not to report to insurance, and driver agreed to pay (partial) for repairs on the bumper as YowCH called and informed him that the video shows very clearly that the taxi had cut too much to the left.

However, we are looking at forgiving and forgetting, as the actual damage was not too bad. YowCH cleaned up and touched-up the bumper, and there is no big damage to the car.

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