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Soccer League – WC vs. BBEV

Today, we had our first match for the “South West Little League” – West Coast CSC vs. Bukit Batok East View RC. There are 5 categories – Under 6: 1 game (Joseph), Under 8: 4 games, Under 10: 4 games (David played 2), Under 12: 1 game and Above 13: 1 game. Grace was working (on a Sunday) so YowCH had all the children with him. Esther helped with the photos (together with another parent, Mr Liew) and looking after Samuel. Parents of the teammates also helped look after Samuel when both Esther and YowCH were in the field.

Here’s the team photo:

And here’s the pre-game photo of the two teams:

Coincidentally, both teams are red (we remembered BB as green).

YowCH was the manager for the Under 6 team. Joseph played goalkeeper for one half and striker for the next half. His game was a 1-1 draw.



David played goalkeeper and defender. He played two games, both won with 3-1 and 9-0.



Both David and Joseph played well and had a good time.

Here are some photos of Samuel during the game:

Thank God for nice weather and great games. We won 7 games, drew 3 and lost 1, scoring 24 vs. 6. A good chance for Esther to practice photography, too. Liew was using the 200mmf2.0 lens, fantastic DOF blur!

Samuel sitting up and eating cereal

Samuel starting pushing himself to sitting position, but he still tends to topple forward, the back is not strong enough yet.

On 25 April 2014, a day short of his 6th month, we started him on rice cereal mixed with breast-milk.


Everyone fed him a little. He ate up the whole of that in the first photo above, and had another half more!

E & D playing Bloodbowl, Cajon seat-pad

Esther and David had an evening to play and we started on Bloodbowl (2nd edition) which was the set and rules that YowCH played with his friends in his teenage years.


YowCH brought home a rubber mouse-pad (Acer) from office, and we stuck it to the cajon to make is a non-slip seat-pad. Much nicer to sit on now.

Joseph helped peel the 3M double-side foam tape.

This is probably the last thing we add to the cajon. We had also bought a sports duffel bag (medium large) for the cajon at $27.

eCG 24-7 prayer, Rumah Tinggi Eco-park, Samuel updates

On 18 April 2014 evening (Good Friday), we joined the Leongs for the church 24-7 Prayer Rally from 6:00pm to 7:00pm.

This was followed by a dinner at their place.

When we got home and parked the car, we took a stroll along the newly opened Rumah Tinggi Eco-park behind the carpark. Click on photos below to go to the dedicated page.



The next day (Saturday) we went again for in-line skating.

Here are some updates on Samuel:
He can hold his milk bottle on his own now:

He can sit like a king:

But he will take off his sock and suck his toes:

Yows doing “Let It Go” – Facebook

For YowCH’s Facebook “Close Friends”, you can watch this video of Joseph, Esther, David and YowCH doing “Let It Go” from “Frozen” under the direction of Grace.

TYLin Staff Club photo shoot at Botanic Gardens

We had a Saturday photo shoot outing to Botanic Gardens on Saturday morning organised by the TYLin Staff Club, with YowCH as one of the instructors. Clink on the link below for the dedicated page:

Esther went for Maths Olympiad and David went for Chinese class, so only the two younger boys went along, and this is Samuel’s first trip to the Botanic Gardens.

Soccer tourney at Jurong West

For the West Coast GRC and Pioneer Constituency “Community Sports Festival @ West Coast Cluster 2014″, YowCH brought the 3 boys to Jurong West Stadium on Sunday morning. Grace had work from 7.00am to 3:30pm and Esther was away on an overnight camp under Church.

The kick-off was taken by Adviser to Telok Blangah GROs Mr Lim Hng Kiang, Minister for Trade & Industry, and David was the goal keeper for this kick-off.

David played in several matches, and played well.

Joseph was too young, but he did get to play in 1 match, and got to meet the ASEAN Games mascot.

This is the team photo:

And another photo with one other team (taken by the event organisers).

Having played in the sun from 8:30am to 12:00pm, the boys were spent.

We got to church after the event, picked Esther at 12.30pm and went for lunch at Thai Express.

Cajon improved with more snare

The cajon we built has a rather weak snare sound (the tsk-tsk-tsk of drum), and we bought a piece of $15 snare (cheap one for basic snare drum) to improve it.

1. We cut the snare into 2 across the middle.
2. The tapa (front tapping board) was removed.
3. The 2 new pieces of snares were added and the original displaced.
4. David mounted the snares.

Here’s the finished product, a much richer sound with more snare, but the bass (thom-thom sound) is now mixed with more snare (tsk-tsk sound).