YowCH & Grace

31 Dec was a busy day. Grace went with Esther and parents to renew their phone contracts, and got away with new phones.

Dad took an iPhone6+ (huge!), so Esther gets the older iPhone5 that dad was using.

Grace went for the Samsung Galaxy S5 4G+ (16GB) for $168 with contract.

The S5 comes with a free Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Lite (7.0″, Wi-Fi) tablet, which we will redeem later, and sell, probably about $150. Her old HTC One SV LTE went to David.

In addition, having gotten a new line for David, we got a ‘free’ blue HTC Desire 610. Nice. We will sell this phone.

After buying phone the phones at Singtel Com-Centre and setting them up at home, and after a day’s work for YowCH, we went to church for the year-end Thanksgiving Bi-lingual service. After service, we went for supper with the Leongs, the Lims and the Behs. We had great frog porridge at Sin Ma (Cheong Chin Nam Road, off Bukit Timah Road).

Thank God for a wonderful 2014.

Update 6 Jan 2015: Collected the free Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Lite (7.0″, Wi-Fi) and sold it to a friend.

The HTC Desire 610 is also sold to a buyer from internet.

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The boys got to climb a tree after lunch. Tree climbing is good, overcomes fear of heights, builds physically, learns to grab and push, and fun.

After church, we had our church Care Group, eCG, Christmas and year-end dinner at the Leong’s place, fantastic food.



The desserts were great! The Wees made cake with salted-caramel sauce, and the Leongs made Rainbow Cake.

A little update on the terrapins, they have grown really large!

On Sunday, the children had some time to play at home.

Then we went to Vivocity for lunch at LeNu 樂牛 (of Paradise Group 樂天):


And after some shopping, we had dessert at Madam Kwan’s before heading home

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Our church has annual carolling at Alexandra and National University Hospitals. This year, YowCH was with David and Joseph at AH, and Esther was at NUH. YowCH played the electric guitar in the entrance hall, with David on cajon and Joseph singing and tambourine, while Esther was playing the ukulele with the youths at the lobby.

After carolling, we had Christmas dinner with mum, dad and Gene at Cedele, Great World City.

Upon reaching home, Samuel stood up by himself – the toy handphone must have been very exciting for him!

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Esther is now registered with Queenstown Secondary School.

We had parents and students briefings today, and bought the school books. Uniform will be another day where is no crowd.

For dinner, we ate at Tunglok Signatures at Vivocity, to jointly celebrate Grace’s dad’s birthday and Christmas (both in advance!)



Among the many good food, we ordered fish-skin fried with salted egg yolk, duck’s tongues, roasted pork belly, and referring to he photo below: “Dragon’s Paw” (crocodile hand), fresh scallops (3 sets), and Kurobuta (black pork from Japan) with brinjals. Samuel was really enjoying himself eating fancy food.

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We had dinner with the Lims on Sunday, at Fat Boy’s. We ate lots of burgers and onion rings.

Some updates on Samuel, he is still not yet standing and walking, but he eats biscuit by himself, and likes to read car magazine Torque.


Samuel is also very attracted to music, he will join the rest of the family when we practice our Christmas carols.

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We had a short 4-day trip to PJ to visit YowCH’s parents. Here’s the page.

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YowCH and Grace were married 14 years ago, 16 Dec 2000.

Our wedding page is here.

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Here’s the link to the low-res video posted on Facebook. It is about 25 mins long, and the first song starts after 1 minute.

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TYLin’s annual dinner was held at Novotel Liang Court on 12 Dec 2014.

YowCH played in the home band “Ourselves”.

That’s YowCH (guitar, vocals), Mark (keyboard, guitar, vocals), Riyan (guitar, back-up vocals) and Vincent (drums).

We sang “Isabella”, “I Will Survive”, “That Thing You Do”, “Your Body Is A Wonderland” and “Christmas Is All Around”.

After the dinner, we walked to Brewerkz with our Malaysian office colleagues for beer.

YowCH received a Sony SmartWatch 3 in the lucky draw:

Cool stuff, but not really useful.

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Today is Joseph’s last day as a kindergarten student. He went to school early to prepare for the graduation concert.

The concert was at RELC (Regional Language Centre) Hotel auditorium. Here’s his class.

The children from various Learning Vision centres then performed several shows, with each centre doing a Chinese and an English Skit each.

Joseph’s speaking role in the English skit was very major, and he did well in his voice, expressions and acting performance.

He’ll be going to Primary 1 next year, which is just a few weeks away.

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