YowCH & Grace

Grace got a new laptop today, actually a tablet hybrid, the Lenovo Miix 2 10″ which s running on Windows 8. Bought at Challenger, the unit was $559.00 with a free Belkin bag, free McAfee Anti-virus for 3 years and free Microsoft Office Home/Student edition.

This unit will replace the aging and slow Acer AspireOne bought in 2009.

Here the unit is set up in laptop mode.

Why this model? Full HD (1920×1200) touch screen, JBL speakers, 2 full size USB ports and 1 micro USB port, 64GB eMMC storage, and we added a 64GB SD card. The build is nice and solid (unlike the newer Miix 3, which is rubbery and has no full sized USB ports).

Here you see the unit as a tablet, closed and a display.

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24 Jan 2015 marks the official ground-breaking of the MRT Mount Pleasant station under YowCH, part of the Thomson-East Coast Line. Works had already begun on site several months ago. The ceremony was shared with Stevens station, which is not under TYLin.

Minister for Transport, Lui Tuck Yew was the guest-of-honour.

Today, Samuel was walking unsupported for quite a good distance. He also enjoys the playground rides.

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Today we replaced the car wipers with Bosch Aerotwin wipers. Slightly more expansive than the Crystal silicone wipers, but Bosch claims better durability. We shall see…

The Bosch is black, the blue ones are the old pair we picked up (someone discarded, but new and usable).

The next phase in our bedbug fight (refer past post no. 1, post no. 2 and post no. 3), we bought the Maier Pest-out repeller with effect on both ultrasonic and electromagnetic to annoy and chase the bugs away. Again, let’s see how well this works.

We are still steaming them regularly.

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Sometime along this week, Samuel started taking a few steps on his own, unsupported. At age close to 15 months, a bit later than the norm, but we will start him on hiking trips earlier…

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On Friday evening, we joined Esther for the Secondary 1 end-of-orientation performance at Queenstown Secondary School. That’s Esther with her classmates:

She was assigned a middle-row locker:

On Saturday, we noted Samuel climbing up the front gate:

He has also started walking a few un-supported steps.
Our church, “The Bible Church, Singapore”, celebrated the 57th anniversary in a simple service and dinner at church.

After church, we invited the Ngs to our place and we had a movie night, Guardians of the Galaxy.

Sunday was busy as ever, with our swim at noon-time. Samuel is now able sit on the back of a swimmer

Then, Esther went for ballet, and David and Joseph played soccer, in the rain.



After soccer, we met Grace’s parents and Gene for dinner at Sin Hoi San.

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School starts on 2 Jan (Friday). Here are photos of Joseph and Esther in their new school uniforms. Esther at Queenstown Secondary School, and Joseph follows his sister and brother to Gan Eng Seng Primary School.

And here are all three school children all ready for 2015:

YowCH first dropped Esther, at about 7:00am, and then brought the boys to school at 7:05am. David led Joseph into the school.

Thank God that Joseph is so independent and David can lead him; the rest of the P1 students and parents were very much queuing to register and get into the school. Car and school bus traffic was very heavy, too.

UPDATED: 3:30pm
YowCH drove over to pick Esther, then the boys as they all ended at about lunch time. You can see that all three are very happy with day 1.

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We had a nice New Year’s dinner at Brotzeit Star Vista with Grace’s parents. Nice food and beer.

Happy New Year!

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