Next step in fighting bedbugs
With the double sided tape working well, we continue to fight the bedbugs with natural non-toxic repellents.
With change of repellents, the resistance build-up will hopefully be less.
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Swim time
We have no swimming lessons (nor football training and ballet class). But we still went out for a swim to burn off the multiple eating sessions over Chinese New Year.
YowCH, Grace, Esther, David and Joseph did laps first, while taking turns looking after Samuel, then we all had some time to play in the pool. Samuel is starting to enjoy the pool time.
CNY food!
Thursday, first day of CNY, we had lunch at Cedele, Great World City. YowCH had traditional vegetarian meal, and Esther followed suit. The rest ate normally.
After lunch, we shopped a little, then went to Moh Guan for dinner, and that was after our little outing to Labrador Park.
Friday, second day, we went to the zoo from morning to afternoon. Then we visited the Lims for a nice home hot-plate dinner.
On Saturday, we invited YowCH’s colleague Andrew and his family to our place for hotpot and hotplate lunch.
Then we went to church, and after service, we had dinner at “Different Taste” with the Tans and the Ngs.
Esther was leading the juniors table, and David gave thanks for the food.
Trip to the zoo on second day of CNY
We spent the second day of Chinese New Year at the zoo, with some Groupon tickets that Grace bought. Click on the photos to get to the page.
Happy New Year! from Singapore, Labrador Park
The Yows wish all friends and family members a Happy New Year of the goat/sheep.
Here are the children with their Angpows:
And here are the two old tigers at the start of the year of the goat/sheep:
Updated in the evening:
With Grace’s parents and sister:
In the later afternoon, we went to Labrador Park with Gene. Esther went running with Gene, while David and Joseph went about on in-line skates. Grace played with Samuel at the playground, and YowCH had some time playing the guitar.
The see-saw can easily be balanced by the 4 children.
Here are two nice photos of Samuel.
Reunion dinner in Singapore
We did not travel back to PJ this Chinese New Year, so we had reunion dinner with Grace’s parents and Gene. Mum and dad prepared lots of great food for the steamboat and hot-plate dinner.
We had the Lo Hei with abalone slices as the starter.
The dinner proper was really nice, as we cooked and ate together.
Finally, YowCH and Grace were left to finish off.
Joseph had some fun with the pomelo skin that dad had nicely cut:
Happy New Year!
Samuel’s new car seat, bedbugs update
Samuel upgraded to the forward facing car seat today. He is very happy with it. With this car seat, he can look forward and has a better view out of the window.
Our fight against the bedbugs is doing well, the larger bugs may get through the sticky double-sided tape around our mattresses, but once they feed (filled with blood), they get stuck, and we nail them in the morning. The young bugs have no chance of crossing the tapes.
With the young not feeding and can’t grow, and the adults being trapped, we reckon that the bugs will be gone soon. We are still using the ‘natural’ repellent-spray to further fight against the bugs.
New coffee machine
Grace bought the smallest (and cheapest) Nespresso machine today, the Inissia, fresh Western-style office from now on!
The set has a milk froth maker, Aeroccino3, too, for cappuccino.
YowCH’s new IC
Due to rough handling by guards (changing the IC for entry pass) at government buildings (LTA, PUB, HDB, etc.) the very poor quality Singapore IC is broken. The replacement is $60.
If a person loses the IC, $60 is certainly reasonable as a fine and replacement, but the IC was broken due to poor materials…
Weekend: pizza, soccer, party, bedbugs
Saturday evening, after church, our friends called us over to share 2 VERY large pizzas that were wrongly ordered.
Very nice dinner and fellowship.
At home, you can see Samuel very interested in the terrapins.
Sunday morning, YowCH went with David and Joseph to the Football Fiesta at Mattar Road. Nice pitches, but pitches are small and the games management was poor.
Both David and Joseph played well.
Leaving football at 12:00 (the event finishes at 3:00pm), the boys joined Grace , Esther and Samuel at the Lees’ place to celebrate Elliot’s birthday. Nice food, drinks, cakes and a movie to go!
Grace left early for work starts at 12:30. After the party over lunch, Esther went for ballet while the boys went home to shower.
An update on the bedbugs, the double sided tape is very effective in stopping them from reaching us when we sleep. We will keep it up for a while more and hopefully solve the problem.
