We picked-up a unit of 2nd-hand Roland Cube-30 guitar amp at $200 to pair with the drum-set. At 30W with 10″ driver, the amp is not as loud and powerful as the Fender Mustang-II, but fits nicely within the drum-set frame and works well, but certainly loud enough for our HDB flat, with reasonably rich bass. It looks very similar to our portable Roland Micro-cube.
Last Sunday, we spent the morning at Rumah Tinggi Eco Park before our swim.
Samuel really loves to climb!
Up on the hill, it looks like some holiday scene!
Pillar hugging at the multi-purpose porch.
Back at home, Esther and David played the guitar and drums together, sounds good.
We managed to sell the acoustic drum set, at $200 which gives us $20 to cover the transportation expenses. Worthwhile for the short time we played the drums.
In the afternoon, the boys went for soccer training as usual, at Tanglin Secondary School.
On Saturday morning, while Grace is at work, YowCH mounted a new wall fan in the bedroom with Esther’s help.
We also update on some of our Skylander figures, which Grace manage get through 2nd-hand sales, all of good value.
After church, we also picked up a 2nd-hand digital drum set, the Yamaha DTXplorer from our church friend, Theolynn, for $500. A good buy, as the set is low-usage and in fantastic conditions. David and Esther did most of the assembly.
The set sounds great when connected to our Fender guitar amp.
Here’s David playing the drums. Samuel likes the drums, too.
The old acoustic set shall be sold, all packed and ready.
On Sunday morning, YowCH took part in the HometeamNS REAL run at Sentosa, successfully completing 10km of road, trail and sand. Click the photos below for the page.
This is the first time YowCH managed to cover 10km in a run. Well, there was included about 1.2km of walks (should have persevered and walked less for better timing).
Just short of 2 minutes and 37 seconds to keep the 10km under 1 hour.
The target was originally 8km, but along the way, high in adrenaline, he decided to push to the 10km.
The swim with the family after the run (and breakfast) was very relaxing!
In the afternoon, Joseph and David went for soccer while Esther went to ballet. The boys had new shoe bags, matching colours with their water bottles.
For dinner, we went to Star Vista. Samuel carries his own backpack with water bottle and diapers and changing stuff.
Dinner was Thai food at Porn’s (Pornsak’s). Very nice!
In preparation for the run, YowCH got some useful stuff:
A belt pouch to hold essentials, a clip on blinker light (from his bike, for night runs), a small water bottle (advice from friend, the water point is often too crowded with people), and glucose tablets (advice from CCK, wrap in paper for ease of access).
Grace got a nice second-hand ($8) Fisher-Price iPod/iPhone holder for Samuel, nice handles and he can be prevented from pressing the screen accidentally.
We collected the Hometeam NS RealRun 2015 race packs at Novena Square during lunch time, meeting up with YowCH’s colleague, Geoshua.
YowCH is no. 0980.
As there was no queue, all 24 packs for TYLin (including 1 for Gene), each with T-shirt, bib, radio-tag, and some goodies, were very quickly collected.
In the afternoon, we visited the Salvation Army Thriftshop at Tanglin (near home) and bought ourselves plenty of cheap stuff – bags, umbrella, CDs and DVDs and coffee cups.
For dinner, we went out to collect some second-hand Skylanders and ate at UE Square, Vietnamese Restaurant. This is the second time we ate there, nice food.
Here are the Skylanders, together with the Wii game. All second-hand.
