YowCH & Grace

28 Oct 2016, 18 years and 5 months from the day YowCH joined TYLin, was his last day. Kenneth Ivan (leaving on 31 Oct) bought some snacks and YowCH bought some drinks (including the Brewerks Beer) to thank the colleagues.


YowCH also received a very personal card from his closer colleagues and a G-Shock Mudmaster GG1000 watch as a parting gift.


The watch is very nice, but huge! Good for outdoors with compass, thermometer and mud/water resistance.

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We bought a set of non-original window visors for the car on 27 Oct 2016. We can now leave a small window opening for ventilation when we park, and we can drive in teh rain without air-con. The chrome strip is not very nice, but this is cheap.

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Today Samuel is three! We thank God for looking after him and giving him growth in age, wisdom and strength.

We bought some kazoos as gifts to his class mates, and here’s the strawberry cake that he specifically ordered.

We celebrated at his class, with David and Joseph joining the fun (Esther had afternoon choir class).


The children had a great time making lots of noise with the kazoos.



For dinner, we had ribs at Morganfield’s, Vivocity.

When we got home, Samuel got to open his presents. The Yongs gave a box of Lego, David and Joseph gave a toy spider-monkey, Esther and us gave two Thomas the Train sets.

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Esther got full marks for her fitness tests (NAPFA test) and the school gave her a T-shirt for the perfect score.

YowCH will end at TYLin this Friday and joins KTP from Tuesday. Here are two new ‘studio office’ photos.


As before, the set-up for the studio was our bedroom. Here are the outtakes (uncropped photos).


Compare with the one taken on 2009 here.

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Here’s Samuel with his wings. Inspired after watching Falcon in action in the movie Captain America: Winter Soldier, David and YowCH built this for him.

We got ourselves some 2nd hand foam sheets to enjoy in the Sorrento pool. Most other people use these for yoga or children play area. These are good one-inch thick ones, most are only half-inch.


We also got ourselves another inflatable ride to accompany the Crocodile, a new Shark.

Grace found a used Takamine EG531SSC 12-string guitar on Carousel for sale at $800.00. We bargained down to $700, and picked up the good buy on the night of 24 Oct 2016 (Monday).



The fret-board was good, the pick-up working well and comes in a nice padded (furry) case. The strings are rather rusty and one G-string was missing, but we need to re-string the guitar anyway. Bright and sharp sounds typical of a Takamine, with nice reverbs. But the 12-string needs harder strength to play and Esther may not be playing this until much later.

This 12-string is most probably the last guitar to add to our line-up.

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We got a birthday cake and had small celebration at Gene’s place on Sunday night.



David managed to cut the cake into 9 pieces (almost all equal in size).

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We celebrated Grace’s mon’s 70th birthday (18 Oct) with a very nice and hearty dinner at The Scholar, 15 Oct 2016.

The menu inlcuded Peking Duck, coffee ribs, shark fin soup, abalone and many other good stuff.

Then we took some group photos.

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YowCH had prepared in advance since August a stack of books as resignation gift to his staff. The book is a nice engineering reading, To Engineer is Human, by Henry Petroski.

We sent the Odyssey to the carwash for the first time on 6 August 2016 (previously only washed by Kah Motors during the 1st servicing).

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With the contracts expired and eligible for handset change, and the old phones were starting to give problems, Grace and David changed phones shortly after Esther did.

David got his iPhoneSE on 4 Oct 2016 to replace his HTC Desire 510. Here’s the iSE with UAG armour case, not seen is the matt surface tampered glass screen protector.

Grace got her Samsung S7 (silver) also on 4 Oct 2016, which is the same model as YowCH’s S7 (black), to replace her S5.

Grace later got herself a transparent red UAG armour case.

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