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Redhill Close to be demolished and redeveloped

We bought our first flat in Redhill Close.

It was announced in 2011 that Redhill Close 7-storey flats will be demolished and redeveloped. Subsequently, the exercise to move the residents out started in Oct 2018 and completed in Jan 2019. As YowCH was making his regular runs through this estate, he noticed that there were lesser people around progressively.

On 31 May, after meeting Joseph’s teachers at the end of term, YowCH walked pass the estate and noted that the whole place has been cleared and locked up.

It was a nice neighbourhood we stayed in after getting married, and frankly, the old and lousy flats were all we could afford.

Samuel builds shelf, and food we eat

Samuel is able to follow the printed instructions and assemble the shelf by himself.

Here are some of our recent food:
We had dinner with Grace’s parents and Gene at West Coast:

We had a dinner with the Yongs on 12 May, having popiah (and other food) at Novena Lao Beijing.

Grace’s mum did some chung and roast pork on 18 May.

And on 25 May, we had Nasi Ambeng at JEM (Jurong East Mall) Penang Culture.

Odyssey update: tyre ruptured and hit on the tailgate

On 24 May, as YowCH drove into the carpark at work, the rear left wheel hit the kerb, but the damage was quite bad as the tyre side wall suffered a cut. YowCH realised the rupture while driving home, and stopped at the nearby Caltex petrol station to change to the spare tyre. Esther and David walked from home to help.


With the spare wheel mounted, we drove to dinner and then sent the car for replacement tyre the next morning.

Returning to YowCH’s favourite tyre shop, Arrow Tyres at Ang Mo Kio, we are so blessed that the shop had 3 second hand pieces of the same tyre model, size and age (same manufacturing week!). The replacement cost was $80. The replaced tyre is actually in better condition than the other 3 that is on our car.

On 25 May (Saturday), YowCH drove Grace to work (starting 8:30am) and had breakfast in KKH together, as Arrow Tyre starts at 9:00am. Upon getting the car in the carpark, a note was left on the windscreen that the tailgate has been accidentally hit by a reversing car. YowCH called up the gentleman and had a quick discussion, and Kwan agreed to pay for the damages.


After the tyre replacement, YowCH got a recommendation from the boss of Arrow to look for Sau Hock Motor at AMK Autopoint, and got a quote to repair the dent and re-spray at $280. YowCH informed Kwan and Kwan transferred $330 to YowCH, with $50 for the inconveniences. Reasonable and gentlemanly. Matter closed.

Swim – butterfly

The children has gotten to swimming butterfly. Firstly, a photo from last week, of Samuel making a good dive:

This is David on butterfly, with Esther doing freestyle. The two had the same timing.

This is Esther doing butterfly:

And Joseph:

And Samuel, trying to do butterfly:

After all the hard swim, we had lunch with coaches Francis and Tobby at Henderson Kay Lee (roast meat):

YowCH and David visit Semakau Island

David’s school organised a Dads-for-life event, a visit to Semakau Island. click on the photos below to get to the page.



YowCH’s birthday

YowCH had a vegetarian dinner for his 45th birthday at Lingzhi Novena. Esther was still in school, so we packed some food for her.

Endgame on May Day

We watched Avengers: Endgame at Tiong Bahru Plaza on 1 May 2019, 8:30pm show. It was exciting and nice, all 3 hours of it. We left at about 11:50pm and got home just past midnight. School and work in 6 hours!