YowCH & Grace

The car air-con broke down when we went on our trip to PJ for CNY. We sent the car to the workshop for repairs once we returned to Singapore. So o Wednesday morning, Joseph and Samuel walked to school while YowCH walked to work.


Esther, David and Grace took bus to school/work.

Here are some TVB wuxia series that we have watched (except for The Duke of Mount Deer, 鹿鼎記, which we just started watching).
Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, 天龍八部
The Return of the Condor Heroes, 神鵰俠侶

New Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre, 倚天屠龍記
The Duke of Mount Deer, 鹿鼎記

We have posted The Legend of the Condor Heroes, 射鵰英雄傳 earlier.

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We prepared the page for CNY2020 and here are a few teaser photos. Click on he photos for the page.

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YowCH got his health check (done on 13 Dec 2019) on 21 Jan 2020 and consulted a doctor at Whitecoat clinic which is in the building next to his office. Started high blood pressure medication on 22 Jan 2020.

YowCH and Grace brought Joseph to KKH for a follow up on his finger fracture. The fracture needs a cast, and likely out of action for several weeks. Here are the X-rays.

The finger are still swollen after 1 week.

He chose purple for his cast.

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Our soccer team, West Coast Wolves had the annual meeting and dinner on 19 Jan 2020. The children had their weekly games/training, while the parents met at West Coast CC. David helped with the training, and Joseph had to sit out because of his fracture. Here is a photo of the meeting to discuss training needs, strategies, development and plans for football leagues.

At 5:30pm, the children joined the adults at West Coast CC for dinner. We catered nice food.


Grace helped get 2 sets of ‘yu sheng’ (we paid for these). Unable to find the prepared sets, she bought the ingredients from Sheng Siong and sliced the raw vegetables in Church before bringing over to the CC.


We had fun at the party.

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Just as he clocked his fastest run the previous Saturday 11 Jan, YowCH’s run on Saturday morning, 18 Jan was yet another personal record, the fastest since 2015! He did 2.5km in 12m05s and covered 2.4km in 11m34s. Very fast.

With this, his top 3 fastest 2.5km runs were all in Jan 2020 – fastest on 18 Jan, then 11 Jan and 3rd place 4 Jan. Perhaps he can still improve on the timing.

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YowCH’s company, KTP, had a Chinese New Year lunch on Friday 17 Jan 2020.

Later in the evening, YowCH, Esther and David prepared dinner for BCG as we hosted the cell group at our place.

Some miscellaneous stuff:
Wi-fi biscuit:

Pomelo skin helmet for Samuel:

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Joseph was playing in a basketball league game (representing his school) on 16 Jan 2020 and he fell badly. His little finger on the left hand had a minor fracture. After the game (GESPS won), the teachers brought him to KKH A&E. YowCH picked Samuel from school and met them there. Grace was there, too.


The finger was swollen, and the doctor applied a buddy bandage and the thermo-plastic cast. Looks very serious for a small fracture.

The next day, he was back in school (ignoring his 4 days of MC).

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YowCH increased his running from 2x weekly 2.5km to 3x weekly 2.5km in 2020. On 11 Jan, Saturday morning, he clocked his fastest ever 2.5km run since he started regular running in 2015. He covered 2.5km in 12m10s (2.4km in 11m40s). Perhaps it was the compression tights that helped!

The step counter is 1972, usually he takes about 2050 steps for 2.5km. Perhaps longer strides helps.

What’s interesting is that the fastest runs (1st, 2nd and 4th) all happened within the last 2 weeks. The 3rd fastest was in Oct 2018.

We invited Siu Hei for dinner for his birthday, but he prefers to eat at our place, so we prepared home cooked salmon, pork, beef and lamb, with sides of portobello mushrooms, mussels and egg-salad.


After dinner, failing to have a cake, YowCH made a stacked-up-ice-cream-potong cake.

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Esther decided to cook a dinner on 8 Jan, so she when to Ikea after school and bought the stuff to cook for the family. Nice!

YowCH bought some durians from a vendor who delivers to KTP, 3 fruits of Mao Shan Wang ($18/kg, total $72) on 9 Jan. We had durians as part of dinner, after YowCH’s regular run.

Just a nice screen capture of the Parents Gateway app on our phone, showing that all 4 children are registered with MOE (Ministry of Education). Esther will be out next year.

This was Esther’s bag for a few years, then Joseph used it for a few years (David needed a new bag because he overlapped with Esther), and finally Samuel used it for 1 week before the strap broke. The straps were just too old and the plastic deteriorated, and too much trouble to replace them, so we threw the 11-year-old bag away. Deuter Scholar series is very good as school bags. This old one is Small size.

Now Samuel uses Medium size (David’s bag). A little too big for his small body.

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YowCH attended the meet-the-parents session for Primary 1 students at GESPS on Monday, 6 Jan 2020.
Here’s Samuel’s first piece of work in primary school:

His classmates:

His buddy (P5 assigned to guide P1), and his classroom:

And the pinning-of-the-badge ceremony to mark end of orientation.

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