YowCH & Grace

26 Nov, YowCH visited his Sentul Crescent site.

He has also been consistent in his runs of 4.0km every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

On Saturday, Samuel did his Chinese tuition homework and prepared for his tuition class. He is always slow in Chinese, so he has to stay back after class to finish his class work.

In the afternoon, we sent Samuel to church to attend his Junior Sunday School. Covid restrictions had been reduced and 100 persons can attend church at any one time.

We visited Grace’s parents after church and had dinner bought from nearby coffeeshop.

On Sunday, YowCH brought the young boys cycling. Joseph now uses Esther’s mountain bike.

And Samuel had just learnt to cycle on his own!

With Christmas just around the corner, we took out our very old but functioning fibre-optic lights Christmas tree (probably bought around 2001). Samuel was very delighted!

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On 25 Nov, Joseph returned to school to receive his PSLE results. YowCH went with him. He scored Bs for English, Maths and Science, and D for Chinese.

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4 Nov, Monday, YowCH visited his Tampines and Tanglin Halt sites.

That evening, we celebrated Joseph’s 121th birthday. First, his present of Swiss Army Knife (Huntsman) from Grace and YowCH.

We ordered noodles and ate with Grace’s parents and Gene.


Then it was a nice cake from Gene, custom made with anime prop.


Some family photos:

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On 17 Nov, Joseph made some tags from balsa wood planks to give to his classmates as parting gifts.

He used the solder iron to burn teh markings on!

YowCH and Grace starting on 18 Nov 1994, that’s 26 years ago.

We went to Vivocity for shopping and food.

Joseph also made pencil cases for some of his classmates and teachers.

Samuel took his class photo on 20 Nov, but not as a group due to Covid.

YowCH got some bamboo clams and we fried them for dinner.

21 Nov, we got a Visions 5.0L pot from NTUC, it is huge, but nice and fits into our microwave oven.

We made soup with it, works great!

On 22 Nov, we invited the Yongs over for dinner. We cooked crab-meat (tomato base) pasta and other seafood for dinner, including conches, cockles, bamboo clams, assam prawns and shishamo fish.

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We went to the Jurong Bird Park on 16 Nov with Joseph and Samuel. Joseph had a great time taking photos on Esther’s DSLR. Click on the photos below to visit the page:

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YowCH and Grace were trapped in the lift which refused to open at our level. We called the maintenance hotline and rescue came in 15 minutes. The door was opened after another 10 minutes of work by the two repairmen.

David prepared a grill dinner, which we had with Grace’s parents and Gene. Mom brought along her 10.5″ skillet.

On 15 Nov, we went for our regular swim with the coach.


YowCH bought conches and cockles for our home-cooked dinner.

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YowCH visited his Simpang Kiri bridge site and briefed a group of young engineers from HDB on the segmental bridge construction.

11 Nov, we ordered burgers for dinner:

13 Nov, Samuel walked to school and met a friend along the way, not driving this day.

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On 01 Nov, we made Korean Army Stew (budae jigae) for dinner.

Samuel also built his 3 Minions from the 2 sets of Lego given to him for his birthday over the past week. One set can build Stuart (1-eyed) and either Kevin or Bob. So Grace bought 2 sets, to have all three, and YowCH worked with Samuel to design ‘Carl’. From left: Bob, Stuart, Carl and Kevin.


Kevin and Bob:

Stuart and Carl:

7 Nov, we ordered Rougamo for dinner, very nice Chinese burgers.

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