On Sunday, after our regular swim, the older children went SCUBA diving at Queenstown, under Yen. This intro class is $60 per person for 3 hours.
Swim coach Francis and his children joined too.
Esther:
David:
Joseph:
Fun diving!
While the older children were diving, YowCH, Grace and Samuel had lunch and dessert at Star Vista.
We went to Alibabar for dinner on 25 Feb. Nice food, as usual.
On 26 Feb, after Grace’s afternoon shift, YowCH brought her to eat fermented tofu at Mini Star (HK) along Geylang Road.
The business started in 1997 and the place looks very classic.
On Saturday, while the older children had gone to church, YowCH, Grace and Samuel had duck at Duckland (Tung Lok) at United Square.
The food is good!
On 21 Feb, Esther invited YowCH to try out her new Audiotechnica AT2020 mic, and did this impromptu recording of “Have You Ever Seen The Rain”. Click on the first photo to watch the video:
YowCH did the vocals, guitar and bass, Esther did the backing vocals, more guitar, keyboard, digital drums and arrangements.
We then had homemade popiah for dinner:
On Monday evening, we had Japanese fried rice (egg and garlic) and wagyu steak for dinner.
On Tuesday night, YowCH went for his run after work, and at about 3km, felt a sharp pain on his right leg.
He stopped running and walks for a while and later, called home to have Grace pick him up.
Likely to be shin splints, with swelling and pain. So he got a walking stick to relief the load on the leg.
For lunch during work, his colleagues helped him tapao food. Some examples:
Chye Joo has a very festive CNY, with ‘start work hong bao’ for everyone:
The a nice lion dance (permit from Government):
Lion at YowCH’s seat:
The company provided packed lunch:
And later, order some pizzas and fried chicken for afternoon snacks.
Esther had pizza at Rainbow Centre for CNY!
Esther’s A level results were released on 19 Feb 2021, she got BCCCD.
Beacon CG had a small CNY gathering at Patrick’s place. We made siew yuk 2 nights before and cooked the sea cucumber stew the night before.
We also bought the stuff for the lou-sang.
Our friends made nice chapatti and humus, and a very different type of niangao (very nice).
Some photos of YowCH doing his regular 2x 6.0km weekly.
After all the CNY festivities, David joined his friends for a night cycling trip, starting at 10:30pm 13 Feb and returned home about 7:00am the next day.
The pool was empty on the CNY weekend, David swam 20 laps after his night cycling!
Lunch at Fish and Co after our swim.
On Monday, YowCH took Samuel to the carpark for some cycling. He can handle the bike well now, and moved on to the bigger bike.
We celebrated CNY very differently due to the Covid situation. Unable to travel back to PJ, we spend CNY at Singapore. Click on the photos below to get to the page:
On 4 Feb, YowCH had dinner with some friends from work at Hillview area. Nice Italian restaurant “iO Italian Osteria”.
On 4 Feb, Grace received her 2nd dose of Covid vaccine. Her first does was taken on 14 Jan 2021.
5 Feb, David’s first day in his CJC uniform.
A pre-CNY dinner at Sorrento on Saturday, 6 Feb:
We fried some niangao for snacks on Sunday:
Monday night, YowCH and Grace had supper at a Japanaese bistro Izakaya Hikari after Grace ended work at 9:00pm.
The on Tuesday night, YowCH attended ACES’s appreciation dinner at Ah Yat (probably the last since he is no longer consulting engineer). Max 8 to a room, and ACES booked 4 rooms.
A photo of Samuel at his piano class:
YowCH was consistent in his runs, rain or shine, day or night.
In fact, sometimes, Esther and David also ran.
For the month of January, YowCH managed 6.0km runs on Tuesday nights and Saturday mornings, and also gym and stretching on Saturdays.
This is the run summary of the 30 Jan run, 6.0km in 34min00sec, his second fastest 6.0km run (the fastest was 5 secs faster at 33m55s). Heart rate ave 162 and max 176 (which is quite consistent with all the other runs). Average pace of about 5m40s or ave speed of 10.6km/h.
This calendar shows his runs for the month of January.
We also have our regular weekly swim (about 45 mins), typically about 500m each person. On 31 Jan, Grace had just finished night shift and missed swim. Here are screenshots of videos of Joseph, YowCH, Esther and David doing butterfly, and Samuel (middle) swimming freestyle.
We fried some nian-gao in the afternoon after swim, wrapped in spring roll skin. Tastes great!
We shared the dessert with friends, neighbours and the Yongs.
In the evening, we visited the Yongs and had dinner at Bishan.
