YowCH & Grace

Update on Joseph’s fracture on 27 April, the X-ray shows the slight compression (buckling) fracture near the wrist. Changed to Air-cast which is more convenient.

YowCH visited Chye Joo’s Lower Seletar site on 28 April.

We had family dinner at The Gogi on 29 April. Due to safe distancing, we are all seated on one side of the table to be far from the next tables. the boss of the shop also changed, but the food and style remains the same.

On 30 April, Esther and David had their own dinner plans. The rest went to Start Vista and had mala dinner (not nice and expensive).

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Esther got a second-hand effects pedal from a local guy, and she enjoys pairing it with the electric guitar. It is a Boss ME25, and she got it at $150 (new is about $300+).

David’s swim headphones (second-hand) spoilt after more than 30 months (since Aug 2018). He found the new Finis Duo on Amazon for $150.

YowCH, Grace and Samuel had instant noodles for lunch on Saturday before church. The older children went to church to eat.

YowCH took his KFC class (Primary 3) out to Clementi Woods Park for the KFC class outing.


Samuel didn’t get any photos because his Primary 2 class didn’t want to take any photos.

On Sunday, Grace went to work (afternoon shift) while the rest went for swim, followed by lunch at AC Master Prata.

Back at home, YowCH renewed his hair dye.

In the afternoon, Esther went for her driving class. She has been regularly driving on the road with the instructor.

For dinner (before fetching Grace), we went to United Square for dinner at Yayoi.

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19 April 2021, Joseph had a fracture in school, playing-horse with his friend. It is a buckling fracture of the right radius just above the wrist.

We ordered dinner and topped up with some chicken nuggets.

On 20 April, David ran 2.4km in school in 11m15s, rather slow and needs to train harder.

For dinner we had tapao Western food.

YowCH bought some dates earlier, always available at Ramadhan period.

Grace made a nice sling for Joseph’s arm.

One day of home-based learning for Samuel on 22 April 2021.

On 23 April, we received the chess set ordered from China, nice in gold and silver.

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YowCH needed a larger screen to read news, scroll Facebook and other sites, given his deteriorating long-sightedness, and so he bought a local (Singapore) Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 (wifi-only). At just slightly above $320, it came with accessories, cover and tempered glass screen protector. the tablet is 10.4″ with 64GB memory. Arrived on 15 April 2021.

On 16 April, we went out to Alexandra Retail Centre to eat Bak Kut Teh for dinner.

On Sunday, 18 April, YowCH brought Joseph to MacRitchie Reservoir for his canoe competition. Unfortunately, he did not make the timing to the next round, due to tipping over into the water once. The race distance was 2.0km.

While Grace was at work, YowCH and the children had peranakan dinner at Great World City, The Blue Ginger. Samuel enjoyed buah keluak.

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YowCH took his first shot of Covid vaccine on 5 April at Radin Mas. Only a short wait in the morning.

A simple home-cooked dinner.

On 7 April, we got official news that David was given several awards in Gan Eng Seng Secondary School for his academic performance in O-levels. Here are the screenshots from the YouTube video of the online-awards ceremony.
GESS Progress Award:

Gan-clan Academic Value-added Award:

Academic Excellence Award:

YowCH had some yam cakes (made by Grace’s mom) for snacks.

On 8 April, Grace cooked dinner.

Salted-egg sauce with scallops (and prawns in another plate, Esther is allergic to prawns).

And a dessert made from old bread.

YowCH added 2 more sets of the head-rests to the Odyssey for the middle row seats. Very nice to sleep on.

Here is a photo of Samuel at Kids For Christ (Junior Sunday School) on Saturday.

We received our kalimbas orders online from China, with 17 keys. They both sounds great! We had a smaller one made from coconut shell from Bintan quite some years ago (only 7 keys).

Dinner at home with mussels, and long ‘finger’ grapes.

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YowCH had a dinner with contractor friends from Ssangyong at Brewerks on 1 April 2021, and bought some tapao beer. Brewerks is still a nice dining place by the river.

On Good Friday, we had lunch at West Coast Plaza, Upin Sichuan Hotpot.

For dinner, we invited the Ngs over to our place for Korean BBQ. We had good fellowship and fun over the food. The chicken hearts were well loved!

On Saturday, we had the Yongs over for dinner, again BBQ but we had satay instead.



For dessert, we had nice ice-cream!

On Easter Sunday, Grace got a nice cake for Samuel as a snack.

We met Grace’s parents and Gene for lunch at Sorrento.

Esther took her second Covid vaccination injection in the afternoon.

We ordered Shake Shack burgers for dinner, while we watched Justice League (Snyder) on our big-screen.

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YowCH’s morning medicines – 2 for high blood pressure, 1 for blood lipids, 1 glucosamine, 2 for calcium and 5 vitamin C.

On 29 Mar, YowCH stayed over at Sentul Crescent site to observe the overnight beam launching. works started at 1:00am (after the last LRT train) and completed launching 3 T-girders at 4:30am.

On 31 March, YowCH took Grace to a nice supper at Kyoten, Tiong Bahru. We ordered omakase (for 1) and fried rice (for 1) and 1 bottle of cold sake.




The food was very nice, and we were the last customers.

Esther started driving on the road with her driving instructor, Paul Ong. Here are her training routes on 28 and 31 Mar.

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