YowCH & Grace

We picked up the National Day pack given by the government.

David having his online interview for his EAE into Polytechnic for culinary course.

Joseph’s interest, building things from wood and glue and other materials.

We resumed swimming at Queenstown, we had to pre-book tickets to ensure no overcrowding. When we reached the pool, it was quite empty, but shortly, every lane had the maximum 5 swimmers.

End of July, YowCH’s running very consistent. Starting August, instead of 2.5km x 3 and 4.0km or 5.0km weekly, he will do 4.0km x3 weekly.

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With the restrictions lifted due to lower cases of community Covid detected, we can eat out! However, still restricted to max 5 persons per table.

200702, YowCH and Grace at ABC, met Lee Hsien Yang canvassing for Progress Singapore Party (PSP).

200703, YowCH with Grace’s parents.

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200717

200719 (as we sent Samuel to Chinese tuition).

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200721, all 6 of us, but in 2 separate tables (max 5 per table).

200726, while Samuel is having Chinese tuition.

200727, with Esther.

200728, with David, Joseph and Samuel.

200729, after school, Mister Prata.

200730, after school, Encik Tan.

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Racial harmony day, the boys in traditional clothes.

Esther and YowCH having Parents-Teachers video meeting.

Samuel attending church service online.

Grace’s Singer sewing machine is cleaned and packed up, now that she has gotten the more powerful Futura CE-250.

Samuel at Chinese tuition, he needed some extra lessons just before leaving.

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We had a simple brunch at Sorrento with Grace’s parents and Gene


And a nice dinner at home.

Grace’s favourite food, durians!

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Esther doing worship for Youth Service.

The family doing worship for KFC (Junior Sunday School).

Samuel playing games on Wii.

YowCH with his heart rate monitor.

Samuel attending Chinese tuition back at the centre at Tiong Bahru Plaza.

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On 10 July 2020, the Yongs visited us and we had a swell time over lunch and dinner. Wonton mee for lunch


Lots of fun among the cousins playing games.



Big prawns and assam fish for dinner.

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Here are the children playing with the 2 sets of Augmented Reality Star Wars games. We got the second set when YowCH helped Grace’s dad buy another laptop same deal as David’s laptop.

We got some fake BeyBlade from China for Samuel.

Here’s Samuel, having online Chinese tuition.

YowCH has been very regular in his runs.

He got himself a heart rate monitor (mail-order from China) and starting from 07 July, monitors his heart rate as he runs.

The heart rate is very high! Reached 103% of the calculated max heart rate (based on 220 – age)!

Given less traffic in the Covid period, we can get 10km/L and the car can be driven 510km or even further in in tank.

YowCH is very disciplined in his runs, even when it rains (as long as not too heavy with strong winds or lightning).

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Our Church sent a pack of goodies and activities to Samuel for Father’s Day.

Grace’s parents came over for dinner on 28 June (with government allowing not more than 5 visitors, better they come than we go). YowCH cooked wonton mee.

After dinner, mom used the Xiaomi hair clipper to cut dad’s hair.

Sunday, 28 June, Samuel watching the worship lead by YowCH (with Esther and Joseph) recorded on 9 June.

On Monday, we collected the masks issued by Temasek. These masks are better than the earlier ones from the government.

Some sports we did in June, David got to play basketball with his friends (limited to 5 persons, though).

YowCH continued his exercises and bought a yoga ball (from Lazada, delivered in 3 days) to do the exercises prescribed by his physio-therapist from the chiropractor.

YowCH was also very regular in his runs. From the calendar, he has been making 3x 2.5km runs weekly, with a 4.0km or 5.0km run on Sundays.


In 6 months, he covered almost the distance of all his runs on 2019.

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YowCH bought Xiaomi Air-dots, much cheaper than Apple Airpods, for $28. Works well. Given to Joseph.

20 June, we saw the Church Youth Service worship with Esther playing guitar.

YowCH made a flat tray to put on the stove, this is very useful to temporarily place the cooking utensils like the spade, chopsticks or tongs.

On Monday 22 June, the whole family went out for school and work.

Samuel had some free time at home, he did some craft which YowCH bought from EZbuy or Lazada.

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On 22 June, YowCH took the Odyssey to change the tyres. You can see the old Goodyear F1 Asymmetric 3 very worn, after about 41,000km.

We bought Goodyear F1 Asymmetric 5 (looks the same as the Asymmetric 3) at $220 each.


Looks good and feels much safer with the good grip of new tyres.

While at Arrow Tyres, he also changed the car battery, keeping to Amaron, $165.

After changing the tyres, he drove over to Kenny for alignment, after 16 months and 23,700km of rough driving, the alignment was slightly off. Kenny also compensated the alignment a little based on the wearing pattern of the previous set of tyres.

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