YowCH & Grace

Joseph turned 5 months old on 24 April, a few days ago. He can now flip himself front-to-back and back-to-front on bed. He can also belly crawl to get to things that he wants. Above all, he is now more than 7kg, making him almost 2kg heavier than Esther and David when they were 5 months old.

Still smiling and bubbly as ever, Joseph normally cries only for food, when he is too hot lying down or when left alone. All he needs is someone to chit chat with, and he’ll be smiling and laughing.

Esther is doing pretty OK in school, mixing well with her friends, and doing well in her school work. She is very happy with the car fetching her to and from school. Esther is also getting comfortable speaking in Cantonese, and noted even a classmate who speaks in Cantonese with her.

The family will be spending one day in Malacca on 16 May 2009, TYLin Family Day.

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It has been one week of driving the Isis, and we have clocked 200km now! There is a great change in lifestyle with driving and we are still adapting to it.

YowCH is getting some back-aches as he feels tense. Driving again after 17 years is quite a strange experience. The car is nicely powered, but the body is rather long and bulky. Hard to park and make U-turns at tight junctions.

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Thank God everything went smoothly, and YowCH collected the car today at 7:30pm (after 1 hour of final checks and paper work). Then YowCH drove over to Moh Guan for dinner with mum, dad, Grace and the children, and after dinner, everyone rode in the Isis back home! The children had a GREAT surprise when they saw the car!

Again, the Isis page is here.

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Thank God, COE confirmed today at $7501. With the paper work in place, the ride should be ready by tomorrow evening. We are praying for smooth going in all this. YowCH has been driving Gene’s Altis around for training, taking things slowly, there should not be problems, with God’s watchful eyes.

Link to the Isis here.

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With the 2.5-year-old Palm Tungsten E2 dying (the screen turns white on, and not sensitive to touch), YowCH got a new PDA phone , as his phone contract had just reached 21 months. The HTC Touch Cruise is new and pretty:

The included car kit and GPS is most useful for the upcoming wheels, to be collected this Thursday evening (9 April 2009), as promised by Ricardo.

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Woohoo, YowCH passed the Basic Theory Test today at Bukit Batok Driving Centre and converted the Malaysian driving license to a Singapore driving license.

Now waiting for COE next week to get the Isis.

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Wow! David turned 5 on 24 March, this is a photo of his birthday celebration at childcare with 19 of his classmates (one absent).

And here’s a picture of Joseph reading the “Farm Animals” cloth book while sitting on the high chair. He loves the book!

And on 28 March, eFG had a picnic at Keppel Island (see photos here).

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The saga started at least four months ago, end-Nov 2008, when YowCH felt some tinkling pain in the last tooth, lower jaw, right side. It got to the ‘needle poke every few minutes’ from 22 Feb 09. Suddenly, on 7 Mar 09 at about 10pm, it became a ‘bunch of needles stabbing every second’. YowCH couldn’t sleep and cold water sent a shocking permanent pain throughout the night.

8 Mar 09, Guan Huat, church friend and dentist, opened his clinic for emergency treatment and three root canals were drilled to relieve the pain. Come Monday, when the clinic assistant was available, the treament was completed. But there was still a little pain during the appointment to complete the root canal and prepare for crowning on 13 Mar 09, it was discovered that one of the canals actually splited into two! More work done, and the crown prepared.

Finally on 19 Mar 09, a metal crown was placed over the tooth.

Another update on the Isis, tinting completed.

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Today, Grace took a photo for YowCH, as a formal photo to use for office matters, which we call the “office photo”.

The studio is actually our bedroom with some minor modifications and tight cropping. The chair that YowCH is seated on is actually our bed’s headboard! With some contruction photo and engineering books as background, the setting is quite OK for a ‘studio’ shot of an ‘office’! Here is the out take:

We have also updated the page for the Isis, scroll down to 14 March 2009 to see new photos.

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Wow, Grace has been back to work for one week already. Joseph is taking Infant Care pretty well now, having cried the whole of the first two days!

With Grace taking the boys to school and YowCH taking Esther to before-school-care, office hours and life goes back to a more normal routine.

YowCH is promoted to Principal and carries a heavier load at T.Y.Lin.

Not mentioned earlier is our new ride, which is viewable here.

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