YowCH & Grace

In the middle of the Circuit Breaker period, the brothers play online game together.

Joseph built a few of his Gundam models, adding to his army.

YowCH’s work table, upgraded from 2 screens to 3 screen, having bought the new Samsung curved full-HD monitor from Lazada.

Our insurance agent sent some Maracons, a little gift durign the lock-down.

Our printer suddenly died, and we had to order another one from Lazada. Thankfully it was delivered in 3 days!

More game time, with all 4 children playing Brawl Stars together.

We had a Zoom meeting among YowCH’s cousins on a Saturday afternoon.

On 26 April, we recorded a worship session for the 17 May 2020 junior worship.


Samuel received a mail from church, with activities!

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Home-based Learning became necessary during the Covid-19 lock-down. Here are some photos of the children attending online-lessons.




In addition to HBL, YowCH and Grace also tutored Samuel.


They had exercises (PE lessons).


Even group dance lessons!

And Samuel actually had class meetings!

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With the Covid lock-down to stay at home, our church immediately started online service:

We bought some toys for Sam from internet orders:

YowCH and Esther recorded their parts as part of the church online choir, singing O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing:

You can watch it here on Facebook.

This is Samuel attending his Junior Service, with activities which we printed for him to do.

We collected the reusable masks issued by the Singapore Government for citizens and PRs.

Our shower heater died, and thankfully, we can call the electrical shop owner and arranged for a replacement unit, which YowCH installed immediately.

Our cell group met online through Zoom. The juniors held their own meeting.

When we went to NTUC, we bought some beer – Corona, to celebrate the virus!

Gene arranged for a Zoom meeting dinner, where she even bought the food to be delivered to our place.

We recorded another song for the church online choir, this time, with YowCH, Esther and Samuel, singing The Revelation Song.

You can watch it here on Facebook.

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We are still quite active in sports during the Covid-19 Circuit Breaker period.

YowCH runs 3-4 times weekly, and also does weights.

David also runs and does weights.

Esther prefers indoors exercises, and David sometimes joins her.


We take Samuel out for in-line skating about 2.0km, while Joseph runs 1.6km a few times weekly.

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On 8 April, we gave Samuel a watch, to let him learn to read the time during the 1 month of ‘stay-home’ due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This used to be Joseph’s watch.

Because of staying home, we had lots of opportunities to cook. These are some of the simple meals that Grace, YowCH, David and Esther cooked.


David and Esther had been running for exercise, here are some of their 2020 runs. David is now fastest, completing 2.4km in 10m10s, much faster than YowCH’s 12m

YowCH bought a Samsung S20+ on 3 April 2020 (through Grace’s Singtel account) at $168, with free 256GB SD card. But due to his Quarantine Order, he cannot leave his room and therefore could not transfer from his S9 until 9 April 2020. The Samsung S9 was damaged after water leak during a swim and wasn’t functioning well, with damaged camera and occasionally flickering or darken LED screen.

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YowCH attended a work meeting on 24 March 2020 at LTA HQ and among the attendees, there was one person with confirmed Covid-19 infection. On 2nd April, just before lunch, he received a call from MOH to inform that Quarantine Order has been issued, and YowCH needs to stay in a room until Quarantine is over (14 days from contact on 24 March, hence 7 April).

Click on photo below for the adventure:

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On Monday, 30 Mar, YowCH started WFH (work from home). The old monitor helps much as a second screen, and he bought new keyboard, mouse and USB hub to ease the work. The webcam is our old Logitech, and he uses the Samsung phone headphones-mic.

Esther’s piano lessons became home-based.

Joseph and Samuel had home-based learning (HBL) on Wednesday, followed by home-based piano lessons.


In fact, given that they are not in school, Joseph picked up the ukulele to practice playing, too.

David will have his HBL on Thursday and Esther hers on Friday.

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Grace made masks for our family, a very needed protective gear in this time of Covid-19 pandemic.

Church service is not held due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the children attended Youth Service (Teenacity) via webcast with interactive responses through their phones.


After the sermon, they went to their terminals for the Discipleship Group studies.

Thank God for technology, allowing group interaction even when we cannot meet each other.

In the evening, the Yongs visited to have dinner with us, a small celebration for David’s birthday.



As David is now past-16, he can drink alcoholic drinks, and his favourite is cider.

On Sunday, we went to the pool for our swim, and the pool was very empty.

After swim, we went to Tiong Bahru Plaza for lunch, buying some provisions and equipment (for the upcoming ‘work from home’) and to replace Joseph’s spectacles which was broken accidentally. YowCH managed to make an emergency repair, but new glasses were needed as Joseph’s power went up.

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Swimming pool implemented social distancing, and limited the number of swimmers. With cancellation of group classes, the pool is quite empty. Our family gets 2 lanes for our swim!

Our coach Francis helped us take a family photo underwater.

Unfortunately, the underwater photo using YowCH’s phone caused some moisture leak into phone and the cameras are now blurred. Sad…

David’s 16th birthday on 24 Mar passed quietly, with the COVID-19 situation. We will have a small dinner with the Yongs on Saturday to celebrate, instead of the party that we originally planned for. Photo below was taken on Sunday, a very empty pool.

YowCH has been consistently running 2.5km 3 times a week, clocking the fastest 10 runs all within 2020. In fact, the fastest 2.5km was achieved on Saturday 21 Mar in 11m50s. He also ran a 5.0km on Tuesday night 24 Mar and clocked 28m00s, the best timing for 5.0km. Two best runs within 3 days!

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Esther hit her shin on the car back row seat a few time, because there is a steel loop for the buckle to hold down the seat after folding down. So YowCH used a sheet of aluminium and folded a cover for the loop, and padded it with materials salvaged from a old sock. Softens the impact when the leg strikes the loop.

On Sunday, 15 March, Joseph returned to soccer after his ‘no-sports’ M.C. for the fracture of his little finger. Samuel was playing well, too.

Our dinner 19 March, pan seared salmon. The salmon was bought from a vending machine, not too bad, and very cheap ($3.00 each piece). the soup is tong-o with eggs.

On 20 March, we had meatballs, eggs, vege-siewyuk and can soup with bread for dinner.

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