CNY2020
Posted on January 28th, 2020 by yowch
We prepared the page for CNY2020 and here are a few teaser photos. Click on he photos for the page.
YowCH on HBP medication, Joseph’s fracture follow-up
Posted on January 23rd, 2020 by yowch
YowCH got his health check (done on 13 Dec 2019) on 21 Jan 2020 and consulted a doctor at Whitecoat clinic which is in the building next to his office. Started high blood pressure medication on 22 Jan 2020.
YowCH and Grace brought Joseph to KKH for a follow up on his finger fracture. The fracture needs a cast, and likely out of action for several weeks. Here are the X-rays.
The finger are still swollen after 1 week.
He chose purple for his cast.
West Coast Wolves annual meeting and dinner
Posted on January 19th, 2020 by yowch
Our soccer team, West Coast Wolves had the annual meeting and dinner on 19 Jan 2020. The children had their weekly games/training, while the parents met at West Coast CC. David helped with the training, and Joseph had to sit out because of his fracture. Here is a photo of the meeting to discuss training needs, strategies, development and plans for football leagues.
At 5:30pm, the children joined the adults at West Coast CC for dinner. We catered nice food.
Grace helped get 2 sets of ‘yu sheng’ (we paid for these). Unable to find the prepared sets, she bought the ingredients from Sheng Siong and sliced the raw vegetables in Church before bringing over to the CC.
We had fun at the party.
YowCH’s fastest run, again
Posted on January 18th, 2020 by yowch
Just as he clocked his fastest run the previous Saturday 11 Jan, YowCH’s run on Saturday morning, 18 Jan was yet another personal record, the fastest since 2015! He did 2.5km in 12m05s and covered 2.4km in 11m34s. Very fast.
With this, his top 3 fastest 2.5km runs were all in Jan 2020 – fastest on 18 Jan, then 11 Jan and 3rd place 4 Jan. Perhaps he can still improve on the timing.
KTP CNY lunch, BCG at Yows’ home
Posted on January 17th, 2020 by yowch
YowCH’s company, KTP, had a Chinese New Year lunch on Friday 17 Jan 2020.
Later in the evening, YowCH, Esther and David prepared dinner for BCG as we hosted the cell group at our place.
Some miscellaneous stuff:
Wi-fi biscuit:
Pomelo skin helmet for Samuel:
Joseph fractured little finger
Posted on January 17th, 2020 by yowch
Joseph was playing in a basketball league game (representing his school) on 16 Jan 2020 and he fell badly. His little finger on the left hand had a minor fracture. After the game (GESPS won), the teachers brought him to KKH A&E. YowCH picked Samuel from school and met them there. Grace was there, too.
The finger was swollen, and the doctor applied a buddy bandage and the thermo-plastic cast. Looks very serious for a small fracture.
The next day, he was back in school (ignoring his 4 days of MC).
YowCH fastest run, Siu Hei’s birthday dinner
Posted on January 12th, 2020 by yowch
YowCH increased his running from 2x weekly 2.5km to 3x weekly 2.5km in 2020. On 11 Jan, Saturday morning, he clocked his fastest ever 2.5km run since he started regular running in 2015. He covered 2.5km in 12m10s (2.4km in 11m40s). Perhaps it was the compression tights that helped!
The step counter is 1972, usually he takes about 2050 steps for 2.5km. Perhaps longer strides helps.
What’s interesting is that the fastest runs (1st, 2nd and 4th) all happened within the last 2 weeks. The 3rd fastest was in Oct 2018.
We invited Siu Hei for dinner for his birthday, but he prefers to eat at our place, so we prepared home cooked salmon, pork, beef and lamb, with sides of portobello mushrooms, mussels and egg-salad.
After dinner, failing to have a cake, YowCH made a stacked-up-ice-cream-potong cake.
Esther cook, durians, Parents Gateway, school bag
Posted on January 11th, 2020 by yowch
Esther decided to cook a dinner on 8 Jan, so she when to Ikea after school and bought the stuff to cook for the family. Nice!
YowCH bought some durians from a vendor who delivers to KTP, 3 fruits of Mao Shan Wang ($18/kg, total $72) on 9 Jan. We had durians as part of dinner, after YowCH’s regular run.
Just a nice screen capture of the Parents Gateway app on our phone, showing that all 4 children are registered with MOE (Ministry of Education). Esther will be out next year.
This was Esther’s bag for a few years, then Joseph used it for a few years (David needed a new bag because he overlapped with Esther), and finally Samuel used it for 1 week before the strap broke. The straps were just too old and the plastic deteriorated, and too much trouble to replace them, so we threw the 11-year-old bag away. Deuter Scholar series is very good as school bags. This old one is Small size.
Now Samuel uses Medium size (David’s bag). A little too big for his small body.
Samuel’s meet-the-parents session
Posted on January 6th, 2020 by yowch
YowCH attended the meet-the-parents session for Primary 1 students at GESPS on Monday, 6 Jan 2020.
Here’s Samuel’s first piece of work in primary school:
His classmates:
His buddy (P5 assigned to guide P1), and his classroom:
And the pinning-of-the-badge ceremony to mark end of orientation.
Soccer training, arrowroot, Redhill Close
Posted on January 6th, 2020 by yowch
Our first soccer training in 2020 on Sunday, 5 Jan. Joseph and Samuel both trained well.
On Sunday night, David helped cut and fry arrowroot for snacks. Not easy to slice them evenly and thin with a knife, and frying takes a long time.
Here are some final photos of Redhill Close, our home from 2001 to 2005, before they are demolished (likely some time in 2020). YowCH regular runs and the daily commute to Gan Eng Seng Primary School still goes past these flats. We stayed in Block 10 unit 04-122, the corner unit at level 4 furthest from Jalan Bukit Merah.
Refer earlier post here.
