YowCH & Grace

We went to Church on Friday morning for Good Friday service. In the evening, we wanted to visit Kranji Turf Club for the Taiwan Shilin Night Market, but it was too crowded. Thankfully, Grace was inspired to bring along our passports and we drove on to JB to visit the Wave, where Grace’s parents are spending a few nights.



The children had some fun in the gym.

We left the Wave at about 7:30pm, and had dinner in Komtar JB. After dinner, we went shopping before leaving for home at about 10:00pm. We reached home at 11:15pm, taking a detour drive through Tuas as Woodlands was jammed packed with cars.

On Saturday, Grace went to work. David went for a 2.4km run while YowCH cycled 5km (he ran 5km yesterday). After the run/cycle, they met Joseph at the basketball court for some hoop-shooting.

Then we had a quick shower, went with Esther to Queenstown Sec School to get her official testimony and went to Tyr warehouse sale (Jalan Kilan, near home) and got some good bargains (goggles, swimsuits, sports suits and other accessories). When Grace returned from work, we had lunch at Refuel.

On Sunday, we went to Church for Easter and baptism, then swim and football.

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We had another round of big bowl noodle at Tongue Tip on Thursday, this time with Esther.

David had learnt some basic guitar chords and he is able to play some songs, all thanks to the Church programme “Level-up” to bring the young members to a higher level of skills in service.

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Grace and YowCH took leave on Monday, 15 April, to get some banking work done in JB, followed by assembly of furniture in the new condo, Wave at Marina Cove. We managed to pack 6 stools, 1 bench, 4 chairs, 1 mobile rack, 1 metal rack and 1 shoe shelf into the Odyssey, together with YowCH, Grace, Samuel and Grace’s parents.

After breakfast and banking in JB, we went shopping for household items at Daiso, Komtar JB.

Samuel was helpful in setting up the furniture.


For lunch, we had beef noodles and porridge at Bukit Indah.



After lunch, we went for more shopping at Tesco and then visited D’Pristine to check on the post-rectifications of the defects.

We left D’Pristine at about 7:20pm and reached home at 8:45pm.

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On Thursday night, we had a big bowl of noodle after David and Joseph’s Chinese classes and before Samuel’s piano class. It was at Tongue Tip Beef Noodles at Tiong Bahru Plaza. The $50 bowl feeds 4-5 persons and comes with free-flow noodles and soup.

On Sunday, we cooked Western, with the highlight being pork chop flavoured with gula melaka. It was great!

We shared the meal with Grace’s parents and Gene. Angus beef, lamb, pork collar, cod, potatoes, peas, lettuce, century eggs, portobello mushrooms and cucumber.

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Our church friends in Melbourne brought us a nice big (1 kg) bag of jelly bears!

Samuel and Joseph are now able to assemble Ikea furniture for the family.

We had dinner with the Yongs at Tunglok Teahouse (Square2) on 10 April 2019.

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YowCH really likes the Nike Air Max shoes, we have a total of 8 pairs, 7 of which are in active service. David has 2 pairs, Esther has 1, Joseph 1 and YowCH 2. YowCH and David shares the white Vapormax and the white Air Max Tavas (with black tick) used to be David’s but he has out-grown the shoe.

The path leading to the carpark turns muddy after rain, so YowCH and Joseph took some spare bricks from the neighbourhood and made an upgraded path.

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David turned 15 on Sunday, 2 Mar. We had a nice Korean BBQ dinner at Nanta BBQ, near United Square.

Here’s a look at the young man.

The food we had were great.

We got him a pair of cool looking running shoes: Nike Air Max.

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Grace brought her mom, Esther, Joseph and Samuel to watch Disney on Ice. A little holiday treat. David and YowCH not interested.

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YowCH had a 2-day work trip to Ipoh from 11 to 12 March 2019. The team took Scoot at 6:30am from Changi Terminal 2, and arrived at Ipoh at 7:30am.

The airport is very small, mostly for domestic flights. International flights only from Singapore and via Scoot or Airasia.

The local host (Projalma) drove the team (with contractor Eng Lee, client HDB, QP Er. Tham, and consultants YowCH) in a van and had dim-sum (halal) breakfast at Canning Garden.

After breakfast, we went to Projalma’s precast factory, and this company will be casting segments for a HDB bridge (YowCH’s project).

After a short briefing, the team visited the mould and the factory.

The Qualified Persons carried out inspections.


For lunch, we were taken to Little Elephant, a Western-Asian fusion restaurant. YowCH had nasi kerabu (blue rice).

The host order some snacks for sharing, and YowCH had sago for dessert.

After lunch, we continued with the site discussions on quality control, delivery schedules and other related matters.

At about 6:00pm, we arrived back in Ipoh town and checked into Weil Hotel, a new and very nice business hotel with affordable rates.



After a short rest, YowCH brought the team out to the old streets of Ipoh for dinner at Lou Wong bean-spout chicken.


After dinner, we walked the streets a little and returned to the hotel for some discussions and work.

Here are some night scenes of Ipoh taken from the hotel roof.

Next morning, we woke early to have breakfast at Sin Yoon Loong at 7:30am.


We continued to inspect the first segment, for readiness to be cast in concrete.


At about 11:00am, we left Projalma, and was taken to see the queer Kellie’s castle (YowCH suggested this). We just viewed the castle from the carpark.

After that, we drove a bit out of town to the pomelo farm to buy some fresh pomelos, before returning to the hotel to check-out.

Again views from the roof top, in daylight.

We checked out at 12:20pm and we were taken to lunch at Tuck Kee, Big Tree Foot.


After lunch, the hosts brought us to 362 Gunung Rapat Heong Peah, where the biscuits are still baked in traditional style earth ovens.

Then to the nearby Yee Hup shop for buying snacks.

And finally back to Ipoh old street for Lai Kee soya bean curd with ginger black sugar.


We reached the airport at 4:00pm, checked-in smoothly and the flight took off on time at 5:25pm.

However, the plane had to circle at Changi due to heavy traffic and we landed only at 6:45pm. YowCH reached home at 7:45pm, and brought along lots of goodies (mostly food).

Thank God for a smooth trip, work done during the trip, positive interactions between the team from the contractor, client and consultants and safety. Also thank God for all the good food in Ipoh.

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The West Coast Wolves hosted the South-west League games at Clementi Stadium on 10 Mar 2019.
Samuel played a in the Under-6 team, and participated quite well.



Samuel’s team took 2nd place of 4 teams.

After the games, he sat around while Joseph’s games were played.

YowCH was assigned to manage the Under-15 team, and they play at the last sessions of the day.

Joseph’s team faced very tough opponents and they were knocked-out quite early (playing 3 games and losing all).

But Joseph played well during the games, especially in the third game.

The Under-12 team got medals for participation.

The Under-15 team got first place.

Overall, West Coast Wolves did quite well in this league.

It was a hot morning, and playing from 7:00am to 2:00pm, we went over to Sorrento for lunch followed by a dip in the cool pool.

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