We took a 3D2N holiday to The Shorea from Monday, 10 Dec to Wednesday, 12 Dec, without Esther and David who were at the church Youth Camp.
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New food idea, Daifuku (Japanese starch ball) with red bean paste and strawberry.
Samuel is able to handle the Lego Creator set, and built the 3 dinosaurs from the set.
On Sunday, we went for swim, and the boys had fun on the coach’s banana float.
In the afternoon, we went for soccer, and met heavy rain and lighting towards the end. The rain was so heavy that the field was flooded with 1 inch of water!
On Saturday, 1 Dec, YowCH went for his regular run and then continued with 5.00km of cycling within the carpark area. At 4.95km, he had a fall and hurt his knees, left wrist and sprained his neck. Thank God all the injuries are minor. The bike slipped at a turn on rather slippery surface.
In the evening, YowCH and Esther performed as musicians for the church’s carols choir team at West Coast area. It was very tiring but fun.
It was rather boring for the boys waiting for the event to start.
The first part started at 7:10pm and we sang for about 12 minutes, before the Member of Parliament conducted the Christmas Tree lighting ceremony and the Aerobics Cheer-leading performance.
David helped with the video and Grace took photos.
During the break, we had to replace one string on Esther’s Takamine which broke during the first part.
The second part started at about 7:40pm and we played adn sang for another 30 minutes. Esther had a soloist part!
After carol signing, we had a late dinner at Xin Wang, West Coast Plaza.
On Sunday, Joseph shared his testimony with the rest of the Juniors in church during the post-Batam trip party in church. We did not swim this weekend to attend this party.
After the party, we went to Decathlon, Joo Koon to get some sports stuff while heavy rain poured outside. We had sushi lunch at Sushi Express, where every plate is $1.50 and the green tea is free. Total of 40 plates.
After the rain, Joseph and Samuel attended football practice. We saw a nice rainbow, which later grew to a full-arc!
And after the rainbows, it started pouring again!
On Sunday evening (after Joseph and Esther return from their mission trip), we had dinner with the Yongs at Canton Paradise, Star Vista, for Joseph’s birthday.
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On Tuesday, we had a simple macaroni 芽菜鸡 for dinner. The tougeh and carrots were bought by Samuel in his school trip to the market!
Just an update on our Skylanders, we bought Trap-team for Joseph for his birthday, and this is our line-up now.
On Wednesday night, we went to Timbre @ Gillman for dinner and music. It was very quiet unlike the weekends where the place is super crowded.
And we sold the iPhone XR 128GB that we bought with Joseph’s phone plan for $980 to a young man (student).
From 23 to 25 Nov, Joseph joined our church’s mission trip to Batam under the juniors program, and Esther went along as an adult helper.
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We did an early birthday dinner for Joseph at Morganfield on Tuesday night as he will be away on a church mission trip this coming weekend.
We had lots of meat!
Our HDB flat loan has been fully paid off! the flat is now fully owned! Well, not that we own it, but we have paid in full the lump sum tenancy.
[CORRECTION: 11 Jan 2019: We are still paying the loan until April 2019]
YowCH went for his health check on 31 Oct and met the doctor for the results on Wednesday. Thank God that all is well (even his blood pressure), but high on cholesterol. Need to reduce fatty food, seafood and other food with high cholesterol. Regular exercises of 2 runs and 1 swim (and football coaching) weekly is certainly helpful.
We have given Joseph his own phone line on 19 Nov. He will be using David’s previous iPhone SE, and we will sell the iPhone XR 128GB on Carousell.
We have also issued one set of house keys to Joseph. By next year, at 10+ age and attending Primary 5, he will be old enough to manage his own matters.
He will celebrate his birthday this weekend in Batam during a church mission trip (attended by Esther and Joseph).
Esther collected her new iPhone XR 64GB (Coral) on 15 Nov. She then sat for her final O-levels paper on 16 Nov (Fri) before changing to her new phone.
Incidentally, YowCH woke up to a stuck door pad-lock and had to climb the window to get out of the house.
We bought a new lock, and the locksmith’s charge to cut the lock was $50.
In the evening, we went to Spruce for dinner and music to celebrate the end of O-levels for Esther.
On Saturday, YowCH ran his usual 2.5km in 12m30s, quite a norm nowadays. After running, he went to Church Management Committee meeting, then his colleague’s wedding (in Yishun) and then attended church. The family went to join Sorrento for lunch before church.
On Sunday, we went for for our swim where Grace and YowCH did 20 laps each (YowCH completing 10 free-style laps non-stop). After which Esther and YowCH went for Christmas Caroling practice and musicians while the rest rested in Sorrento. After carols, YowCH, Joseph and Samuel attended football training, and then we all went to the birthday party of the Ngs, having a nice evening of food, beer/wine and live music.
The West Coast Wolves hosted a soccer league game at Clementi Station, with partnership of Ulu Pandan and Taman Jurong.
It was a great morning, cool air and nice sunlight.
YowCH was doing photography and management of the West Coast teams (Under-6, U-8, U-10 and U-12).
Under-6, with Samuel.
Under-10 with Joseph.
Samuel was totally enjoying himself as a reserve. He didn’t play at all, but watched the games and had snacks.
Joseph played goalkeeper. But the opponents in U-10 were all very strong, his team did not win any of the games!
Samuel’s team won the U-6 group! He is a champion, even though he didn’t play! Actually, there were only 2 U-6 groups and the other group wasn’t very good.
Joseph got a medal for participation.
Lunch was provided, and right after the final U-12 games, the weather turned bad and it started to pour!
On Deepavali, YowCH took the children to Colbar for lunch. Grace was working.
Esther bought a gift for Samuel, for his birthday – a nice Lego set!
