On 24 April, we had dinner at ABC market, and Joseph ordered this HUGE plate of mala noodles:
Actually, he shared it with Grace. The food is nice.
On 25 Apr, Grace cooked Western seafood for dinner. We had grilled prawns (huge), baked cod fish, mashed potato, edamame beans and caramelized onions.
We packed some old toys and put them up for sale in Carousell. The first group, in original boxes, are the Madan Warriors, Ryu-kendo, Ryu-guno and Ryu-jiro.
The second group are Ultramen (Ultra-seven, Dyna, Leo, Gaia and Mebius) and monsters (Salamadora and Geranda)
Updated 27 April 2018: 5 Ultramen sold for $25, and 2 monsters sold for $12.
Then we went swimming and Samuel swam 7 laps continuously, that’s 350m! The older children also trained well for the upcoming Swimsafe Gold standard.
As reward for good swim, we had roasted meat rice for lunch at Henderson Road coffeeshop:
And for dinner, Western at Alibabar.
We bought a Baby-G for Joseph, the BGA-240-1A3, which is a new model and on discount (only $127). But he will need to earn it from his exams, swim and other responsibilities.
Samuel’s chopsticks skill is still improving, and his finger placement is still not correct, but the strength is there:
We had this sushi lunch at Sushi Tei, JEM.
Samuel swam 5 laps continuously, that’s 250m! Lots of distance for a little boy.
YowCH bought Transformer Cogman last week. A nice model, and a nice Aston Martin DB11!
We have placed our home on sale, and with God’s blessings, hopefully we get a good price, and we will sell, and buy an affordable condo unit. Click on the photo to link to the advert.
BCG hosted dinner for 3 Loatian Bible students attached to our church on 24 Mar 2018. We had great fellowship after church service on Saturday over great food at Kek, West Coast.
Faces are intentionally blured due to sensitive nature of their nationality.
For David’s 14th birthday, he got a nice steak meal at Alibabar:
We also bought him an interesting board game, Khet 2.0.
We had a 8-day trip to Taiwan, mostly in the South. And we had the joy of touring with YowCH’s cousin and family on the first 2 days. Click on photos below for our trip records.
We sent the Odyssey for servicing on 2 March 2018, with engine flush and polishing (top-up of the glass coating).
Honda reported that the air-con filter is dirty and needed to wash the coils! That’s quite ridiculous as we don’t use the air-con that much. The battery potential was weak, so we will have to change. Similarly, the tires are worn out (especially at the outer edges).
On 7 March, YowCH took the car to Arrow Tyres to change to a high capacity (80A, instead of the normal 60A) Amaron battery. On the Isis, the Amaron can last 60,000km! for the larger battery, we had to cut off some spacer plastic on the battery tray.
To use the preferred performance tyres (Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 3), the rims were upgraded from 17″ to 18″. The rubber became wider, too, from 215mm to 235mm. The change is from 215-55-R17 to 235-45-R18.
The grooves and pattern on the F1A3 provides a much better grip and wet weather performance. However, with the lower profile, the ride is rather bumpy. We chose a simple rim pattern, but Arrow did not have stock for darker coloured rims, so we ended up with the 5 twin-spokes rims.
Comparing on the car body:
And comparing the wheels:
After the tyres were changed, YowCH sent the car to Kenny for alignment, and a slight re-cambering (1°20′) of the front wheels to minimise the uneven wear on the outer edges of the front wheels. Kenny is famous for such detailed works and accurate alignment tweaking.
The original bolts were replaced with the after-market bolts which allowed the tuning of the re-camber.
All in, the car wheels has been upgraded and improved in performance for safety and better drive.
On 19 Feb 2018, SJ started work with a lion dance. YowCH was on leave and school opens on 20 Feb, so YowCH brought the children to watch (Grace just ended her night shift, so she slept at home).
When the lion tossed an orange at Joseph, he very coolly caught it, while being on the stairs landing.
Not many colleagues were working on Monday, here’s a group photos of Infra and Geo combined.
