YowCH & Grace

We had a nice dinner at Shin Yeh (Taiwan food) at Liang Court on Sunday night. We ordered quite a large selection of dishes.


Here we are, all digging in:

We actually finished almost all the food!

And then, we had dessert (red-bean pancake and yam balls):

Later, YowCH sent Esther, David and Joseph to their grandparents’ place at Sorrento. Esther and David will stay over one night, then go to Church Youth Camp at Kota Tinggi on Monday morning, and return on Friday. With the older children away, we sent Joseph on a holiday-stay, too.

They will come home on Saturday, after YowCH’s company annual dinner on Friday night. We will also send Samuel to Sorrento on Friday for one night stay!

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On 26 Nov, Thursday (just before our trip to PJ), Esther performed at Victoria Concert Hall. Grace, David and Joseph went with Gene (YowCH was at a corporate event).
This is the combined choirs of several schools:

That’s Esther highlighted.

This is Queenstown Secondary School choir.


Esther in her choir gown (the gown is a little short, as she grew quite a lot in 2015).

And the family photo, with thanks to Gene.

On Saturday, YowCH brought David and Joseph to the Yuhua soccer tourney at Shuqun Sec school. That’s Joseph playing the goal-keeper:


YowCH helped with admin work for the West Coast Wolves.

And that’s David at training/warm-up.

The medal presentation for the Under 7 teams. The Wolves took 3rd place (5 teams participating).

Towards the afternoon, the games were stopped due to lightning and rains.

Sadly, our Fuji XF1 camera spoilt again during the games. The photos above are all from our soccer friend, Liew, except for the combo of Joseph.

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YowCH manage to find at Parkson, One Utama (PJ) a Waterman fountain pen of similar design to the set that he has been using for over 15 years, and at only $97 (RM294 after 20% discount of RM368).

Here are views of the new pen against the original set, and a detail against the older fountain pen.

The mid-barrel band of the new pen is larger (more gold) and the pen is slightly slimmer than the old. The older pen is so well used that the cap is loose and the pen tends to drop into his shirt pocket, causing ink-stains. Also the Fine nib has been worn to Medium over the years of usage. The new pen, however, is Medium nib, hence the writing is thicker now.

The ball point and the pencil are still in good conditions and being used daily. The old fountain pen is now decommissioned, washed clean and lies in the box in retirement.

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We had a short weekend break and visited YowCH’s parents in PJ. While we were in PJ, YowCH’s dad suddenly weakened and was we brought him to the hospital. Click on the photos below to get to the page.

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Happy birthday, Joseph. Seven years old now.

YowCH brought Joseph for a birthday lunch with David at MacDonald’s (Bukit Merah Central).

Esther was at school for choir practice, Samuel in childcare, and Grace at work.

Later in the evening, after Chinese lessons, we had a special ‘cake’ with candle for Joseph.

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We celebrated Joseph’s birthday at eCG meeting with a simple salted caramel cheese cake (very nice), together with Sonja and Eli, on Friday night.

Today is TYLin Family Day. We reached the zoo at 8:00am to mange the TYLin staff and walked the zoo from 9:30am until 2:15pm. We saw the newborn giraffe! Click on the photos below to get to the page.

After the zoo trip, we went to church, and Samuel started attending the toddlers’ class today.

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Samuel was dedicated to the LORD on Saturday, 14 Nov 2015 in church by Pastor Beh Soo Yeong. These are photos taken during the dedication service, thanks to Quincy for helping take the photos:


Esther, David and Joseph were all at the service, too!

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We stayed home on Deepavali (Tuesday) but Grace had work. While Joseph and David were having violin lessons at home, YowCH brought Samuel to the playground.

On Wednesday night, we arranged to meet the violin teacher, Joyce, at Johann Strings and with her expert guidance, bought a full-sized Johann violin (model 200) for David. This will be used until he complete his lessons, hopefully all the way to Grade 8.


This unit costs $380, there are cheaper and more expensive ones, but as a start, the sound is good and the teacher liked this unit, too. Here’s David playing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and Variants, his practice piece.

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With Grace’s parents having moved to West Coast, we have been preparing our own dinners after work, here are some examples:

Grace has been busy with her revived hobby, knitting:

She has made some beanies, pull-overs, and soft toys, here is Esther with her pull-over and a bear in progress.

On Sunday, after the weekly swim, David played a friendly game of soccer against ACS Barker Road. He was the goalie (given his basketball training, he was the best candidate). It drizzled for about 30 minutes during the game.

Joseph had his regular soccer training.

In the evening, we went to Bishan Park to meet up with YowCH’s sister for dinner. Samuel was happily rolling about on the Y-glider, although he is not really driving it yet.


Joseph was really fast on the Y-glider!

Dinner was at Cornerstone, we had a great time with the Yong family.

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With David and Joseph agreeing to committed lessons to learn the violin, grace contacted a teacher from on-line adverts and found Joyce, a Singaporean-Korean lady, to teach.

We will need to get a 1/4 violin for Joseph, and a full-size for David (currently, we have a 1/2 size and the full-size is electric, not suitable).

Our family band will be richer once the boys are able to play well.

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