YowCH & Grace

The car repair workshop, Mova, reported that the car is almost ready, having been re-assembled. Photo below is from workshop manager.

Still need wheels alignment check, road test after alignment and water leakage test. Then to check if the wing mirrors can be repaired cheaply, as the motors burnt out a few years ago.

Probably get the car back early next week. I will need to fix the spoiler myself, as the ‘holes’ in the mounting tape for the bike rack must be cut to fit, the mechanics wouldn’t know where.

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Here’s a photo of the children at the playground near our home. Samuel can climb the stairs right up to the highest level by himself, and he is now trying to stand up.

It is Formula 1 in Singapore again, we watched it on the big screen, and the TV + monitor provides the internet real-time news feed and race data updates.

And for convenience, we brought home KFC dinner.

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We introduced Age of Empires to Esther and David about 2 years ago, but they were just too young then. Now, David started again, and plays reasonably well. The game teaches management of resources, manpower and battle strategies. Very good for mental development.

We had a nice dinner at Tiong Bahru, Two Face. The pizza was great.

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YowCH visited Mova workshop with Esther and David for an update on the car repairs after the accident on 30 August. Mova’s workshop is far-far-away at Fan Yoong Road (Boon Lay industrial area).

The panel beating, welding and body alignment has been completed. The car is in the spray-shop and the parts are in various stages of painting (touch-up putty, polishing, primer, painting). Here’s the view of the boot, looks rather well repaired:

And the inside has been stripped for repairs of the parts and for painting.

The door has been imported whole from Japan, including the rear window. We were a little worried about the loss of the 3M tinting, but this window comes with the original Japan tint.

The rear bumper was crushed, this is the new piece. The front bumper was repaired, touched up and painted.

Lastly, the right fender has been bent back to shape, touched up and primer done, to be painted soon.

It will be about 1 more week before the car is ready for collection. Probably about $15,000 in repair costs. Esther and dAvid had a great time learning about panel beating, welding and painting.

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Trouble: Kit Kat (Android 4.4) restricts apps from writing and accessing the SD Card directly as a form of security. You can Google “Kit Kat SD Card” and learn about this issue. One example is here.

After transferring most of the files and data from the “Desire X” to the new “One M8″, YowCH spent the night shifting manually data from Whatsapp, YouVersion Bible and Docs-to-go files. This is problem as the data will reside on the phone and when the phone crashes, the data is not on SD card hence not independent!

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With re-contract and new hand-set purchase, YowCH got a large phone, HTC One M8 with a free HTC 8000mAh Powerbank and 3 months free subscription to Amped (online music, not useful), for $148.00, street price is $750, RRP $1000. The phone is a nice gun-metal gray, and comes with a silicone wrap to protect the brushed aluminium casing.

This is the package that arrived from Singtel:

The phone is really large, as compared to YowCH’s previous phone, the HTC Desire X.

It runs on Android Kit Kat (4.4.3), had stereo speakers, front and back cameras (4MP), and a 5″ full HD screen. Also available in gold or silver, but gun-metal looks best for YowCH. The large screen is helpful for aging long-sightedness.

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Grace was working overnight shift on Saturday, so YowCH brought the children to the swimming class, 8:00pm to 9:00pm, after Church.


The pool was absolutely empty by closing time, 9:00pm.

On Sunday, Joseph brought Samuel along with YowCH to buy breakfast, and Samuel was in the Maclaren pram.

After this photo was taken, YowCH did some wheel swapping to balance the use, as the back wheels are practically fully worn out.

Then the boys went to soccer and Esther went to ballet. After our showers at home, we went to ARC for dinner, and ate at OKG Express. Rather nice food.

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We met up with Chee Kean and Ming Meng on Thursday night (11 Sept), 11:00am for supper at Tiong Shian Eating House, 265 New Bridge Road. This corner shop is famous for the porridge. CK and MM came to Singapore as CK has some work, and MM came along to meet some friends.


We had braised large intestines, raw fish and various porridges (fish, fish maw, pork slices and mixed pork). Nice, but better is the fellowship with friends.

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This morning, the rental Wish cannot start, probably starter motor died as battery is fine.

After 2.5 hours of towing and getting a replacement, we now got a black Honda Stream, newer unit and nice drive.

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Due to Esther’s baptism class on Sunday lunch time, we shifted our swim to Saturday night for the month of September. Rather chilling air at night.

An update on the terrapins, they have certainly grown up over the past 1 year, and one of the two actually grew really huge.

Compare against the same pump/filter.

Joseph is now able to help us go down to the coffeeshop to buy coffee.

This is Esther in her baptism class.

On Sunday afternoon, Grace was at work, so YowCH brought all 4 children to soccer. Esther helped look after Samuel while Joseph had training and David had a friendly match against ACS.

Joseph trained well and played well in his game.

David was playing goalkeeper and defender, didn’t concede any goals during his time on the field.


Seems more like having a picnic between the Lims and the Yows.

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