YowCH & Grace

With David playing basketball in school as Co Curricular Activity, we got him a size-5 Mikasa black basketball, for his own practice. We tried it out at the playground last Saturday.


While we were playing basketball, some neighbourhood friends came by and they moved on to court soccer.

Joseph was at the playground climbing frame instead.

Our shoe cabinet was pretty beaten up, so on Sunday, we got ourselves 3 units of IKEA Stuva cupboards stacked up to be the new shoe cabinet. The minions were most helpful in putting up the cabinets. Not shown is YowCH handling the power-drill.
Old shoe cabinet (broken door):

Minions working:

New shoe cabinet (nice):

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T.Y.Lin annual dinner was held on 3 Dec 2013 at Inter-Continental Hotel (Bugis Junction). Samuel had to attend, too, of course. The team was “Colours of the World”.

YowCH received his long service award for 15 years in T.Y.Lin.

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On Sunday, we bought snacks for church-friends, serving angku kueh and glutinous rice. We pre-packed the rice into bags, with help from friends and Esther.

After church, we went out shopping for a while, the first time Samuel goes to Orchard Road.

Later, David and Joeph went for soccer training, they trained very well and played seriously.

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We threw a party for YowCH’s office, this time only for close friends and direct colleagues, on Friday evening, 29 Nov.



Mum, dad and Gene also came.

We had great food from Stamford Catering, and drinks-menu. We also served liquors and Esther was our bartender.

On Saturday afternoon, 30 Nov, we had another party for Grace’s KKH friends (current and previous), some relatives (Grace’s cousin, YowCH’s sister), eFG and YowCH’s old ASEAN scholar friends from Temasek JC.

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Today, Joseph celebrated his 5th birthday in school with his friends. He asked for a longan cake!

Unfortunately, no guests were allowed into the Childcare Centre due to disease outbreaks, so the family did not join him. All the photos by his teacher.


We gave goodie packs of Lego Chima to his friends.

After picking Joseph up from childcare at about 4:15pm, we brought Samuel to the Lab and met Grace’s colleagues. We also brought angku kueh for them.

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Today is Joseph’s birthday, he is now 5 years old. For lunch, Joseph asked for beef noodles from Xin Wang.

This is how 5 years old look like.

You can compare with age 1, age 2, age 3 and age 4.

For dinner, we had pasta and pizza at Pastamania (Funan Centre). David and Joseph skipped football training today due to some rain and also to celebrate Joseph’s birthday together rather than to rush around.

While we were at Funan, YowCH bought Grace a present for the delivery of Samuel, a new COOL camera, the Fujifilm XF1. Although it is almost one year old, it is still a very cool camera. Super high quality images with a mechanic zoom lens! Review at DPReview is here.

Sample image at ISO800 25mm (widest):

100% crop:

Sample image at ISO800 100mm (longest):

100% crop

The colours are FANTASTIC.

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We attended Matthan and Yi Ling’s wedding at church. Joseph served as the pageboy, bearing the ring. He did a very nice job of it.

Esther helped with the opening of the doors, also did a good job.

David was also helpful, he was in-charged of lighting the candles of the bride’s maids, but unfortunately, the lighter broke, and some adults ran to get the back-up lighter and lit those candles very urgently instead. Nevertheless, he was on standby for any candle that might be snuffed.
Samuel sat through the entire 2-hour ceremony without crying, mostly carried by David who took great care of him, and by YowCH.

Here’s a post-event photo of us.

And this is a photo of the ring-bearer, door-opener and the bride and groom.

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Today, we celebrated Samuel’s first month with a party at T.Y.Lin (the first of several such parties). We got nice pastries and tarts from Prima Deli, soft drinks and 4 mini-kegs (5L each) of Golden Ale from Brewerkz.

Samuel was very happy throughout, and YowCH’s colleagues passed him around!

However, there was plenty of leftover food and drinks. Only about 8L of beer consumed although we opened 3 kegs. So we called in some friends to help drink up the remaining 7L. There was great fellowship, but the beer still remaining another 3L or so.

More parties next week.

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This is a nice photo of the 4 Yow-minions, on a Sunday morning.

Samuel attended Church for the first time today.


It has been a few years since we sat in the baby room.

After church, we had lunch at Xin Wang, West Coast Plaza. This is our second family photo. Can’t see Samuel’s face, though.

With our friend’s wedding coming up next week and Joseph being the ‘ring-bearer’, we dressed him in the James Bond suit.

Cool!

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We went downstairs for breakfast, and realised that the baby carrier/pram is in the car. Grace came up with the great idea of putting Samuel in the laundry basket lined with a blanket.

Later in the evening, we went out to Great World City for dinner (at Poulet) and a little shopping. This is Samuel’s first trip shopping.

This is Joseph pushing the pram, but Esther and David also helped.

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