One of the terrapins suffers from eye infection causing the eyelids to swell. You can see the ‘white’ covering the eye while a healthy terrapin has nicely opened eyes.
We bought some anti-bacteria medicine and added to the water, and we separated the infected terrapin into a small tank.
We prepared the baby’s clothes and drawers next to the cot.
YowCH’s head injury is healing very well after 6 days, some bruise still visible, but the wound has fully closed.
Yesterday, the naked chef made pancakes with his sister, while the younger brother set up the table. Pancakes for lunch was a great idea, tasty, filling and nutritious.
We had dinner last night at Brewerkz (Riverside Point) after soccer and ballet. We were really in the mood for Oktoberfest – beer, pork knuckles and sauerkraut. We ordered some drinks (virgin mojito for David and Shirley Temple for Esther, with a Honey Apricot Ale for sharing), the Massive Pork Knuckle, Black Angus Rib-eye 300gm, Beer-batter Onion Rings and Sautéed Mushrooms.
As the beer (Honey Apricot Ale) was a fruity-tasting fresh-brewed hand-crafted ale, the children each got to taste it (and so did Grace). The beer was not too harsh on YowCH (who reacts to hop with bad skin swelling).
Joseph and Esther liked it, David hated it and Grace felt that it is still too bitter. This was the beer that ran the fastest among 5 types when YowCH organised a beer tasting party last month for ACES-YPC.
Here you see David and Esther cutting the very delicious rib-eye.
At home, we have just set-up the baby cot, the very same one we picked up from the neighbourhood dump almost 12 years ago for Esther.
YowCH had a bad dream on 9 Oct 2013, and at 4:30am, rolled off the bed and fell on the ground. Unfortunately, the dumbbells were right at the bed-side and his head hit the metal in the fall, resulting in a deep gash on the right eye-brow. After a stunned 15 mins and applied pressure to stop the bleeding, he went back to sleep. Next morning, with a plaster stuck, he sent the children to school, Grace to work, sat in a meeting at work, and attended the SITCE conference in Suntec City. By the time he saw the doctor at about 2:45pm, the wound has clotted and closed up, so no stitches needed.
Today, 3 days later, the swelling has reduced and the bruise is improving.
Thank God that the damage was not serious and missed the eye. Lesson learned: keep the area around the bed free of any hard objects.
The Isis has reached 100,000km today, at about 4.5 years (we got the car on 9 April 2009).
From Monday 7 Oct to Wednesday 9 Oct, YowCH attended the Singapore International Transport Congress and Exhibition (SITCE2013) at Suntec City (organised by LTA and UITP)
There were more than a thousand international delegates from authorities, consultants, researchers, contractors and suppliers.
LTA’s Land Transport Master Plan 2013 was launched at the SITCE opening ceremony.
But he missed Monday afternoon’s session as YowCH was a speaker at HDB’s Erosion Control Measures Seminar held in the HDB Hub Auditorium.
The audience was mostly HDB’s project staff, contractors and consultants.
Joseph started using chopsticks on 15 September 2013, and tonight, he ate dinner by scooping rice from a bowl using chopsticks. We were at Mouth Restaurant at Vivocity, eating Sam Sui Chicken.
We met up with YowCH’s sister’s family for lunch at Square2, where we ate at Bread Bar (油炸鬼, yau-jar-guai, officially in Mandarin, you-tiao, 油条). There is a page in Wikipedia for this simple food.
The meal included curry chicken, bak-kut-teh, assam chicken, tau-fu-fa, kekou mian, and of course plenty of yau-jar-guai.
We visited the doctor today and everything is great, praise the Lord. 1 ultrasound image of his face added to Baby 4′s page.
The maintenance cost is rising, we added a larger filter ($12) on 25 Sept to keep the tank cleaner in order to change water less frequently. You can see it in the left side of the photo.
Today, we visited the new site at Jurong West again to look for some old structures, and here are our trail biking photos:
That’s a big ‘frog’ looking at a real one.
On the roadside drain top (and this drain is really a huge canal), YowCH managed to clock 35km/h on the mountain bike. The children reached 32km/h.
