YowCH & Grace

After 16.5 months and running about 32500km, the Michelin Pilot Sport 3 tyres were worn-out. Grip on road has improved, but certainly not wet handling as hydroplaning happens even on very shallow water. Thank God the months of May to June are dry months, allowing the tyres to be stretched further.

Today, YowCH and Joseph went to Arrow Tyres and changed to Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 2 225-45-R17 at $185 each. These are made in Germany late 2012.

The initial feel is very good stability, sharp turning response, and not as hard or bumpy as the Pilot Sport 3. Rather quiet, too, compared to the Michelins. Will test it out on water lodged roads someday, but given the deep grooves, it should be great.

At the same time, Gene also changed her tyres to Firestone TZ700 185-70-R14 at $105 each. These will be better wet weather grip for long runs on the North-south Highway.

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The haze situation in Singapore is quite bad due to Indonesian fires, starting from 17 June and looks like the skies are clearing only today (23 June). This photo outside our home was taken on a relatively clear day on 22 June.

In this hazy condition, our family photo is rather interesting:

We went out at 2:00pm to catch “Man of Steel” at Lido, courtesy of our insurance agents (Adelia Huang and Willy Tan, wife-husband team) at Lido. Very exciting, dark story and violent.

Then it was a nice burger dinner at &Made (French eatery in Pacific Plaza).

And after a terrible 4 hours, YowCH reloaded his repaired handphone for use starting on 23 June, Sunday.

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We took leave on Wednesday 19 June 2013 and went to a very quiet Legoland. We got to take most of the ride several times! Click on photos to enter the Legoland page.

YowCH’s phone which was sent for repairs on Monday was returned on Wednesday (to TYLin office) with a new mainboard and all data lost. Sad.

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Today, we had the detailed scan, and thanks to school holidays, Esther, David and Joseph came along and saw the live ultrasound scanning.

Please go to the page for Baby 4 for the latest scans.

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YowCH’s phone (HTC Desire X) crashed yesterday (16 June, Sunday) aged 7 months. The phone had trouble reading the SD card, asked for reboot and when rebooted, the phone showed the HTC sign and went black, never to wake again.

Sent into HTC at Keppel Tower (Harbourfront) during lunch today, and quite confirm that the main-board died. They will change the main-board, meaning that all data on board will be lost. That’s 2000 over contacts. The Outlook back-up was corrupted when YowCH tried to sync into the older HTC Desire. Miserable day.

HTC will repair and give free delivery to YowCH’s office when done.

But thank God that the older Desire was at hand as a back-up phone.

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Our church camp was held from 10 to 14 June 2013 in Kuantan. We drove to PJ on 8 June and then went to Kuantan on 10 June. After camp, we returned to PJ and stayed one night, returning to Singapore by Saturday night.

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Samuel, Hwee Leng and their 5 children left for Melbourne on 1 June 2013 on a 23:55 flight. Yows and Lims were at the airport to send them off.

Today, we had dinner at MOF Tiong Bahru Plaza for Esther’s birthday. Mum, dad and Gene were with us for this Japanese meal.

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Grace’s Uncle, 3rd Aunt and 4th Aunt came over from Pontian today, and we had dinner with them together with parents and Gene at Jack’s Place, Anchorpoint. A good time of family fellowship over Western food dinner.

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We bought a second-hand unit of the Fujifilm F200 EXR at $100.00 to replace ours which has died on 21 April 2013 after 38,000 shots. This camera is useful to us as we have the underwater casing for it.

And black is nicer than our previous unit which was gold.

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After about half a year of not having soccer training, Joseph rejoined the soccer training today. We got him new long socks, shin guards and a new size 4 field ball.

He left previously because he was really too young to follow instructions, got distracted easily and rather disruptive to the session. Now, with threats of sending him for ballet classes instead, he agreed to behave well and participate actively. Today’s training went rather well with Joseph.

David had also improved his dribbling, passing and playing.

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