YowCH & Grace

After workng very hard for the past 21 months, YowCH’s HTC Desire now suffers from a failing vibrator and is too small on the memory (sluggish running of programs). With a recontract with Singtel, and searching for a not-too-large and not-too-expensive phone, he settled at the recently released HTC Desire X at $18.00 with 24 months contract (street price is $350.00), bought online and delivered to TYLin office. In addition, he paid an additional $68.00 for a piece of Beats Solo headphones (street price about $200.00), collected at Oro, the distributor.


Still using Android (now ver 4.0. Ice Cream Soda), data and software transfer was successfully carried out in a few hours, much easier than the previous transfer from Window Mobile to Android.

And yes, the phone is white. The alternate colour in Singapore is dark blue, which looks quite bad, actually. Overseas seems to have black.

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Today is Deepavali Holiday, so we spent time at home running the skates. Grace can move around pretty OK now; Esther, David and YowCH are making tight turns and jumping; and Joseph can go 15m, turn around and go another 15m unassisted now. Looks like we’ll be going onto the carpark for more serious practices coming weekend.

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Esther and David had a round of golf at the Marina Bay Driving Range with YowCH this evening. Tomorrow is Deepavali holiday and school holidays are starting, so we will try to give them some time to learn golf.



These next two photos are screen captures from videos, showing that both Esther and David can hit the ball and make it fly.

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Joseph tried on the skates again, and with some guidance and help from YowCH, Esther and David, he can now stand up from ground, balance and move along a little. Holding his hand, he can actually turn. Wow!

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With Esther and David doing well on the in-line skates, we gave Joseph his birthday present in advance – his own pair of in-line skates. You can certainly see his joy.

Well, YowCH and Grace got a pair each too, and here you see us practising. Grace has never been on skates, and YowCH only played around a little about 10-plus years ago.

YowCH saw a good deal on a set of junior golf clubs ($99) and picked it up for them to try out. Consists of 1 driver, 2 irons and 1 putter, all in a bag. Looks like Esther and David can join YowCH in the driving range.

Meanwhile, Grace ordered and picked up 3 more ukuleles, rather fruity ones, from Groupon at about $28 each. From left to right – YowCH’s, ‘glitter’, ‘kiwi’, ‘watermelon’ and our first. The new ones are very colourful. They will be used to start off church juniors (7 to 11) on ukulele-playing.

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Today Esther sang for the Church 55th Anniversary Dinner promotion in 1st and 2nd English and the Chinese services. It was great, as Enoch and Han Wei were playing the violin very well. The tune was “O sole mio” (Elvis sang it as “It’s now or never”) and the words were written by Hsiao Yen for this promotional song. Very well received by church members.

Grace and YowCH have also been thinking of sending Esther and David for in-line skates training this coming school holidays, with some courses offered with skates and some without. By God’s great timing, Kelvin offered us 3 pairs of old children skates and we took them up at a token price. Esther and David had about 2 hours run on them, and they are able to get around! Looks like we can save the money on the course!

Today, Esther also returns to the ballet class after absence of almost 3 months due to the toe fracture from the cycling accident in August.

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We had a great dim-sum lunch with Mum for her birthday at Crystal Jade, Great World City today.

We have also updated our Kuching Trip with the Trip pages (refer to sidebar or click below).
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We had a short school break due to exam paper marking for PSLE, and took the opportunity to travel to Kuching, Sarawak, East Malaysia. We left Singapore on 14 Oct 2012 and returned on 18 Oct 2012 by Tiger Air. In the 5 days, we toured Kuching (good food, sight-seeing), Damai (Sarawak Cultural Village) and (the highlight) Kampung Annah Rais, a Bidayuh longhouse (homestay, hiking, river rafting, waterfall).

Hiking in the jungle:

Edward and Nancy, our homestay hosts and tour organisers:

Kuching city walkabout:

The dedicated page will be up in a few days’ time.

UPDATE 20 Oct 2012:
We have also updated our Kuching Trip with the Trip pages (refer to sidebar or click below).
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On Saturday, 6 Oct, while Grace was at work on afternoon shift, we went cycling at the MOE carpark near our house. Esther and David practiced cycling with one hand, weaving in-and-out and making very tight turns at high speed. YowCH practiced jumping the kerb.

On Sunday, David played futsal soccer competition at Hougang from 8:00am to 2:00pm. The rest of us attended church for Children’s Day event, then went to the stadium to join David. The Lims brought him to Hougang after he spent a night at their place.

Trophies were given to every child as encouragement, but the truth is, the Jaguars did not do well.

Today, 8 Oct, YowCH went to Marina Bay driving range with his colleagues to practice golf swings. This is the second round, the first was last Tuesday.

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Today is children’s day and YowCH had to work. So the children went to the Zoo with Grace. We arrived at 8:00am by car (YowCH dropped the family off) and left by cab at 6:50pm.

Here is the page for this zoo trip.

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