Grace is now driving on public roads, with some verbal guidance by YowCH. She drove the family to dinner, parked at public carpark, then drove the family back and parked at the multi-storey carpark. She managed to reach 60km/h on a straight stretch and control was well.
We celebrated Grace’s birthday with eFG at the Leong’s place. This evening is also the last eFG sesion that Samuel and Hwee Leng will be with us, as they depart for Melbourne in a few days. Another good holiday excuse.
We woke up on Tuesday morning and found the front fork (with suspension) of YowCH’s bike stolen. This is about the only part that is not chained up. The thief unscrewed the handlebar, and quick-released the wheel which was chained. Amazing! The replacement cost is $197 and all the 4 bikes are now cramped into the house.
The Isis paintwork felt really rough and colour looks drab after a few years, so we went for a Sonax snow-wash, claybar, polish and wax service at Caltex. Then YowCH applied black polish/wax to the black plastic parts. Looks shiny and nice again.
[Update added below on 8 July 2012]
YowCH does not take wedding photos since about 5 years ago, except for his sister Loon. But Steven (a good friend from church) called to ask to take photos for his daughter, Hannah’s wedding, so, with trembling-hands and shortness-of-breath, photos were taken.
The service was held at St Teresa, Kampong Bahru Road, a rather classical Catholic church.
This should be the last official wedding photography job.
Updated 8 July 2012:
The next day, lunch was at Goodwood Park Hotel.
Nice food, particularly the renowned durian puffs.
Grace drove around the carpark for a while today and did some parking. Certainly needs more training after 20 years of not driving. The red triangles for new drivers are up on the car again.
Grace has gotten her Singapore driving licence, can drive in Singapore from now on.
Samuel and Hwee Leng will be relocating to Melbourne soon, so eFG had a BBQ party at HK and SW’s place on the evening of 30 June 2012. We contributed Ramly burgers.
You can see the oil squeezed out from the patties comes to one soup bowlful for 48 pieces of patties!
David and Esther were both helpful in the preparation.
We reached Cashew Heights at about 5:50pm after picking Grace from her work at 5:30pm.
HH and HK started the BBQ fire earlier. Every family brought something to share.
Thank God for the time we spend with our friends under good weather over very nice nice food.
Gan Eng Seng Primary School had a Fiesta on 30 June 2012. David got his face painted and so did his best friend, Seva.
Grace took her Singapore driving basic theory test this evening and passed (50 correct out of 50 questions!).
Next step, to convert the Malaysian driving licence into the Singapore licence during office hours.
The Yongs joined us for lunch and dinner today, as we will be sending parents to take the night train back to PJ later tonight.
We also had some durians.
