YowCH bought a bike rack from Bike Connection, a simple Bell tripleback. This rack holds up to 3 bikes.
The children were really excited as we can now drive the bikes to cycling places like East Coast Park.
We took a family photo today, all the Yows, 3 generations.
The sudden flash of afternoon rain also gave us a case of double rainbow!
Tagging along with the TYLin China annual dinner at Chongqing on 17 Jan, YowCH and Grace had a short work/holiday trip from 16 to 19 Jan 2012.
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I can’t help it, when Joseph wears the jacket, he reminds me of the Ghost Rider.
We had a short holiday at Cameron Highlands from 19 to 21 Dec 2011, and our trip is recorded in the page here:
After Cameron Highlands, we spent time with YowCH’s parents in PJ. We had time with relatives:
YowCH’s uncle and wife.
YowCH’s cousin and family, having pizza dinner at Marco’s.
Esther, David and Joseph helping the grandparents pluck the trees out of the pot.
We had time to go shopping at 1Utama, and sundry-buying at MegaHerbs and Giant, washed the car and had supper with Chee Kean.
Then, on 23 Dec, we drove through terrible rains in the afternoon to Pontian:
Grace’s uncle prepared very nice babi hutan (wild boar) meat for us.
And dinner by the seaside at Zhu Qiu Restaurant was fantastic.
We left Pontian after dinner at about 8:45pm and reached home in Singapore at about 10:15pm; thank God for clear traffic from Pontian to home in Singapore.
David had some practice on Esther’s bike, and learnt quite suddenly to cycle without training wheels. Actually, mum had to run beside him to be ‘supportive’ during his training.
As promised, we got him a bicycle on yesterday (on 5 Dec) when he demonstrated that he can cycle.
He can now make tight turns left or right, and rides smoothly.
YowCH built a catapult when he was about 10. Using similar materials, Esther and David helped build another one:
The lump of Blutack flies about 1.0m, and given the catapult is about 10cm high, the range is about 10x the height. A real catapult would be about 10ft high, meaning this will throw a decent stone about 150ft. With higher rope tension and a stronger frame (glued instead of lashed with ropes), the range can effectively be 3 times more!
Today, Joseph turns 3!
Two nights ago, Joseph started packing goodies bags for his classmates, 23 of them!
We celebrated his birthday in school with a large strawberry ‘farm’ cake.
Esther and David were there, too, as it is now school holidays.
He shared his goodies bags with his friends:
Later in the evening, YowCH did another round of burgers, this time to share with the Ngs (they are leaving for USA soon).
Only Nate and Hannah ate with us, we packed 3 more for Paul, Alison and Daniel.
The ugly truth about Ramly burger, you realy need to squeeze out the oil as you fry them, this bowl came from 10 patties, and YowCH did not even put any oil into the pan!
After having a round of Ramly burgers last week, Mum made her own pork patties for burgers! It was great (just short of Worcestershire Sauce)!
Here’s a closer look at the patties not egg-wrapped:
Here’s YowCH’s imitation Dagwood Bumstead
