Replace cracked tiles, HDB Home Improvement Program HIP : Mar-22

We had our 'nightmare' during our HIP program which we renovated our toilets and also took the opportunity to do up our kitchen. It was almost a year now... As HIP has a warranty for a year and we discovered some cracked tiles in our toilet, we decided to give HDB call 1800 2255 432. Within a few days, those cracked tiles were replaced within 2 hours...

Guitar Duet with En'en : Barbie Girl : Mar-22

It has been a long while since I played along with En'en, the last best time we had was with our ukulele, playing Crazy G.

After that she picked up Ruan, a Chinese Orchestra Instrument and also joined Soka Chinese Orchestra for a while...

Last year, with my spare guitar, she decided to picked it up and start learning. I must admit that she does have some gifted talent in string instrument... and now we can play together again! This is a short and sweet melody, Barbie Girl. Enjoy!

Finally, our YouTube Channel Intro video for Shinykoh : Mar-22

We finally spent an afternoon to complete shooting our YouTube channel introduction video.  It was tough either way, with script or without... Nevertheless we still went on with having a script so that we would not miss out any pointers.  It was "super" unnatural.. Anyway, I continued to spend another few hours to complete editing the video and uploaded this.   Honestly, I think this video would not help too much in rallying many subscribers, but at least it would provide a rationale to why we are promoting it. :-)

Another Nichiren Movie Extract - The Declaration of the Establishment of His Teaching 立宗宣言 : Mar-22

Since the last Nichiren Movie Extract which I had uploaded to Youtube had gained quite a bit of popularity, I decided to upload another extract, this time on the The Declaration of the Establishment of His Teaching 立宗宣言.

Chilling at Haji Lane on a Saturday evening : Feb-22

En'en wanted to buy some gummy at a shop in Haji Lane, and so we decided to chill our Saturday evening shopping and eating along the Haji Lane, visiting Bears & Friends, Shalaby Sweets and Momolato, mainly just for sweets...

Next to Haji Lane is also Bali Lane, the place where I stayed when I was born. I remembered spending such lovely childhood at that place... It had since transformed to a shop totally unfamiliar to me now.

Qi got Covid-19 : Feb-22

If someone going to get Covid-19 in the family first, it must be Qi... She was always so out-going, even during this pandemic, and thus, she was our perfect suspect to contact the infamous virus.  

Thankfully, on her day 1,  she was still responsible enough to conduct a self-test when she felt some discomfort in her throat when she woke up.  The outcome wasn't easy for her to swallow thou.

While the recommended protocol said that one could go out when tested negative on the third day, Qi was not that lucky.. It took her a good seven days to fully recover.  Fortunately no one else was infected because of her.

Tabata with Instructor Shin : Feb-22

As Qi had contacted Covid and isolating at home, we thought we should also act responsibly and minimise our out-going and mask off activities like exercises.  As a result, we decided to exercise at home and I joined Ling in her SWEAT app Tabata workout... It was a tough one!

Animated photos : Feb-22

The artificial intelligence of https://www.myheritage.com/ is so awesome... I uploaded some old photos and looked at these amazing outputs.

Valentine's Day : Feb-22

Ling and myself seldom celebrate Valentine's Day... To me, it is more important to appreciate each other every day.  Nevertheless, as our girls celebrate with their friends and valentine on this day, so I am thinking maybe I will also bring my valentine out for a meal.  Thus, we celebrate our valentine's day this year at a pretty nice restaurant at the old Seletar airport, just two of us...

Chinese New Year Day 1 : Feb-22

Although this year our Chinese activities are still very much constraint by Convid, we are grateful to be able to continue with our 拜年 tradition on Day 1.  This is such an important tradition to show our respects to the elderly and also, to be blessed by them for a great year ahead.

Since the visit number is limited to five, there is basically no CNY home visiting for us this year.  Thus,  we 'reroute' to visit MBS instead.