Christmas 2020

Was busy after breakfast preparing our Christmas lunch. No turkey was involved in the making of the main dish. Just dumplings, prawns, vegetables and noodles. For dessert, it was agar agar (jelly) with pink guava.

At 9 PM, it was our family WhatsApp group call. Lots of Christmas gifts from Santa: guitar for River, baby Yoda, Pokemon card game, Hogwart jigsaw puzzle, Transformer autobot, Fitbit, socks and many more gift items.

 

This year, it's Christmas photos with a virtual Santa.

 

Last but not least, the Cambridge family Christmas photo.

The Year in Pictures (Part II)

20 Dec: Rain without his front tooth

20 Dec: Pancake and ice-cream

31 Oct: In Halloween costumes

30 Oct: River

6 Oct: River with her cute mask

6 Oct: Rain and his floppy hairdo

12 Aug: First day of second grade for River

12 Aug: Rain and Tesla car 

8 Aug: Beh Ling's living room

8 Aug: River with her winsome smile

Austin Family Porch Pictures

Happy family of 4 in Austin
Posing in stylish, casual chic

Rain with his mischievous smile

River with her winsome smile

18 April

The Year in Pictures

5 March: Rain with his Dr Seuss Wacky Wednesday hair-do

5 March: Artist at work

10 March: Rain’s masterpiece

10 March: River’s achievement

10 March

10 March: It's a dinosaur !

31 May: Intense concentration

31 May: Artistic endeavour

15 April: Rain in Spider Man face mask

15 April: Cat face mask to match cat t-shirt

11 May: Haircut by Anica

1 June: With pet bird Honey

Dumpling Dinner

Mon 27 Jan 2020

Woke up at 9.30 AM and headed over for short gym visit with Beh Ling before she went out for meetup with friends. Meanwhile I was sorting out which photos should be uploaded for the family blog. We had late lunch as we had snacks at 11 AM.

At 5.45 PM, we started on our first ever CNY dumpling recipe. The recipe is probably not going to be reproducible as we were just making use of available ingredients – minced pork, chick peas, parsley (leftover for pasta recipe), shallots, salt, pepper. The dumplings were cooked in a steamer. 

At 6.45 PM, the first batch of dumplings were ready. We also cooked vegetable soup with 3 types of eggs (century egg, salted egg and chicken egg). For dessert, we had green bean soup.

Dinner 

At 9.55 PM, Beh Ling requested for roti canai supper as she has been craving for this since she arrived. The 3 of us burst out laughing at the suggestion of late night supper. Although feeling lazy at the thought of walking down to get to the mamak place, we did went out. Over supper, we chat about work (late nights, long hours), June visit (for 2nd uncle’s birthday) and Serbia being non-tourist friendly (require visa). 

CNY 2020

Sat 25 Jan 2020

After early lunch, we went out to KLCC to take our CNY family photos. No surprise that lots of other tourists and locals had the same intention of taking photos there as well. This year, we were coordinated in pink and red outfits, with pink and red background. The photos turned out really well.

Went with Beh Ling for a short gym visit before she left for her dinner appointment.

Sun 26 Jan 2020

We had 9 AM video chat session with Austin family at 9 AM. Then Beh Ling went for church service at 10.15 AM.

After picking up Beh Ling at 3 PM, we headed over to 1Utama for another family photo shoot at the Secret Garden. 

For dinner, it was me with the slicing and dicing duty for garlic, bacon and parsley while Abikia was cooking the pasta, then draining it and cooking the ingredients for aglio olio and carbonara pasta. The pasta turned out to be less al dente than intended and surprisingly the aglio olio tasted better than the carbonara. Also we shouldn’t have cooked the entire packet of fettuccine because we had too much pasta as compared to the ingredients. We decided to have leftover pasta for tomorrow as we couldn’t finish all of it.

Carbonara pasta dinner

Beh Ling wanted to do some shopping at Nu Sentral so after plate cleaning duty by Beh Ling and floor cleaning duty for me, the 3 of us headed over to Nu to have a look at clothes at Parkson and shoes at Dr Martin shop next to Bata. After that, it was KFC supper back at the condo.