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.

Prelude to CNY 2020

Sat 18 Jan 2020

 Visit to Pavillion

Was at Sentral in the late afternoon, chit-chatting with parents and Abikia. After that we were watching Jinnyboy videos at 9 PM. The funniest video award goes to Greatest Salesman and Battle of the Bananas 2. 

Fri 24 Jan 2020

Woke up at 7.15 AM and completed my packing before driving over to Sentral. Arrived just before 9 AM with smooth traffic all the way. Beh Ling arrived at around 10.30 AM. Was watching Secret Superstar and it is definitely worth watching a second time. The scenes are as tear-inducing and emotional as when we first watched it last year.

After lunch and afternoon naps, we left at 6 PM to go to Klang for the Lee family reunion dinner. 

Reunion dinner at Taman Botanic

Uncles & aunts

Seated (L-R): 3rd aunty, 2nd aunty, 1st aunty, Dad, Mummy, 2nd uncle & wife

Standing (L-R): 5th aunty, 4th aunty, 6th uncle & wife, 4th uncle, 3rd uncle, 7th uncle & wife, 8th uncle

Cousins

Seated (L-R): 3rd aunty's eldest son & wife, Abikia, 2nd aunty's eldest son & wife, Bee Yen (2nd aunty's daughter, same age as me) & husband, me, Beh Ling

Standing (L-R): Kimberly (Chia Ling, 2nd uncle's daughter), 4th uncle's daughter, 2nd aunty's youngest son, 4th uncle's son & wife, Shu Meng (3rd aunty's daughter), Siang Siang (3rd aunty's son & wife), 6th uncle's 3 children, 7th uncle's 2 children