Thursday, December 31, 2020

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.


Wednesday, December 30, 2020

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

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

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


Monday, December 28, 2020

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

Saturday, February 1, 2020

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).