Our Family Diary: Chinese New Year Visiting : Feb-13

Friday, February 8, 2013

Chinese New Year Visiting : Feb-13

entertaining ourselves with camera phones @Di-gu's house

collage made for victor for first day CNY

Victor had not seen Aunt Grace for quite a while! (^_-)

Every Chinese New Year for the past 15 years, almost, is the same --visiting only begins after Victor's god-sister and her family visit us. This year however, they did not visit us as Melina had fallen quite ill and was bedridden at home. Hence we were out of the house earlier than usual, and managed to visit a few relatives we normally would not have made it.

Coincidence gathering @Gim-po's home

Qi with tigeress cousins Victoria & Magdalene, & younger siss @Kai-ma's

Dadajie & young tigeress' mummys

We finally made it to Kai-ma's house! Even though Jiun, Pa, Hong and Dor have left, we also missed Ellis' family, but we did catch Dadajie, Jennifer and YinMei's family! (:

Hmm.. usually Ah Jia's house would be the 'fuel top-up' station. Then Ah Jia shifted in with Mummy.. Mummy's house became the stop where the girls would have proper food like porridge, rice or soup with braised CNY goodies like sea cucumber or pig's stomach soup or sweet soup. After Ah Jia passed away, Mummy would still ask QQ and the maid to cook some food for the guests, but after Mummy passed on, I guess all of us, including Pa, went to Kai-ma's place for proper food!

As obviously, to be able and willing to cook is certainly a crowd-drawer! As long as our parents are around, they are responsible for proper F&B.. however as we undeniably walked into our 40s, our parents are also getting old. Mama is a wonderful cook and takes great care of our stomachs, but no doubt she cannot do that forever. No doubt there is this need, someone has to take over.. but who? --i pondered deeply.. Cooking is so stressful, so tiring.. what does it take to do cooking effortlessly and amply? --i wondered, and I sure don't have it!