Typical Home-Cooked Meal in A Hii Household!

Now that the family has multiplied, the normal dining table doesn't fit when everyone is there for dinner. So the parents had to buy another table that they bring out for such occasions.

Mum's amazing roast pork.... I want some NOW!!

 I AM SO HUNGRY...... the salt, the crunch, the fat, the juice... Arggggh!

Chicken gizzards.... me favourite!

Prawns the size of a child's fist.

Char kuay teow... Mum's kuay teow always has this indescribable taste. It's just different to store bought ones.

The omnipresent chicken soup since Her Royal Highness is in breeding at the moment. Mum treats me like I am pregnant too and force fed me nutritious food.

Dad and his boys....

So that's why I'm fat, ok?????!!!! Thanks mother.

Public Enemy Number 1

Mum sent the rooster away because it was waking me up at all hours of the night so Mum's friend gave her another hen to make up the numbers. Not only is it ugly, it is a bully. So Mum gave it away. Hehehe. It freaked me  out. I hate birds but not as much as Ah Lin does.

Mum Reading Love Letters

Unfair

It is unfair that the only person that inherited Mum's looks is not any of us.....

but our cousin............. Damn it.

Mum's Pet Chickens

Growing up, we've always had pets of some form. Even when we were all crammed in a 3 bedroom apartment with 9 people living there, we had a parrot at one stage and a dog chained to the balcony!!! Animal cruelty is not the point here, peeps.

I remembered us having tiny tiny tortoises (turtles??) and we would pick them up and let them crawl all over our limbs and we would also draw a bath for them .... we may or may not have jumped in with them as well. We also had a guinea pig that was poisoned from the wild weeds we picked off some random road side for it to eat and a row of gynormous aquarium crammed with all kinds of fishes. It goes without saying that we've had countless dogs and cats as well.

Mum's latest thing is rearing chickens. So much so that Isaac has taken to crowing like a chicken when he sees her instead of calling her Popo. Originally, there were only the two in the foreground that you can see but because the cock likes to crow at all hours of the day, Mum went and got the ones in the background. He is a gutless wonder like all our pets so he has been mute since the additions. 

Instead of letting chickens do their thing and peck for worms, Mum likes to do the digging herself and give to the chickens... eheheh.

A week or so ago, the cock started making urgent sounds instead of the usual cock-a-doodle-doo so Mum went out to have a look. His wife had her very first teeny tiny egg. She just had a second one yesterday. I am going to need a few more before I can get a decent sized omelette out of them.

Things to do when bored

This was good because it kept the mask in place hehe

Guess who? Hahah

Sibu: Night 6

It is Mothers' Day today and we had dinner with family friends to celebrate.

Chew Sia brought a cake.

Xiao Mei also bought a cake.

Luckily I also bought Mum a cake even though she said there's no need. Check out the angry bird aka "chicken" - because Mum loves her stupid chickens hehe.

Errrrr my cake is the smallest and Mum said the worst tasting one. Nice!

The three mothers....

Poor downtrodden cake... sniff sniff. Tasted ok to me!

Mum and Dad's Visit in June 2011

Mum and Dad visited us in June as it was Isaac's first birthday on June 2nd. Some of the big milestones he experienced while Mum and Dad were here included:

Learning to crawl properly instead of the weird breastroke thing he was doing:

Smirking (well he knew how to do this all along actually):



Hoisting himself up with the help of nearby stationary objects:



Getting used to having photos taken by the paparazzi:

The boy has expensive food tastes. He takes after his Ee Ee:

Family photo on his birthday:

Extended family photo:

First taste of birthday cake (right before he swelled up like a balloon because he's allergic to eggs):

Eating baby yoghurt (which tastes like crap):

First ride at the mall (yes, it's moving Ah Here. People actually put coins in these things, believe it or not):


Check out his death grip haha:

Mum cooked up a huge feast on one of the last nights she was here. Well, actually she cooked up a feast every other night for a month but this was even more OTT than usual:

Must-have dish - siew york:

Yummilicious fried noodles with oodles of ingredients (see what I did there???? Logan should be so proud of me.):

Don't let this dish fool you. It is not just simply chicken. No no, that would be insulting to Mrs Hii's cooking abilities. This was crispy chicken with a bottom layer of taro. Oh so good.

Oven-grilled prawns with cheese:

Squid stuffed with fried rice. Mum was inspired after watching a Masterchef episode. Only inspiration I get when I watch Masterchef is the constant need to eat. Hmmmm....

I also surprised Mel with a cake. Ok, Mum forced me to and so I half-heartedly made a Banana and Nutella cake. Hehe poor Mel was surprised with a homemade cake... to add insult to injury, it wasn't iced AND there was a gigantic hole at the surface. Meh.

Check out the super trendy super chic not-at-all-gaudy candles haha:

Uncle Jayden torturing Isaac with his puppy-like affections as usual:

Isaac: You looking at me, kid?

Isaac: WTF?

While ugly, the cake was yum! Half of it was gone pretty much straightaway. Ok I ate 2/3 of it. Shaddup.

The parental units then headed off to Melbourne to be slaves to the two brats.