It’s been awhile since I’ve been to a big family dinner with my maternal side of the family and it was loads of fun… I’ve forgotten how fun it was really. We’ve always had this dinner ever since I can remember, every Chinese New Year… my grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins from my mother’s side of the family would have a dinner together. Of course now, not everyone can make it, but there are also new faces… Nevertheless, it’s amazing how everyone has changed yet they are still the same… It was even more interesting when we started recalling old times, all the fun things we did together, all the tricks we played on each other, and all the embarrassing stories of each other we revealed.

We had the dinner at Golden Dragon City in Sea Park, which we haven’t been to in quite awhile… the food still tastes the same… I’m not sure how much th food costs there, but apparently it’s quite affordable and the food is excellent for the price you pay. All I can say is that it tastes pretty much the same as I remember it and it’s pretty decent. The dishes were, Yu Sang (a dish of Singaporean creation to celebrate Chinese New Year), shark’s fin soup, roast suckling pig, steamed fish with stewed pork, fragrant prawns, glutinous rice with preserved duck and Chinese sausages, and dessert.

Just to include into the entry, I had dinner with some friends yesterday night… and it was fun too. It was good to see Vin Li whom I haven’t seen in awhile now and since she’s working in Singapore now, it’s gonna be awhile until I see her again as well… that is unless she comes back to Melbourne. I loved that we ended the night playing Mahjong, no not the computer game where you pick a pair of mahjong tiles to eliminate them, the actual Chinese game which I consider is the equivalent to Poker just in terms of popularity. It was really fun, and it’s been awhile since I’ve played it so I was a little rusty.

Anyway now that the 3rd day is over, celebrations pretty much dies down from here on. It’s been an interesting 2-3 days, probably the most fun since I got back from the US.