Last night's Dinner
Wow, I don't think I've eaten so much in quite sometime...Before dinner on Christmas Eve, I went to the Glad Tidings Penetcostal Church here in Burlington w/ the Lewis's/Chans for evening service before the Christmas dinner. The program was done very well, I enjoyed it immensely...so did the other three families...I don't think they all go on a regular basis so it was good to see AuntieM inviting all of us out before dinner.
As soon as service was over, my little bro went to talk to the chinese Pastor, apparently they hold a Mandarin service at 3pm there, they're from MCCC (Missisauga Chinese Christian Church) so since his cantonese is very minimal, zip in mandarin, I had to translate a bit. As usual, I had to drag him away b/c we were late heading back to the house. As soon as I got in, Uncle K took my coat, and handed me a wine glass...Really don't know what was in my glass, but it tasted good. It wasn't red or white wine, something else.
At first, I was like I don't know the other family, I knew two of the three, but after introductions, it felt like old times. The usual talk, what are you doing now? Where do you work? So I was ok, with the medical field/business topics, phew... one of the uncles is a dentist and used to be my dentist when I was a kid..but I never hung around his kids, well I mean never kept in touch. It was our brothers that kept in touch over the years. Dinner was great, had salmon filets, turkey, chinese shitake mushrroms stuffed w/ meat, ordered chinese takeout...Ben made homemade cookies n' cream cheesecake, uncle K made applepie...and some other store bought desserts. The "next generation" as we were referred to as, sat in the kitchen/dinette while the adults or as one of 'em said "old farts" as a joke of course, sat in the formal dining room.
After dinner, we all played wii, xbox360 or a few of us watched "Da Vinci Code" and a couple of us just sat around chatting or breakdancing. In between all this, I was helping Klarize with the photos for the families...I went around taking pictures, most turned out nice, the odd one was kinda in appropriate...but you'd die from laughter. Then they had us all line up for family photo of the "next generation", then one w/ the adults as well. Come midnight, some people left, but two of the families were still there, so we ended up chatting in the living room for two hours. I was sure it was only 12:30am, not 2am at the time even though everyone lived with in a 5-10 minute drive.
I hope this time, we won't lost contact, and have to wait another 20 years for a reunion...let's all try to keep in touch. By the end of the night, we all were hugging each other, like we've been family all this time. I went in only knowing half the people (close familyfriends), and half were strangers, but I came out as feeling a part of them as well...
As soon as service was over, my little bro went to talk to the chinese Pastor, apparently they hold a Mandarin service at 3pm there, they're from MCCC (Missisauga Chinese Christian Church) so since his cantonese is very minimal, zip in mandarin, I had to translate a bit. As usual, I had to drag him away b/c we were late heading back to the house. As soon as I got in, Uncle K took my coat, and handed me a wine glass...Really don't know what was in my glass, but it tasted good. It wasn't red or white wine, something else.
At first, I was like I don't know the other family, I knew two of the three, but after introductions, it felt like old times. The usual talk, what are you doing now? Where do you work? So I was ok, with the medical field/business topics, phew... one of the uncles is a dentist and used to be my dentist when I was a kid..but I never hung around his kids, well I mean never kept in touch. It was our brothers that kept in touch over the years. Dinner was great, had salmon filets, turkey, chinese shitake mushrroms stuffed w/ meat, ordered chinese takeout...Ben made homemade cookies n' cream cheesecake, uncle K made applepie...and some other store bought desserts. The "next generation" as we were referred to as, sat in the kitchen/dinette while the adults or as one of 'em said "old farts" as a joke of course, sat in the formal dining room.
After dinner, we all played wii, xbox360 or a few of us watched "Da Vinci Code" and a couple of us just sat around chatting or breakdancing. In between all this, I was helping Klarize with the photos for the families...I went around taking pictures, most turned out nice, the odd one was kinda in appropriate...but you'd die from laughter. Then they had us all line up for family photo of the "next generation", then one w/ the adults as well. Come midnight, some people left, but two of the families were still there, so we ended up chatting in the living room for two hours. I was sure it was only 12:30am, not 2am at the time even though everyone lived with in a 5-10 minute drive.
I hope this time, we won't lost contact, and have to wait another 20 years for a reunion...let's all try to keep in touch. By the end of the night, we all were hugging each other, like we've been family all this time. I went in only knowing half the people (close familyfriends), and half were strangers, but I came out as feeling a part of them as well...
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