Monday, January 16, 2012

Chinese New Year reunion dinner

Families of the Soh descendants gathered at Sakura for the reunion dinner yesterday. This was the second year that we managed to pull in the 8 extended families to participate in this group reunion dinner.

The intent of having the dinner was great as it allows the younger generation to get acquainted with all the aunties n uncles n the oldies to reconnect.

Unfortunately the food n venue leave much to be desired. Look,we had to reinvent the laksa with great additions to make it the authentic local dish with all the flavors. The venue is too crowded n noise level was horrendous with lots of shouting conversations. Some of the food variety went dry with slow refill. Must say the service staff tried their very best but just cannot cope with the crowd.

Even though it was a great gathering with all the families,it would have been great if there is a better venue to house the gathering. We need a kind soul to volunteer to organize this massive gathering at a more congenial location m hopefully we can have an improved version next year.

Anyway, the company did make the difference and it reminded us to cherish family ties n relationship. It also taught the gen y to appreciate kinship ties so that they have a wider network of relations to fallback on .
My wish for this dragon year is for world peace, least natural disasters n more love n kindness going around.

Gong xi fa cai to all for a fantastic dragon year

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