Reunion Dinner

One of the most important dinner in Chinese culture, the 30th Night Reunion dinner. Normally, family members from all over the place would gather in one location (where possible) to have reunion and dinner together. This is probably the only day of the 365 days throughout the year they can put aside their busy lifestyles and be with families.
Most Chinese would worship their ancestors prior to having dinner but for Chinese Christians, we normally just use this opportunity to be family members. In my case, we couldn't have any reunion dinner with our immediate family members because my parents are in Limbang (probably 9000km away) and my brother is in Perth!So we had a small reunion dinner with my intermediate family members (the Yap's) and few friends. After dinner, we played scrabble, in fact played twice! I was the runner up for the 1st game then emerged champion in the 2nd game! Maybe everyone's already tired by then!Throughout the night we had the CCTV Chinese New Year shows on. Creating the atmosphere so to speak! Some jokes in the sketch show is quite funny though! I understand from my friends in China, most people just stayed at home to watch this show instead of going out or go visiting friends!

Since most of us are Mahjong idiots, we didn't play mahjong. We played Big 2 (Chor Dai Di) instead. By the time we finished, it's already 12.45am! Luckily it is public holiday on Monday! Not because of CNY but Aust Day.