Jane’s Random Musings on Life

This coming CNY we will be having our reunion dinner at a Chinese restaurant. It’s our second year of doing that in fact. I know it’s a trend now for families to have their reunion dinner at restaurant instead of home.  Many are starting to do that because:

• the family size is getting smaller and smaller, it’s easier to just go out to eat
• for big family, there are lesser people who want to “sacrifice” by cooking and messing up their own house while the others’ could maintain their clean and tidy and nicely decorated house
• for working adults, they don’t want their old folks to work so hard in preparing for the dinner anymore when they can enjoy being served by others

But for me, the most memorable reunion dinners remain those we had in my grandma’s house since young.  The feeling of REUNION was so strong then, and it had always been the only thing I looked forward to every CNY.  I felt so lost in my first year after getting married, that I almost cried when I thought of my family on the eve of CNY.  And I feel even more lost now that my grandma’s not here anymore.  >.< Those were the days…