Today I went to the Chinese new year
celebration at Hotel Annapurna,
organized by Araniko Society
-the only organization of Chinese speaking
community in Kathmandu. The society mainly
consists of the engineers, doctors and other
graduates who were once students in various
Chinese Universities. Oddly though I was in
a very informal attire wherease the majority
came in suits.
The program started off with a very lengthy speech
by the Chinese ambassador, explaining all aspects
of how the new year is celebrated in China. Well
he said in Northern China, people do it by eating
dumplings, and lighting fire crackers and so on.
I don't remember now what he said about
what speciality the people in the South follow.
I thought it was all firecrackers and chinese
dishes of the locality all over China, no speical
place for the dumplings.
It was then followed by a short speech by the maoist
minister for culture and Chinese dances. Oddly
though, there was a troupe performing dance on
a song from Indian movie. The young kids
looked to be picked out straight from one
of the hundreds of dance bars in town.
Liquor and food was in overflow in the party
that followed. Though a new threat of bird flu
has hit Nepal, most people did not seem to care,
Met a lot of other China returned Nepalese friends.
Lots of people probably did not recognize me as I have lost
so much weight.
Its scary how time flies..
celebration at Hotel Annapurna,
organized by Araniko Society
-the only organization of Chinese speaking
community in Kathmandu. The society mainly
consists of the engineers, doctors and other
graduates who were once students in various
Chinese Universities. Oddly though I was in
a very informal attire wherease the majority
came in suits.
The program started off with a very lengthy speech
by the Chinese ambassador, explaining all aspects
of how the new year is celebrated in China. Well
he said in Northern China, people do it by eating
dumplings, and lighting fire crackers and so on.
I don't remember now what he said about
what speciality the people in the South follow.
I thought it was all firecrackers and chinese
dishes of the locality all over China, no speical
place for the dumplings.
It was then followed by a short speech by the maoist
minister for culture and Chinese dances. Oddly
though, there was a troupe performing dance on
a song from Indian movie. The young kids
looked to be picked out straight from one
of the hundreds of dance bars in town.
Liquor and food was in overflow in the party
that followed. Though a new threat of bird flu
has hit Nepal, most people did not seem to care,
Met a lot of other China returned Nepalese friends.
Lots of people probably did not recognize me as I have lost
so much weight.
Its scary how time flies..
2 comments:
Nice to know about many old friends. Thank you Ravi! Hari looks really 'big'. Please post other photos of the day too, if you have.
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
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