It's been a very unproductive break but one that is desperately needed. The holiday actually started on Wednesday, the eve of Thanksgiving day. Everyone in the lab left by 3pm and it was snowing heavily outside, making the atmosphere in the lab even less appealing. I wanted to be out there in the snow, taking pictures, feeling the snow falls onto my palm and the cold breeze of the night, which was not too cold. But I stayed in the lab until 5pm when S and CY came to pick me up for steamboat dinner at G's house.
G prepared steamboat..one I haven't had for a very very long time. The last one I could remember was at JL's house at Westbrook, Kalamazoo during CNY of 2003. That was when we found out JL has feeling for SC. It was revealed over a game of truth or dare I think...or maybe it was over a card game. I couldn't really remember but it was a very fun night. Simple with just a few of us close friends. Those were the days when everything was perfect even though life was hard.
But this year's steamboat has a very comfortable atmosphere too. It was just G's family, MW, S, CY, EF and me. We helped out with some of the dishes and set the table. G made both the spicy and plain soup. We had lots of fish/sotong/shrimp/pork balls, chicken, shrimp (!!!), quail eggs (!!!..I miss this soooooo much!!) and few other dishes. She even baked marble cake for dessert.
After dinner we helped put away the dishes and adjourn to the hall to play Mario 6 on Nintendo Game Cube. That was fun..but only when I was watching. I did so badly in the game that I hardly survive till the end of it. That shows how good I am with controller that has the joystick mode. I still prefer Playstation or GameBoy. I was glad I went as I had a good time and it's rare to get to meet these people with all our busy schedules.
On Thanksgiving Day, CY, S and me went over to TT's house for late turkey lunch. She cooked a huge 5 lb plus turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans, wild rice and cream puffs for dessert. It was all great. We watched Jay Chou's Initial D over lunch and I'm glad I went too. Compared to last year's Thanksgiving, this year's Thanksgiving is definitely more happening. But the best Thanksgiving I had was sometime during college days at WMU. There was a big party over at Edmund's place. We had tons of food, but at that time, the best was SP's curry puff and CP's banana pistachio nut cake...other than the turkey of course. After all the noise and excitement during the party, BK and me had a quiet night watching a movie on his pc.
After lunch at TT's place, S dropped me off at UL's place for Thanksgiving dinner. Can you imaging how much food that is??? But dinner at UL's place is vegetarian since they are Jewish but the food were definitely unique. R, UL's wife made wild-rice stuffed squash which I really liked because she had pecans in them. Of course, the best was the pecan pie! After dinner we played a few games of Dominoes and I won during the last round!! UL dropped me off back home and I finally got a chance to talk to M. He came back from Washington for Thanksgiving dinner at his grandparent's place. He was suppose to pick me up for dinner there but his flight back to Detroit was delayed and he didn't want to miss dinner so I said it's okay, we can meet the next time he gets back or when I go to Woods Hole next year. So I had a nice night talking to him and even got a chance to talk to BK too.
Now, I just want to have a quiet Sunday, finish up some of the work I plan to finish before Monday and have some time with myself.
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I want that huge turkey!
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