30th

The next day after the mid-autumn festival, our Society celebrated the 30th anniversary.

There was a scientific meeting in the daytime, but the major event was the celebration dinner.

The event was held in the ball room of a local hotel. Many of us had experience of dinning there because it was a favourite place of wedding banquet.

And our impression with the celebration dinner was exactly it appeared very much like a wedding banquet: we were welcome by a door decorated with colour balloons at the entrance, the serving of dinner was delayed because of endless photo taking on the stage, there was a slide show about the history of our society (with the background music of Right here waiting for you), the council went around each table to make a toast when shark-fin was served, some council members made a performance when fish and chicken appeared on the table, and the council members actually lined at the door to shake hand with everyone leaving.

Thank god. I left early.

PS. We had a few guests from mainland China with us during the dinner. In the middle of the evening, one of them, whom I did not know previously, came and greeted me, "Hullo, you are Szeto !? I enjoy your blog. Very interesting !"

I'd better be cautious.