Hi all

Around 50 adults and 20 kids showed up in last Sunday's BNU hotpot
gathering, one of the biggest show up in our recent activities.

Thanks for all the volunteers, who prepared large variety of delicious
food. Wu Kang Long and Xie Mong brought their special home made hot
pot sauce, besides Xiao Fei Yang sauce. I am sure some people will
regret they missed it.

Professor Chen gave a short talk on California mushroom and her new
book on this topic.

We also got chance to finally enjoy the beautiful voices of our BNU
Alumni, when we had the Karaoke show. There was complaint that we have
not given enough time to Karaoke. Are we interested in a separate
Karaoke event, to show off our talent?

Most importantly, we all had nice chat with our friends here, kept up
with each other's progress.

We finally got to meet Shi Yong Xia's baby daughter.

Many thanks to people who made this happening:
Wang Li for the wonderful organizing,
Wang Zhan for the room and TV set
Wu Kanglong - special sauce
Xie Meng - meat
Chen xiaohui & Zhang Hui Pin - vegetable
Lu Bin - fruit, and nuts
ZhangYingqun & Wang, Nairu - Water, pizza & supplier, Karaoke equiptment
People who brought the pots, tables, chairs, and those who helped to
prepare the food

Finally, thanks everybody for participating!

Wish everybody a wonderful holiday season,
Liu Ying