Founder's Day Celebration

On Friday, September 24th, New Asia College celebrated the birthday of its founder, Ch'ien Mu. Ch'ien Mu is long dead, but the party was up and kicking. My fellow ELIs and I (as well as Yomei's grandfather who had flown in from Taiwan for her birthday) had front-row tables for a thousand-person dinner and a whole evening of bizarre entertainment, including old professors singing Cantopop songs, young boys performing yo-yo and jumprope tricks (click here to see a video), a magician, a juggler, a Chinese acrobat, comedy interludes by the student MCs, and the grand finale-- the quasi-gothic Hong Kong musician Seasons Lee, and some other, better-known and better-liked Cantopop singer. Right as it was wrapping up, we gracefully made our exit and walked the two minutes back to our flat, passing Seasons Lee and his few Cosplay-decked-out groupies on the way.