When I say 'massive' dinner, I definitely mean massive. Over 400 volunteers came out to Mong Kok Restaurant in Markham on a chilly Saturday evening to take part in the festivities. Unfortunately, I don't have a pic of the entire banquet hall, but it was pretty cozy in there with enough tables crammed together to seat over 400 guests. Even with the cozy seating, it was often so boisterously loud I often had problems hearing people sitting just across the table.
Around twenty Youth Group and Discover members came out for the dinner. You can see that we squeezed together into two tables near back.
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| Discover |
(Discover Table)
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| Youth Group |
(Youth Group Table)
Before dinner was served, four of the youth group/discover embers got called on to the main stage to play a little game. They were competing against another team in a relay to see who could pass the little yellow balls with chopsticks the fastest. Unfortunately, our team was not so adept at the chopsticks this time around. Good try though you guys!
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| Jeremy, Jason, Alice, and Gillian taking part in the stage game |
This isn't a food blog, so I won't go into detail on what we ate, but needless to say we were all pretty stuffed at the end of the night. There were rounds of char siu, roast pigeon, scallops, and even lobster. I'll post one food pic though just for posterity's sake.
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| Lobster course at Mong Kok |
During dinner we (the entire Youth Group & Discover) were called out on to the main stage to put on a performance. Now for some background for those that don't know, every volunteer group in Mon Sheong (Chinese School, Long Term Care Centre, Foundation, Youth Group, etc) has to give a performance at the volunteer dinner as a long running tradition. The Youth Group choose to sing in unison this year (as it does most years). We performed Jacky Cheung's famous cover single 每天愛你多一些. I'll spare you the reader from showing you our performance and just link you to a youtube of Jacky Cheung singing it.
每天愛你多一些 by Jacky Cheung
After the rousing rendition of Jacky Cheung's hit single, the next time we got called on to stage involved a lot less singing. It being a volunteer appreciation dinner afterall, our 2012 execs got a token of appreciation for their hard work during 2012.
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| 2012 Youth Group execs pose after receiving their certificates |
To cap off the night, the dinner ended with a prize draw. Our very own Youth Group communications coordinator - Bonnie won the grand prize......an Ipad Mini!!! Congrats Bonnie. You can see her posing with her prize in the group photo we took at the end of the night.
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| The whole Youth Group at the end of the night |
We also headed off to an after party after that long and filling dinner, but sorry folks no pictures or recap of that event is available. You have to track us down in person to get the details for that one. Hopefully see all y'all volunteers at the 2014 dinner.
-Kerry
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