A glimpse of the Dragon...

Instead of typing out anotehr novel of what I did last nigh, I'll just show three simple pictures with sub-notes.

Food! Glorious food!

And with good flavour, I must say.

After the meal, me, my cousins, nephews and nieces went to the neighbourhood playground to uphold our well-appreciated tradition - to make 'fireworks'. Ussually, Wei Wei (My cousin)'s in charge and he makes sure the right amount of 'sparkler gunpowder' is harvested, the right packaging is used and the safety of everyone is ensured. But since Wei's in Hong Kong now, looks like the responsibility of General has to be passed to the Major today.

In other words, I was in power this year! It was facinating comanding the full opperation, and at times when I tried to help out in the breaking off the 'gunpowder' from the sparklers, my Corporal(s) told me to relax and started to take over from where I left. After inspecting the final product, I did a few minor corrections and dismissed the explosive to Ground Zero (The sand playarea). Ensuring that the full army was within safety radius from the bomb, I gave the command to "Open Fire!" (literally) and so General Ben Hoston(Nephew) went to light the fuse, and ran off for safety.

Our first attempt failed at first, and the thing barely burned when the fuse was burnt up. I was ready to give the order of 'Plan B' (A real sissy plan, trust me...). But then my Lieutenant (Not sure which one) was determined to not waste the work of art since it was still burnable, and requested another fuse. Not wanting to turn things down, I granted him a fuse from my pocket, and he immediately set up a new configuration, lighting it up before running for safe grounds.

And this time, he was sucessful.

"Gentlemen, we've done it!"

The explosion was beautiful compared to last year! Back then, the explosion was smashing with its great height and sustaining power. But this year, the flame wasn't tall, neither was it able to hold after 3 seconds. To substitute for these, the flame 1) covered a 1.5m radius on the ground, 2) made an obvious 'mushroom' smoke about 5 meters tall and 3) could whistle! It was so spectacular, my platoon wanted to make a second bomb! I allowed, but restricted the number of sparklers used to just 3 packets. The first bomb required 6.

We then went through the same proceedures and this time, instead of me giving the command to "Fire!", I allowed my Lieutenant to start the explosion in reward for his persistance to light the first bomb. And under his command, my Major ran to the bomb, lit it and came back. The Lieutenant ordering the Major. Ironic, isn't it?

But anyway, it was also a sucess, and it was just as beautiful as the prior explosive! So to commemorate the two bombs, I gave orders to 'construct' a memorial for the two bombs, and in due honour to Former General Fong Wei Heng. Here's how it looked like:

If you can't see it clearly, here's a rough drawing of what it looked like:

Notice that at both Ground Zeros, I placed a flower.

But anyway, when I got everyone back, we all relaxed and chilled off in my Uncle's house with the elder relatives. Or at least that's what everyone did, except me and Ben. Ben and I were at the back of the house building the set for us to tell this year's ghost story, which later we would find out was made too late as everyone was soon leaving. But all the better: we'll be working on how to improve on the props, and trust me - we'll scare the living daylights out of them kids.

Just as long as they see what's flying out of the window...

G'dnight...

Edit: About today, the family went out for a wooping Japanese dinner. Basically the only thing worth mentioning so far.