After two and half years in hiatus, the badminton group held its first social event on July 14, 2022.  It was a banquet style dinner at Grand Crystal Seafood Restaurant in Crystal Mall.

Due to concern of Covid, we were expecting no more than 100 people.  However, 144 people signed up to join the dinner.  Members were eager to meet up with their old friends and also enjoy a nice dinner.

For the Covid safety procedure, masks and hand sanitizers were provided at the door.  We also decided not to have karaoke and dancing as a precaution. We asked all members to wear a mask at all times and try not to move from table to table (of course this request flew out of the window quickly).

Dinner was supposed to start at 6:30pm.  However, a few eager members showed up around 5pm.  By 6pm, the place was bursting with people greeting each other, laughing and chatting.  It was so noisy everyone had to raise their voice in order to be heard.

We had the honour to have Mary Horton, our liaison from the 55+ Society, joined our dinner and gave a lovely speech.  The dinner was followed by the 1st round of door prizes draw.  We had an excellent dinner menu which included lobster, steamed fish, chicken etc., and then rounded off with a delicious baked tapioca pudding and petite pastries.  The event wrapped up with another round of prize draw.

Special thanks to Norman Eng who compiled a short video full of snap shots of our previous events in the last 10 years.  Cheers and laughter could be heard from time to time when members saw themselves in the video. Ohh, what a nostalgic video!!

In all, the event was a success.  Everyone had a good time catching up with old friends and there was no Covid outbreak afterwards.

By Caroline Young