Really, has Michael been going to the
Golden Bird for 20 years?*
Well, for our team's Christmas lunch, he takes us there to experience what it is that keeps his family coming back.
* Though he also admits, it could just be because we often get so used
to doing something and closed in our spheres that something even a block
away we might never visit...
Initial thought: This looks like an independent coffee house (with plenty of oil painted birds).
When the food arrived, people thought it was really authentic. I'm not sure on that point, but my pho was very tasty.
There were no speeches. Instead media dominated the conversation:
- Amy
Quon Dynasty on OMNI -- those who brought us Chicken for Lunch and Lingnan, also brings us a reality television show. Our home grown Kardashians.
- Some of the crazy dance videos that Slavica and Michael's daughters watch on youtube.
I cleaned my bowl (with the help of a wooden leg / take home
container). I think the waitstaff tried to hand me a cover... then
realised I was using my own.
Afterwards, Olivia tells me she's trying to limit her child's exposure to television. Movie as a form of communication, has its own rules -- what means to
see something from a different perspective, how we know something is from the eyes of a character, or that we're now in a different space... all
are learned. She didn't want her child to be imprinted that way, to directed to think in a certain way.
I definitely never thought of that as being an issue. Instead, my thought was about how there wasn't a
common thing for children (or us) to talk about since we don't all watch the same television programs like in the past. But then, maybe that doesn't matter as much. Olivia and I still have lots to talk about.
