Notes:
Youngest DIL here and uses the foreign card most of the time since Korean hubby is not really that keen on attending these at least twice year things (fam structure is a bit complicated to say the least.) Went to the recent lunar new year and heard in the "family meeting" that the oldest son wanted to have everyone do more than the two basic. It seems that they have to do the "ceremonies" like more than twice a year before because they're trying to cover 3 generations of fore-fathers. And because BIL1 has one unwilling and complicated son, and both him and SIL1 are getting old, needs extra help to complete the ceremonies. But instead of doing at least 3x, on top of the regular 2x, he "proposed" to do it all in one. So that means, 2 regular ones plus at least 1 more. Other SILS were like, WHAAT? Me being the youngest and foreigner at that...well...These are all news to me.
That's how the lunar day summarizes. Ah..on another note..Even if I totally don't dig such ceremonies, I do like to be able to help my nice SILS and the entertain the MIL since they were just in the inconvenient culture to be born in. I don't think they expect much from me as I am pretty useless in the kitchen anyway, but I'd be a willing helping hand if available. I just don't like all the drama and the irony of all women doing all the work while the men just sit, talk and bark orders (at times.) The way I see it, the ladies are the power house so if they decide not to do any of those stuff all together, then I doubt if the men can manage all those food. Unless they choose to order-in everything.
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