Gung Hay Fat Choy 4710

Friday, January 27, the Fifth Day called Poo Woo; HICAP celebrated the Year of the Dragon. Our dining table was adorned with:

• A Pineapple Centerpiece surrounded with fragrant Tangerines & festive colored candy adornment
• Fruit Salad positioned at each end and a Veggie Salad consisting of Carrots, Broccoli, Celery, Cherry Tomato Platter in the middle
• Platters with Homemade Chinese Noodles & Dumplings were quickly devoured
• A Homemade Chinese Cake of gelatin with coconut bits also displayed
• We sipped Apple Juice and my experimental Chai Tea--a big hit; absolutely delicious & invigorating!

Mr. Wu is going to school to learn English. Because I cannot leave my empoly until 5 p.m., the students are in class before I arrive. Mr. Morrison picked me up from work to assist me with carrying goodies. When I walked in the class, Mr. Wu had created two signs in English for me and wrote at top in Chinese--"Year of the Teacher". It doesn't get much better than this.

A fter consuming several cups of tea and filling our plates two or three times with the delicious delights, we opened our discussion by honoring the Cao & Wu families. I thanked Yan Cao for assisting in the cultural authenication of our celebration. And, I read about each day of the Chinese New Year, what it signifies, how it is observed, who each day honors and the foods to be consumed that day. After reading about the last day, I yelled, 'Gung Hay Fat Choy!' and released a confetti popper to everyone's amused amazement.

Chinese New Year

You are invited to

Celebrate Chinese New Year 4710

The Year of the Water Dragon

with

HICAP

on

Friday, January 27, 2012 at 5:00 p.m.

10 West 138th Street

R.S.V.P.: 347.603.8829

 

On January 6th marking the Twelth Day of Christmas, HICAP classes resumed.

After viewing the HICAP video, 'Breaking Barriers' created by the Internet Society on youtube, we discussed:

BANDWIDTH--The Currency of the Internet

• Bandwidth--digital signal processing measuring radio frequencies in Hz
• Wireless Broadband--provides instantaneous bandwidths greater than one MHz with a bit rate greater than 1.5 Mbit/s.

In a previous HICAP Session, we discussed QR Codes; how they work and we created a few for HICAP. We, also, discussed audio QR possibilities!