Boston Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival Meets Father’s Day

By Beatrice Lee, bostonese.com columnist

Medford, Mass., June 16, 2014, –I went by public transportation at noon time yesterday, taking bus and subway to Harvard Square. And then I walked to the bank of Charles River to join the festivity.
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One of the most talented yo-yo players is the Lee grandchildren Ryan, junior in Lexington high school. All of his friends are good looking and talented players. GBCCA are so proud of them and they perform all the time.

Hey, GBCCA can’t get YO-YO-Ma here, in town and the Dragon Boat festival, even though he had gone to Harvard with Ryan Lee’s uncle Patrick almost 40 some years ago in the same class. lived in the nearby dorms. but we’ve got Yo-Yo-Lee and others here to shine. They are all Judy Chu’s students and they are hard workers and came a long way. We are all very proud of them.

Please see google and the youtube online and you would love that. I wasn’t planning to go, but I haven’t been to the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival for years. The weather was perfect, I certainly wasn’t going to 7:00 AM for Gwen’s boat race(that would kill me).

The Fudan alumni team won the Chinese college alumni contest, beating Tsinghua University, Peking University, Nanjing University and Zhejiang University. These are among the top ten universities in China. I was glad to see the excitements the young people had for the Dragon Boat races.


I probably had more fun than any 82 years old grandma there with my walker and stayed until the end. Met all the VIPs, Libby Chu, Wang-Gong-Liu, Chiang-Hou Niu, John Zhou, the whole bunch of GBCCA friends there. I still remember that I used to bring my own mother years ago to the Hatch Shell. My daughter Priscilla used to be in the “All girls Team” boat race. Now they feel they are “too old” to join, at least that we still have Gwen Zen in it.

You must have young friends, right? You can’t have oldies all the time. You must learn new things with younger set. If you don’t get on the Internet, emails, Google and Facebook, then you admit that you are OLD, not me. Remember the song? Anything that you can do, I can do better. Anything you can do, I can do better than YOU. (maybe not, at least you have to give yourself a try).

The festival closed around 6:00 PM, and my friend gave me a ride home, but we didn’t want to stop there,went to eat in Sze-Chun dumpling house in Arlington. We walked along the Spy pond and saw all the swans and Canadian goose swimming there. They looked so cute, and you even forget how dirty they had made a mess on the grass.

Water, pond and friends chatting brought back a lot of happy memories of our younger days. Imagine, I’ve lived for almost 60 years in the greater Boston area.