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Always a great supporter of Pride! We love these guys and hear their cafeteria food is not to be missed. Chipotle Chicken and Rice soup!! Everybody may seem smiling and with lots of 'yam-sings' (bottoms-up to your health) - another tradition where friends and relatives join in for a Chinese wedding toast. It is loud and seemingly unrefined for the uninitiated - but one tradition we should all have no problem with. However, beneath the smiles and intoxicating toasts, there may be an ill at ease feeling among those present. It is the price for coming to party. For the working and well-to-do attendees, a couple of hundreds in gift packets each is not an issue. This is not the case with those old and retired relatives. They have no income and little spare cash to set aside a decent sum on wedding gifts. Others may be living on bare subsistence wages. One thing this group of people share in common - the fear for festive seasons and wedding parties - and expenses they cannot afford but also cannot avoid as the full weight of traditions fall heavily on their shoulders. Having to dig their heels in, parting with their life savings can be financially painful especially when they have tried so hard to penny-pinch. The Chinese has another face-saving tradition: it is in brandishing gifts that matches the wedding's grand occasion, especially the couple or one of them is a relative. This tradition is hard to change. Its practice will continue to cause pain to those financially challenged relatives.

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