Jubilee Birthday, especially for lunar calendar, it is a very special thoughtful celebration. Who would have thought that being half a century old will be so exciting?
Well, at least for my own family.

You see, my parents both came from really poor backgrounds, especially after WW2, and if you have been following my posts, you would have known that I recently tried making my paternal grandma's recipe and it turned out a success.

Now for my maternal grandmother's side, making red eggs on every lunar birthday (illiterate Chinese communities rely on the lunar calendar instead of the Western Roman calendar) to celebrate birthdays, and when one hits half a century, our family usually treats people food or red eggs (other than full moon for babies or new birth of a child) as an invitation to celebrate this important mile stone together. After that it will be every decade milestone celebration, especially on the 7-series and the 8-series celebration.

Even though my actual registered birthdate is yet reaching half a century, however, in the lunar calendar, I am officially stepping into the "BMW 5-series" journey (as my friends love to joke), where a totally new season will begin embarking on the second half century journey to eternity.

Anticipating Jubilee is also a significant milestone for my faith, because this is the year when a proper rest is required. I am, with fingers crossed, truly hoping a more restful next 12 months if possible, even though I do know that there are so many things continue to unfold in the 2nd half of the year and more travelling is needed especially after July.

So to "celebrate" this important awareness, I followed my grandma's tradition, making hardboiled red eggs to share around inviting to celebrate this milestone of mine; but not with the usual boiling method, because it is a lot, but to attempt to steam them to avoid breaking along the way.

Turned out that fair skin texture eggs are harder to dye, and to get them nicely coated I had to do at least 2 rounds but still a bit patchy.

Nevertheless, the choir enjoyed taking a nicely cooked hardboiled eggs. I am so glad that they were all not overcooked and the texture was just nice and not too dry.

^{Can you see me trying to get them to move? 🤣}

Moreover they have more energy when they are up on stage too!

So this is a 12 months countdown for me, and like @matthew.lily congratulated me yesterday, it is the final year before for me in the "4" series and I should cherish every day, and hopefully no crack joins coming, although I do feel my knees are giving way a bit. Time to loose weight? Haha.

How about you?

Do you have anything special to celebrate milestone in life?

Until Then

Stay healthy, stay curious and learn new things, and stay happy!

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