January 28, 2024 Lunch - Steak Salad. Dinner - Chinese New Year Celebration at East Ocean

 January 28, 2024 Lunch - Steak Salad. Dinner - Chinese New Year Celebration at East Ocean

I got up to a new day in which the Market did a 180 degree turn from yesterday, which was the worst day in the market of my entire adult life that saw a drop of 6% in my market net worth. Today was the opposite with a gain of 70% of that loss back, a phenomenal reversal.

I ate two slices of toasted bagel spread with bream cheese and garnished with slices of sweet onion and Gravad lax and a sprinkling of pickled capers with a cup of tea.

At 10:30 I had a conference call and then I revised a pleading and filed it and met with a client to approve closing documents for a real estate sale.

At 1:30 I made a salad for lunch with red and romaine lettuces, slices of cucumber and sweet onion and cubes of grilled steak and a pile of micro greens dressed with Dion’s Ceaser salad dressing and the home made dressing. I toasted a slice of baguette and melted slices of cheddar cheese on it and drank a glass of water as I watched the recovery of the tech sector after yesterday’s huge sell off.

After lunch a miracle occurred. Sarvjit, Managing Director of the bank in India paid the application fee and sent me my application for a PAN.

I worked an hour on the completion and documentation to accompany the application until 5:00 when Suzette came home.

Suzette changed and we drove to East Ocean to meet Elaine and Wayne and Nancy and Cliff for a Chinese New Year Meal.

We discussed our favorite dishes and then Wayne ordered for all six of us.

I think he ordered six or seven dishes, including broad noodles tossed with a brown (thickened soy) sauce with seafood, a large whole flounder in ginger, soy, peanut oil, and green onion sauce, sweet and sour BBQ pork, deep fried tofu with Chinese vegetables, Hong Kong (thin vermicelli) noodles with beef, baby bok Choy with beef, a wonton soup with vegetables, a mall?? that was a huge pile of meats, vegetables and noodles. 

                                                    Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs

                                               Rice and Baby Bok Choy with beef

                                            Wonton soup with meat and vegetables

                                Mall (top) and deep fried tofu with vegetables (bottom)

                                     Stir fried Shanghai Noodles, meat, and vegetables

                                    Steamed flounder with green onions and ginger 

                                   My plate first round before several dishes arrived

It was a feast, which according to Elaine is the point of a Chinese New Year’s celebration. We would have had roasted duck if they had not been out of duck.

After dinner we returned home and listened to Caroline Kennedy’s denunciation of her cousin Bobby Kennedy’s nomination to serve as Secretary off health and Human Services and then Suzette lay on her new Crystal heating bed and I talked to Rahim.

Then she went to bed and I blogged and read.

It was a busy, exciting day in the market, wonderful to finally receive my PAN application, and celebrate Chinese New Year with friends.

Bon Appetit