China Institute
 Spooktacular Halloween
Mingle Night
October 25, 2024
 

10月25号 相约华美协进社 （篇二）

- 我就是那个机器人-JJ

 作者：纽约锦声

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https://chinainstitute.org/events/spooktacular-halloween-mingle-night/

Look Out for me
I'll be the ROBOT....
Dr. Jeannie Yi

The China Institute of New York will hold a unique Halloween dance so that our second and third generation Chinese and more than 40 other ethnic groups in New York can have a safe, fashionable and culturally-rich youth and children. A high-end community with an atmosphere where we can make friends, understand, encourage and support each other. As soon as the advertisement came out, New York friends in the Flushing community felt that Manhattan and Flushing are really one family - they have the same roots! It's no longer the one-way street it used to be - Chinatown leads directly to Wall Street. To get back to Chinatown, Wall Street has to go around and around.

For example, Amy spent more than 20,000 US dollars to buy a charming ruby, emerald, blue jade-encrusted necklace personally selected by Ms. Jin Yuxi at the China American Association's "Blue Cloud Award" fund-raising event two months ago. This time I donated again and asked my son Duoduo, who graduated from the New York University Business School, to help promote the event.

华美协进社China Institute of New York 要举办一场别开生面的万圣节舞会， 让我们的华二代、华三代和纽约40多个其它族裔的青年们、孩子们能在一个安全时尚又充满文化氛围的高档社区， 相互交友、了解、鼓励、支持。广告一出来， 就让法拉盛社区的纽约朋友们，感受到曼哈顿和法拉盛原来还真的就是一家人-同根同源呢！ 不再是以前的单行道- 唐人街直通华尔街，华尔街要回到唐人街，就得绕啊绕。

今天， 法拉盛的华侨社团在筹备举办世界华人春晚， 位于曼哈顿下城和与华尔街比邻而居的华美协进社，则在紧锣密鼓地装饰着能容得下300 人刚刚落成的智慧厨房， 让它装满金秋时节的快乐、神奇和惊喜！ 据说大餐厅内还有一个能做手工的大桌子， 没有化妆戏服costume 的朋友们， 可以围着桌子做手工，给自己做一件别开生面的戏服costume 。

My girlfriends in Flushing are even more capable of contributing and coming up with ideas. Although we don’t have the money to donate for this event, let’s save a dollar as a token of gratitude! This costume party was originally held for young people - Mingle Friday. The age structure is over 21 years old and under 40 years old. But I have a group of friends around 50 years old, most of whom are single. Most of them are busy on the journey to live a decent life, and they lose their significant other

"We don't have to go to a makeup store to buy costumes. The 99 Mao store has all kinds of goods and materials, and we process them ourselves." said Sister Hong, one of the most active figures in the overseas Chinese community in Flushing. She always takes the lead in supporting and sponsoring various community events. What makes me particularly unforgettable is that after the TV series "Main Street", which reflects the life of the second generation of Flushing Chinese, was completed, we held a celebration at the largest Chinese restaurant in New York - Junhao. Sister Hong received 40 gift packages from a supermarket in Flushing for 40 actors and crew members.

"Everyone contributes to community affairs!" She always says this and does so. Although our actors may only be able to play small roles for big Hollywood actors, money can't buy that kind of seriousness and passion! Four tiger daughters and three tiger mothers started from Main Street, the main thoroughfare in Flushing, and fought all the way to 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Their confusion, helplessness and courage as they fought more and more bravely helped them find their own life in the United States. The road and the ever-cutting roots of China. That's our story. Our story, we tell it ourselves! We can never be like the mermaid in Andersen's fairy tale, using our voice in exchange for a walk on the earth, just because of curiosity? At the cost of our voice, our right to speak, and our narrative language system?

The price is too high!

“社区的事大家出力！” 她总是这样说，也是这样在做。 虽然我们的演员也许只能给好莱坞的大演员们跑跑龙套， 但那份认真和激情， 金钱难买！四个虎女儿和三个虎妈妈在从法拉盛的主干道缅街出发，一路打到曼哈顿42街、五大道， 她们的困惑无奈和越战越勇的勇气， 帮她们找到她们自己在美国的人生路和与中国那条永远剪不断的根。 那是我们的故事。 我们的故事，我们自己讲！ 我们绝不可能像安徒生童话中的美人鱼，用自己的声音换取在地球上来走一遭，就因为好奇？ 就要用我们的声音、我们的话语权、我们的语言体系narrative 做代价？

这个代价，太大！

Hong Hong

"Sir, let's design a robot costume quickly!" I said to my husband who was busy frying eggs, toasting bread and making milk tea in the kitchen. After working in a bank all his life, he is now retired and has found the most stable job: cooking for his wife and daughter. Every day he cooked delicious food for us in different ways: from Mao-style braised pork to Spanish barbecue, from vinegar-filled shredded potatoes in his hometown of Chengdu to Idaho mashed potatoes, making us fat. Sometimes he cooks a dish. The TVs on the walls around my central kitchen are no longer CNBC and Bloomberg Asia Markets; the screens are full of beauties and handsome men from various countries teaching you how to cook a certain dish. And when it’s ready, I’ll teach you how to chew it!
 

"Don't be a robot," the gentleman said, sweating profusely. It's hard to imagine that he would be sweating profusely while making an American breakfast. Three cats were wandering around his feet, also waiting for breakfast.

"I want to be a robot!"

In my mind, I just came to the United States in the summer of 1985. In order to let the new foreign students understand the United States and fall in love with the United States, the school gave us the Greyhound orientation program of "7-day tour for US$99" - Greyhound Run America project. How can you say you love America if you don't see and understand it for yourself? Learn from America?

My first stop was directly to Disneyland. Epcot Center Space Space - just completed, I lined up against the sun and finally boarded the "spaceship". When the "spaceship" looks at our earth from "outer space", we see a family on the earth - the father is reading the newspaper after dinner, the mother is reading bedtime stories to the little daughter, and the little son is building a technology tower, a white The robot doll was cleaning the kitchen, and my tears suddenly flowed down. I have just been in the United States for three days, and I don’t understand why the Chinese people have to work so hard just to have enough food for the family? It takes 3 hours to cook a meal, and 2 hours to clean up the messy dishes, not to mention finding a place to earn money, and then going to the vegetable market to bargain to buy these ingredients!

“先生，咱们赶快设计一款机器人戏服吧！” 我对正在厨房忙着煎鸡蛋烤面包烧奶茶的丈夫说。 干了一辈子银行如今退休了的他，找到了一份最稳定的职业： 给老婆和女儿烧饭。 每天他变着法子地给我们做好吃的：从毛式红烧肉到西班牙烤肉，从家乡成都的醋溜土豆丝到Idaho的土豆泥， 把我们吃得胖胖的。有时他烧一个菜， 我家中央厨房四周墙上的电视，屏幕上不再是CNBC和Bloom berg Asia Markets； 屏幕上全是各国美女帅哥在教你怎样做好一款菜。 而且做好了还教你怎样大口的嚼！

看得让人- 热血沸腾！

“你可别当机器人”，先生满头大汗。 很难想象做个美式早餐会满头大汗，三只猫猫在他脚边转悠着， 也等着早餐。

“我就要当机器人！”

我的脑子里浮现出1985年夏天刚来到美国的我， 学校为了让新入校的外国留学生了解美国从而爱上美国， 给了我们“99 美元7天游”的Greyhound orientation program - 灰狗跑美国的项目。你们都不亲自看看、亲自了解，怎么谈得上热爱美国？ 学习美国？

我的第一站直接去了迪士尼乐园。 Epcot Center 太空宇宙空间-刚刚落成， 我顶着太阳排着大队终于上了“飞船”。 当“飞船“从“外太空”看着我们的地球，看到地球上的一家人- 晚饭后的爸爸在看报、妈妈在给小女儿读 bedtime story， 小儿子在搭建一个科技塔楼， 一个白色的机器娃娃在收拾碗筷打扫厨房，我的眼泪突然止不住流淌下来。 刚来三天美国的我， 不明白中国人为什么就要那样辛苦操劳，就为了一家人能吃饱一顿饭？ 做一顿饭花3个小时， 收拾杯盘狼藉还要2小时， 别说还要去找地方挣钱、然后去菜市场讨价还价买回家这些食材！

Tear down the central kitchen, sir. We won't cook anymore!" I am really determined to be a robot and cook for everyone tirelessly. Or Uber Eats, giving jobs to young people. Money - it is meant to be earned and spent on the people and things you love.

"That won't do," said the gentleman very seriously. "I was ignorant before and let you cook for more than 30 years. Now, it's my turn to cook. Just think of me as that robot - JJ."

We once said: When you get old, open a coffee shop and name it: JJ Yesterday Sunshine. JJ is the abbreviation of me and my husband.

"OK. Today is the day. Let's find two sets of robot costumes first! There is also a pumpkin mask. Maybe our costumes will win awards!"

“把中央厨房拆了，先生。 我们不做饭了！” 我真的决心要当一个机器人，不知疲倦地为大家做饭。 或者叫 Uber Eats， 给年轻人提供工作。 钱——本来就是挣来用的，用在你心爱的人和事上。

“那可不行，” 先生非常认真地说。 “我以前不懂事，让你做饭做了30多年。 现在， 该我做饭了。你就把我当成那个机器人 - JJ吧。”

我们曾经说过： 老了就去开一家咖啡店， 取名：JJ昨日阳光。JJ是我和我先生的缩写。

“OK。 今天事今天了。 还是先找两套机器人costume 吧！ 还有一个南瓜面罩。兴许咱俩的戏服还获奖呢！”

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