
Post-Chinese New Year celebration dinner @ Mama Wok
To be completely honest, I thought we were done two years ago. With people going into retirement and leaving for college, not attracting any new member, and myself starting to slack off post-knee surgery, East Rising was running on fume. We had a skeleton crew for shows and we stopped innovating, all the signs were there.
But somehow, we pushed through.
Rather due to stubbornness, denial, or simply not wanting something special we built to disappear, we held on. Today I am very proud to say that we are back on an upward swing, maybe it is the post-Chinese New Year high, but this year felt good and next year is looking even better. We have a strong team, we have dedicated members wanting to try new things, we have new and motivated people joining up, and best of all we have returning veterans. Another awesome thing happening this year is our long time benefactor from CA will be joining us from CA for a weekend to train us, I am sure this will propel us to the next level.
2012 should be a good year for East Rising!

East Rising 2012 Group Shot - minus a few folks that could not make it