Third Meeting
Again, it was another successful meeting on Feb 8, 2004! Thanks to all participants for making this a wonderful party. We have seen more and more new faces showing up. In fact, we had no idea that there are actually so many Asians residing in this country. And we have not even started advertising yet ! We certainly hope all these new friends will continue to attend our LYC meetings and make it a useful and efficient network to link the Asians and Westerners in this country! Take a look at the pictures taken in this meeting.

Second Meeting
Our second party on Jan 11, 2024 was a great success with no less than 37 people attending. That's a lot of new members !. As it was the Chinese New year the Rainbow House was decorated with lots of appropriately red Chinese lanterns and decorations.

First Meeting
This is the summary of our first meeting held on Dec 13, as written by Steve and Luc:

Dear All,

It has been a week already since we first got together to organize the creation of the Brussels Long Yang Club. So it is official : our Long Yang Club Brussels was born on December 13, 2003, with 20 founding members present and 14 others who could not attend, but will surely join our next meetings. We even welcomed a new member on that day : Tuan from Vietnam, who happened to pass by the Rainbow house and dropped in....

It was good to see the enthusiasm and the goodwill during that meeting and the dinner that followed. Thanks to all of you, we had a superb meal with tastings from different skilled chefs. A special 'thank you' to Alain who prepared a special 'birthcake' for the LYC - as you can see from the attached picture.

Just to remind you some of the things we discussed and decided :

- LYC Brussels will be an non-profit organization run by its volunteer members, aiming at organizing social events for gay Asians and non-Asians.

- We will have an official statute of 'VZW/ASBL' if and when the need arises.

- As a regular activity, we will have a Pot Luck Party on the second Sunday of every Month, organized by different members every time. So book them ahead in your agenda.

- Members are encouraged to organize other events at will. Some ideas were : bowling, concerts, outings, cooking lessons, and many others.

- Steve will update the Website. Any help from volunteers is welcome .

- Ideas and events will be announced on our Website : www.longyangclub.org/Brussels

OUR NEXT PARTY :

an early CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION !

Where : Rainbow House, rue marché au charbon 42, 1000 Brussels
When : Sunday January 11, at 16:30
In charge : Alain. Please confirm your participation to Alain.charlier@skynet.be
Meals : Everyone brings a dish. Meng is coordinating who brings what (so we don't all come with dessert...)
Dress code : Wear what you like, but remember that the color for Chinese New Year should be red....
Bring along : Yourself and friends who are all welcome
Cost : One Euro for the room, and the price of your drinks from the bar.

Let's have fun together - still looking for volunteers to teach us Mah Jong.....!!!

Any suggestions and comments are welcome - the mailing list for all members is available in the TO: line, so we can now all communicate with each other.