Kerman is an old friend whom I hadn't seen in like 5 years! He was a colleague at my very first job in Hong Kong, at a company called Quicksilver (no not the surfing/outdoors clothing company!). Well, he, his wife Cindy and nearly 5-year-old son "Tiga" came by for dinner tonight. With Pina helping to make fish stock, chop up vegetables, and wash the seafood (okay, Pina did do most of the work!), I cooked up some bouillabaisse (Italian seafood soup)! Turned out pretty well, I think. That said, it's pretty hard to mess up a soup made up of loads of seafood — fish, shrimp, clams, crab, and scallops — and a bunch of fresh vegetables and Italian herbs! Pina also made burritos, soy sauce chicken wings, sauteed mushrooms, and steamed baby lobsters (yes, Pina works hard and cooked up quite a storm!). Gwen also helped out with the cooking but mostly took care of our precious baby Justin. Oh, the baby lobsters were interesting. They were each around 3 inches long, sold live, and were quite inexpensive. I was thinking that they were just freshwater crayfish that resembled lobsters but after having tasted them, I was convinced that they were indeed baby lobsters. Taking lobsters that young can't be good unless they're somehow aqua-cultured. Okay, enough about food! Kerman's got a real nice family and another baby on the way. Little Tiga is handsome and well-behaved. I don't know why Kerman and I never kept in touch. Sad when I think about it but the main thing is we're still good friends and I hope to keep in touch with him and his family from now on. We had a good time tonight! Next time we'll visit them at their home in Tai Po.