[ ] drumming [ ] drumming thank you, everyone for coming out to city hall tonight. Lets give another round of applause for the lion dance performance sponsored x the chinese consolidated association and thank you for all the Family Association representatives for being here tonight. Thank you very much. [ applause ] speaking mandarin good evening. Lane. First let me introduce myself tonight. Im so honoured to be the miss stress of ceremony nor this celebration tonight and this is the official Lunar New Year celebration hosted by march y mark officer real. And together with have visser president brenda lee and fehr and supervisor james kim and supervisor cawty tim and norman yee and recorder carmen schue. speaking mandarin first i would like to introduce our dignitary tonight. We also have the consular general of canada. Ying chan. And California State Assembly man david schue. I think theyre not here yet so maybe first maybe let me talk a little bit about the year of the dog first. So