
The sweet, little birthday star received a lot of presents and cards from her parents, grandparents, and uncles/aunts. We did wire-transfer $500 to our daughter earlier and asked her buy some presents for us; however, we did not notice if those presents also included the ones from us. Anyway, we Chinese may incline to give money as a hongbao to the present receiver, even to our loved ones.
All of the birthdays pertaining to my families fall on the period from January to July, so next time I may stay at Taiwan beyond that period.