Saturday, June 11, 2005
Today is a nice day…
Many many years ago at dis day, a guy killed himself by jumping into a river.
He committed suicide because his country was perishing and him being a loyal subject did not wish to witness de demise of his country. He’s jus veri sad so he wanted to die la..
Den he jumped and died but de people of the country liked him so much dat dey thought of something. To prevent his body from being eaten up by the fishes in the river, de people made rice dumplings n threw them into de river.
Den to chase away de fishes, de ppl set out on boats n raced on the river... (someting which evolved to de present day dragon boat racing..)
So dat’s abt de origin of rice dumpling festival aka dragon boat festival aka 端午节…
(My god, can't believe dat i still remembered quite a lot from my c lit knowledge...)
Ya so basically my ah-ma made a lot of ba zang and I tink I will hav dem for breakfast n supper for abt 2 weeks… lol.. but my ah-ma’s ba zangs really veri nice. Ya jus drink more Chinese tea or Just tea to cleanse de oil…
Speaking of which I still hav a lot of just tea at my hse.. lol
But I can never make de standard de kudafari ppl made… jus so sad… hope dat one day I can finally master de skill n reminisce de times we were drinkin tea during break times… missing de times at maldives...
Signing off n wish dat everyone has a happy day… eat more dumplings!!
Jim popped a can of Jolly Shandy @ 10:59 AM
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