Sunday, September 18, 2005
Whee, it's Mid-Autumn Festival, 中秋节!!! you should be eating mooncakes, drinking some chinese tea, seating around with your family and enjoy the big round bright moon high above your head.
it has been quite a long time i had enjoyed seeing the moon le... enjoyin means taking off some time and enjoy the sight of it, and the fact that singapore is quite light polluted and cloudy, sometimes it's very hard to see the moon, and only at the fifteenth day of the lunar month then u can enjoy seeing the full moon.
the last time was.. (let me recall...) oh ya, in maldives, when we were night fishing.. basically no fish to catch so just lay back n admire the dark sky...
last last time was in OBS, palau ubin, before i fell asleep, oso stared at the moon... haha
and i think i hadn't celebrating the festival for quite some years. my celebrating means goin somewhere and carry my lantern around, lighting up candles, made a mess everywhere with my cousins... all these activities are meant to be enjoyed as kids when exams are not in their dictinary. i still remembered once when my paper lantern got burnt cause the candle inside fell out, and i was laughin at it instead of moanin at the loss of my lantern. the highlight was still to be playing with candles, sparkles... built a mini-campfire and add anything that could be found, like papers, dried leaves, twigs and my cousins' lanterns haha....
thinking back, those times were so enjoyable and fun la... as we grow older, the exams seem to always be around the corner of mid-autumn festival, so can't really enjoy playing much.... haiz.. but good memories tho.... lol...
anyway, the true meaning behind mid-autumn festival is for family to gather and see the moon... now, we are like always around our parents, but when we are older, this is the best time to 聚一聚...but apparently the chinese in singapore just see the day as eating mooncakes...
so u can treat this day and express your love and gratitude to your loved ones! (it's chinese valentine's day for all festivals la... cause that's when family and loved ones gather...)
I love my family and friends and you and her and him and they!!!!!!!
Jim popped a can of Jolly Shandy @ 12:07 AM
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