Mid Autumn Festival

13th of September, 2011 Tuesday


It was a week of hectic shopping for Mooncake at the hypermarket or Mooncake stalls. You can see all the people was going for those colourful Mooncake. There are more and more variety to choose from. With egg yoke, double egg yoke, coffee, latte, green tea, walnut flavor. You just can't list all of them out, every year new flavor. I too, walk pass those stalls but i just observe the price. Each pieces are around Rm15-RM20. For once a year, maybe its worth the price. All those boxes, packaging was nice. But i myself personally doesn't like to eat mooncake so much. Sometimes it is just too sticky and too sweet. I still love those traditionally made, normal ones without so much flavor.



Last night, 12th of September 2011. You could see a lot of party going off. Celebrating MidAutumn Mooncake Festival. And alot of event around the town. I still remember when small, we keep write essay about this festival. There will be lantern, quiz, food and alot of things to write about. But i never join those event. My company got organize an event but i skipped it. Looking up at the sky last night, we can't see clearly the moon but slowly the cloud disperse. There comes our beautiful Moon of the Year. Bright and round.


There was a story for this festival. Where a goddess name "Chang Er" was in love with a god "Hou Yu"but her lover killed too many people and she decided to stay at the moon and never come back. There at the moon, she met a woodcutter name "Wu Kang". And they live together. Those were summary i remembered in my mind. Full details can be search at GOOGLE. So guys and girls, keep an eye on the moon. Maybe one year you will spot them on the moon. Chinese traditional story is really interesting.



Talking about Mooncake, Stories, comes after that is Lantern. You just can't miss out on this activity. Group of people carrying around lantern brightening up the roads. Lantern has evolve from normal and plain paper lantern to nice plastic lanterns. Now we even have the famous Angry Bird style lantern. Haha, it makes me smile when i see one. We would play with the candles and accidentally get those lantern burnt up.... oops there goes our 50cent lantern. I have not been holding lantern for 3 years already.


Now it is easy to wish people, as you can see at Facebook. There is a lot of wishes going on circulating on the net. Even got drawings, video clip and animation. Its just becoming easier and easier. Forward message has become lesser and lesser by the year. So that all to conclude this year's MidAutumn Festival. Until next year.


P.S.
I missed another chance to held lantern together with you.
Still hoping it would come true next year.