How i wished to be with my family today, instead of getting stuck all alone in the shoebox-room and dated by my UNFCCC notes. Although my family did an advance celebration, yet nothing beats the actual day......I miss home and my family.
Looking back at my childhood memories, today is one of the most awaited for in the calendar. Those days, when I was still a young, round and jolly girl, Mid-autumn festival was best celebrated at Po Po's place. I could recall how i made my parents got me pretty lanterns that came in various shapes and sizes. My favourite will always be those that has shiny gold dust on the outer surface or perhaps even more extravagant, shapes that resembled ancient food-carrier of some sort, ala Chang Er, the legendary pretty lady in the moon. Well, the best thing of course was lighting up packets of colourful candles on empty biscuit or milo tins and then perhaps create some mini campfire to roast insects n peanuts or even better just bloody burn those cheap paper lanterns.....nothing beats the fun of playing with fire. How I wish to stay a child forever.
This year's celebration was rather unique in a pleasant way. Had a dinner of western dishes and then wrapped up by chinese oriental desserts( those delicious tang yuan...oh my)....and the verdict: absolutely AWESOME.....the best would be chomping and gobbling down of food prepared by all of us. I dare to say, we did fix an impressive dinner thou =) As for more merit points, we did all the cleaning too.....(I hate dat)
Apart from all these, somewhere in my heart, as usual, will never leave him out....for all the moments I lived and enjoyed since that day, the thought of him always follows by. Although we did not get to celebrate it for real, yet being able to see him via the webcam, hearing his voice, knowing that he was searching for the shy moon ( I tried looking too) and how much his heart yearn to be with me is sufficient to comfort of the heart. It did occur to me that I would simply be reckless, and go look for him..but i guess my logic mind overdominated the heart and hence, I'm here, still stuck within the 4 blocks of wall, accompanied by my faithful electronic devices that allow him and I to be connected. Praise Science and Technology .....
This year's celebration was indeed quirky, in a pleasant way.
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