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September 28, 2004
中秋节快乐 -- Happy Mid-Autumn Festival
Also known as Mooncake Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival (MAF) falls on the 15th day of the 8th month in the lunar calender.
Here's one of my favourite stories about MAF...
The earth once had ten suns circling over it, each took its turn to illuminate to the earth. But one day all ten suns appeared together, scorching the earth with their heat. The earth was saved by a strong and tyrannical archer Hou Yi. He succeeded in shooting down nine of the suns. One day, Hou Yi stole the elixir of life from a goddess. However his beautiful wife Chang Er drank the elixir of life in order to save the people from her husband's tyrannical rule. After drinking it, she found herself floating and flew to the moon. Hou Yi loved his divinely beautiful wife so much, he didn't shoot down the moon.
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What did I do to celebrate MAF?
A bought lanterns and candles but no one wanted to play with him when the time came. So, he and YW went down alone to the playground after the group that was orginally there have left. About 15min later, I got an sms from YW saying "come down, S and CK are here too" and made a trip downstairs... my oh my, the playground was IN A MESS but that belongs to another post. Anyway, 3 significant things happened:
1. S lit her first lantern. *applause* (She does live in a treetop after all... please forgive her.)
2. We got to know little Melissa and Kian Hong (couldn't really make out what he said his name was)
3. We took apart the interior antenna of our TV and used it carry the lanterns around. :P Well, we aren't using it and A promised to put it back together again anyway.
Posted by yeepei at September 28, 2004 11:36 AM
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Looks like you're now on Stateside EST? *point to time of post*
Posted by: Nobody at September 29, 2004 09:23 AM
Nothing's wrong. I started writing the post earlier in the day but added the rest of the stuff at night. The post shows the time I started.
Posted by: YP at September 29, 2004 10:04 AM