Mid-Autumn

Lanterns along my side fencing

Whats the story behind the Mid-Autumn festival? Some dont even know that it is called the Mid-Autumn festival. The cool Sunday night was just the start of the 3rd week of Spring in Aussie land. Mid-Autumn? Well, it is, according to the chinese calendar. The 15th day of the 8th month.

Invited some friends over for a Mooncake and Tea party. Was truly an impromptu arrangement. Wanna come? Bring a Mooncake. "Today is Mooncake festival ah?? Wah, so long never play lantern already" Pat n Nicky bought a set of lanterns and lined them along my side fencing. We were lucky not to have strong winds that night. We had 8 mooncakes and Ed brought Korean style mooncakes over for us. It has been a really long time since i last ate a snow skin mooncake.

I remembered a couple of years back, mum lighted a few lanterns and displayed them in the balcony at my S'pore apartment. We were never interested in those super hi tech battery operated kinda lanterns, some even has built in 'cool' tunes when you switched it on. We turned our backs for less than 2mins, there we have it... 5 balls of fire were on display to the whole estate. You think calling it Mooncake festival is bad? My brother called it "Deng Long jie".. Lantern Festival.