Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Mooncake Festival

Saturday

On Saturday, 3 October 2009, the Chinese people celebrated Mooncake festival, a.k.a Lantern Festival. Me, Simon, and Yi Heng went for a BBQ organised by Jee Kin. Bryan couldnt make it because he went to Puchong (dont know why, but got speculation :P).

The BBQ supposedly started at 5pm, but when we went there (around 6-ish) the fire not yet start. 'The CC Gang' was having trouble starting the fire, so Simon stepped up to start the fire. After Kenneth came back with some more fire starters, the fire actually started looking like a fire. Around 7.30, then only they started cooking.

The main dish was the chicken and also the sausages. The squid that Jee Kin marinated was.....well, it wasn't good (sorry Jee Kin). So I mainly ate the chicken and the sausages. Shamini joined us after a while around 8 something. After Jee Kin and Mandy came back with the lanterns, we went for a walk around the area (minus the CC Gang, except for Jee Kin :D). In the spirit of 1Malaysia, we went to look for Encik Nazri, my form 5 BM tuition teacher. He was shocked to see a bunch of young adults in front of his house holding lanterns (who wouldn't?) . After that we went to the mamak for a while and then went back home.


Monday

On Monday, I went to another Mooncake festival celebration, this time with my Uni friends in Semenyih. After eating dinner, we went to Wen Shan's house to light lanterns and eat mooncakes. After taking a few photos (hopefully I can get it soon) we went for a walk around the taman. After coming back to the house, me, Keng Mun, Derick and Kam Hing started burning the lanterns. Kevin and Liao (Wen Shan's housemates) wanted us to burn the lantern in the area where the grass was long, so we did. At first we just burnt part by part with small fires caused by burning the lanterns. But then it got boring so we just started a small fire and kept feeding it with other lanterns. The fire got quite big that they (Kevin and Liao) asked us to stop because they were scared it would be too much to handle, there was a huge bald black patch under their swing :)

The next post WILL have photos.

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