Today is 15/8 which is the Mid Autumn festival aka Mooncake aka Lantern festival. Today also happens to be the first day off that i have taken in the army. Today I just recovered miraculously from my disgusting flu, which nearly marred my day.

Musings
Read this article in the Straits Times today abt mooncakes. claiming that there are novel mooncakes with special flavours. like durian and yam. Yawn, so uninteresting. doubt they will smell or taste nice. I am still patiently waiting for mooncakes with curry paste and belachan to be launched.

Saw a teacher bringing a group of kids from the kindergarten near my house, Sunshine Kids, for an outing..in the park. It was early in the morning, the sun was blazing and it was extremely bright. And the most astonishing part was that the kids were holding battery operated lanterns!
The battery lanterns looked so fucking weak in the sun. I am very tempted to use the word dumb to describe the whole act but i would like to think that i am a very kind person.

I still prefer the old paper lanterns, those cheap china flowery patterned ones with the invisible "highly inflammable" imprinted on it . I remember the naughty kids who loved to bang into those little kids with feeble sticks and lanterns and watch sadistically as the kids weep pitifully while holding onto their charred-beyond recognition lanterns and cane.

Then there is always a group of other races pple (i dun like to mention names) who try to join in the fun by burning and lighting stuff. Burning grass and candles. How stupid can they get. Sometimes i think the haze we get is also the result of some people somewhere burning vegetation for fun too. Maybe somewhere up there, Chang-er is weeping for the stupidity of some of mankind.