i'd written a fairly long post on celebrating the mid-autumn festival in school last tuesday when i did something stupid to shut down my computer. how sian. pardon me if i seem to lack enthusiasm in writing this piece as i literally withered when i saw my screen zap to a blank.

here's the gist of it then.

sheer laziness saw me rotting in hall when i couldve gone home to eat mooncakes, sip chinese tea and shang yue with my family. i was feeling lonely cos my roommate had gone home and the campus was strangely quiet as if it was the holidays and everyone's gone home to stay. it seemed like only the foreign students were left.

then a few of us had an impromptu celebration at the Yunnan Gardens in campus armed with a camera, packets of pokka green tea (it's no chinese tea, but green is better then none), a couple of mooncakes, birthday candles and no lanterns.





you cant see much of the garden, but it was lit up by numerous candles and lanterns put up by the other revellers. there were manymany more hostelites left than i'd initially thought. those candlelights you see near the bottom of the photo were put up by us.

then cherm&kel decided to come down to join us for a while.

at midnight, cherm turned 21!!!





we turned a mooncake into a birthday cake and stuck a candle in the middle (red is auspicious!). our mid-autumn festival became a mini birthday celebration for cherms!

by the time i got back to my room, it was 4 plus in the morning and i pottered around until 6. ive never actually celebrated mid-autumn festival before... usually ill just eat mooncake and imagine tht the moon was grinning at me. i dont even carry lanterns. what made this one so special was tht it was done impromptu and between friends. and the setting was totally appropriate. Yunnan Gardens had all the pavillions and stone walkways and things like tht.

'twas seriously the funnest mid-autumn festival ive ever had.