A Pre-mooncake Festival Dinner

Why called it a pre-mooncake festival dinner?

Because it was supposed to be celebrated on the 14th of September(Sunday) but we celebrated it 2 days before the actual date.

Some may wonder "What the heck is a mooncake festival?"

Frankly speaking, I do not know exactly why this day was and still is celebrated nowadays. But dated back to the history of ancient China, mooncakes were actually secret instrument for spreading news for a strike or an attack from one to another. They put a little piece of paper, rolled thin and stuffed into mooncakes. Smart people read the news, the dumb ones were either killed by the government or choke to death by the piece of junk inside the cakes.

Another reason is, according to the legend, once upon a time the God of sun had 10 sons who were also suns which were really sons of a bitch with hot pussy. One sun was allowed to visit the Earth once in a day, and the 10 suns took rotations to visit the Earth everyday. One day, these suns of a bitch decided to go play on the Earth together. So when they came down to the Earth, everything was burnt down. The men couldn't stand them any longer, so they called an archer called HouYi (not a gangster though) to shoot down all of them. He took out his bow and arrows and started shooting, until the last one he spared the sun's life coz he didn't want the world to turn dark. And so bla bla bla, the King awarded him an immortalisation pill and told him "Swallow the pill bit by bit". WuGang had a beautiful wife called ChangEr, he didn't want her to get old and die, so he gave her the pill. She took it and suddenly her body weight got lighter and lighter that she floated up in the air....she flew flew flew until the moon. In order for them both to meet each other, they must wait until the moon is the fullest and the biggest, which is the mid-autumn in lunar calendar (15th day of the autumn). I don't know why we celebrate just because they can see each other on this particular day, coz I don't see her, even so it's none of my business. Some people who're full of imagination saw a tree on the moon. Some spotted a rabbit. I've never seen those kind of crap before.

To see more of the different versions of crap, please click here.

Okay I think some of you may have skipped the story -telling part through, but yeah, I gotta celebrate it coz I wanna eat mooncakes. Since I didn't go back home this year, so I didn't have any mooncakes to eat. So I threw a dinner night for groupmates and friends on the Friday. Dinner was simple, with fried rice, fried noodles, curry chicken, fried calamari aka squids and fried crabsticks (very high risk of getting heart attack). Those who had mooncakes, they brought over to share with the others. Junice, Rose and Shou Zhi, each took one mooncake over for all.




We were 10 including Karin(Italian) and Flo(Austrian) who came from Austria for an exchange-programme. They were cool people, future doctors too! Karin loved spicy food and Flo loved the fried calamari. They both loved the greentea+slimmy jelly thingy mooncake. Infact we all liked the mooncake really much.

Tada! Flo on the left, Karin on the right (innit obvious?)

Flo has huge arms and I had not thought one bit about offending him.

They actually met Wei Shyuan during her surgery cycle. They were quite depressed living here, so they asked Wei Shyuan to include them in whatever activities of hers. So WS gave me a call and asked if I could include them in the party as well. There was nothing to lose from getting acquainted with them, so they were counted in.

Flo told me that we have many things in common, but they were many things we've in common that did not reach the same degree.
For example:
a) we like lifting weights, but he has huge ripped arms, I have huge flabby arms (don't snigger okay?)

b) we like guitar, but he must have played far better than me.

c) we like "Du Hast Den Schönsten Arsch Der Welt", but he knows the language better than me.

But we do have something in common.

We both like this poster very much!!!

Party ended up with taking lanterns and bringing them back to their hotel which was situated not far from our hostel. Wind was strong that night, it's like the ghosts were swirling around us. My lantern, the seal one, went out the earliest. The paper lanterns were the heroes. Fortunately, no lantern was burnt, coz each year, there must be at least 1 lantern turns into dark ashes.

Is it just me or do I look gay in this pic?

The pic which I was rejected out for taking together with them,

the so-called "Menopause team" *tssk tssk*

Teeheee.....wide mouths

Kochi~