As in previous years, it is a school-declared holiday for Cass today as she’s from a Chinese school. It’s a normal school day for Drama Queen and Alycia.
The mil whipped up a few simple dishes for dinner. We had sauteed petai (stinky beans) with shrimps, Three Cups Chicken (a Taiwanese dish), Huai San and carrot soup, sauteed celery with fish slices and braised jicama / yam bean / turnip with cuttlefish. Sorry no picture to share as I had totally forgotten about it! Was too busy rushing off a few assignments for the advertisers and then rushed off to fetch Drama Queen back from school. And my Drama Queen, in her dramatic fashion as usual, made my time stand still for 10 minutes when I picked her up from school today. Shall write about it in my other blog. All the dishes tonight were right up my alley, including the stinky beans but I loathe the aftermath, thus I abstained from it with steely willpower  💪
Unlike previous years where it rained on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, this year’s Mid Autumn festival fell on a perfectly dry day, surprisingly, as the past few days had been wet and chilly. The night was exceptionally clear with hardly any cloud and very, very breezy. Cass had a hard time keeping the fire on the candle of her lantern alive.
This year’s mid autumn moon is also exceptionally HUGE, shiny and majestic.
Drama Queen lit up candles to post on her Instagram page.
This year, over 10 kids from our condo gathered at the pool area to play lantern. Cass and Sarah are the oldest of the lot. The kids together with their parents and grandparents walked the jogging trek / jungle path at our condo with brightly lit lanterns in tow, some emitting deafening music.
Cass waited eagerly for exactly one year to play lantern with Sarah again, a girl her age who lives on the penthouse of our block. They met on Mid Autumn festival last year. Sarah is an only child, thus craves for friends to play with. Each time they meet, they would remind each other of their Mid Autumn festival lantern play date. It’s really heartwarming to see these 2 little girls talk, play and walk rounds after rounds at the condo like the best of friends. I hope that Cass and Sarah will keep this tradition alive for many more years to come and grow up still being good friends from the same condo.
I wonder whether Cass still wants to play with a lantern next year. Most kids outgrow the lantern by eleven or twelve. Some has an everlasting love for lanterns. I asked Cass if she still wants to do the same thing next Mid Autumn and she gave me a shrug and said “maybe”. I’ll see…
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