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please give us back our moon so that we can have mooncake festival.

today is the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calender, mid-autumn festival, aka mooncake festival, aka lantern festival, aka zhong qiu jie. it is usually when the moon is the roundest and brightest, when families gather to eat mooncakes, pomelos and drink tea while the children go to parks and carry lanterns.

lanterns come in all shapes and sizes. there are paper ones with candles in them, which burn easily. there is the cellophane types, which make the candlelight more colourful. and of course there is the light bulb types, which comes in all shapes and sizes with a light bulb inside, coming with 32 mono ringtones. at the flick of a switch, doraemon[or ultraman or hello kitty or aeroplane] lights up, with fur elise playing from it. it is the most irritating all of lanterns.

this year, we will be hearing less of fur elise. we probably won't be seeing paper lanterns as well. in fact, we probably won't be seeing the moon. the moon is temporarily missing in action because our dear neughbours Indonesia decided to make a big lantern from their mountain, with trees as thier candles. i must say it is a very bright lantern. blazing in fact. but it is also causing much smoke to be blown to our little red dot of an island, resulting in pollution known as haze[mentioned in post further down the page]. the thing is it has even covered our moon, resulting in a mid-autumn festival without the 赏月.

so dear indonesia. please put out the candles from your giant lantern. other people need to enjoy mooncake festival also ok? we need our moon back.

justin.

posted by justin @ 8:06 PM