Mooncake Festival!! Weee...

On Tuesday, in the office, mooncakes are aplenty. Everyone has at least 2 boxes of mooncakes on their desks. Some are desperately trying to give away their mooncakes to others [too many mooncakes received from suppliers and bosses]. Chriz decided to cut hers up and get everybody to help eat it. Too many mooncakes is not funny. The variety of mooncakes that's being passed around is not funny as well. There are mooncakes with chicken floss as fillings, vegetarian mooncakes, etc. Yuck!! What happened to the good old red bean, lotus paste mooncakes? I really think we are living in a century where everything is so commercialised that business-owners will try to make money out of anything, any occasion. They will try to come up with various mooncake flavors [even weird tasting ones] hoping to rake in huge sales out of it. Little did they realise, they are actually causing the extinction of the original, traditional mooncake flavors. They are also confusing consumers [people like me!] by offering too many types of flavors to choose from. Sigh... I miss the yesteryears where we have just red bean and lotus paste flavors to buy.

Come to think of it, I don't even remember what I did during last year's Mooncake Festival. Drat!! Hmm.... What did I do?? I know the usual celebration would be with my family at home. We'd drag a table out into the compound, light up the whole place with candles, sit down, eat mooncakes and the black 'tanduk kerbau' thingy, drink tea and chit-chat.

Oh well, I really can't recall what I did last year. This year, I had a small little celebration at home. Shu dropped by with Jourdain. She helped cut up some fruits and set up the table and made the tea [no black 'tanduk kerbau' thingy this year :(]. We sat outside and ate fruits and drank tea for a while. Ginger got excited whenever she spotted someone having fruits [she loves fruits] so Shu and I tried to make her do some tricks before rewarding her with small pieces of fruits. I had the priviledge of introducing this little mooncake celebration of mine to Yaacob [this would be his first ever Mooncake Festival celebration, I think]. Too bad it was not as festive as the previous years. We just had tea with mooncakes and fruits. That was all. No lanterns nor candles decorating the house [I lighted 3 candles, stared at them for a while, got bored and blew them off]. Hmmm... Hopefully next year's celebration will be more happening so that he can really feel the festive mood.

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