Song of the Moon

Yup, it's about that time of year where we see the nice plump moon and howl with all our might~! No? Too bad for you but I know you all secretly do it too during the mooncake festival.

Yeah, I know I'm a little late with this post and all... 26th Sept 2007 was the mooncake festival.

As usual, every year my parents would ask me to set up the paper lanterns... Since the moon is nice and round this year, we got our prayer session to start earlier if compared to previous years.

They look pretty and all. But with the years going, the quality of candle decline as well and I find myself "reloading" the candle into the lantern pretty often.

But seriously what is mooncake festival with Prayer & Lanterns. Though I don't go around the neighbourhood, carrying along a pattered-coloured lantern (probably at least the fish shaped ones).

Normally the prayer table would be set up in the garden... but this year with the moon nice and bright, we could set up at the cement area outside the dining room / computer area.

The offering for this occasion I should say vary from household to household. Some family puts out more, some less... Well, we have your normal mooncakes, yams, dragon nut? (points to the black thingy up there), pomelo, chinese tea, white mooncake biscuit... and your usual, candles and incense joss stick.

Other paper offerings are also burnt so the supernatural and upperbeings are happy, which in turn blessing and making us happy. Fair share, if you ask me.

With all the prayers good and done, my younger sis and I get to play around with them candles. Here's a new one, candle on a Lotus leaf. Neat huh?

That aside, every year I get about to trying to complete my quest of putting up candles along the entire wall that surrounds the house. Sounds easy on its own but two things, it's a long wall and I'm the only one up for the quest... I believe one year I ran out of candles but this year, I managed to complete this quest. Yay~! [Exp points goes up]

What to do with all the candles in a row? Why, go crazy with the camera, of course. Just something about the dancing flames and coloured wax dripping in ways you can't control is mesmerizing...

And why stop at only candles burning when their boxes are also a nice source of fun. I believe you guys are familiar with me setting candles boxes alit. [grins] Burn~!

My Highlight of the Night would be the paper lantern that combust into flames. We need to buy more paper lanterns anyway... Hehe.

29th Sept 2007 - Bintang Student Night

I don't know if you all know that I was taking vocal classes since June.. That'll make it about 3 months?

I won't say that I can sing well... I know plenty others who can sing better than me, which is quite discouraging but I can also sing better than some. I just love singing I guess. I had been in the music club from standard 1 to form 3, in the choir not solo act..

I got my chance to perform on my very first solo act on stage in the spotlight and all, last saturday (29th Sept). I did my very best to perform and had not much pressure, luckily for me. I had fun singing my 2 songs ("She's the One" by Robbie Williams and "One Love" by Blue) but having to sing for 4 hours straight was a nightmare.

The management had each student perform 2 songs at least and that came up to about 60 songs... 1 song is about 3 - 5 minutes would bring us to 240 minutes (4 hours). The event started at 8pm so we left at midnight, and even that was prior to the games that they had planned to play... Puiyeel, my younger sis and myself went to have dim sum for supper. Love dim sums too. Hehehe~! Cheers!