Happy (Be-lated) Mid-Autumn Festival!
I know what you're all expecting: that I have these wonderful pictures of lanterns, and lots and lots of people camped out and picnic-ing in Victoria park, but sadly I don't.
School has been taking up almost all my time lately, and sadly, I have very little of a weekend to speak of. In fact, I could probably sum up my entire weekend in two words... that's right, two. This weekend was TOO SHORT!
It's funny when you realise that I've had essentially Thursday-Sunday off, but I'll tell you why it's SO hilarious. Thursday's evening class was cancelled due to a lecture being scheduled, so, I having one of the most brilliant ideas in the world, decided to go to school anyway. I really did go to school and work in the computer lab, and not waste my entire day away, sort of. Now, if that wasn't bad enough to take a chunk out of my weekend, then attending the evening lecture was. Sure, the lecture was an hour and a half, which was completely fine... but the questions afterwards dragged on for another hour and a half, and seriously, more than half of them were along the lines of "I've been following your work for several years now, and I wanted to know how important _______ was in your design?" It may have been my growling stomach that was affecting my generally pleasant but I couldn't help but be anxious to leave, and think "Well, if you had been following so-and-so's work for several years, I would think that you would have found out by now and not make me sit here." By the time I got out, it was well past 8:30pm... and on a non-school night, goodness! Saturday and Sunday weren't much better, still work, work and more work, BUT...
My Friday evening was definitely better in terms of celebration. I was invited for dinner with Aunt P and the rest of the family on dad's side. There was a lot of food, more than enough for left overs the next day. Aunt P had prepared: crab, shrimp, chicken, assorted meats, abalone, and lots of veggies. It was certainly one of the best meals that I've had in a while and the company was great.
I had a great time, and I really enjoyed spending time with my family over here. I'm looking forward to our next get together but until then, I hope everyone had a wonderful Mid-Autumn Festival! I'll make sure I'll attend the official festivities next year!
PS: for those of you who don't know what tradition moon cake is, its a dessert that is eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival, where there is lunar worship and moon watching. They were often given to friends and families during gatherings. Moon cakes are generally round or rectangular and are 10 cm in diameter and 4ish cm thick. They're made with a rich filling from red bean or lotus seed paste, and usually contain egg yolks from salted duck eggs.
I know what you're all expecting: that I have these wonderful pictures of lanterns, and lots and lots of people camped out and picnic-ing in Victoria park, but sadly I don't.
School has been taking up almost all my time lately, and sadly, I have very little of a weekend to speak of. In fact, I could probably sum up my entire weekend in two words... that's right, two. This weekend was TOO SHORT!
It's funny when you realise that I've had essentially Thursday-Sunday off, but I'll tell you why it's SO hilarious. Thursday's evening class was cancelled due to a lecture being scheduled, so, I having one of the most brilliant ideas in the world, decided to go to school anyway. I really did go to school and work in the computer lab, and not waste my entire day away, sort of. Now, if that wasn't bad enough to take a chunk out of my weekend, then attending the evening lecture was. Sure, the lecture was an hour and a half, which was completely fine... but the questions afterwards dragged on for another hour and a half, and seriously, more than half of them were along the lines of "I've been following your work for several years now, and I wanted to know how important _______ was in your design?" It may have been my growling stomach that was affecting my generally pleasant but I couldn't help but be anxious to leave, and think "Well, if you had been following so-and-so's work for several years, I would think that you would have found out by now and not make me sit here." By the time I got out, it was well past 8:30pm... and on a non-school night, goodness! Saturday and Sunday weren't much better, still work, work and more work, BUT...
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| Street lamp and Moon Walk back to my place. |
My Friday evening was definitely better in terms of celebration. I was invited for dinner with Aunt P and the rest of the family on dad's side. There was a lot of food, more than enough for left overs the next day. Aunt P had prepared: crab, shrimp, chicken, assorted meats, abalone, and lots of veggies. It was certainly one of the best meals that I've had in a while and the company was great.
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| It might take me ages to learn how to cook as well as Aunt P does |
In addition to all the wonderful food, I had the chance to try many different types of fruits that night, and to top it off, many different flavours of Moon Cake. Who knew? I thought that there was only one, but they had Moon Cakes that were smaller and softer than the traditional lotus filled ones, such as: sour lemon, chocolate truffle, some sort of mango dessert and a couple more that I can't recall.
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| Many desserts and only a fraction of the Moon Cakes |
PS: for those of you who don't know what tradition moon cake is, its a dessert that is eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival, where there is lunar worship and moon watching. They were often given to friends and families during gatherings. Moon cakes are generally round or rectangular and are 10 cm in diameter and 4ish cm thick. They're made with a rich filling from red bean or lotus seed paste, and usually contain egg yolks from salted duck eggs.
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| White Lotus/Egg yolk Fun Fact: One Moon Cake is more than 800 calories |
Haha, that's so funny. At least you got to eat a lot of food after! Do you have school on the weekend as well?
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