Happy Mid-Autumn Festival @ Mooncake Festival!

Today is one of the celebrations for Chinese culture i.e Mid-autumn festival. In some families, it would be a gathering time for all members of the family; some will have prayer to the moon to pray for the goddess to fulfill certain wishes, etc.

Thanks to moon cakes advertisement from different bakeries, it reminds people about this celebration, if not it would be forgotten by many people especially the Generation y though the main purpose is to advertise the particular organization's product in order to bring profit to the company.

I am very thankful that I came from a quite traditional family. My family still hold on the tradition to celebrate this big day. Grandma and aunt have spent a few days to prepare a big feast for us (around 40 people) today.

Special compliment to them- grandma and aunt, for continuing the tradition. Besides, with this opportunity we can meet with other relatives which seldom in contact. This actually binds our relationships more closely.

I love Mid-autumn festival. It reminds me about my childhood time. Me, my sisters and fellow cousins were the happiest persons when this day came. After, we, the kids had our delicious dinner, we then played lantern until it is burnt ; played candles and made it an astonish view to behold with many lighted candles; we played games (e.g cat and mouse),etc. Those were memorable experience I can recalled during my childhood period. This year, we had mouth-watering dishes however we did not played games as we had before.

Maybe our batch has grown up, we 'tend to become matured and don't play children games anymore",whereas another batch of cousins are just babies. I need to wait for them to grow up, then I will join their "gang" to play games though I am older than them around 20 years.

I wonder,would the younger generation (which I am one of them) continue this family tradition ?
Anyhow, I wish my family members would be good to each other and continue this tradition.
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival. :)
And don't forget to watch your weight as you would have eaten much moon cakes that are fattening. Haha!

Happy Malaysia Day!

This is the 47th anniversary for formation of Malaysia since 1963 where prior to this was Federation of Malaya. And, after many years of this historical event, this is the first year where all states in Malaysia have an official public holiday on 16 September.

I am neither born before Independence nor Formation of Malaysia,of course, I do not denial I have weak patriotism towards my home country as I do not really into the real meaning of these special occasions (except it is holiday!). Since there are many ugly sides in terms of it politic, economic and social condition as exposed by the media (or even hidden stories) , these has actually taken much sense of belonging here.

However, I have heard a quote somewhere which is quite meaningful;
" Don't hope what the country can do for you; but, what you can do for the country?"

Right, we may be not satisfied with many things here, nevertheless, we were all grown up here, we do get some sort of benefits here like education; free medication for those senior citizens at government hospital; etc. Looking on the bright side, there is no war here; we can still do well if we work hard, this country is not as bad as other countries.

We need to accept the fact that there is no perfect country on planet earth actually. Anywhere has the same scenario but different in its level of seriousness.

I sincerely wish that "one Malaysia" concept will stay and really can be achieved. But not a temporarily slogan to promote unity and then forgotten by people.

All the best to my home country. Happy Malaysia Day!