My First Post

My first post is about mid autumn festival
中秋节. Along with my daughter and collegues i made a trip to Clarke quay,Singapore.

I got a little more info on this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival

I really do not have a philosophical approach as to why i went there etc, i just went there to expose myself to a chinese festival.

During the season you can see a lot of people carrying mooncakes, to share with elders, friends and offices send others to recognize their contacts. Just like the Indians sharing goodies during Deepavali.Nobody brought any for me yet, but i happened to taste a few at office. My daughter insisted on tasting it, i bought for her some from a bakery. Lotus seed flavoured ones. Houyi was an archer an immortal according to the chinese mythology, Refer pic.

Yeah so i went to clarke quay to see the decorated lanterns. the other spot that was decorated was China town. similarly Gelang serai was decorated for Hari raya, and Little India for Deepavali.

Decorations were good, I am not sure of the material used to create those lanterns, definetely not paper because it was drizzling that day. It looked silkish and paparish as well.

Another thing that i came to know that day was that the chinese have only one hundred sir names. The sir names were made as lanterns, my collegue went searching for her's. Surprising to me was the fact that the billion over chinese share the 100 sir names. something that I did not know before.

I'll write about somthing else later.Bye for now.

Maheswari Krishnan.