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# 09
~ mooncake festival ~
11 September 2003


Rhialyn : Its dark outside.

Lily : It's okay. Its supposed to be dark when you light lanterns, Chibi. ^^

Lily : Here, have a candle.

Rhialyn : No way ! Keep that away from me ! 
I'm not going to touch a candle ! *runs*

Lily : *drags back* Come come, don't be a spoilsport. ^^

Rhialyn : *cheeky long suffering sigh*

Lily : *grins* Ahaks, come on, its a festival. 
Come join in the fun ! Or else...

Rhialyn : *grins and jumps up* Yes, ma'am !

Lily : Hey ! I'm not that old !

Lily : Let's try this... Take the candle carefully and get light from the lit ones...

Rhialyn : *nods and tries* Like this ?

Lily : Yes ! You lighted your first candle ! Yatta ~!

Rhialyn : *proud look* I lighted this lantern !

Lily : *pats* Yokatta ne ~!

Rhialyn : Such a nice night outside...

Rhialyn : ... with such lovely lanterns...

Rhialyn : ... and the full moon shines brightly in velvet heavens...

Lily : O__o !!! Good gods, Chibi, where you learned that ?
You are spouting poetry !

Rhialyn : I'm not stupid, you know...

Lily : *falls over* Of course I know that... 
But come on, lets go in and have mooncake ~!

Rhialyn : Mooncake ? This is mooncake ? What it is ?

Lily : *nods* Its a cake. ^^;; Chinese style cake ? *laughs*
Well, according to the stories, back in China a long time ago, there was a bunch of bad guys who oppressed the people. They didn't have lots of freedom like we do and they were really unhappy. 

So one day, someone came up with a idea and made this mooncakes. In them he inserted messages on slips of paper with plans to overthrow the bad guys. When people ate them, they saw the message and they got ready to help. On the night of the full moon, they carried out their plans and it worked perfectly and the bad guys were overthrown. So now people celebrate Mooncake festival as a mark of their freedom. ^^

Rhialyn : Aah... That makes today really special, ne ? 
*stares off into space thoughtfully*

Lily : *grins* Here, have some Chocolate Walnut mooncake.

Rhialyn : This piece of mooncake is really dark XD

Lily : Try, its really nice ~!

Rhialyn : *munch* Mmm ~! You are right !

Lily : *grins*

Rhialyn : I really enjoyed tonight ! Lets go out again ?

Lily : Ok ~! *grabs more candles*

I couldn't really get my facts straight for the story, but that's about it. XD Anyway, celebrated Mooncake Festival back at Pa's place and it was really fun ! The neighbours were at it too and the whole place lit up with literally thousands of candles, like hope in the dark. The moon was really beautiful too ! We both enjoyed ourselves a lot !
 

  
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