Friday, September 28, 2007 . 12:12 AM
Mid- Autumn Festival celebration with my cell grp. Sad to say onli the 4 of us remained towards the night. Earlier in the day, we went to Settler's Cafe. Some came n go. Anyways, was a super long day on Sunday. had church service, then went Settler's, then went over to Bukit Gombak CC to celebrate the festival in advance. Phoebe, my cell grp member is a committee member there and she invited us. So we went, esp for Sarah, as this is her 1st experience of the festival, so it was a gd chance for us to bring her around.
So the 4 of us practically spent the whole day together, and thus i feel we are very much bonded haha.. The cafe experience and the festival opened Sarah up to us more. SO yaps. Got to thank God for these. And not to mention yes i was dead dead tired, but at least there are gd things that came out of all these yeah.
Our lantern procession around Gombak area, arranged by the CC for the kids. Yes we were the only non-parents around, the only adults carrying lanterns. It was really nostalgic man. But i got really tired juz by walking ard -_-. Phoebe,me,WeeHwa and Sarah.
At the outside of the CC, we were waiting for the guess riddle games to start. That's a traditional game, definite must play during the festival. I wasn't really enthu at it. In fact, it was one of the rare few times that i actually was around for the riddle games. Weehwa was really enthu about the game.
ALL the riddles on each piece of paper. ONe for each piece. And there were 100 for pple to guess. This was before it started. But when it started, it was really crowded. Sarah and i sat on one of the rows of chairs, it was just after the lantern poccession. Weehwa went to Q up to play the game. And i think for the next 1 -1.5 hr, WeeHwa and Phoebe were still guessing!!! Sarah and i got kinda bored lar actually. She, being a US citizen, couldn't understand watever was going on altho i tried my best to explain to her how it works and all. But u know..it's hard to explain when the chinese language and characters themselves are so difficult to grasp. I was bored. In fact i was falling asleep. I muz b the most unchinese of all chinese pple. I'm not saying i'm angmoh or wat...it's juz that i'm kinda dissociated from some of these things, and over time, i have forgotten how all these things worked. I don't rem having all these things in m'sia. I rem the legends/tales that comes with Mid-Autumn, ok truthfully, i'm not too sure about them. So i had to go to wikipedia and checked the whole thing out. Things about Chang-er, jade rabbit, Houyi etc etc...so that i could tell Sarah about the whole thing. Apparently there are so many variations to the story that i myself got really confused. 
At Xiao Guilin after i finally managed to pull WeeHwa off the game....we lit candles! and of cos the sparklers!
The gals!
Work had been quite fine. Tho i must admit, i broke down once this week. ALl the stress from dancing and work......i couldn't take it anymore. Anyway, i prayed to GOd etc..and i do feel that i'm strengthened and gave him everything and i'm up on my feet once again, as if nothing happened. I think i'm finally settling in. I get stressed over having nothing to do. And it's really borign to juz read all the policies, SOPs and documents.
Tomoro, we having mexican food at HOlland V for dinner. And then we are heading down to Union Square for Salsa! How cool. HOpe this would b a great bonding time for all of us.
There are so many socialisation in my life now that i really wish i can have more time to myself. I don't even really want to have Albert coming over. I juz wan to b ALONE.
