中秋园游会

Anthea School organized a mid autumn festival celebration for the resident living in the area and it took place on Friday, 02 October 2009.

After dinner with my parent in laws, we went over to the school around 7.20pm.Anthea was very excited as her classmates were there too.

There were many events happening at the venue:

- Lantern making competition
- Pomelo peeling competition
- On-the-spot colouring competition
- Lantern parade
- Jigsaw puzzle
- Traditional games and chess
- Lantern riddles
- Chinese tea appreciation
- Mooncake tasting
- Karaoke singing

So there was everything for everyone, from young to old. Once we reached the school, Anthea requested to play with her friends and off she went. I took the chance to explore all the different stalls and Anders was with me.

One of Anthea’s friend’s mommy took part in the Pomelo peeling competition and it was really fun to watch…hee : P then she shared her fruit of labor with us and it was really sweet.

The event ended around 9.30pm and Anthea said she had a fantastic time and said we shall come again next year. It was a very well organized event and I must say the teachers and staff of the school had really put in a lot of great effort for the event.

The actual 中秋节 happened yesterday – Saturday, 03 October 2009. In the evening before meeting my in laws for dinner, I saw the sky was full of dark clouds and told Anthea and Anders that we may not be able to go to the park if it rained.

It started to rain quite heavily while we were having our dinner, so after dinner we decided to go to my in law house instead. We had a good chance to chat and catch up with my in laws and enjoyed a good cup of Chinese tea with mooncake.

This is the 1st year we didn’t go to the park for our annual 提灯笼 ritual but I know the importance thing is we are a family together this year and it meant more than anything to me.

月饼之爱

A week ago, my ex-ex colleagues sent me an email and informed me that the annual mooncakes sales will be happening on Fridays, 25 September & 1 October 2009.

Different vendors would be at the office premise to sell the mooncakes at staff special. Of course, my target is Raffles Hotel Mooncakes. We had been buying the hotel’s mooncakes for my parents for the last few years and they enjoyed it. Also Adrian likes their snowskin mooncake.

Today morning at around 10.30am, I made my way to the office to meet with them for our “shopping spree”..hee.

As expected there was a LONG Q for Raffles hotel mooncake and luckily, my colleagues had gone to Q earlier.

I bought a box of baked mooncake with pine nuts, macadamia nuts & white lotus, a box of Pearl mooncake with single yolk & white lotus paste. And together with my colleagues, we shared the famous snowskin mooncake with champagne truffle & ganache, mocha truffle and dark chocolate crunchy pearl.

I gave a box of baked mooncake to my parents with a mixture of lotus paste & the single yolk. I know they would love the taste of the different mix.

I am so thankful to my ex-colleagues for keeping me in mind and keeping me in the loop as and when there are such special offers : ) 感恩 ！

In the morning, I had the chance to go by Takashimaya to do some interviews with the job agency. Knowing that there is a mooncake event at the event hall, I went by and bought some of our favorite – 恒香老婆饼。

Now we had the luxury to sample all the delicious mooncake slowly and enjoyed the festival mood of 中秋节。