Mooncake weekend

Do you know how some celebrations are nowadays heavily commercialized? For instance, Christmas. Over the years, the mid-autumn festival has also evolved in its own way—we now have your favourite cartoon character-inspired lanterns—Ben 10, Pokemon, Hello Kitty or Transformers. Battery-powered, mind you.

We also have a generation of mooncake companies who believe we would enjoy our favourite fruit in our mooncakes. So they introduced the durian mooncake. And a plethora of other flavours. It now comes in jelly form too! What is your favourite mooncake like? Mine is of course, the traditional double-yolked. Yum!

Apart from the usual family gatherings, it was also the weekend when my cousin had to endure a morning of negotiations before being able to ‘jie’ Eline, my new sister-in-law home. It was his big day.

It was no doubt a joyous celebration and a wonderful experience. Particularly, the obligatory honking during the last stretch of the road. In any other given situation, people might just give you the ’stare’. Right?

Took the family out for Sunday lunch at CUBE Citymall since it was Mum’s birthday. A wise choice—given the hot weather we have been experiencing here lately.

Honestly, birthdays aren’t that celebrated in the family. A simple family dinner and the usual greetings. Apart from the Sis of course. She asks for gifts wan.