The Ngs Update!: Lantern Festival

This year, the Mid-autumn festival falls on the 6 October 2006, Friday. Since we didn't buy any mooncakes or did anything to celebrate, Auntie Adele and Mama decided to bring the two kids to Chinese Garden for the annual Mid-Autumn Festival Event on Saturday, instead of the actual day! This year, the theme is on the man-made wonders! It is not as crowded as the previous years, as the weather hasn't been very good. Lately, the haze has been very bad, affecting many people, both adults and children alike have fallen sick. That night when we visited the Chinese Garden, the PSI reading was at a 9-year high of 150! We can actually smell a bit of burning smell. At least, both kids have already recovered from their haze-induced cough and running nose, leaving the adults still being sick!

When we enter the gantry, we walked across a "rainbow" bridge before hitting the main garden, where some cartoony structures of bee, butterflies were located. Unlike other kids, Gwendolyn didn't take any interest in those, but were more interested in the koi pond, situated behind the first building. We went round the Chinese Garden and noticed a few familiar lantern structures: The Eiffel Tower, The Pyramid, Taj Mahal, The Blue Mosque, The Pisa etc...Gwendolyn was expressing her particular likes and dislikes to the various structures and apparently, she liked the one in the middle of the lake, with a "jie jie" standing on top of a lotus bud structure, where she'll emerge and sub-merge from the structure and turn around when she's appearing! Lyn Lyn kept asking for that particular "jie jie" and was kind of worried when she didn't appear for quite a while...so cute!