September has ended and here comes October :P
time to reactivekan my blog... still... i wonder if anybody comes here anyway...
Btw!! Caryn if you're reading this, Hi!!! See!!! im updating my blog!! x) Enjoy Uk and bring back a BF or at least a husband >)!! haha..
Moon cake festival was around the corner... Happy-Mid Autumn Festival anyway x) Didnt do much during that day... sigh... i miss my little girl days when i get to walk around the place with little lanterns with all my cousins... plus it's the only day where i can play with fire XD
Have anyone heard of the Mid-Autumn Festival tale? The one about Houyi & Chang'e :P
Just
Google them. You can find many many different variations of it x)
Here is one which i think is quite touching,
Once upon a time, the earth had ten suns. They burned the crops and people suffered infertility. Houyi sympathized with humans, so he decided to shoot down nine suns and leave one for the benefit of the people. After he shot down the suns, he was treated as a hero. He had a beautiful wife named Chang'e , and they lived happily together. Houyi had a many apprentices; they followed him to learn hunting. One day, on Houyi’s way back home, the emperor of the immortals gave Houyi two pills, each of which granted eternal life as a reward for shooting down the suns, one was for Houyi, and the other for his wife. He warned Houyi, “Make no haste to swallow the pill.” Houyi was to wait until New Years Day, on which he and Chang'e were supposed to eat the pills together. Chang’e put the pill in her jewelry box for safekeeping. But Peng, one of Houyi’s apprentices, discovered their secret and decided to steal the pill. One day, when Houyi and other apprentices went to the mountain, Peng pretended to be sick so that he could stay home. After everyone had gone to the mountain, Peng sneaked into Chang’e’s room and forced her to give him the pill. Chang’e knew she couldn't fight Peng, so she ate the pill herself. However, after eating it alone, she began to float. Unable to come back to earth, she took flight and flew far, far away. She did not want to leave her husband, so she stopped at the moon, which is the body closest to Earth. After Houyi found out what happened, he was very angry and heartbroken. He looked up into the night and called Chang’e’s name. He discovered that inside the moon there was a lady’s shadow that look like Chang’e, so he ran and ran and tried to reach the moon. He failed due to the wind.
Here is another version which i think it's pretty funnie x)
Houyi was a lazy boy who did nothing but to practice his archery. He practiced day and night until he became the greatest archer in the world. One day, the ten suns all assembled around the earth. Their presence destroyed all vegetation, and hundreds of thousands were perishing. The King, who was desperate, offered his crown to anyone who could shoot down the suns. Houyi answered his call. He shot down nine of the suns, and as he pulled his bow to shoot the last one, the King stopped him, saying the earth must have one sun. Houyi then became the next King. He was pampered to the extent that he wanted to be King forever. He called his advisors to look for a way to make him immortal. His advisors found a way. They found a recipe for the Pill of Immortality, which required 100 adolescent boys to be ground into a biscuit like a pill. Every night he was supposed to grind one boy. On the hundredth night, his wife Chang'e could not bear to watch her husband become the tyrannical dictator for eternity. She prayed to Xi Wang Mu for help. She stole the pill, with Houyi shooting arrows at her, and flew to the moon grabbing a rabbit to keep her company. So the Chinese say that if you look up at the moon to this day you can sometimes see a rabbit making moon cakes.
Lol.
Anyway, i found a box of candles and lanterns in my room so me and my brother decided to become childish and start playing with it x) Below are some pictures :P
Got you! setupid cat >)
Got one with the moon :)
My little masterpiece ^^
Dedicated to you ;)
In the end, only these 2 lanterns are left glowing... So we decided to wait until the candle burns out...
But den we kinda got impatient and decided to blow it out anyway XD
That all for this post la... i promise to come with more.. That is if anyone is reading == So do leave a comment if you come by or so :)
with love :)
Dedicated to you ;)
So big and bright!
