There are more important stuffs in life.
Like festivals and holidays.
Like Mid-Autumn Festival and Children's Day.

Today is the so called 'Mid-Autumn-Celebration-cum-Get-to-Know-Your-Neighbours' Day for my estate.
And they are holding it under my block.
And they are surely fully utilising their microphones.

No, it's not about the sound waves, but the event.

Tuesday, if you haven't noticed, was the Mid-Autumn Festival, aka 中秋节.
中秋节, if you have forgotten, is a festival we Chinese celebrate by eating 月饼s and cause air pollution (thru '灯笼's) in the process.

Still rmb one year 中秋节 my family went to a park nearby just to light up some seemingly useless 灯笼s and stick some candles onto the pathway just like during the seventh month, occassionally burning some leaves around.
And we even sacrificed the last episode of 遗情未了 (if i rmbed correctly).
"Just another celebration", I thought.

It definitely didn't sound fun or significant to me at tt time.
Just averagely-fun.


Now, I'm hearing the "Superman! Batman!.. Spiderman!" coming out from downstairs.
Apparently, the host is playing some game with the kids.


Tuesday. I suddenly got the urge to get down to the nearby park and play with some fire, carrying a lantern, running about like a happy little kid.
But I couldn't.
Imagine how ppl will think.
Childish..? Crazy..? Cute...?!

As a kid, when I do something really childish or stupid, my mum will explain to other ppl:
"小孩子嘛.."
Kids are easily forgiven for their foolish acts just because they are still ‘不懂事’.
They are hence, given the right to do anything they like due to this excuse.

But, can I, NOW?

Nowadays, I feel tt kids are more fortunate.
The skl organised the compulsory Mid-Autumn Celebration on last Friday, although not really to the pleasure of the majority, I suppose.
We (the 16-and-aboves) never got celebrate such traditional festivals, despite the fact tt we are frm some sort of Chinese-medium skl.
The skl seems to be telling the kids:
"Treasure your youthful days before you miss them in the future".
Well, ppl are seen carrying some brightly-illuminated, electronically-powered animal lantern with a compact 'subwoofer' producing some high-frequency melody last Friday.
My 'goldfish' version of tt freak was last spotted years ago and is probably now suffering from some mercury poisoning (due to battery leakage).

These days, I suddenly have the urge to do the stuffs tt I had done in the past.
Celebrating Childrens' Day, getting into Sentosa on a Child's ticket, stuffs like tt.

And Source B shows a writer's views about ppl nowadays, which I totally agree upon.

Source B: An extract about tip on how to be happy
Adapted from one of the PLMGS HCL MYE 2007 Paper 2 comprehension passages.