Haven't looked at the moon. Have you? Is it round? Can you see the rabbit? I never managed to see the shape of the rabbit.

So it's the 15th day of the 8th month. It's the time to be reunited with loved ones. How many of you are going to carry lanterns, eat mooncakes and just sit down somewhere to look at the moon?

I don't think I'm going to do any of those. Have eaten some mooncakes these few weeks but haven't got any lantern to play with. Maybe I'll just take a look at the moon tomorrow. What about you?

It's been a long time since I last carried a lantern. When I was small, it was always fun to carry lanterns on the night of the festival. There was one year when my tuition pals and I gathered to carry lanterns together at the playground. That was the most enjoyable mooncake festival I had. As I grew up, I no longer carried lanterns every year. When I got to secondary school, I stopped carrying them. It seemed to me that it wouldn't ever be as enjoyable as that night my khakis and I were together.

A few years ago, I changed my mind. Thought that I could maybe relive some memories and bought myself a paper lantern, preparing to carry it. Nevermind that I was already much older than the other kids at the playground. In the end, my mom said I was crazy to want to play with lanterns at my age. Can't remember if I eventually went down to the playground; I think I didn't.

Are we ever too old for anything? Like the other day PL was telling me her friend was saying we're too old for chalets. Hmm. Do things have to be that way; why do we restrict ourselves so much, in our words, our thoughts, our actions?

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There have been a lot of poems written on the moon. Back in JC, I had learned some in my chinese literature classes and they left a deep impression. Not that I can remember offhand now but it's on transience and eternity. How the moon had set sight upon and shone its light on so many beings, how many mortals have gazed upon it and have ceased to exist; in a few decades time, I too will cease to exist but the moon will still be shining brightly.

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