Yuan xiao jie (元宵節)
otherwise, Chap Goh Mei (十五暝)
While Chinese New year is usually the most dreaded of festive seasons for many, I have to confess that I actually enjoy this holiday season. It has everything to do with the fact that I am not bogged down by troublesome traditions pertaining to family or superstitions. I am free to take the time to catch up with friends, close and casual. And I did plenty of that.
It is the season we greet with good wishes. We wish for health, wealth, prosperity, success and longevity - all the conditions that define good living according to Chinese tradition.
Tonight is the last chance to ask for wishes come true.
Tonight, on yuan xiao jie, under a perfect full moon, I will ask for the one last wish that got buried in the frenzied rush for the good life.
Tonight, on the last night, under a perfect full moon, I will wish for love. An old fashioned romatic love. Between one man and one woman.
4 comments:
how fitting. may your wishes come true!
edpjunkie - thanks :)
You do have your wish. :p It was a lovely moonlit night, wasn't it?
wildgoose - i do! but pple keep wishing for all the stuff they already got during CNY mah, and they still leave out love. it is sort of like renewal of contract hor haha
Post a Comment