Saturday, October 3, 2009

Lanterns, Lanterns Everywhere

It's the mooncake festival today and as usual, we've been invited to a BBQ at a friend's house. It had been drizzling and we're quite undecided if to proceed there or just go to my mom's. By the time we finally decided, it's already quite late and when we were near my mom's, Eileen phoned to check if we'd be joining them at the restaurant(mom's giving a treat again). We had wanted to go to my mom's first as it had seemed too early to go for the BBQ at 6pm but since my family is going to dine out and we have no intention to join them for dinner, it'd be better that we proceed to the friend's first instead.

We stopped by the tyre shop for some alignment as the new tyres felt abit 'bumpy'. The alignment wasn't good enough, so daddy decided to go to elsewhere(and pay again, haiz) another day.

It was past 6:3opm by the time we reached daddy's friend's house and Renee was very happy to see her cousins whom have all arrived much earlier(they're already finishing their dinner). Even my 2nd BIL came with his family. The little boy's really cute, very responsive and smile all the time, poses for the camera and even signalled for me to take photos of him! hahaha. His elder sister on the other hand, has grown alot more open(probably because she's now alot more conversable in our language) and she was so generous to offer Renee a spread of her candies for selection!

This year, there was a dragon dance parade at the neighbourhood and the neighbours were seen following behind its trail with their children carrying the lanters. We too, got to join in, but only by viewing, lolz.

As we still have to go over to my mom's, we had to leave the place without saying thanks to the host 'cos he was held up somewhere else. When we finally got to my mom's, it was already 9pm and my sisters were all ready to leave but they'd stayed on as my sisters wanted to pass me some clothes(very nice!) for Renee.

It took me another while to sort out all the new clothes(incl those kept in the boxes) when we got home and about an hour later, someone knocked at our door. Who can it be at such late hour? It's the aunty next door. She said that they had wanted to invite us to join them for the lantern festival celebration downstairs but we weren't around and as they've got extra goody bag, they passed us one(an auto lighted paper lantern and 2 pcs of mooncake) and she complained abit about their maid, etc... But good news, her DIL has given birth to their 2nd granddaughter few days ago - oh, we've been informed earlier and I had been listening out for the cries of the infant but boh leh... such a good baby, :D.

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