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Yesterday was the mid-autumn festival day, otherwise known here in Singapore as the Mooncake festival. This festival lasts for about 3 weeks and follows right after the festival of the hungry ghosts. So doesn't this picture make much more sense now? :O)

Gone are the days when little candles were lit and placed inside lanterns brought out by kids. The newer electronic ones are not only safer, but they flicker with different coloured lights and also emit familiar sounds of favourite children's cartoons.

I'm simply amazed at the different range of mooncakes stores have to offer. Snow skin mooncakes have been out foor a long lon time, but the hot favourite this season is durian ice cream wrapped with black sesame skin! I even saw one in the papers that in Hong Kong they've made mooncakes to look like butts. (Geddit? Moon cake?) It is clear that many festivals, not only just this, have become commercialised.

So what's the story of the mid-autumn festival again??