Hazy Tanglung Festival

So yesterday was the Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Mooncake or Tanglung Festival informally for the rest of the Chinese. What makes this year’s celebration even special is the fact that it’s the first time a large group of us gathered to play lanterns like little kids together.

And the fact that the bright, pale moon is completely obscured and shrouded by suffocating, yearly reoccurence of the devil: the haze. The haze brought about by our friendly neighbour Indonesia who seemed to have done nothing year after year to prevent their idiotic forest fires from spreading lung-mutilating and eye-irritating airborne particles into our country.

I left house at about 9.20pm, picked up Fang Chyuan and went to Petronas USJ 2 to purchase that nifty Touch n’ Go card. I have no idea if I’d ever use it that often, since I don’t drive past tolls nor use public transportation that often, but I figured having this would come in handy. In the future.

So we reached the Court 8 park at nearly 10pm, where the rest have been there since an hour ago. We snapped many beautiful, minorly-lighted pictures which would put any camwhores to shame.

Yeah you can’t see the people on the back row that clearly. @__@

And with flash! Not as effective as the previous pic, no?

Like seriously when I reached there, the first thing I noticed were tiny lights illuminating the basketball court, and the bunch of people in silhouettes walking around, boys shooting balls into the basketball net, and girls squatting down while aimlessly plotting candles as if they were secretly planning to bombard Indonesia with flying fiery lanterns.

And, of course, the haze.

This pic lacks Daniel and Kai Shen who were off finding Joey or whateverhernameis.

Funny part towards the end of the girls in their ‘Circle of Trust’.

Fuh the Queen of Camwhores Suet!

I personally love this pic. :) Cantik hor?

And this heart shaped by lit candles done by Jess. Which goes without saying that behind every picture lies a depth, complex story because not every picture speaks a thousand words.

So I was semi-squatting, you know, to take the pic above to get the right angle and all when I felt a strong physical force coming from behind me like 1000 raging buffaloes and a trillion wild elephants.

With my 6-months old camera clutched in my right hand, and the candles lining up into a heart burning ironically right beneath me, I managed to fall in a way that avoid searing burns onto my stomach and nether regions, but at the same cut my left knee as it smashed onto the basketball court.

I turned around to see a laughing Pn Habibah Shawn, while saying “Sorry Clem!” as if it was the most hilarious thing he had ever done and seen. Something just snapped inside me, and I was filled with silent apoplectic rage that, well, let’s just say I wasn’t proud of what I did. >_> Apart from kicking him hard as he approached me from behind and yelling colourful sword-hurling words, I was just beyond myself when someone intentionally (or unintentionally) provoke me, especially when I wasn’t in the right mood.

-___-

We made it up afterwards, albeit reluctantly on my part as I was still reeling off from my fury.

Suet tengah syok about Jessica being behind bars.

Suet was even more excited about feeling sexy ‘behind bars’.

The girls planting candles on the lift-up bars.

One of the best pics of the night.

The pics with flash kinda killed the candle-lit atmosphere methinks.

The people behind mysteriously disappear.

Trying to burn Wai Hong’s family jewels.

Burning candles. The rest also burned some stuffs ‘for fun’ when the haze was still enveloping us. >_>

We went to the 7-Eleven behind my house to get some drinks. Pic’s blur as the camera was in macro mode, or the mirror was just plain dirty.

Went to Tanjung for a while at about midnight till around 1am or so when it started to rain, so we got into our cars and grew fungus on ourselves in separate cars (I suppose this is the first time there we were together in so many cars, about 5 or 6? I remember the times when we actually walked, cycled, or hitched a bus or taxi) while thinking of where to go and what to do next.

After long deliberate thinking, we finally decided on Daniel’s house. And about 10 minutes later the rest decided to go back when some parents begun to call etcetc. rofl. Reached home at about 1.30am.