I know it is too late to wish but Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to all!! I just got back from Moon Lantern Festival in conjunction with OzAsia Festival 2011. Oh well, I had a different experience of this year’s Mooncake Festival.
To start off, i got a job (finally) in a Hong Kong grocery and had been working for 3 weeks already. Got paid $7 per hour and worked for 21 hours per week. So suddenly got rich and been treating my friends generously. After started working, now I will buy food or coffee whenever I want to without further consideration. Before working, I will ask myself to buy or not to? But now? Will just pamper myself whenever I want to.
My boss is a Taiwanese. He treated all of us dinner at a Chinese restaurant on Sunday. At that dinner he came to our table and asked us to drink red wine. According to my friend, Taiwanese like to drink alcohol. My lady boss kept asking us to drink that night and the rest of my girls’ colleagues bottoms-up a glass of red wine which made my have no choice but to drink as well. Apparently, that’s the way how they celebrated the festival, eating and drinking wine.
Felt homey during that night because the boss treated us like part of his family members especially students like me studying away from home. Miss my parents so much!! If I were at Malaysia, I would be spending my time with family and eating mooncakes.
What I festival without mooncakes? I bought black sesame snow skin mooncake for myself as I love snow skin mooncakes so much!! The mooncake was from Hong Kong and the taste was not too bad but still prefer Tai Tong’s. The traditional mooncake was given from my boss. Didn’t really like this one though.
This was how I celebrated this festival. Completely different from how I celebrated at Malaysia. Indeed memorable experience for my already dead boring life at Adelaide. Will be going back to Malaysia by end of this year and I can’t wait for it!!
