MAF

Mooncake Day came and went and you wouldn't even have noticed if not for all the promotions done by merchants... i remember when we were much younger, MAF meant an excuse to play with fire.. We'll bring candles and lanterns to the nearby playground.. The tamer ones put lit candles into lanterns and walk around with them... As for the rest of us who failed to see any purpose in that, we'll just light candles and try to burn as much stuff as possible... i did leaves, twigs, paper, lanterns, plastic and all kinds of stuff. i'm not proud of it but there was a time when i actively sought to increase my carbon footprint.

Then it gradually progressed to the time where candle-lit lanterns were replaced by battery operated lanterns.. The cooler ones even played music. Pple will argue abt the decline of tradition in our society and chinese teachers will make us write essays abt them.

Nowadays, nobody bothers abt lanterns anymore. There probably is too little money to be made in them, since adults don't have time and kids prefer the kind of battery-operated toys which also allows them to play FF7 while standing in the train. On mooncake day i walked past the playground and there was nobody there.