Mid Autumn Festival

The Mid Autumn Festival has definitely lost its charms as the kids grow older. They aren't interested in lanterns anymore.

Did we eat mooncake? Barely. With the covid restrictions easing, there are so many gifts of mooncakes in the office. At one point, I saw a mountain of mooncakes and brought one leftover home. That was the only mooncake that we had. I took a little slice but had 2 balls of pineapple tarts instead. Ya, I also duno why there are pineapple tarts in the office during the Mid Autumn Festival. 

NH is a SAP school and the Mid Autumn Festival is a big thing. The school holds a carnival and invites the students' family and friends to the school. Nana was raving about the carnival, telling me how great her seniors said they are but it was unfortunately canceled last year. 

This year, Nana finally got to participate in the carnival and is so super excited. She had been talking about it for weeks, reminding us to attend. The carnival was held yday from 4pm to 8pm. 

Daddy Lim wasn't too interested and joked that we will turn up at 8pm. Lol. But with work, we really weren't much earlier and left the house at almost 7pm in search of dinner. Daddy Lim was insistent that he would not go to the carnival to find overpriced finger food/ snack as dinner. Smart choice bcos he is absolutely right about the overpricing and only finger food/ snacks part. Nana started texting us and rushing us bcos the carnival was ending soon. Haha.

This is the 1st time that I am physically in the school compound unless I count the last time where we dropped her. Daddy Lim was the one who accompanied her for Sec 1 orientation.

We had a shock when we moved to the parade square, where the actions were. 人山人海.. all the girls in similar uniform and braided hair. How to find Nana? 

It took a while for Nana to find us. We told her that we were under the "moon". Please come find us. The school did up the decor so nicely. Got full moon somemore. 

We didn't stay long, we were not hungry, there were too many people, it was very hot. We stayed 30 mins before heading to the kopitiam to wait for Nana. Haha. What I did find amusing is the NH Bear, who appeared to be in a meeting with the teachers. 

Poor thing to whoever is in that costume. 

Nana absolutely enjoyed herself, helping her class and the council stall to sell keychains. Every student in her class contributed $10 for the keychain raw material. She also spent a lot of $$ in support of the carnival. The best part? She has totally no idea where do the proceeds go to. Win lah. 出钱又出力 but duno what is it for. Lol. Never mind, 开心就好.

While walking in the crowd, I was lamenting that Zaky wouldn't be part of this culture. I think he has made up his mind to opt for SST. I shall not complained; I am benefitting from the relieve of PSLE stress too. All good, except for a Nana who would be soon be telling me that she is very broke. 

Mummy Lim