Back in 1990s,Mid Autumn festival used to be celebrated with candles dripping all over the paved cemented floor at the yard outside my house, as i grew older, i would play with lanterns walking around with my sister and few of our childhood friends, showing off our best lantern.
Approaching teenage, i would have very adventurous nights of hide n seek with few of my friends from the same neighborhoods. i still remember a game that i enjoyed the most.
The game would actually be two seeker and the rest would actually..duh..HIDE.
The adventurous part of this game? everyone would have to cycle whilst maintaining the lantern. there is actually forbidden zone, and those who hide are only allowed to cycle within the range that we have all agreed.
The rule of the game is that :
-no one should own any lighter/ matches or anything.
- everyone should maintain their lantern.
- lantern should not be burn
-lantern should HAVE light.
Everyone is only given one coloured candle.there will be a lighter tied at the monkey bar in the playground. those whose candles goes off can go and light up their candle again in the playground, but beware of seeker. there are two, and we usually try to avoid that area, Also another hider can't gang up and hide together.
The duration of the game would end when the seeker finds all the hiders ; or if the seekers cant find all of us, then all would have to show their faces 2 minutes before their candles go off. (whichever applies), the first two person who get caught would be the seeker for the next round.
(the colored candle usually last about 20mins). ..oh! by the way, during our time, those who cheats face a terrible consequences. their bike get drip by candles. so No Cheating eh?
Fast forward time, and i can no longer fit in with the kids running around the neighborhoods, also, its too dangerous nowadays..after nurin's case and all.....
Now, I would like to go home and spend my mid autumn festival holding hands with my love ones and watching children playing with candles and lanterns at their porch.
Mid year autumn wouldn’t be complete without mooncake and green tea.
Happy mid autumn festival to ya’ll!
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Happy Mid-Autumn Festival
Yes, how we've grown...
I wish I could take my little cousin out for a walk, holding lanterns. But she's abit too young for that... I hope to do it in years to come. I've a 'small' family-tree so I don't have many cousins to play with when I was a kid ;( *Sad*
Anyway, Happy Mid-Autumn festival to you, Eunice!
(kenneth) yeah, hope you enjoyed yr mid autumn festival too
(narrowband) no worries if you have few cousins, jus make sure that next time you have more kids!
Sounds like a fun game to play.
Happy Mooncake/Lantern Festival.
I remember I used to play with lanterns when I was a kid .
sigh , better times :(
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