Mid-Autumn Day

This would be my ideal night for the mid-autumn day.
Dusty, smoggy and grey ! that is Beijing morning for this mid-autumn day. Yesterday i was complaining to David about my lungs that i found difficult to breath properly and the copacity of my lungs seemed much weaker than the
past. He said it was partly due to my lack of exercises and the pollution in Beijing. I just started cycling to work and I often do some yoga at home, so it seems irrelavant to say that my weaker lungs are results of less exercises. Pollution, oh yes! particularlly go very well with dry climate here. Chemicals, and dusts mix together for every intake of breath. For this, i feel Beijing disgasting.

Well, shouldn't let things that you can't change ruin my day ahead. or put it this way, the day has been ruined, try not to make it worse.

For some reason, I have some special interests in celebrating this mid-autumn day. Not because of that i like eating the moon cakes or want to just find some excuses parting, but i have a lot of memories of celebrating the day when i was much younger. One of my cusins who used to work in Guangzhou liked to mail some authentic Kantoonese style moon cakes-- my favourites, because back then many people from north of Guangdong did not appreciate their moon cakes as much as they do now. One of my uncle was born on one mid-autumn day years ago. The mid-autuman day is a lunar year festival, so it has different date each year on solar calendar, but we still celebrate the uncle's birthday according to the lunar calendar. When my greatparents were still alive, we used to visit them for this day and really do things such as eating mooncakes, drinking tea, appreciating moon and singing or reading Chinese poems. Now, for me it is quite difficult to find friends who has similar interests, in particular in this city with no family around.

No matter what, i am going to cook meal, buy some moon cakes and maybe invite some friends around for the moon cake festival.