Now I love holidays (who doesn't?). But I don't care to know why there's no work. Basta walang pasok. Isn't that what really matters? Besides, most of the Buddhist/Chinese festivals are linked to the lunar calendar, so the dates swing wildly.
Sometime ago, I had dinner with a friend's houseguest, right before a Buddhist holiday. We got to talk about the upcoming event and she pressed me to explain the reason for the day off.
"Who the F cares?", I wanted to say.
Instead I said it was Buddha's birthday. I mean, with all the re-birth going on (not reincarnation dummy, I know my World Religions) in Buddhism, the Big Guy must have at least 16 birthdays.
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But if you must know, because you have nothing better to do on a holiday than to think about why it is holiday, today people celebrate the Mid-Autum Festival. No work in Hong Kong. It's supposed to be some harvest festival. People light lanters, look at the moon while eating -- you guessed it -- mooncake.
Happy now?
2 comments:
I've never had mooncake before. The first one I ever tasted was the one you gave me.
It was surprisingly, amazingly YUMMY!
Thanks again, my friend. (Even though that mooncake was probably recycled.)
OMG. I cannot believe that you would even consider that I would recycle the mooncake.
Me? Recycle gifts? Gifts to friends? Gifts to TFBFs?
Well, yeah.
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