Ruined Moon-Cake Festival

For us Chinese, Mooncake Festival is a second big event from Chinese New Year. It is sometimes called Lantern Festival, Moon Festival, August Moon Festival, but the actual name for it is Mid-Autumn Festival, as direct translate from its chinese name (Zhong1 Qiu1 Jie2). I dun want to bore you all about its origins and stories (you can check it on Wiki) but the most important thing is that it brings families together. This annual gathering usually brings many happy memories for mewhile celebrating it with my family and friends. This year however, no celebration, no moon, no lanterns, nothing. Thanks to our dear neighbour Indonesia, the sky has been heavy with haze for almost a week now and unfortunately, today we have no rain again to clear the haze and hence no sun during the day and no moon during the night.

As I have exams this week, I can't go home to celebrate this festival with my family, and this trimester almost all my friends went for industrial training, hence no company. I had hope a little moon would show tonight to celebrate with the moon, but our neighbour has disappointed me. Every year, they would send their "gifts" from their jungle, crops for roughly 3 months. If the wind are in the right direction, we would be "lucky" and get our "gifts" immediately, making us "blessed" with cough, and dryness in the throat. About a month ago, Singaporean ex-prime minister Lee Kuan Yew had said some comments about the politics in Indonesia and Malaysia. Uh-oh, and there comes the crtitics and anger and want Lee to immediately apologize on his comments. He did about a week later. Now let's turn back to this "gift" of Indonesia. We have been receiving this "gift" for about 3 months now (on and off because of the wind), when are we gonna hear an apology from them?? Not to mention they have been sending us these "gifts" every year anually, its like a birthday present from them and every year we hear them they're gonna do something about it, but still NOTHING has been done! I wonder when they're gonna start keeping their promises. They'd probably say "Life's like that". Yeah, how would you like your life to be like that.

I can see our vision year 2020 somewhere around September to receive the same gift, probably even worse than now, and have our skyscrappers chopped off by it and all will be saying "Life's like that".