Yesterday, [hmm….why am I always starting with “yesterday”?! :P] was the day, in the Lunar Calendar, or should I say, the Chinese calendar :P the last day of the “ghost month” The seventh month in the LC is usually known as the month, where ghostly things happen. Countless taboos….. no swimming in the lake/water; no roaming around in the dark, be home at 10 the latest, beware for phone calls coming in at midnight, lookout for red/green/blue/yellow glowing fire blows, they haunt you on your way home :P and all the other must-do’s like, mirror on the door, not clipping nails after midnight, don’t wash your hair after midnight, and there’s one even more ridiculous, you have to pick up your fallen hair from the ground, otherwise, at night, the hair’s gather up and strangle you, no kidding, I have been told these ‘scary’ legends since I learnt to speak Chinese….crept me out the first 2 years, and me oma and opa thought I was an unlucky kid, cuz I was born on the day of Western Halloween, another ghost festival…….that made me feel very very very sad….. >< But I have grown to like this day, I get double gifts, one from trick or treating, one for my birthday J as long as I am not too old for trick or treating….I suppose some factors could be deceived well other factors are pretty convincing XD
The ghost month starts on the 1st of July in LC, and end’s in exactly 30 days. Every kind of horror flows away silently, without you noticing, so, this thing is kinda only there to scare little naïve kids, like me 13years ago…..boooo! and for the use of advertising horror movies with disgusting graphic images, inappropriate for people under the age of 15 xD, its just another way of selling their products …….
And in another 15 days, it will soon be the mid-autumn festival!! With the big round moon, lovely sweet moon cakes, and Shaddocks, which its peels are big enough to wear as a hat J drinking barley tea for children, beer for adults ^^ having a great chat in the cool breezy night, looking at the moon, listening to opa telling you stories from his childhood, his war times (my opa was a solider, and he fought bravely J very proud of him) and later his early years settling in Formosa, all these would have been possible a year ago, last year, mein opa und meine oma flew all the way from Formosa, and Ich was soooooo happy^^ but this year, if the Norwegian weather permits, it will only be mein bruder, mein Papa, meine Mutter, and ich! Sitting at home, sipping tea (I suppose) and carry on with out we have been doing all day…..
No moon cakes…. No Shaddock, or Shaddock hats, No stories from opa which are old old old, even I can know them by heart. No more fun like what I had last year. Life is getting boring…..and I wish mein opa can become better, and at least remember who I am, or at least know, that I love him but too far away to see him and pay him a visit…….so, I don’t know if wishes made during this festival would come true, but at least, Lady of the Moon, you hear me now, and I wish mein opa can get better. If you cant make this come true, at least don’t make him worse. I am not a religious person, but I believe in you.
希望使你快樂！悲傷使你堅強,，使你有人性！ 有信心一定會成功！
Hope makes you happy!
Grief makes you strong, makes you human!
Belief leads to success! I can and I will, I dream so I dare, and yes, I will Conquer!!
The ghost month starts on the 1st of July in LC, and end’s in exactly 30 days. Every kind of horror flows away silently, without you noticing, so, this thing is kinda only there to scare little naïve kids, like me 13years ago…..boooo! and for the use of advertising horror movies with disgusting graphic images, inappropriate for people under the age of 15 xD, its just another way of selling their products …….
And in another 15 days, it will soon be the mid-autumn festival!! With the big round moon, lovely sweet moon cakes, and Shaddocks, which its peels are big enough to wear as a hat J drinking barley tea for children, beer for adults ^^ having a great chat in the cool breezy night, looking at the moon, listening to opa telling you stories from his childhood, his war times (my opa was a solider, and he fought bravely J very proud of him) and later his early years settling in Formosa, all these would have been possible a year ago, last year, mein opa und meine oma flew all the way from Formosa, and Ich was soooooo happy^^ but this year, if the Norwegian weather permits, it will only be mein bruder, mein Papa, meine Mutter, and ich! Sitting at home, sipping tea (I suppose) and carry on with out we have been doing all day…..
No moon cakes…. No Shaddock, or Shaddock hats, No stories from opa which are old old old, even I can know them by heart. No more fun like what I had last year. Life is getting boring…..and I wish mein opa can become better, and at least remember who I am, or at least know, that I love him but too far away to see him and pay him a visit…….so, I don’t know if wishes made during this festival would come true, but at least, Lady of the Moon, you hear me now, and I wish mein opa can get better. If you cant make this come true, at least don’t make him worse. I am not a religious person, but I believe in you.
希望使你快樂！悲傷使你堅強,，使你有人性！ 有信心一定會成功！
Hope makes you happy!
Grief makes you strong, makes you human!
Belief leads to success! I can and I will, I dream so I dare, and yes, I will Conquer!!
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