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It's mid-autumn festival now in Singapore!! Or as I've learned in my Chinese class, zhong qiu jie! It's a very exciting time of the year because many cake shops and bread shops start promoting and stocking up mooncakes BEFOREHAND. And there are lanterns hanging on ground level in the mall!
Normally I do not celebrate it. Even more seldom do I eat mooncakes. But this time I feel the hype and the enthusiasm of this festival, especially when my friends are getting me to celebrate with them! All my life I've never celebrated zhong qiu jie, so I'm very excited. It's a privilege to be able to experience another culture and I'm caught in this yue bing fervour (mooncakes are called yue bing in Chinese) such that my cravings for mooncakes have really started hearing up! Thus explaining the search and hunt for the different delicious looking mooncakes on the Internet.
As for now my friends and I have not yet celebrated the festival because probably we are far too busy and can't find time to buy mooncakes. But I really do hope we get to celebrate it. It'll be a historical point in my life. Not to forget a memorable one.
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