Celebrations

Morning. You can feel the weather getting cooler. Dying days of summer.

It's the mooncake festival today but we celebrated it at the Tan's place yesterday with the usual suspects. And there was a distinct split along the gender line with the men gathered in one place and the ladies in another, each group to its own topics of interest. Like water cooler talks but domestic. So schools, kids, food and where to get the best pastries and mooncakes for us. Pretty obvious that I was mostly clueless about the groceries and food topics but it was fun listening to them. And there is a strong similarity to Chinese communities everywhere when it comes to food - the long queues, the tidak apa attitude of the family owned shops when customers clamor for their produce. Almost like home.

All the while consuming copious amounts of pot luck food and sampling small pieces of different varieties of mooncake and sipping Chinese tea. Nik is a very gracious hostess and Keng is a very gracious host. Always good company.

Today is Number 1's Chinese birthday. Tomorrow is Number 3's Gregorian calendar birthday. Who's up for celebrating again?