Hi...i'm back...yesterday was the 15th of the eight month in chinese lunar calendar. or, simply said it was the mid-autumn festival, more popularly known as the moon cake festival. so as usual, my family and i goes back to puchong to celebrate with my maternal families. this year , my paternal families also held a family gathering in puchong (my second uncle's house, not far from my maternal grandma's house) n it was all the same, every year.....so bored i was, so i asked my parents to return home earlier. so off we go by eleven...
the moon was not bright yesterday night, it's very weird to for the moon to be dim at this time of year. but we don't took much attention to the moon, anyway....everybody was tired after a long day's work to prepare the dinner. as we reaches klang we came upon a very interesting incident. after we passed the new shapadu toll (yep..the one beside ASM, the one we pays 40 cents ) we chance to saw brightly lit fires flying up high in the sky....it was such a beautiful sight..... "Those were Khong Ming's lantern" my brother remarked..."wat?" i replied. ..."yeah...those flying up high there were khong ming's lantern."
as we looked in awe those flying lanterns, one by one goes up into the sky...as we counted, there were 14 of them n it was still being continually released from somewhere in klang town centre. not long after, we stopped by the roadside in Batu Belah (near petronas station there) to enjoy the view. as we're looking into the sky, we saw a lantern burning far more brighter than most of the others. guess what? that burning lantern was not going up! instead, it drifted slowly coming down right in the direction of us! my oh my... this is my lucky day! (or so it seems) the lantern failed to take up probably because of a leak (will talk about the origin of this lantern later), so it fell down. the lantern landed not far from us, just acroos the road, 10 meteres way, n it's still burning.... i had wanted so badly to pick that lantern up as a souvenir.....but....*SIGH* my parents strongly disaproved my intention....it's so close, n yet so far....they refused me to fetch that lantern just becouse it landed among some bushes beside the road. it's not bcause of supperstition, but just because they feared of any unseen dangers lurking in the bushes (snakes, poisonous bugs...etc) aaarrgghh..... it's such a waste....i could've got that....so we went off after a while....
back home we chatted of the origin of khong ming's lantern. khong ming was a military strategist back in the time of the three kingdoms in china. as well as a strategist are, sometimes he lead a losing battle. in one of these losing battles, he was pursued by an army from another kingdom, one day, he found out that heated air rises. so, he made lanterns from light materials (paper) n sealed any openings. by doing so , the encapsulated hot air causes the lantern to rise into the sky. he released these lanterns in the night in numbers. the army pursuing him saw these 'flying lights' n thought that khong ming was using supernatural forces against them, creating fear n thus, khong ming was saved by his own intelligence.
hahhahaa.....what a fool..... but any way, as the saying goes, u're always scared of something that u can't see n do not know... this story proves this saying, hehehe. ok this is for today...be back when i got some other things to say!
the moon was not bright yesterday night, it's very weird to for the moon to be dim at this time of year. but we don't took much attention to the moon, anyway....everybody was tired after a long day's work to prepare the dinner. as we reaches klang we came upon a very interesting incident. after we passed the new shapadu toll (yep..the one beside ASM, the one we pays 40 cents ) we chance to saw brightly lit fires flying up high in the sky....it was such a beautiful sight..... "Those were Khong Ming's lantern" my brother remarked..."wat?" i replied. ..."yeah...those flying up high there were khong ming's lantern."
as we looked in awe those flying lanterns, one by one goes up into the sky...as we counted, there were 14 of them n it was still being continually released from somewhere in klang town centre. not long after, we stopped by the roadside in Batu Belah (near petronas station there) to enjoy the view. as we're looking into the sky, we saw a lantern burning far more brighter than most of the others. guess what? that burning lantern was not going up! instead, it drifted slowly coming down right in the direction of us! my oh my... this is my lucky day! (or so it seems) the lantern failed to take up probably because of a leak (will talk about the origin of this lantern later), so it fell down. the lantern landed not far from us, just acroos the road, 10 meteres way, n it's still burning.... i had wanted so badly to pick that lantern up as a souvenir.....but....*SIGH* my parents strongly disaproved my intention....it's so close, n yet so far....they refused me to fetch that lantern just becouse it landed among some bushes beside the road. it's not bcause of supperstition, but just because they feared of any unseen dangers lurking in the bushes (snakes, poisonous bugs...etc) aaarrgghh..... it's such a waste....i could've got that....so we went off after a while....
back home we chatted of the origin of khong ming's lantern. khong ming was a military strategist back in the time of the three kingdoms in china. as well as a strategist are, sometimes he lead a losing battle. in one of these losing battles, he was pursued by an army from another kingdom, one day, he found out that heated air rises. so, he made lanterns from light materials (paper) n sealed any openings. by doing so , the encapsulated hot air causes the lantern to rise into the sky. he released these lanterns in the night in numbers. the army pursuing him saw these 'flying lights' n thought that khong ming was using supernatural forces against them, creating fear n thus, khong ming was saved by his own intelligence.
hahhahaa.....what a fool..... but any way, as the saying goes, u're always scared of something that u can't see n do not know... this story proves this saying, hehehe. ok this is for today...be back when i got some other things to say!
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