I checked my photos in my computer and astonishingly discovered I forgot to put up the photos regarding Midautumn festival (which had long passed...). Therefore, although it is very, very, VERY late, I will still blog about Midautumn Festival, and at the same time, talk about other things. After all, one of the many purpose of a blog is to share experiance, right? (Though, I don't think my experiance is worth much sharing)

Midautumn festival falls on the 8th lunar month of the Chinese calender. Normally, we will just keep the celebration private, that is we celebrate among our family. I remember during my sister's younger days, she had attempted to burn our butts using the lantern. Thank god that time we are celebrating within our own, or else it would be a throughly embaressing experiance. This year (and when I say this year, it is actually a few months back), however, under our persuasion, my mum brought us to the public celebration, you know, the one that involves the whole town...

It is very crowded (of course), but there's lots to see. Very much like the night market held weekly. We saw lots of lantern... there's a lantern competition, I think. And there's the helium balloon which is suppose to be an insect of sorts.







The above are the pictures. By then, my dear reader, you should have realized that my 2 paragraphs worth of ranting is basically an opening to show off these photos. After all, I've tooked it, I can't bear to leave it in the computer rotting itself away, of course I must at least show it to the world...

Fine, I'm overly dramatic... Let's get on to the next paragraph...(that is, if you still have the patience to continue reading and not close this frustrating window...)

During the holidays, I went to Cameron Highlands and KL with my family (fine, this opening sucks, if I attempted an opening like this in my essay during my English exam, I'm so so dead...). We looked forward to the Camerons trip because my auntie and her family was going, so it is going to be quite rowdy. The hotel that we lived in... was quite expensive, but its furnishing is not exactly what I thought. For one, the floor was very cold and sticky. Perhaps it got to do with the weather... It kept raining... It surprises me that we still manage to go to quite a few places...

Then there's the winding road. Camerons perch on top of a hill, or a mountain, or a highland that is cross between these 2, therefore, the road that leads up and down it is naturally a winding road. Going up was not bad, we can still joke, talk and make whatever noise within the small compartment of our car; but going down made all sick, and the worst thing was, when one's sick, it is impossible to sleep (that's how funnily the human body works).

But apart from the hotel, the road and the dreary weather, everything else about Camerons was nice. The cooling weather was a nice change from the hot weather we constantly experiance as lowlanders, and the places we've been were fairly interesting. The charcoal steamboat was the best food up there. For one, we never tried eating food on charcoal before, we've only heard my grandma and my father describing it (they said it tastes better than food cooked over the stove). I'm no food expert (I'm considered the lousiest at tasting (is that how it's said?) among my siblings, everything, as long as it's not poisoned or spoilt, tastes good to me), but the heat from the steamboat is warm enough to make me happy. The food tastes different from the usual 'food cooked over stove', but it is different in a good way.

Than there was lots of shopping. But we don't exactly buy clothes like what we use to do in shopping malls,instead, we bought vegetables and pots of flowers. My sister bought cactus, she said she wanted to 'grow' something. Hopefully the cactus won't die under her hands, she is known to be unintentionally destructive. The flowers are cheap compared to the lowlands, and prettier. Everyone said it is because of the cool weather. Everyone also said the girls who live up here most probably won't give a hoot about guys giving them flower, flowers could pretty much be obtained anywhere here at a low price, and knowing girls, they would most probably want something harder to obtain, and something pricier. (I'm talking as if I'm not a girl myself, haiz.)

The most interesting place up here is the BOH tea plantation. The scenary was very very green, and very very pretty. My father brought us to the factory where they process tea leaves. The air of the factory was heavy with particles from the machines (most probably particles from the tea leaves) and a very strong, geen smell of tea (aka chlorphyll smell). Basically, all those machines do was seperating the tea leaves from the twigs, and drying them by using heat (which is generated by steam, because direct heating will just make the leaves burnt). The leaves can also be seperated manually, and the person will roll up the tea leaves as well, tea leaves processed this way would be sold as the upper class tea. On the other hand, cheaper tea such as tea bags would be made by putting shreds of tea leaves obtained from the machine into teabags. As for the fuel that is used to generate steam, it is basically husk from the palm fruit, and everything else that can burn.

We did not see people picking tea leaves as it was drizzling. But we did climb a small little hill just for the fun of it. There was nothing on top of the hill, and it is too misty to see what lay before it. But we did saw a giant milipede. It is a wonder that a milipede can grow to be so big. However, the milipede life was ending, because someone who's making their way up the hill had accidentally stepped on it (that someone might just be me). Quite sad for that big milipede.


Giant milipede



Scenary of Camerons, it was very cloudy partially due to the rainy weather.



Surprisingly, the farmers of Camerons also grow pitcher plant. I attempted to make the plant close by disturbing it with a twig, but it wouldn't budge. Perhaps a juicy fly would do the job...? Hehehe...


There's a Convent at Camerons, and their Convent was so pretty, it was like some old ancient English building, unlike ours which now looks pink. Pity I couldn't take a picture of it, because our car is moving a bit too fast (or should I say we were so busy gaping at it that we totally forgot to take its picture).

Than we went to KL, and when I say KL, it isn't any town located at the edge of KL, we are actually living right in the middle of KL, completed with its hectic city life and boisterous traffic. My father, somehow or rather, tend to get extremely grumpy in KL and barks alot, so we tend to stay slightly further away from him. (Oh please please please don't let him sumble upon this blog and see my sinful criticism of him.) We shopped alot in KL, and we see lots of funny people. There were gothics, and I seldom see real life gothics. I must say, they looked funny (no offence to the gothics out there, seriously).

And there's the Border bookstore in Times Square, it is really really huge, and I would really really hope to spend the day there exploring it rather than buying clothes, but I can't, as clothing is no doubt an important aspect in our life, while the pleasure of picking a perfect book was time consuming and we don't have lots of time. Hence, I left the bookstore, thinking that someday I will come back again. *Sob sob*

We went to Pavilion, supposingly the latest mall in KL. It was big, and very elegantly furnished, but we just stopped there for dinner, took some pictures of that very big Christmas tree, and went back to the hotel.


The giant Christmas tree that sits in Pavilion. It changes colour, but whatever colour it is, it still looks serene.


That's not all to my holiday, but due to time constraints (actually it's just the cold of my air conditioner that is getting to me), I will just stop for now. (Once again, a lousy ending. But no matter, a lousy beginning should deserve a lousy ending to make a perfect couple.)