Mid-Autumn festival gathering @Botanic Gardens

Hey there!

First post since I came to Singapore, but so many things have happened it's actually the first "restful" weekend since I came back.

The return to Asia has been marked with house hunting, friends catch-up and team change @ work. Also my sister and Denis, came visit me one weekend!

Last Wednesday marked the most important day of the Mid-Autumn celebration, as it was the day of the year where the moon is the fullest and roundest. It's a very important date in Chinese culture, and traditionally families and friends will gather together to eat Mooncakes and pomelos while admiring the nice moon.

Every year I've been celebrating this festival (the first year it was during my exchange period, and Thomas and myself baked our own mooncake in a workshop organised by NTU), and this year was no exception.

We went to the botanic gardens to create our own lanterns, but also to celebrate two birthdays (Ryan's and Lynn's). Happy and fun times, it was actually the first time I was creating lanterns and such. We also enjoyed some mooncakes (still not used to the weird taste of some of them) and other traditional food!

I took my camera and Melissa and myself covered the event as much as we could: my mid-range lense is broken (the autofocus is dead following some accident while i was in the orphanage back in May), so we only used the 50mm. Still quite fun to get the hands on it! Enjoy the pictures