blurriness haziness and mooncakes

"everything's so blurry, and everyone's so fake"

singapore is not like singapore today (unless you count the years when we were pri3, 5 etcetc)

cos the haze is back!!!

in fact its so hazy that it reminded me of new zealand or london. except that the weather here is much warmer and there are not as many ang mohs. (psi now is 100 at the time when im writing this.)

spent the entire day in air-con in my room. and parents absolutely barred me from going to east coast park for joggings. (not that im complaining :P)

and whose most directly responsible? okok im not gonna point any fingers here in case someone gets wise and report me, but from my extensive investigations and research so far,
1) the country starts with 'I' and ends with 'sia'.
2) the country lies to our south
3) it was a victim of a Tsunami attack on 26th dec 2004.

damn the shifting cultivators there. as dr chinoh would have said long ago.

anyway it was mooncake festival yesterday. and for the past few days i have been stuffing myself with mooncakes. literally. (1000 calories or kilojoules a mooncake?)

hmm but why are they called mooncakes anyway? and i can vaguely recall a story behind them.

thinkings.

lemme see. got some versions i think

ok at that time the chinese were trying to drive out the mongols. pre-ming dynasty i think. the chinese rebel leaders spread instructions to their troops by placing handwritten notes inside mooncakes, so that their orders can be passed right under the mongols Noses. (the generals being very pro cooks)
the soldiers, having been given the nutritious mooncakes, cut them open and retrieved the instructions. and of cos they ate the mooncakes so they can become fit and strong and destroy all enemies.
anyway the chinese won (yay!). thus the method must have been quite effective.
but if the soldiers, in their haste, ate the note by accident, then too bad i guess. paper doesnt really go with mooncake anyway. or maybe the notes were made from eggs tts why there are eggs in mooncakes now.
viva la chinese :D

in another version, prolly some lovers tale about how this guy and girl really loved each other but were barred from marrying (due to some chinese olden day thing). so the guy, being a proefficient cook, baked mooncakes and slipped inside some mushy love note professing his undying and endless love for all eternity for her. (come to think of it, if the note was in the mooncake it will be really mushy. and icky. eww)
the girl, being a sweettooth, would then cut open the mooncake and take out the note. she then reads the mushy love letter or eats the mooncake. whichever is more important. see everyones happy :D
then they prolly had some plan to elope to hawaii and thus the hawaiians were born.
let there be love. ><

theres some other version also right? about this guy who shot down some suns with his bow. then he got some immortality pills. and he went to heaven. something like that. then his wife joined him. by appolo 13?

ok i seriously need to learn how to bake. in case singapore gets invaded by some hostile north neightbour. like duh.

random quote: History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Sir Winston Churchill