Stefanie, CX, and me (left to right)
Mid-Autumn Festival is one of my favourite festivals in Singapore, not because of its cultural significance here or what, but really because of the visual pleasure in lighting up lanterns. It's kind of funny how I love the idea of lighting up lanterns, yet I only remember having ever done it thrice, if you count that time when my friends and I lit one up for only a few minutes and the other time when I was in primary one and I "lit up" the kid's electronic version.

I just did a quick search on this festival. It's really about thanksgiving for harvest and stuff, but it's also a time for gathering. To me, celebrations are sometimes excuses to bring together friends and families to have a good time. The whole idea of yielding more wheat or whatever has no direct implications on us but it's just a nice thing to celebrate.

So yesterday morning was a bad day because of a lot of shit in NS which resulted in me having to do seven extra duties. I shall maybe elaborate on it in a future post in a 'Shit We Go Through in NS' post or something. Fortunately, Stefanie, CX, and I (some of my poly friends) had planned to go for a walk with lanterns in advance (to accommodate to my time), and we stuck to it despite me being the last-minute planner that I am.

Met up with Stefanie first in Vivo, near where she worked for that day, because CX was late, and just walked around Candy Empire until he reached. Had dinner at Fish and Co., which reminds me that I have a now-expired voucher for that place that I wanted to use but couldn't because it is a weekday voucher. I should've given it to someone. For once, tried something that isn't fish and chips. We kind of splurged, or at least I did, with the soup and drink and calamari which added up to quite a lot of money, especially for me now, who just spent $330 on half a PS4 (might elaborate on it next time) and $2427 on a new Macbook Pro (because my previous one is on the brink of death).

After dinner, we headed to Labrador Park, which I'd been wanting to go to again ever since Scrum! and that CMPA video that we did; I wanted to go for a reason apart from filming. I'd never went there by public transport/foot before, so it took a bit of navigation before we managed to get to...

Labrador Nature Reserve.

It's a nice place though, with nice lighting, pillars, lamp posts (our CMPA was filmed here because our main characters were lamp posts), quietness, and a beautiful eeriness. Stefanie was freaked out when we walked pass the soldiers' bunkers from WWII.

While we were lost and walking around trying to find "that place that I remembered it as", we were having an insightful conversation revolving around personality tests that relied on our imaginations. So there were questions like "imagine you're walking towards the sea" or "imagine you're walking with someone else and you're lost", and we would be like "we are lost" or "we are walking towards the sea" or something.

I like these personality tests. Many of them are pretty accurate and introspective, despite feeling constantly judged at by them. Apparently, I am needy and materialistic. But one of the tests which I found really interesting was one which asked us to imagine an old, familiar room, to which I visualised a rather empty one. It was meant to represent your impression of your childhood but I couldn't remember that well.

Back to Labrador Nature Reserve, Stefanie refused to light up the lanterns although the darkness and emptiness there was perfect. We kept walking until we finally got to Labrador Park, which I recognised.

It's nice. I enjoyed the whole thing even though it wasn't exciting or whatever. Us being us, we had to spend a lot of time taking photos for instagram, and coming up with captions which we didn't use in the end.

That night, I had really interesting, wondrous dreams where I travelled around the world, made all sorts of friends, learned so much about myself, participated in some festivals, worked on different things, and caught some really beautiful sights involving obstacle courses, stars, the moon, sunrise, and a whole landscape of houses from atop the hill.

Labels: personality, places, things that happened