On mid-autumn festival

the family stayed home to recuperate from the stomach flu episode that got the whole family ill since the mid-week.

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It started with dear son. He came home from school one evening with wobbly feeling in his tummy and the next thing that happened got Mummy on high alert - He vomitted. Apparently, he had gotten himself a mild stomach flu.
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The school had informed Daddy during pickup time that dear son vomited after tea time and once he arrived home, he was seen heading to the toilet.
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Imagine the next thing to happen, the adults had to take turns babysitting him at home. Besides, he will have to spend Children's Day nursing his health instead of heading out for a movie or outdoor fun. The ending, the adults get his stomach flu, one after another recovers. Gosh, how eventful.
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Hence, as sort of a compensation for the Children's Day fun, the Mid-Autumn Saturday evening (hopefully) promises to entertain. The family brought tickets for the Telok Blangah zone lantern fest activity organized by the zone committees. At 6pm sharp, we hopped onto a chartered bus that was arranged at our neighbourhood to pick all resident participants to the activity site. My few little neighbour friends Chloe mei mei and Jeremiah ti ti (plus their family of course) also joined in the activity out of fun.
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The bus alighted all the passengers nearby the event site (gathered under a HDB block) because the committee had arranged for participants to parade carrying their lanterns. Well, due to a perpetual drizzle throughout Saturday, we were prep with ponchos before the lantern walk parade kick-off.

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When we finally arrive at the event site amidst the drizzle, eager crowd are seen storming to the stalls housed under several tentages, busy distributing goodie bags, pomelos, popcorns, cotton candies etc. For us with children, we quickly found several chairs and settle ourselves at a corner shop-front nearby the center stage.

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We distributed our job, some adults were in charge of taking care of the children while Mummy collected everyone's tickets to exchange for goodie bags and drop off the lucky draw tickets.

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Stage performances started quite shortly after settling down. There were singing, dancing and skid brought to the audiences by Health Promotion Board. The little children were so enticed by the dance and children gathering under the stage that they too, joined in the fun.

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Oh, not forgetting Minister Lim Hng Kiang joined everyone at the event! The committee arranged for Lion dance performance (lasting about 20 minutes) and that kept everyone in high spirit, feeling very entertained.

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The last excitement definitely comes from the lucky draw. As a first-timer to a mass event, we were rather lucky to win ourselves a 9th prize - an electric mini cooker. Perhaps first-timer's luck!

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So next up activity is to plan for steamboat gathering? Hee......*wink wink*....

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