Mid autumn festival is around the corner. This will be Shannon and Trevor’s first and of course what is mid autumn festival without the lanterns. I picked up a luminous orange, battery operated, musical Powerpuff Girl lantern for Non Non from the Chi Lung pasar malam. Its huge eyes and kick ass attitude reminds me of her. As I dangled it perilously close to her face, Non Non just stared. Then she reacted in the only way she knew how – grab some bits and did a taste test.
Ariel who incidentally is in the ‘Powerpuff’ group in her class, looked on longingly and in a feat of PR on the fly, I passed it to her for ‘safekeeping’ since Non Non is too young. So she is ‘in charge’ and the de facto ‘owner’ of the lantern. It doesn’t matter that she has 2 other battery operated, 2 glass paper and dozens of paper lanterns ….. all the above happened 2 weeks ago.
Yesterday, it occurred to me that maybe Koon and family may not know it’s mooncake festival soon. How can lil Trev be robbed of the experience of seeing a lantern burst into flames as the candle inside it falls on its side? The yelps! The shrieks! The adrenaline rush!
So I eagerly headed for the lantern stand and was faced with the sobering reality that most of the lanterns on sale are the battery operated variety. Hidden in a rack at the back of the stand are stacks of finally! Paper lanterns. The glass paper lanterns unfortunately, could not be found. Furthermore, it will probably not survive the trip to LA. Perhaps they have it in Chinatown? Anyway, as I scanned the rows and rows of garishly coloured lanterns, I spied an Ultraman lantern. Aha! Didn’t Koon used to like Ultraman? Woo Hoo! Wouldn’t she like to pass that tradition on to her little boy. Ultraman! Ultraman! The deal was sealed there and then. And it was sweetened by the fact that it came with it’s own little disco-light-in-place-of-candles. That blue-red flash is sure to induce migraine in my dear sis and delight in my nephew. Ultraman!!!!
Ultraman has been packaged with some paper lanterns (burn, baby, burn!) and sent yesterday. For the record, I did not include candles in the package. I trust that you have left over birthday candles to burn your own lantern;) I know, anything to keep the flame alive. Thank me later Koon;X
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