This is the very first time after two years living abroad that I'm back here celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival or aptly known as Mooncake Festival to most. For the past two years, I have been celebrating with my housemates. We would be having mooncakes and drinking hot Chinese tea in the late cold Winter or early Spring. And we would walk about in the neighbourhood with our lanterns and met other fellow Asian students too. We had to be extra on the alert while walking in the neighbourhood in the night, because the suburb that I lived in was rated as Perth's Top 10 Most Crime Rates. Yeah, I know that is not the best places to live in, but it is close to university. Hence, the convenience.

When I was younger, we used to go to the Chinese Gardens as a family to look at all the beautiful lanterns which were being displayed there. I remembered that was like one of the ritual we did when we were kids. I have not been to the Chinese Gardens since then...

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