Today, it's the mid-autumn festival, where the origin of the tradition will be eating moon cake & drinking tea with our love ones.
This year, it's different as compared to the past few years as I'm currently in Beijing while my family is in Singapore.
I wake up in the morning and realized that most of the students in the university have went back from the dormitory to their home to celebrate mid-autumn festival with their love ones as the street is so empty.
As the Chinese going goes like this "出外靠朋友,在家靠父母" (You have your family when you're at home while you have your friends when you're away from home)
The group of Singapore polytechnic students then take the subway and went out to a place called "Wang Fu Jing" (王府井).
This place feel so much like home as they have many stores which is familiar to us. (Bee Cheng Hiang, Yoshinoya, BreadTalk)
Although we are having fun, our group did not forget to conduct our project research as we visited a few apparels stores such as "Giordano" , "Nike" and some local apparel brands.
Today, I've definitely understood an important lesson, where we shouldn't always take things for granted.
Although I can't enjoy mid-autumn festival with my family, but I can definitely Skype and communicate with them.
Vincent Chin,
Signing off.
