Today is the Mid Autumn Festival of year 2013 and also called the Chinese Moon Festival where Chinese around the world traditionally travels home to have family gatherings, enjoys mooncakes and celebrates the festival by carrying lanterns. If you wish to try out mooncakes, you can get them from T&T supermarket.

Quoting Wikipedia, Mid Autumn Festival is a festival of:
1. gathering, such as family and friends coming together, or harvesting crops
2. thanksgiving, to give thanks for the harvest, or for harmonious unions
3. praying (asking for conceptual or material satisfaction), such as for babies, a spouse, beauty, longevity, or for a good future.

If you see a fellow Chinese graduate student, faculty or staff member, don’t forget to say Happy Mid Autumn Festival! Or, more awesomely, in Chinese phonetics, Zhong Qiu Jie Kuai Le!

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