It’s Mooncake Festival!

Tonight is supposedly the night that the moon shines the brightest… I’m not too sure about the astronomical accuracy of this, but the moon tonight sure shines like a spotlight!

For the innocent fun of it, my housemates and I bought a bunch of candles (the kind that kids play with) and a dozen lanterns!

Yes, we are over 20 years old…

One of my housemates was online playing DotA when the rest of us started playing with the candles and stuff, making him having to leave his game…

As I mentioned in detail in one of my earliest entries, being a leaver in a DotA game is disgraceful enough, but my friend even had to write:

[To All] “hey i gtg ady… mooncake festival I want to go play candle…”

… and receive such responses as:

[Vengeful Spirit] “…”

[Zeus] “wtf”

[Spectre] “f*ck u la… don’t play candle go play c*ck better la”

[Razor] “swt”

[Chaos Knight] “…”

[Bloodseeker] “swt… u how old lor?”

LOL

I was there I saw the conversations myself…

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We formed nice shapes with the candles outside our house!

Nice or not…? A heart shape within a greater circle! The candles were first put into place and then lit together!

It was slightly windy and some of the candles went off sometimes, so we had to keep re-lighting them.

We wanted to light and hang the lanterns somewhere but couldn’t find any place or anything to hang them on…

So in the end we decided that they should go up in flames! Like some sacrificial ritual… being burned within a circle of candles! Kakaka…

OK, I know we seemed like no-lifers and had probably watched too much fantasy movies; and yes, I know we were being totally wasteful and it was not a good thing to do at all… But what should we have done?

Keep them for the next year? Not worth keeping – the lanterns cost less than 50 cents each…

Throw them away? It would be more of a waste…

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… at least we had some sick fun seeing them being burnt into ashes…

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Something unrelated:

A few days ago, something rather scary happened.

It was 5AM and I was about to go to sleep when suddenly there was an eruption of loud barking noise.

I listened carefully in my room, and could recognize the sound of our neighbor’s dog Ruby, a Rottweiler with a very powerful voice. She was definitely barking at something, but still… the noise was too loud for a single dog.

I creaked open my window and peered outside into the darkness of our backyard (my room was facing the other side, the back of the house).

It was pitch black. I saw nothing… But I made a startling discovery – almost all the dogs in the neighborhood, front and back, were barking… ferociously. Almost madly.

There must have been something. But I couldn’t see it…. Suddenly, a sharp, unidentifiable, but terrifyingly loud scream pierced into my ears.

Immediately, the dogs’ barking intensified. But still in the deafening barkings I could distinguish the direction of the scream clearly. It came from the front of our house.

It was undoubtedly NOT made by non-living objects like car tires screeching or something. It could also NOT have been made by a cat or human being attacked. It was very high-pitched, terrifyingly hoarse, and almost… demonic, gasping scream.

It was like someone being tortured – or something – in tremendous agony and suffering…

And then, it seemed for a moment that the dogs’ barking was going to drown out the scream… when it all stopped. All the barking and screams fell into dead silence – as suddenly as it all began.

I was very sleepy. I went to bed. It was way past 5AM.

The next day, I found out that two of my housemates had also been awakened by the noise, but each of us thought it was only us alone who heard it.

When we found out that all our descriptions matched precisely – the barking, the strange hoarse scream, the abruptness of how it all stopped at the same instant…  along with the time that it had happened, and with them describing the sound as having come directly from our front gate… it was bone-chilling!

We discussed and concluded that it could not have been an animal, or human, being attacked. It did not sound like an attack at all. Another housemate had gone out and looked around the area – there was no sign of any struggle or attack.

Then what could have made the strange scream?

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… or it could have been just a cat…

I think this isn’t a regular entry… Hehe…

I’m not at home but just felt like writing something… so now I’m essentially writing this sitting in my car, with the engines running and breathing-in carbon monoxide.

(Therefore don’t have many photos with me now… Hehe…)

My class had ended at 5PM, and I was sitting in the library waiting miserably for time to pass before a meeting at 8PM.

Have I mentioned it? Staying away from Cyberjaya seems not to be the best decision ever!

With petrol bills soaring over RM500/month not-to-mention (of course not all are spent on traveling to/from campus, but still it contributes..), the most torturous part is whenever there are activities, meetings or exams at night – or simply when there are a few hours’ break between classes – I wouldn’t be able to go home…

I would have to stay in campus and entertain myself!

… and it becomes particularly worse when the activity or meeting is at 8PM or 9PM – because the time between that and 5PM (the typical time at which my classes end) is not pleasant at all – everything is closing and friends have gone home…

… and now, even the library where me and other simliarly-fated (or less likely, hardworking) students can usually ‘camp’ in during these hours is being closed for ‘buka puasa’ at 6.30PM-8.30PM and they actually close the lights and air-conditioning system to make you leave…

Check this out:

You’re studying (or sleeping or doing something else) in the library, you feel hot, and then suddenly half of the lights are being switched off…

… and then if you don’t leave soon, it becomes pitch black!

(It is still bright outside! And the library normally closes only at around midnight…)

… scary huh? I’ve been in this campus for over three years now, but I’m still not used to it!

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Anyway, gotta go now… Updating soon ya!