=Distant Moon= Mid Autumn Series - Kyanta Yap, 2012

When will the moon shine bright again?
Why such distant, why so faint?
View from afar, will it be same?
For all creatures, madam and dame?

The lonesome night, caressing breeze
Where you may be, I toast to thee
The moon bleary, but longeth you see
That I’m alone, and c’est la vie

Engulfed by darkness, vast abyss
Where’s your companion, where’s your bliss
Are you not cold, where you reside
Do you too wish, for one beside

Gaze on the earth, only at night
Watch us sleep, your only delight
Ever changing, no constancy
I wonder what year could it be?

When will the moon shine bright again?

Where you may be, I toast to thee 

Are you not cold, where you reside

I wonder what year could it be?

Last year on this very day, was the saddest day of my life, I felt a great deal of emptiness without any reason. This year I had an empty house, I thought it would be worst, but no. Though I was thinking to build candles, play sparkles, carry lanterns, just like kids do, with a group of people like Wushu or Cell, but then there are schedule clashes and exams for them. So anyway, I went to eat a large meal at Han's, Lamp Shank, with a cider. Then, I went for the Geyland Serai Community Singing, followed by Eunos Mid Autumn Celebration, both with the GOH Fatimah Lateef. Then Dequan came for dinner, and coincidentally, as I reach Jo's carpark, he just came back from his Grandma's house, so he joined me for a while too, to enjoy the moon. 

The moon gave light for us every night, yet our cameras normally could capture that raw beauty, the translucent texture, that glaring glow, so we gotta take some time to enjoy it. Well, its a worth it effort. =)

Su Dong Po wrote the poem that inspired me to produce the one above

 明月幾時有
 把酒問青天
 不知天上宮闕
 今夕是何年

 人有悲歡離合
 月有陰晴圓缺
 此事古難全
 但願人長久
 千里共嬋娟

I recently I thought that he wished for Longevity for mankind, because it only so, then we have more time opportunity to meet up with friends far apart, but for now, lets enjoy the same moon on the same sky, no matter where you are...... Thats really true, time is so limited, yet everything is changing, we really yearn that we have more time to appreciate each and every one around us.