Cap Go Meh is comming...!!

Today is Cap-Go-Meh day celebrated mostly by Chinese migrant communities including me. Cap Go Meh is "Yuan Xiaojie", "Yuanxi", "Yuanye" or "Shang Yuanji" in chinese. Cap Go Meh is 15th day after Imlek (Chinese Lunar new year) or the last day in Imlek coincide with full moon night. According chinese tradition, Cap Go Meh will end 15 days of Imlek celebration .

Watching festival lampion (lantern festival) is one common thing we doing beside Barongsai (Lion dance), Kembang api (firework) and petasan (firecracker). The most popular food for the Chinese Lantern Festival is Onde-Onde (yuanxiao), a kind of sweet dumpling made of glutinous rice or wheat flour.


Fyi, I'm a chinese-ethnic Indonesian, the one who also celebrates Imlek and Cap go meh as part of my family traditions. I came from the chinatown of south Teluk betung, Lampung, one of eight provinces in Sumatra. Today, I live and work in jakarta, meanwhile my mother still lives in my hometown.

This night, right now, I'm writing this blog while watching Cap Go Meh celebration in metro TV, feeling soooo homesick...
Light my "LA Lights" cigarette...
All memories are comming back...
I miss my home, mommy and friends...
I love u mommy...
I miss you: Jonlie, FuSen, Ijul, Pohan, Aming, santo, Okuan, acong, Silvi, etc...
What are you all doing right now???
Feel the same feelings like me???...