The legend.

There were many monster that dominate our early childhood life. The cookie monster, the chinese new year monster, the "there-is-a-monster-in-my-closet" monster and many more.

However, I bet everybody never heard about THE legendary MONSTER.

Wonder what is that?

Well, let me tell you the story.

It happen a long long time ago, when the earth still have lots of trees. People were not afraid of full moon except for one, the biggest and the brightest of them all.

Because they know something is lurking out there that have the potential to hurt them.

So, everybody stayed in door and not staying up late to enjoy the beautiful full moon.

Every year, THE MONSTER would come and go without anyone getting hurt.

All was peaceful until something happened on the 11th of september. It was the most tragic day,
THE MONSTER attack when it wasn't even full moon, many people died.

Finally everyody had enough of it, they gather up and decided that they should get rid of THE MONSTER. They think and think, nobody know what to do.

"Ah-HA" the Indonesians shouted.

"We know how to get rid of THE MONSTER."

"How?"

"All we need to do is to cover up the moon, then THE MONSTER wouldn't know that it is the biggest and brightest full moon of the year.Then THE MONSTER would not show up."

"But how do we cover it up?"

"We have got lots of trees, if we burn them. The smoke from the burning will block out the moon"says the indonesians.

so without even waiting for anybody's comments/ agreement, they started the fire. The plan goes very well. The indonesians were very proud of their work.
but becaue at that time calendar weren't even invented yet so they are not sure when to start the fire. Then they decide, to save time worrying they would burn the entire forest down throughout the year.

VOILA!!! there you go...haze every Mid-autumn festival. Nice?

How about the monster? Well it turns out that it is just a rumour, and the september 11th attack was caused by somebody else.

BUT the indonesians refused to believe the real news and continuing burning their trees and because they are such nice neighbours to Singapore and Malaysia the haze they created help cover up their nice and bright beautiful full moon as well.

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Enjoy the story?

haha..hope you did. Spent my 'mooncake' day at home after a busy week at the hospital. One of my friend invited me to celebrate together, but was too tired to go.

So end up spending some time concoting crazy stories for this blog..haha.

Supposed to be up on the day it self but the connection doesn't work really well.

Here it goes, finally posted.