I’m Not A Plastic Bag AND This Is Not A Mooncake!

by FH2o on September 25, 2007

Spotted in Kenyalang Park, Kuching - “I’m NOT A Plastic Bag” and this is true even though they are not the ‘real’ stuff.

In this world - big is better and BIGGEST is the best? Whatever happened to our sense of proportion?

Celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month in Chinese lunar calendar, the Moon Festival usually comes sometime between the second week of September and the second week of October; and this year it’s celebrated today on Tuesday, 25th September 2007. And if you’re working for a Chinese family owned business; you’ll most likely get a half-day off today to celebrate this occasion.


Like most things these days, the meaning and significance of the celebration of traditional festival(s) is lost and distorted by the commercialization and sensationalism of it all. And the result can be hilarious. To be rich is glorious and everyone wants to be glamorous and cool especially the young and including the not-so-young but still want to be young forever …

Anyway I was quite amused about the hoo-hah about people clamoring over each other worldwide to buy Anya Hindmarch’s environmental bag which are sold out and launches have to be cancelled at Beijing, Shanghai and Jakarta over public safety concerns. What a brilliant marketing idea and the public are taken hook, line and sinker; mocking our stupidity and insulting our intelligence. Now Everyone Can Own An Anya Hindmarch’s Bag! I don’t understand the fuss as I do not see environmentally concerned queues forming to buy these ‘environmental bags’ at Petaling Street, KL or Kenyalang Park, Kuching. Duh!

So here’s wishing everyone a Happy Mooncake Festival Celebration on this mid-Autumn day and enjoy your moon cake even if it’s shaped like a Nokia phone! Whatever lah.

Get this into your little skull - these people are queuing for fashion and not for the environment …
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Serenity September 25, 2007 at 11:17 am

BIG=BEST=Kiasu! What an interesting Nokia shaped mooncake. Wah! New look for fh2o huh?! Nice :)

FH2o September 25, 2007 at 8:02 pm

serenity - yes; a ‘make-over’ here! Thks! ;)

The Moody Minstrel September 26, 2007 at 8:40 am

Maybe you should make and market a variation of the bag that says, “I am NOT an intelligent form of life!” Who knows? It might catch on!

I hope you enjoyed your Moon Festival, Francis.

wHOisBaBy September 27, 2007 at 1:37 am

that’s the biggest mooncake I ever see. oh btw, thanks for stopping by my shopwith.whoisbaby.net blog. i like how you edit the pictures to look like printouts.

FH2o September 27, 2007 at 9:57 am

mm - or on a T-Shirt! ;)

wHOisBaBy - biggest I’ve seen too! my photos are not really edited in the sense of being ‘touched up’ (I’ve no time for that!) but rather ‘given’ a drop shadow and rearranged in a montage for visual interests. thks!

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