One night on what us Chinese refer to as "Moon Day", my dad decided to take my brother and I up to the roof of our apartment building to look at the moon. This was very exciting... because of all the chinese fables and stories about this lady named "rabbit" who was forever trappped on the moon. ANd she gets to visit her lover like, once a year or something... not sure how the story goes anymore. But anyways, not sure if it is my mistakened childhood memories... but somehow, the moon lady being named "rabbit" gave me the notion that there was also this rabbit on the moon who made these soft chewy treats you only eat on moon day. And of course, this chewy treat making rabbit had his own story too... just not sure what it is.
So my dad took me and my brother up to the roof that night with his army binoculars. And we pointed it at the moon... and we looked. When it finally got to my turn, i peered into those lenses... right at the ridiculously huge and round moon in the sky, and i swear... I saw this huge giant rabbit in there. "In there?" you ask? yes... in there. IN the moon! Not only was the rabbit not the cute little rabbit i had imagined that made chewy tastey treats and used a large wooden hammer to beat the sweet dough... but, the rabbit was HUGE. Or the moon was too small! I mean, we got this huge rabbit... just chillin' inside this moon which was like a container or an large egg-shaped bed, he was just laying back.. and yes, i saw him move. I really did. He was sleeping... i saw him kind of stir... And i felt like if i kept looking, he would notice me.. and he would wake up.. and that'd be no good... so i stopped staring... and thats where my memory ends.

Wait.... i remember something else. I remember telling my brother and my dad that i see the large rabbit...But the thing is.. I was kind of sad and disappointed. Because that moon, was way too small for that huge ass rabbit to live in comfortably.
- posted by Jack @ 12:27 AM