the first lighting

my first time hearing this phrase 'the first lighting', for them it must be custom.

it's still a month away from christmas but all decorations are up, and today eight at night those trees at the square hundred metres away from our window were lighted up in all shades. their first lighting, first taste of holiday joy. reds, greens, even purples(don't argue with me gang jianan, it's not blue. stick you'll have to trust me.) gigantic and towering and 'delocalised all around', (sounds like?) and cuddled in the centre the open rind. i've been expecting crowds to be mass skating together while the neon lights shine on the ice and flash on the hundred of ice blades gliding past and it happens. and it's aboslutely christmasy and joyful. stick,did you watch this movie called 'love actually'? now i understand why xmas is the getting-together-and-make-up time for everyone. girls will curl up smiles and beam 'so romantic', guys will hold them and say 'you're so beautiful'(whether true or not), and we, fingerful of girls, stood there and mumbled 'so lengmatic'. we were simply beaten by the cold. i missed the fireworks though. i was walking outside against a current of people coming back in and i knew i missed the fireworks. so have to wait till real xmas to enjoy it.

the purple tree, the biggest one of them all- it's so tall! don't you want to be the little princess(female version), climb up there and pick the star. i had the urge to. you can virtually gaze, gaze, keep on gazing till your vision is a blob of watery purple and then you'll shake yourself back to conscious, realizing you're to be in quite a frightening number of unidentified photos totally unrelated to you, and people holding cameras suppressing a scowl and patiently waiting for you to walk away. just don't stone for too long.

steamboat, octopus balls, noodle soup, fried chicken wings, better be steamy, misty, hot, spicy! draw a gigantic mind bubble above my head and stuff all these in, and you might just see steamy vapour coming out of it. I WANT HOT FOOOOOOOOOOOOD! esp. on cold days like this.

so now i'm back here again typing.
finished typing.