japan celebrates a festival called tanabata on every seventh of july.
tanabata originated more than 2000 years ago with an old Chinese tale called Kikkoden. once there was a weaver princess named Orihime and a cow herder prince named Hikoboshi living in space. after they got together, they were playing all the time and forgot their jobs. the king was angry at them and separated them on opposite sides of the Amanogawa River (Milky Way). the king allowed them to meet only once a year on July 7th. this is why Tanabata is also called the Star Festival. people say that Orihime and Hikoboshi can't meet each other if July 7th is rainy, so they pray for good weather and also make wishes for themselves.
one popular tanabata custom is to write one's wishes on a piece of paper, and hang that piece of paper on a specially erected bamboo tree, in the hope that the wishes become true.

yah, so on that day, azmi, nabilah, jing yu and i went to plaza sing to do our sectional outing. we gave a toast and my cup nearly fell. we spoke indirect japanese throughout the day. yes, we had fun. we then met up with siek me and shafiq at causeway point's popular. after shits and shits, we decided to buy something for miss ong for her birthday on the concert night which is on the 8th of july. yeah. i had fun that day. weee~