What's this about Angry Birds? Just the other day, a young girl told me she had played the puzzle video game with her little niece into the wee morning. The game which was designed by Finnish Rovio Mobile has become such a hit that it has also made this year's Mooncake Festival rather special. You could now see not just the stylish wingless birds on mooncakes but also on lanterns. In fact, my own niece molded some of her mooncakes into the shape of the little birds, which I suspect was just to surprise and please her little daughter. I suppose Angry Birds would bring lots of cheers to the Chinese this year round; but considering that in the game, players use a slingshot to launch birds at pigs with the sole intention of destroying them, do you suppose for once that it would make some Buddhists angry and send them into a stampede or some witchhunt or something. Afterall, this thing about destroying of pigs does not really come well with the first of the Buddhist Five Precepts: Pāṇātipātā veramaṇī sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi. I undertake the training rule to abstain from taking life.
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