Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Tahi Lalat!

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Short Talk:
Contract Law second test is this Friday, gosh I hope I can do well this time. Gambateh to me!

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Last month, most of the Chinese celebrated the Mooncake Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival. Usually by this time of the month the Kuching city council will host the Inter-cultural Mooncake Festival. Basically people from different cultures will come together and celebrate this wonderful festival. This Inter-Cultural Mooncake Festival is usually held at Carpenter Street. There will be rows and rows of stalls selling mainly food and lanterns and along the way you can see performances of people singing, dancing, and some weird stuff.

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This year I wasn't planning to go to the Inter-cultural Mooncake Festival, well I just don't fancy squeezing my way through with a bunch of people. Who knows I might get molested in the process and not know who was it. LOL...joking. But since that night, Chai Hia asked us old buddies to have dinner together at Bla Bla Bla. We took the opportunity to visit the Festival, well the main reason was... the street was badly congested and we decided to go home a little later when the traffic clears.

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Doraemon Latern... who wants it?
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gotta love those lanterns

I must say this year I saw a really not make it a few weird stall selling WEIRD stuffs. I saw there are a few stalls actually selling "Buang Tahi Lalat" , translate it for you in English would be " Away freckles!" ha ha. They actually have these stalls there and I can tell you nobody and absolutely nobody paid any attention to it. I mean for heaven's sake who would go and let some road side stall get rid of your freckles and they claim to be international too! wtf! For me I am definitely not letting them touch me. I might be vain but I am not that vain or stupid.

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Who wants to get rid of their 'tahi lalat'(freckles) come here
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The lady playing a Gu Zheng[古针]( A traditional Chinese Music Instrument)

Other that all things seem normal until I reach this part where a group of old Malay ladies sat down playing drums and singing... I dunno what also. All I know they had a microphone connected to this huge speaker beside the road and when I passed through that stupid stupid speaker and one of the lady went high pitch I got blasted away... It was so awful! Damn I nearly went death no thanks to her! They should have put a big warning sign there! WARNING: HIGH PITCHED LADY SINGING, MIGHT CAUSE HEARING DEFICIENCY! I made sure on the way back I avoid that part.

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I nearly went deaf because of them!
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A bonsai plant...this plant is the winner!

But I love one thing I saw while I was at the Festival. There was this group of old folks dancing. It was really great. Especially the old man, I mean like wow can he shake! They actually danced far better than the Hope Church's 15th Anniversary dance performance by the college group. No offence to you guys but they were really good. I would grade them 8.5/10. As a proof, I videoed down the dance.


Gotta love the dance... and look at the old man Sway!!

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