Category: Event

• Penang Bon Odori 2014

  07.20.14 |Event, Penang, Travel| Permalink | Comments Off on Penang Bon Odori 2014

  This year I only look forward to the Fireworks. Here are some pictures for you to enjoy! If you haven?t visited this event, you should. Every year, Penang will hold the Bon Odori Festival in the month of July.

  

  

  

  

• Olympics 2012 Opening Ceremony

  07.30.12 |Event| Permalink | Comments Off on Olympics 2012 Opening Ceremony

  I was working at night on the day Olympics 2012 Opening Ceremony was on. I stayed up for another 2 hours to watch it LIVE. My TV was broken so I watched it online using my huge LCD monitor. I am glad there is an official website that broadcast it online. I must say that my home broadband was very good and smooth.

  It was a great opening ceremony with history lessons, popular celebrity like Mr Bean, Beckham, Paul McCartney, James Bond and others. One thing that I liked and was surprised by it was the very high tech torch to fire up the Olympics 2012. Very well done!

  Here are some pictures I took:

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

• Fun Team Building

  01.14.10 |Event| Permalink | Comments Off on Fun Team Building

  I was invited to a trainer team building for 2 days at my workplace. The fun thing is I get paid to join this team building. Paid for fun and I am serious! Today was the first day and I had great fun. It is all physical challenge with management lessons behind it. At the end of the day, muscles were aching.

  The challenges I like was this, 3 members in a team, 2 members were blind folded and the other to guide using verbal communication. The objective is for the members to finish a series of obstacles.

  From the trainer observations, the funny ones that make me laugh.
  1. The guide started pointing the blind members to go to this and that direction. Hello… blind members cannot see.
  2. One obstacle where one of the blind members has to pick up 4 different colored chips. The guide kept telling the blind member that it is the wrong color and asked him to pick the correct color. Hello…blind member cannot see colors too.

  Last challenge was to keep a ball up in the air as long as possible. I like this because we came up with a near to the best strategy. We hit around 48 times before the ball fall to the ground. Good eh.

  Looking forward to the second day.

• Lanterns

  09.06.05 |Craft, Deco, Event| Permalink | 8 Comments

  Lanterns & mooncake festival is coming. You can tell, as the shopping mall is decorated with beautiful lanterns and selling mooncakes. I bought 2 traditional lanterns (baby & fish) for my children. Not the battery operated ones with noisy music. Every year without fail, my FIL will get those for my children. I still have the past years lantern that he bought and it is still in working condition. Now they have butterfly, dragon fly, flower basket and ultraman.

  I love playing traditional lanterns. You lit up the candles and switched off all the lights. It is very beautiful. When I was young, I love playing with candles. You know what I did? I use can candles with my masak-masak set made of aluminum to cook rice. I will put a candle in between 2 match box, fill the masak masak pot with rice and water, put the pot to sit on the match box and let the candle heat up the pot to boil the water to cook rice. Isn’t that amazing? I was only 5 years old.

  Here are some pictures of the beautiful lit up lanterns at my front porch.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  My son picked a butterfly lantern and I picked a baby for my gal…

  

  

  

  

  

• Happy National Day!!

  08.31.05 |Event| Permalink | Comments Off on Happy National Day!!

  Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka! Happy National Day Malaysia!

  

• Bon Odori Festival

  07.16.05 |Entertainment, Event, Penang| Permalink | 2 Comments

  Today I brought the kids to the Bon Odori festival in Esplanade in Penang. The place was filled, few hundreds people were there. Parking was nearly impossible. God provided us one, although it was a distance walk from Esplanade but it is sure better than none. We reached there about 8pm.

  Lots of food stalls around and hungry people too. There was a popular stall selling mega huge balloon and water balloon that they played like a yoyo. I got my son a big balloon. My son played for a while and passed it back to me. I can see $$ flying away, anyway, it was for charity.

  The place was dark, not enough lighting. Fortunately, they placed lots of tables and chairs.

  There were dances & performance. Many people joined in to dance. Lots of Japanese people around. Mostly there were in Kimono. Too bad, no kimono for sale else would have gotten one for my gal. I saw so many Japanese children in Kimono, they were very adorable.

  Fireworks were started sharp at 9pm. It was beautiful and real loud. My children enjoyed it. People started leaving once the fireworks was over, so did we.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  Venue: Esplanade
  Date: 16th July(Saturday)
  The program:

  17:20 Arrival of VVIP
  17:30 Speeches…bla bla
  17:45 Launching by some Japanese guy plus chingay show
  17:55 Inspection of stalls by VVIPs
  18:25 1st session Bon Odori dance
  18:50 1st Awa Dance session
  19:15 Drum demonstration
  19.35 2nd Drum demonstration
  19.55 Dance performance by Msian Jap Soc.
  20:15 2nd Bon Odori dance session
  20:40 2nd Awa Dance session
  21:00 FIREWORKS display
  21:10 3rd Bon Odori Session
  21:30 Lucky Draw
  21:45 Sayonara