Kek Lok Si Temple During CNY 2011

Few weeks ago, my friend and I visited to Kek Lok Si Temple in Penang Island. Because of my grandfather's bone ash is located there, so I've been visiting to this temple many times since I was small. Anyway, I have not been visiting it seriously everytime, I just go and pray my grandfather and then went back.
When we first reached there, the sky is still bright and it was still early. After some times, the sky turned cloudy, we knew it was going to rain very soon. Anyway, we decided to wait although it was going to rain. As everyone knows, Kek Lok Si temple will have a beautiful light scene during chinese new year. It was the reason why we were going to wait.
The time was still early, so we hanging around and took some stupid and funny pictures, chit-chatting around to get the time pass.

After that, the light is switched on, and the beautiful scene was in our eyes. How awesome the light was.

This is the Kuan Yin which is made up of bronze.



This is the night view of Kek Lok Si Temple during chinese new year.

The Pinang Peranakan Mansion

Hi there everyone, it has been a long time i didn't update my blog. I myself also don't know why I'm suddenly in mood to update my blog. It was a visit to The Pinang Peranakan Mansion quite a long time ago which was about in my semester one. By the way, I'm in semester two now.
The Peranakan, generally known as Babas and Nyonyas. Peranakans' culture is generally the combination of Chinese's and Malays' cultures. During last time, peranakans are mostly found in Malacca, Penang and Singapore which are all in the Straits Settlement. The purpose of Pinang Peranakan Mansion is to introduce the Babas' and Nyonyas' traditions to general public.

As what we can see in the above picture. Don't you feel they are familiar. Yes, you're right. These are all the movies and dramas which are captured here to record the Babas' and Nyonyas' background. For me, the famous one is ' The Little Nyonya (小娘惹) ' which was shown in Astro AEC 301 few years back.
The above picture show the dining hall of them. It was richly decorated with European-style. Some of the Babas' households even have a separate western-styled dining room meant for entertaining peers and European guests. The dinner service includes porcelain, glass and silverware, all imported from Europe.


The front door which is full with Chinese style.

In between, I saw a pair of couple taking their wedding pictures. How sweet they are. Hope they will be with each other forever as the traditions of Peranakans' culture last from last century until now.
Anyway, this is my first post in 2011. Hope I will continue in the mood of updating my blog. Stay in touch ya everyone.

九皇大帝 Celebration

This is my friend, Nelson and Ching Shin.
They are spinning the deities' palanquin. It was decorated by small LED bulbs. So cool.




There's a crowd on the first day.

This was the ship. The most beautiful in that area.







This was the last day. They were going to sent all the deities back.

Mooncake Festival

On MoonCake Festival, I was celebrating at a campaign organized by someone. Haha, I forgot it. When I first reach there, there was a performance on Cantonese Opera. I was not interesting in that, so I walked away to seek for lanterns.


My Bahasa Melayu's teacher was working as a volunteer. He had participated in the lantern-designing competition. But, that was not his lantern. His was much more nicer.
This was the lantern made by my BM teacher stated above. It won the first prize. Wow.
As chinese, we should not forget ou traditional festival. We should always remember our traditional festival handed over by our ancestor.