Moon Cake Festival / 中秋节 (2009)

Moon Cake Festival also mean Mid Autumn Festival, where its celebrated by the Chinese. It only celebrated on the date of the lunar calender August the fifthteen. In Kuching, there will always be a Moon Cake Festival celebrated one week before the actual date at Carpenter Street. The whole street will be close down to sell foos and conduction of activities related to the Moon Cake Festival. It start 5.30pm untill 11pm, some of the stall will start to get prepare about 4.30pm. Every year, there are adding some more things into the festival to attarct more peoples to come. Example: Street Dance, Dance performance, Singing and so on...

This year, the Moon Cake Festival on Carpenter Street has being host from 29.9.2009 till 3.10.2009. On 3.10.2009 that is the actual date of the Moon Cake Festival. Food is the main purpose of peoples visiting there, as there are selections along the street, especially night time, peoples looks for super...

There are peoples along the street, some are couple, some come with family and some come with friends...

This is the entrance of Carpenter Street ( Carpenter Street are the oldest street in Kuching, and full with Handcaft and culture location)

The street has being light up with lights and lanterns

This are the scout on duty (Every year, Kuching District Scout Council will send some scouts over to the Kuching Moon Cake Festival  for services, helping in the trafiic and so in)

Very Obvious, the guy in yellow is from Kuching Chung Hua Middle School No.1 (23rd Kuching Scout Group)

There are many things on sell during the festival, including some dolls...

In the sanme time, Monica Salon in Kuching also take part in the event...

Special hand made cards for Moon Cake Festival....

Lanterns for sell

There are also some hand made bits decoration dolls...

Taiwan Sausage

Cute Cupcakes

Roasted bird and in Chinese called as 泰国烤鸟～

This is the sample of Moon Cake that is fro sell

There are also performance from the oters races as well... (this a Iban race man with his traditional guitar)

Me and my cotton candy... Is a very big one...^^

My friends and me

We then went to play with the lantern after visiting the Moon Cake Festival at Carpenter Street

Me and my Lantern (teng lung)

Lantern on the tree... how nice is that...

During Hari Raya~ (2009)

Me and Samat

Me and Kah Kiet

This is what we have at Samat house

On the second day of Hari Raya (21.9.2009), I have visited my friend Samat's house together with a friend of mine, Kah Kiet. We're then having lunch at his house, with the food such as Rendang, Lemang and some other dishes.... It was really fantastic, actually planned to go with a few friends before this, because of some inconviniece, there is only me and Kah Kiet. Has didn't see Samat since the very last Hari Raya last year (2008).

Daniel, Sook Hui and Kah Kiet

On 22.9.2009, which is already the third day Raya, we have visited Pak Said house. I went together with Daniel, Johnny, Sook Hui and Kah Kiet. In the photo, I only manage to take the photo of Daniel, Sook Hui and Kah Kiet. Because Sook Hui has come back from Malacca as there is one week holiday, so went to for Raya visiting together...

What is friend?

When you are sad,

I will dry your tears

When you are scared,

I will comfort your fears.

When you are worried,

I will give you hope.

When you are confused,

I will help you cope,

And when you are lost,

And can't see the light.

I shall be your beacon,

Shining ever so bright

This is my oath.

I pledge till the end.

Why you may ask?

Because your my friend. -author Monica Mai -Chua Lo

When time pass, I question myself. What is friend? How do I define the word of friend? Every since I question myself, I got my own answer. Having a friend, we do not need a reason or think is worth or not. Every friends that I have, stand a very special places in my heart, no one can replaces each of them. Because every human have their own character, there is not another one which is 100% same. Even every peoples that I meet on the street, I think is a fate. If is not because of that, then how will they meet? So I appreciate everyone~

Friendship is not like an agreement or contract, where it come with term and condition. We become friends, because we feel happy being together and share what we had. Helping each other, because the friendship is there and the care among each of us. Sometime even they hurt me, I will not regret of having them as my friend. Even they do something that hurt me so well, I will only angry for the time being, then let it go... Don't know why~ I can't keep the anger so long, example like years or ages...

Even they do some very bad things on me, if they ask me for help again, I will do it and forgot about what they have done... Because friend really come with no condition. If you were angry for years and ages for just a reason of anger, then that is not call a friend anymore, is call as enemy... But the anger always come with the caring of a friend, if you didn't care about your friend, you will not feel the anger, disappointed and the sadness...

There was few friends of mine, done some very terrible things on me. I was very angry with them in the starting, and I talk alot about them ( to realise my anger), but then, when they talk to me again, I answer them normally, even they ask me for some help, I still do it... I can't help it, cause it happen to be so automatically... I also don't know why~ In the other way, when I think back, I really feel that, I should actually thank them~ Because of their behavior and done something to me, my life become colourful, it become meaningful, and I also learn from it~

There is a very best friend of mine, say something that really hurt my feeling and I think I will remember those words for the rest of my life. It was really a hurting one, that I never expect it come from the mouth of my friend. I was very angry, disappointed and sad about it. I was really doing what the poem said, I do eveyrthing for that friend. Helping without considering about myself, and never break my promises about it. But in the end, its come with hurting words... Even saying that, it has no trust on me. From the day onward, I never expect any trust from that friend, but I will still keep my promises. Every secrect that the friend share and tell, I will lock it in my heart~

What I can do now, I will just only smile and remain silent. Believe it or not, is depend on the friend of mine. It think like that because there is once, it thinks that I have betray one of the friend by telling out the secrect, but that is not. And it also believe that I simply tell people about it, and simply make some decision for it. But the answer is a no.... Even come with explanation, but there is no believing in me....

It makes me feel very bad for a few weeks, but then I tell my friend, no need to run away or look differently when see me... Because I blame no one. We're still friend, even there is something there before, but that is pass... I will always be there again, if there is a mess, I will still help, if there is something, I will still listen~

I'm not saying myself is good or what, but that is me... I'm like that. Since I was in secondary, this kind of me is there every since... There is nothing change, peoples do ask me to learn how to say no. Yes... I been trying it, I learn how to say no to the things that I don't want to, but really slow~ Because saying no without hurting peoples, that is the hard part...

I feel the pain, I don't want others to feel it too... I rather I feel it myself than other peoples to feel it, and looking at their sad faces~ When you looking on it, your heart are more pain than it~

Fishing at Sematan (20.9.2009)

When we arrive at Sematan, the water level has not raise. Is about 10.30am

The way to the Jetty

Can see that the sea water level haven't go up, is still dry~

Peoples has come and get prepared to fish....

This is at the beach, where we went there to search for little craby as our bait...

The boat is still on the sand

There is a Police ship near the Jetty

Some little Oyster shell near the jetty...

The water level is raising about 1.30pm

The sea water is raising very fast...

Get prepared to fish

The wind was so strong, can see my hair is flying

Then the weather become bad, is gonna rain soon

peoples still fishing even the weather getting bad

The boat is floating, as there is water... But then we go back home, as it is raining.... what a disappointment~ only get some small small fish....