Good times are back
We flocked into Penang for the Lunar New Year. Random shots...
The scroll says: "May every year be blessed with stability and roaring fortunes"
A tourist trying her hands on the 24-Season Drums that augur well for every harvest
A tourist in contrast and in context of the red-themed CNY deco
An Arab trying his hands to conduct the Senior Citizen choir oozing CNY tunes
A cultural dance presented by the acrobatic group from Si-Chuan, China
A family from India in obvious appreciation of the cultural performances, with the State Secretary standing in attendance
This Canadian couple told me they have been spending six CNY celebrations in Penang
Our brethren showing up for Malaysian solidarity and harmony
More of our brethren showing up for Malaysian solidarity and harmony
Well wishers and some Screenshots readers posing with a Penang state assemblyman
Global tourists love us for everything Malaysia. Let's not make a pig of ourselves in this Year of the Boar.
Let not the politicians 'change face' ( 变脸 ) (picture above) so easily by stoking up racial fires to splint our hard-earned 50-year accord and harmony.
Event: The Chinese New Year reception at Fort Cornwallis, Penang. LensaPress photos by Jeff Ooi
Comments
jeff, you were at the CM's open house at fort cornwallis, right?
i was there past 2 years and had since given up going there. too many people. too crowded. too noisy. too many tourists (bus load of tourists mind you). yes mostly tourists went there. yes the CM's open house had sort of become one of the attraction for tourists (promoted by hotels!). the food and entertainment there is very good though, compare to other open houses. (that's why lah it is more for tourists).
i went to the mca/gerakan open house at PISA. no see any tourists there. saw badawi. will blog about it later.
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February 19, 2007 05:46 PM
nice and red the top few shots
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February 19, 2007 06:12 PM
On paper,
culturally and resources wise, this land is as rich potentially as Australia and Japan in this part of the world.
While the actual development and progress turns out otherwise, and there are more and more treat it as interim point.
It is all about the quality of statemenship.
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February 20, 2007 11:14 AM
Didya know Malaysians are in the top 20 happy places?
From Guy Kawasaki's blog:
Adrian G. White, a psychologist at the University of Leicester, produced a “world map of happiness.” The study reflects data from UNESCO, the CIA, the New Economics Foundation, the WHO, the Veenhoven Database, the Latinbarometer, the Afrobarometer, and the UNHDR.
The twenty happiest countries are:
1. Denmark
2. Switzerland
3. Austria
4. Iceland
5. The Bahamas
6. Finland
7. Sweden
8. Bhutan
9. Brunei
10. Canada
11. Ireland
12. Luxembourg
13. Costa Rica
14. Malta
15. The Netherlands
16. Antigua and Barbuda
17. Malaysia
18. New Zealand
19. Norway
20. The Seychelles
What?? Me, happy?? They've gotta be kidding me.
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February 20, 2007 05:08 PM
But why Celebrate 'NEW YEARS'? Why Break up Ceaseless Flow of Time into days, weeks, months etc…? SPACE & TIME Concepts are Illusions Caused by our Physical Senses; One Moment Exists & is Gone Forever?
Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival, marks similar associations and does not fall on the same day every year in the Gregorian calendar. But it symbolises still what it has always symbolised for centuries: that the PRESENT is connected with the PAST; that our FAMILIES today are continuous with our ANCESTORS; that the HUMAN world can be renewed, like the NATURAL world, every Spring. For more enlightenment Goto:
http://powerpresent.blogspot.com/2007/02/why-celebrate-new-years-why-break-up.html
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February 20, 2007 07:39 PM