kuE in china press!...

i mentioned here that the lantern festival celebration i attended in kampung station approximately 2 weeks ago, has been featured in china press newspaper on monday. finally i got it today from my friend ms tung. and since i can't take no for an answer, i tried my very best to search for it online too. then to my surprise... tadaa!!!... get the link here. but i placed it in this post as well just in case the link disappeared. besides that, this is just for my record. whilst i don't even understand a single word mind you ;)

更新: September 27, 2009 18:16

打擊爆竊案．解奇難雜症
江沙火車頭設服務中心

江沙火車頭今年舉辦的提燈游行非常成功，吸引逾千人出席。

（江沙27日訊）針對早前江沙火車頭（Kg Station）治安不靖，爆竊案頻傳問題，首相署（司法及國會事務）部長拿督斯里納茲里決定在江沙火車頭成立服務中心，以解決居民大小事務。

這個服務中心是一個貨櫃，將會在近期內運抵江沙火車頭，納茲里也會安排專員為民服務。

一週7爆竊案

有鑑于此，納茲里請求當地居民善用這項便利，一旦有投訴，或面對難題，可向專員求助，倘若專員解決不了，他將會挺身而出。

治安向來不賴的江沙火車頭在今年4月分常常發生罪案，且曾試過一週內發生至少7宗爆竊，爆發該村50年來最嚴重的爆竊案！

儘管這裡有睦鄰計劃與志願警衛團為了治安輪流巡邏，但是猖獗的竊賊仿佛洞悉這些志願隊體的運作，總是在他們休息后，才活躍干案，叫人防不勝防。

納茲里（左2）與黃秀娟（左）派“紅包”給12歲以下的孩童。

居民擔心隨時會成為竊賊的下一個目標，惶惶不可終日，甚至一些居民已在家中準備武器，例如巴冷刀、木棍，以備不之需。

納茲里說，一些竊徒毫無人性，甚至連阿婆的棺材本也偷光，害得阿婆以淚洗臉。

“警方接到投訴后，有加強該區的巡邏，但是居民不能完全靠警方，反之應該打醒十二分精神，充當警方耳目。”

納茲里昨晚為江沙火車頭區慈善會舉辦的提燈籠晚宴主持開幕致詞時，這么指出。

他說，若在火車頭多了一個服務中心，那么，居民面對任何“奇難雜症”，可第一時間前往櫃台找專員協助解決。

不再投訴無門
★火車頭慈善社主席黃秀娟

家長護著孩子準備提燈游行囉！

有了這個服務中心，居民面對問題時，不再投訴無門，多了一個投訴空間。

希望居民可以善用服務中心，因為是他們極力向納茲里爭取的。

部長關心居民
★火車頭睦鄰計劃副主席鄧國榮

感激納茲里設立服務中心，這證明部長關注火車頭的居民，也說明部長做到首相要求的“一個大馬”計劃，因為火車頭居民主要以華裔居主，其次是印裔。

千人出席提燈盛會
3大民族同歡共慶

華巫一起大跳馬來舞蹈，象徵一個馬來西亞。

納茲里出席江沙火車頭慈善社舉行的中秋提燈宴會，並拿起燈籠游火車頭一圈，這項盛會吸引逾千人，包括3大民族出席，場面熱鬧。

納茲里為這項盛會主持開幕前致詞提到兒時記趣，指中秋節也是他童年最美麗的回憶之一。

當年，還是小孩的他和華裔朋友一起玩燈籠點蠟燭，那個時候燈籠有龍型、兔子、水果等等，令他非常興奮。

他說，中秋節並非只屬小孩，老人也非常享受中秋，因為這是其中一個跟家人團聚的日子，這種良好文化應該傳承下去。

是晚，除了提燈嚐食外，當局還安排三大民族文化表演，包括中華文化的舞獅，扇舞，馬來同胞呈獻馬來舞蹈及街舞及印裔同胞的傳統舞蹈，皆贏得大家好評，納茲里也看得連連點首。

大家最期待的還是幸運抽獎，納茲里除了撥出1萬令吉辦這項盛會，也報效4份大獎，結果巨獎（雪柜）落在年輕居民吳汶捷身上。

出席者包括硝山馬華區會主席吳有敬、硝山馬華區會婦女組主席關鳳珠及江沙馬華區會婦女組主席洪淑金等。

lantern festival celebration

according to wikipedia: the lantern festival 元宵节 is a chinese festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunar year in the chinese calendar. it is not to be confused with the mid-autumn festival, which is also sometimes known as the "lantern festival" in locations such as singapore, malaysia. during the lantern festival, children go out at night to temples carrying paper lanterns 兔子灯 and solve riddles on the lanterns 猜灯谜. it officially ends the chinese new year. read more here.

kuE' note: this blog post supposed to be posted a week already. but i don't care ler... its better late than nothing or never hor? i updated my twitter anyway :)

ever since i joined my line dance group, my life kinda hectic with other activities too. sometimes i was asked to perform with them in functions or events here. i remembered that my first experience was for a mother & father's day celebration organized by a chinese community. it has been attended by local umno leaders. so i had to do a zapin number and some other line dances to english tunes erm... layan je ler. to tell you the truth, of course i lurve english numbers more especially all those fast tracks.

then there was this function organized by umno people quite some time ago. it was radically damnnnnn delayed i tell you. i stressed out the word damn because it was really late by 2 hours!!! blerk!... pity the kids who followed us. we don't have choice but to stay as we had to do some performances. if you could see my chinese friends, they were all crazy like mad. what to do. anyhow you can view one of my performances that has been recorded by megat here.

so basically my performances last saturday was obviously my third one! it was for a lantern festival celebration held here in kualè. unfortunately i didn't manage to take lotsa pics as usual though as my oly was running out of battery huhuu... now i dunno whether to blame myself for not charging my oly's battery beforehand; or my friend-cum-translator ms tung who didn't explain to me about the function properly. never mind lor... ms tung, no sweat ok?

lesson learned: every night before bedtime, i will ensure that i fully charged my oly's battery before the next day turned up, no matter whether i have anything going on or not! ;)

the function started with everyone singing the national song; as soon as the guest of honour, minister in the prime minister's department datuk seri mohamed nazri abdul aziz arrived.

there were variety of music and drums and of course the chinese lion dances and firecrackers.

children carry their lanterns around the village and families come together to eat sweet rice balls for good fortune and family unity. chinese lanterns were traditionally made of silk, paper and even glass. although the most common is the typical red balloon lantern, nowadays chinese Lanterns come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors. there are lanterns in shapes of boxes, lotus flowers, dragons, butterflies and all sorts of animals. they range from the small lanterns carried by hand made of paper by school children to gigantic floats shaped in the chinese zodiac animal for that year made by teams of craftsmen. lion dances came to the main stage then along with these group of people. i knew that they have some kind stories and meaning behind the lion dance performances.

towards the end of the performance, both "the lions" tried to peel out the mandarin oranges skin. they then presented the oranges to datuk nazri, who is also the mp of padang rengas.

i tell you what people. i could say that the function that night was really celebrated with 1malaysia spirit although it was meant for a chinese festivity. there were dance performances of all sorts of cultures like malay, chinese and indian, not forgetting shuffle dance by kualè youth itself.

my performance was the first one. i didn't get to ask anyone to capture a video of it though. none of our kids followed anyway as the function was at night, and we afraid that it would be dragged till late. i should have asked bebudak shuffle tu to record a video of mine kan kan... :)

the function wrapped up with lucky draws. looks like people were already looking forward with it from the beginning, as prizes offered were not bad i.e. hampers, bicycles, electrical items like blender, stand fans, and tvs too! but we didn't wait till the function ended though, as we knew it that there must be jammed if everyone were to go back together. from what i understood, since the function happened to be during syawal, datuk nazri also gave away raya money packets to all children who came that night.

and before i sign off this blog post, i am so glad to present you part of the performances held during that night... enjoy!

lantern festival celebration from kuE on vimeo

so how's the lantern festival at your places celebrated. care to share them with me?

see... when i blog, i really blog away *phew*

• coming up: more delayed blog post and sponsored blog post.


• coming up as well: the most bloggers' events talk of the blogosphere! can you guess of what is it? tungguuuuuuuuu... (wait) *winks*


• besides that, i am also waiting for ms tung to pass me a china press newspaper cut-out about the function. they actually have a pic of me there you know. i wonder whether any of you people realized it ;)