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Kuching Festival 2006(9) – Supper

August 17, 2006 sweet surrender No Comments

Went to Kuching Fest after dance class for supper.

Left: "Ji Ba"… Ok… don’t think so much! It’s not that foul word "cxbai". I heard that it’s Hakka traditional food. RM2 per box. It tasted like "muaci". "Muaci" has peanut powder/red bean paste etc. as the fillings and the outer layer texture is sticky and chewy. This is the opposite, the peanut powder is coated outside. The dough is sticky and chewy. Hmm… Many said it’s nice but nothing special to me.

Right: (L-R) "Yuan Su Ji Kuai"(direct tanslation to English for each word is "Salt Crispy Chicken Nuggets") LOL… I really don’t know what it’s called in English, fried squids and sweet potato sticks.

All used the same batter and deep fried. The fried squid is RM1.50 per sticks, chicken nuggets are RM2.50 per 100gram and sweet potato sticks are RM1.60 per 100gram. We bought 100gm chicken nuggets and 3 fried squids. All together is RM7. Hmmm… pretty expensive and portion is small.

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Kuching Festival 2006(8) – Opening Ceremony

August 13, 2006March 21, 2007 sweet surrender No Comments

“Oh my… it’s so romantic darling! *MUAH* It’s so nice! Thank you very much!”
“*Down on his bended knee* Will you marry me my sweety pie?”
“Oh yes! My chuchu! I do!”
Then the couple sat there looking up the sky, kissing each other under night sky brightened by the fireworks!
Star light,
Star bright,
Let the fireworks,
Brighten up the night sky…
Isn’t it great?

HOLD ON THERE!! ROMANTIC? YOU CALL THAT ROMANTIC!?!? GOSSHHH! That’s ridiculous! You know some Cantonese dramas like to use this kind of scene? It’s misleading! It’s damn torturing! No fun! Neck pain! Looking up to the sky to see the fireworks, and the ashes and debris fell into your eyes, on your head, your face and your body. The sparks fell not far in front of you that might cause burnt if you are so unlucky that it fell on you. Then after the fireworks, you rub your face with a white tissue, you get shimmery greyish stained on the tissue. It’s worst if you are sweating or you have oily skin.

OK! There! This is my first close encounter with fireworks. Seeing it right on the spot instead of my bedroom window. It’s no fun I tell you. It really scares me and I was desperately looking for place to hide from the falling ashes and debris from the sky but then If I went into one of the huts in Hookien Garden, I couldn’t see the whole thing. Both my eyes experienced a bit of discomfort because of the ashes that fell into them. The debris fell on my shoulder and when I swept it off, it left black marks on my shoulders and I need to rub them off. Lots of poeple were quite desperate to find a place to hide from the falling ashes and debris too but couldn’t find a strategic place to see the full fireworks especially those that brought their children along. Wear goggle next time! 😛 I’m afraid no more next time for me!

The fireworks started after the minister offciate the festival. I forgot what time was it because I didn’t have a watch. It’s let off at the Hockey Stadium next to Hokkien Garden. We have a video for it and it’s still editting. Will post it up once I got hold of it.

Don’t get me wrong. I love fireworks very much but not so close to it. Fireworks are romantic but not this way. My idea of romantic fireworks is dining in a high rise building or high place, somewhere that allows you to see the city skyline, any city will do :P, and having candlelit dinner with my love one. After the dinner, we sit there looked out the window, in each other embrace and see the fireworks light up the night sky. That’s romantic LOL! Are you ready to puke? Go ahead 😛 haahhaha… I’m just a hopeless romantic.

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Kuching Festival 2006(7) – Earth Dance Performance

August 8, 2006January 11, 2007 sweet surrender No Comments

Today is the 15th day of the seventh month of Lunar calender! It’s Ghost Festival which it’s believe that all the ghost will be released and roam on Earth. There’s two seventh months in this year’s Lunar Calender. Therefore they will be released twice. Next month is supposed to be the Mid Autumn Festival(Mooncake Festival) but there are two times of 7th month this year, so it will have to wait till the next next month to celebrate Mid Autumn Festival. That means, we have 13 months for the Lunar calender this year!!

In conjunction of the nearing of the Ghost Festival, Earth Dance performed a “ghost musical theater” for the opening dance of Kuching Festival Performance on Monday night.

The opening…

The rest of the programs:

Happy Ghost Festival!!! Hmmm… I think I saw something behind you…

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Kuching Festival 2006(6) – Garden Show

August 6, 2006January 7, 2007 sweet surrender No Comments

OK… here’s the Garden show photos.

The rest are pretty much the same as last year’s. This one is quite special. At least something different. The water fountain that produces “ding ding dong dong” sound.

This is how it works(see the left picture):
The water flows down from the tube of the big rock to the wheel(green wheel), and it turns the wheel where it’s hold by a horizontal rod(green rod) with “teeth”. Then the “teeth” will hit the row of metal surface(brown) with the metal sticks(green) and creates the sound. The theory is like the spinning “barrel” thing in a classical music box and also the xylophone. Geee… I really don’t know how to explain, suddenly my vocabulary is so limited LOL!

The special thing about this lanscap is the pond. It has water lily in there. It’s so PWETTY!!! However, it only blooms at night because when we went there the other day early in the evening, there’s no flowers there but when we were walking back to the carpark while passing by it, I noticed that they had bloomed. Lots of them. WOW!!

Left: Something new too. Two heads. Really spooky especially in the 7th month of the Lunar calender.
Right: A simple fountain with water gushing out from the top of the sphere.

Not much… it has less landscapings this year.

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Kuching Festival 2006(5) – Parade

August 5, 2006 sweet surrender No Comments

Before watching the parade, we had our dinner first. The dinner wasn’t good. Lousy cha kueh-RM3 for so small portion!(left) and lousy burger(right). Worst, had to wait so long for the burger. Sigh…

After that, we went to where the parade start. It’s near SMK Padungan aka SMK Lumba Kuda. Here’s some photos of the parade, too bad no floats. Very low key.

Left: Jimmy and Nien posing with the body builder. They both cosplayed that night and informally joined the parade. Gooosh… damn funny and embrassing… everywhere they walked, those children and teens were so excited and chanting, "NARUTO, NARUTO…"*FAINT* Instead of watching the parade, they watch both of them. We did video shooting but this time I’m not the host, the guys were.

After everything’s done, I posed with them for final photoshoot at Hokkien Garden before they changed back their cloths. I looked ugly in there, it’s so hot, oily face ewww…