Mid Autumn Festival aka Mooncake Festival aka Lantern Festival

Hmm...has been a very long time...

I didn't hold a lantern...

Bringing it walking all around the small town...

Walking in a group of children...

Shouting out loudly as a group...

Shouting: A..li...ma...li...poh...oh...oh...oh...

Then if came across other groups of children...

And we will start shouting louder and louder...

Competing among each other...

To see who is louder...haha...

Missed all those childhood moments...

Now where are all those shouts...???

I have not heard of it for some years back till now...

Now here is something special to be shared...

During my outdoor outing last weekend in Jelebu, Negeri Sembilan at Kampung Chennah...

I saw something that really surprised me and remind me of my childhood memories although there was no shouting of "a...li...ma...li...po...oh...oh...oh..."

When I was at there, the Malays children were holding the lantern...

Going around...walking around...cycling around...with the lantern...

Something I have not seen even when I was in my hometown during my childhood life...

So, this is what we call Malaysia...1 Malaysia...

Happy Mooncake Festival aka Happy Lantern Festival to everyone in Malaysia...

Amal Merdeka de' Broga

Date : 30 & 31 August 2010
Location : Broga Hill, Semenyih, Selangor

For the first time in my life as a Malaysian, I went out for a celebration for our Independence Day with friends from UPSI and getting along with new outdoor friends (all over from KL, Selangor, Port Dickson, Batu Pahat, Ipoh)...

We celebrated the day at Broga Hill with more than 50 participants on top of the hill.
Went up hiking the hill after "berbuka" and while waiting for the time to struck at 12:00am, there were BBQ and entertainment up there.

Other than that, of course for the Muslims they did not forget their "solat terawih"...
So, for outdoor people there is always a way on how to fulfill the responsibility as a God's follower.

When the time struck, firecrackers and fireworks were all around and what I'm impressed most at that time was the singing of our national anthem by all of us.
This shows that we are truly Malaysian regardless of who we are and where we are from...

Last but not least, there was also an additional event which is to raise some fund for an eight years old child suffering from nerve cancer (http://adamstumor.blogspot.com/)...

Around 1:30am we went down and gather at a "mamak" restaurant for some drink and even "sahur" then everybody went their own way back to the respective destination.

One of my memorable Merdeka Celebration in my life...
Thanks to Encik Zainul Fikri, the organiser of the event...

View at night (from the first peak)...



"Solat terawih"...

BBQ...