Dustyhawk :: Broken Mirror

So it’s the 2nd chocolate buffet Serge attended in the last 6 months. And because of this chochattery, his wallet is getting unhealthier in a slimful manner. Not a good sign at the start of the 3rd week of this month. Anyway, it was a convoy from Taman Bahagia LRT station which consisted of Nicholas, Victor, Max, Jay Vee, Sazwani, Jennifer, Ken, Patricia, Alexander and Iluna. Serge feels he has forgotten someone, but who cares anyway.

The following photos were taken yesterday at St. Ignatius Church Petaling Jaya. For the crossposted folks on livejournal, go to the main site and click the image to see the full view.

Anyway onward to the show.

So chinese new year is over. Not exactly what it was 10 years ago. It’s just the same thing. Traditions, traditions and more traditions for most of the chinese community who would like to uphold their traditional believes. For Serge it’s just another 2 days of nothingness, only the nice part is the fact one can get red packets containing monetary income without the need to work for it. Although one must say some magical words before one can get hold of one.

Bon Odori

Date : 15th July 2006
Venue : Matsushita Stadium Shah Alam and Esplanade - Penang
Time : 5 pm

What is Bon Odori ?

Bon Odori is a Japanese Buddhist holiday to honor the departed spirits of one’s ancestors. This Buddhist festival has evolved into a family reunion holiday during which people from the big cities return to their home towns and visit and clean their ancestors’ graves. Traditionally including a dance festival, it has existed in Japan for more than 500 years. It is held from 13th of July to the 15th (”Welcoming Obon” and “Farewell Obon” respectively) in the eastern part of Japan (Kanto), and in August in the western part. In recent years, however, most parts of Tokyo, and by extension, the media, hold Obon in August to coincide with the summer holiday period. Obon shares some similarities with the predominantly Mexican observance of el Día de los Muertos.

The following was posted in the Malaysian Community at Livejournal by serge’s livejournalist mate Nadira at this post

yesterday was trash. i don’t remember the last time i’ve ever felt so fucking fragile. i had an accident yesterday while during this play i was helping with because i had to pee not even halfway through the play and i had to man the soundboard. it wasn’t the most horrible thing that could happen and i’m lucky i’m thick skinned. my main dilemma is i think that my bladder problem is due to child abuse. when i was in primary school (chinese school) i had this teacher who taught us Malay and we had to read from a sheet of a hundred malay words, all the words, five times each. we did this for 50 minutes straight and this class was always before recess. for some reason, i always had to pee during the beginning of this period and the teacher would never let me leave because recess was next and i had to read the stupid, fucking words. my teachers back then couldn’t even pronounce ‘vegetable’ properly and they wanted us to read those stupid words so we could somehow improve our pronounciation.

[mood| peaceful]

After reading an articles written by Andreas, serge has sat at the proverbial corner and have placed a dunce cap on his own head. Racial integrity of this country is hanging in a balance that is not good at all.

Malays being lazy, Chinese being greedy bastards and Indians who can lie through their tongue. Personally speaking, serge sees all of this qualities in every one of them. Don’t get him wrong, he is not a racist and will never be.

[mood| infuriated]

about 2 days ago, people of the age of 17+ waited for their results, their SPM results. Many of them laughed at the results which they have gotten, many of them cried for the results which they thought they would get but didn’t and there are even those who were contented with the results which they were not even sure about getting. There was a myriad of emotions which is quite amusing.

What is it about us asians ? why is it that we pin so much hope on results such as this ? Serge does not deny the fact that SPM is important, but to think that it is more important then what the future has for you is basically stupid. Take for instance this article, just because she did not get good marks in 2 or 3 subjects..she thought that her life is ready to be terminated.