Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Malaysian Cultural Festival

The Malaysian Society in Nottingham University is organizing a cultural festival for the first time to promote Malaysian culture. They kinda get a lot of sponsors from the tourism department, being great to see all sorts of cultural games and costumes in Portland.

Ang Mo playing batu Seremban:

They set up booths for different races, representing the uniqueness of Malaysia being multi-cultural. The Malay booth are promoting Jawi letters, Indian booth doing hand drawing arts and rice arts. There is also a booth that sells Malaysian foods like nasi lemak and kuih-muih, but they're in pounds currency...

Kuih-muih and Indian hard art:

The special presentation on that day is the wedding ceremonies of Indian, Chinese and Malay culture. A few student volunteers making demo of how wedding of difference races are held. I missed the Chinese wedding but still make it to see Indian and Malay weddings.

Indian and Malay wedding:

I found the Borneo booth interesting, mainly because I'm from Borneo :P Anyway, they're mainly promoting Kadazan and Iban stuffs. The Chinese booth is writing calligraphy for visitors name, I got one for myself before leaving.

Borneo booth and my name in calligraphy:

"But the LORD Almighty will be exalted by his justice, and the holy God will be proved holy by his righteous acts."
-Isaiah 5:16
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For the next production by Malaysian Society, may we all be blessed with unity and understanding. Despite all the coursework and research hardships, let us have a great time getting along and doing great stuffs. Peace be with us all, Amen.

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