Posted in Festival on Jan 22nd, 2009 4 Comments »
Parti Keadilan Rakyat will hold our Chinese New Year Open House on the First Day of Chinese New Year (26 January 2009) at Klang Hokkien Association (along Federal Highway) from 13:00hr-15:00hr.
The function will be attended by Anwar Ibrahim and other multiracial leaders of the party.
All welcome!
Bahagian Batu will hold our New Year celebration at Taman [...]
Posted in Activities, Festival, Parliament Batu on Dec 26th, 2008 1 Comment »
I took the opportunity of Christmas to visit Churches around Batu:
I was accompanied by Steven, his brother Philip, and our division committee member Syed Harun. We started our tour at about 18:30. We first dropped off some boxes of daily necessities to Mrs Marry at Sentul Pasar. Then we joined a service by Tamil Church [...]
Posted in Announcement, Anwar, Festival on Feb 6th, 2008 2 Comments »
The Visual Unit of Biro Penerangan will launch a new tool to disseminate information.
The technology, which we have just acquired is called FoneCode. It will enable people who have camera-phone with internet access to download visual material from the Party.
After the Chinese New Year holiday, we will officially launch this new weapon for election campaign.
Here [...]
Posted in Activities, Festival on Feb 3rd, 2008 1 Comment »
Happy Chinese Lunar New Year!
Lunar new year is the festival of spring. The new spring represents the beginning of a new cycle of life.
The spirit of new year carries the renewal of Life. Spring replaces the lifeless winter, and a new colourful and dynamic world is waiting to emerge!
Xin Nian Jin Bu (æ–°å¹´è¿›æ¥)! Wan shi [...]
Posted in Festival, HINDRAF on Jan 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Thaipusam is the full moon of the auspicious month of Thai, the 10th month in Tamil calendar.
Although it is not a national holiday, its significance is not less than Deepavali. Public celebration for Thaipusam is even more remarkable and featured more prominently than any other Hindu festivals.
The highlight of Thaipusam has been the mass pilgrimage [...]
Posted in Activities, Festival, Judiciary on Jan 16th, 2008 2 Comments »
Happy Pongal! “Thai piranthal vazhi pirakkum!”
Today is the New Year of Tamil calendar. It is the first day of the month of Thai, and the full moon day of this month is called Thaipusam.
I attended the ceremony of Pongal celebration in Tasek, near Ipoh. The function was organized by our KeADILan activist Arjunan. Perak KeADILan [...]
Posted in Festival, Friends & Family, International, Miscellaneous on Jan 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
A friend Popho from Seoul sent this picture which she took early morning on Day One of 2008.
Korea is at the most eastern tip of Asian continent. She has captured the first rays of the new year.
Since the ancient time, Korea was known as “the land of the fresh sun”, viz. Chosun or in Chinese [...]
Posted in Festival on Jan 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
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A very Happy New Year to my fellow Malaysians!
I wish to specially mention: Happy New Year to the lawyers who marched in Putrajaya! Happy New Year to the unionists and workers who had stood doggedly in the picket line to demand fair working conditions and minimum wage! Happy New Year to the one hundred thousands [...]
Posted in Festival on Dec 25th, 2007 1 Comment »
Seasons greetings to the Christian community:
The children brought up together in godliness scorned the impious decree of the tyrant. They were not afraid of the threat of fire, but standing in the midst of the flames, they sang: “Blessed art Thou, O God of our fathers!”
– Canon of Cosmas of Maiuma
Nativity, He Qi, China
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If [...]
Posted in Festival on Dec 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Eid Murbarak.
This year end our multiethnic society witnessed the celebration of different festivals together.
Muslims celebrated Eid-ul-Adha or commonly referred to Hari Raya Haji in Malaysia which fell on December 20.
On Dec 22, Chinese celebrated “Dong Zhi” (冬至). The festival is in fact the Winter Solstice. Then it was Christmas on Dec 25.
In some way, all [...]