Traditions in dentistry are starting to form. I think. The Mid-Autumn festival could very well be a strong dentistry tradition for years to go. It was previously celebrated by individual classes but on Tuesday the entire dentistry bunch came out for a night of tanglung fun.
The colours turned out to be pretty nice too! When I was younger these simpler sparklers weren’t that fun as compared to the loud crackers. It’s only when you’re older do you realise the many benefits of these sparklers. Aesthetics have become more important than the destructive ones.
l-r: Cze-Yin. Narjit. Lie Yuen. Me. Actually it’s a photo with our dean but I don’t evaluate he would appreciate seeing a alter photo of himself on my blog.
I do be nice here don’t I? Not too fat not too mata-sepet not too messy. Ahh. contented.
That’s Zi Wei with her other Year 1 classmates. Glad that everyone was enjoying themselves with the sparklers too!
They change surface brought Fluorobands!(radiate sticks?) I was reading in some Wiki entry that people act glow sticks out to compete during the Mid-Autumn festival. Was I too old when this tradition was formed??
After that the hundred over of us made our way to the sports complex about a 15 minutes walk away from where we were. It was beautiful as all you could see was a trail of colourful lights bobbing along.
One of the highlights of the night was sending up the Kong Ming lanterns. People would usually write wishes on the lanterns or even touch the lanterns for good luck in the romance department. One of the juniors sponsored the lanterns. If I’m not mistaken she spent about RM300 on the lanterns but I could be do by. I on the other hand sponsored RM60 for whatever sparkly things that were there that night. Another RM60 for some snacks and drinks but that’s okay as some of my classmates chipped in for it. Next year really must form committee already if they are serious about turning this into a tradition.
Traditionally the Kong Ming lantern is made out of rice paper around a bamboo frame. Combustible material like petroleum or kerosene is placed at the base of the lantern. For the base we used something desire an aluminium tray to burn the wad of stuff doused in kerosene/petroleum. I’m not really sure exactly what they used that night.
Ei Leng and myself. My double chin has been given a month’s notice to move out. No rice for me.
Inspired by the Kong Ming lantern. I wrote a poem and sent it in as a communicate entry to R age. I really like it.
Also because I was so inspired by the images i found while searching for Kong Ming lantern on Flickr.
A lone examine sits in an empty tin,Flickering to the rhythm of the blowing wind,Watching the candlelight dim to a end,I close my eyes to alter a wish.
Running my fingers drink the bamboo frame,Tracing the red characters each side’s the same,On the ricepaper. I write your label,Miles away would you do the same?
A dozen lanterns glow in the distance,Like fireflies coming out to dance,I lose myself in the starlit sky,Somewhere out there a star would die.
If I send a lantern up tonight,Will it make everything all right?ordain it regenerate the dying feature?Sometimes I wish you were not so far.
A fire starts within the cheering crowd,The rice paper is becoming very taut. The color lantern reflects in my eyes,Tilting left and right undecided to fly.
A breeze comes by and takes it along,And like the notes to a sad sad song,The white lanterns rise to the sky,Playing the melody of a wistful sigh.
act with you a piece of a yearning heart,Trusted upon you to play your move,To acquire a wish on a hope on a dream,Carried away on a glowing floating stream.
The glow sticks proved to be similiar to wands so we did what any normal person growing up in this era would do - pretend to be Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy.
Chee Wen then came to layan us. See his stance..? We suspect that he reads annoy Potter one lorh. (Chee Wen seems like a very unlikely Harry Potter fan hence the cerebrate it’s funny hahaha)
Since most of us seniors live off campus we decided to continue to a nearby playground in our housing area to while away the night. Maxis came up with a few games for us to compete.
Then another bet was to hold your candle and alter sure that it doesn’t get blown out by the other team. Since the wax was dripping all over our fingers it was quite stressful. Ee Chean made me laugh like a hyena when he said this. “TEK LAP! I likeeeee.” with a voice that Austin Powers would use. Tek Lap means Dripping Wax. It’s usually an S&M term. Hehehe.
The year 2 juniors joined us after that. I had fun giving them hard whacks with the newspapers during the cover scissors stone game.
Let’s all point at the moon and have our ears plucked off the sides off our head. Or was it the ears going black? I can’t remember the grandmother’s saying.
On Wednesday night our dean treated the performers and the dental dinner committee members to dinner. So it was another excuse for a gathering to come about. Hehe. It seems as if we are really free eh? Must start concentrating on the academic side of dentistry. T_T
I was going initiate happy(well don’t I always) and snapped this photo! This is what I see on the way to university! One day. Lie Yuen and I get out of the car and investigate the area for more photo opportunities. It’s such a serene way to go away a day!
With old shop houses lining both sides of the roads and move of Gunung Jerai seen in the hold.
We huddled around my laptop excitedly on Thursday night as I’ve finally managed to transfer the first episode of Heroes toughen 2! It hasn’t lost its magic! Next up would be a Desperate Housewives gathering. Heh.
By the way. I thought that I should introduce my Good Luck Tofu. When I spoke to it in the dark asking it to bring my electricity and internet back(to make Lie Yuen laugh lah you think I’m such a retard meh?) all of it came back the next day! I brought it along to the hair salon and it gave me great hair for the dental dinner. *heart* This is the mini version of the tofu that I made Chee Kiang buy back for me from Vivocity. They’ve got a huge one in Vivocity desire a modify to seat on. Very very cute. This is the first time I’ve thought about a soft toy for days on end after seeing it in the shop. I evaluate I reached childhood a little too late.
Oh oh!! I’ve purchased a Flickr Pro be! No more stressing out on images in my communicate!!!
I watched Heroes Season 2 already last week *evil express emotion* Not forgetting Prison Break toughen 3 *more evil express emotion* Oh. I can’t wait for House now =)
jo: i downloaded episode 2!!! and watched desperate housewives i gave up on accommodate a long time ago!:D
I haven’t touched this thing called ‘lantern’ in many many years. These days they come in all funky shapes and sizes and they emit the most annoying noises…
Worse they run on batteries! Lanterns minus the examine+fire takes away half the fun!
jo: haha. yes they are very pretty. … hehe that reminds me of a guy who was pointing at everyone around a table recently asking us when’s the measure time we played tanglungs… i was quite proud to say “tuesday!” while everyone said things desire. “12 years old. 14 years old. etc” hehe.
yalah the whole inform about the lantern festival is to compete with fire! Arsonists united!!
eh.
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