Yeoh Jetty Mooncake Festival Celebrations

Mooncake Festival? This was happened about a month ago. Actually I was joining the mooncake festival celebration with my parents at Yeoh Jetty. Yeoh Jetty is another street or another jetty next to Chew Jetty. It's pretty cool like Chew Jetty but just not well developed or well protected. On 23rd September, the Yeoh Si Association were held a mooncake festival celebration there for the purpose of having fun together with the Yeoh Jetty residents.

The day before the events and it was my birthday... I was accompanied my dad to the town and bought for some lanterns from Wan Lee Brothers which located opposite Prangin Mall. Well, I wondered that nowadays the kids are so happy to have the fancy kind of lanterns for mooncake festival. For my childhood time, I just play the classic one and once it burns, I changed a new one! No hard feeling of lost a fancy lantern! But since I am primary, I seldom play lanterns already! :D

#1 The temple in front of Yeoh Jetty.

It was a surprise, I was appointed to be the MC on that night. I was like shocked and how could I be the MC for this event? But after calming down my mind, I accepted the job and try to conduct the event smoothly. Most of the kids were there and also some of their parents too. Hopefully my voice won't be too bad for them! xD

#2 The organizer had prepared the food and dinner for all the participants.

#3 The lanterns were hanging around the venue to show that the festival atmosphere is there.

#4 The inner look of Yeoh Jetty, quite similar like Chew Jetty, isn't it?

#5 The event was held beside the temple which prepared with the good sound system as well.

#6 We had prepared the lanterns for all the kids as well, not the fancy one but the classic one!

I was hosting the hold event for that night and arranged for the schedule to let the organizer to give the speech and as well to cheer up the audience. It's not easy! Well, I just performed my best and also sang for 2 songs on that night! Epic cool...

#7 All the people started to have their dinner as everyone was hungry at that time.

#8 After dinner, all the kids were taking their respective lanterns to walk around to the Yeoh Jetty with the accompany of their parents.

#9 The night view from Yeoh Jetty. Not very nice because of my camera.

MYAstro CNY Carnival 2012 (Penang)

On 30th January 2012, I had visited to Khoo Kongsi. During Chinese New Year visit to heritage sites anything? Actually my KL aunt had requested me to buy the MyAstro Happy Dragon stuffs for them. I went there by rapid bus in the earlier morning and arrived there around 9am. When I was there, the queue line was quite long outside the Khoo Kongsi.

Everyone was lining up outside the Khoo clan, outside means just beside the road. I was quite familiar with the place because I was always been there in the year of 2009 when I was involved in the Heritage Heboh program by Anak-anak Kota. Wait there around few hours to get into the building until the event started on 12pm.

That time around 10am the astro company workers had arrived to the place, everyone was standing in the position and continue lining up in the entrance of the Khoo Clan. I am the 50th person on that time, can't believe that I can get 50th out of 288 persons. Cool! Most of the people lining up there were adults who haven't back to work after the spring holidays, I seldom saw any students skipped the school and lining up to buy the Happy Dragon stuffs!

Inside the Khoo Kongsi, everything had ready with the exhibition booths, games booth and even the stage also decorated with banners and Happy Dragon. It was so awesome and efficient to those people working on this after the CNY Cultural Celebration had just happened on the passed night. There were so tidy and neat! Nice one.

There was quite a lot of early birds came to line up to get themselves for buying the limited edition happy dragon stuffs too. For this carnival, Penang was the last stop for the Astro team so everyone was here rushing to buy the limited edition stuffs back! I was the one too, but I was not buying for myself, it's for my cousins! Lining up under the hot sun was quite tough, luckily I brought along my cap! There you can see even aunties uncles also came to line up for buying those stuffs!'

Before the crowds start buying for the T shirts and Happy Dragon Mascot, the officers had walked around to show us the sizes of the T shirts and of course they distributed the tickets coupons for everyone. So that means each person can just buy once for one item. Somehow I cooperate with the people there call somebody to buy the shirt for me since he only want to buy the mascot. That's the way!

Both mother and daughter were looking for the size of T shirt and deciding which size to take. You know why? Once you had make the decision, no change were allowed on that moments, so no regrets! That day there were two sizes available for adults, S and M sizes only. There was the tickets that I get from the officers, so once you get this tickets you can't even lost it, because they were based on this tickets to sell you those stuffs!

Lining up under the hot sun for hours was so tough, but for the purpose to buy those stuffs! I had overcome the toughness. Anyway, I had spent over RM 100 to buy those stuffs for my cousins. Cool, 3 shirts each cost RM25, 2 mascots each cost RM 28.80. Only in the morning, Astro can earn over RM 15K as my calculation! However, there was quite lot games prepared for everyone and of course together with the plenty of prizes waiting people to win! I wasn't wait until the artist to come due to my tiredness and tends to prepare for praying jade of emperor on that night... So I back earlier, that's all! Posted by GenYong 23.02.2012

Guang Ming Daily CNY Celebrations P1

I am sorry for late posting about this pre-CNY Celerations which take place at Butterworth before Chinese New Year comes. I missed the Guang Ming Daily pre-CNY celebrations which took place at Penang Island so I went to the butterworth one! I still remember that day was Sunday and it was like a week before Chinese New Year.

I followed my dad to Tow Boo Kong, Raja Uda for the Guang Ming Daily CNY Celebrations there. It seems to be so amazing because I made my first time there to the Tow Boo Kong temple. It was so huge and nicely craft building inside! Isn't it look nice and antique?

That night it was really crowded at the front entrance of the temple, the people keep rushing to go in and out of course there were some community polices make some arrangement for the public. Since there was too crowded, I just snap some photos and went in from the side door. The artistic lighting there was so attractive and nice purple.

It was crowded, teenagers, children, adults and even old people also came to witness this event! People said Butterworth is a good place to have event because there will have extra a lot of people coming out and support! That's why you can see the crowds there! =)

Finally I get in the temple compound, first I saw there was a line of stalls selling some creative crafting products. Like some tiny souvenirs for friends in CNY greetings. There were a lot of creative stuffs and they looked so nice and unique! 

Do you heard before the old days people were doing their soap by themselves and it was quite easy to do. My chemistry teacher had taught us some way using the chemical substances. She still suggest us to do it for our lover in next time. Well, soap actually was divide into chemically made or naturally made. For this type of knowledges, I just know a little bit and quite nice for the natural soap that exhibited on that night. See my dad was asking the girl how she manage to create the natural soap! =)

Besides that, there was some calligraphy writing on the sales there. It looks nice and suits the CNY atmosphere, the chinese calligraphy looks nice but yet the price not so reasonable. Hmm... if it's FREE, I will take one back and stick at my home! xD

There were some stalls selling drinks and food provided the visitors some refreshments and do the promotions as well like muchys was selling their spring roll biscuit and having some promotions there. Carlsberg as well sold their 24 cartons of carlsberg with low price! Not bad.

The best one I think was the camera booth! Everyone was there take a look what's the latest product from Canon, Nikon, Sony, Lumix or even Samsung. The promoter there also congratulate people Happy CNY and encourage people to own new camera in this new year! Quite a creative way to have the promotion there! Nice one Pixus... One more blog post to finish up this series, stay tuned! =) Posted by GenYong 13.02.2012