Bent
As promised, this is the prequel to my CGM post. During the day, I was actually gallavanting in Bentong. The Catholic commnunity there arranged a big Chap Goh Mei celebration at a school hall there. My mum, SK and I took a chartered bus there with 30 others. We arrived after an hour or so. As with Tangkak, I was most impressed with the size of the town. Many were already there, pouring out of other buses from KL and the east coast. Just as the bus stopped, most of the passangers scrambled down to use the loo. Due to the lack of signage, it was chaos. Toilets had turned unisex, with auntie's running around in them while the men eased themselves at the urinals! Pengz.
Nothing much was going on in the hall, mostly people mingling, looking at some exhibiton booths and having breakfast. Some people were trying to solve "lantern riddles". Hate those IQ questions and riddles. Chinese ones are even more absurd. Others were watching the local lion dance troupe practise. The hall is big but really stuffy. Not much ventilation and the huge crowd wasn't helping the situation. Mass started at 11.00am and it was presided over by 5 priests. After that, an opening ceremony with lots of confetti, 3 roast pigs and a giant lou sang. Meals were then distributed-- yummy fried noodles with curry chicken and fried fishballs. The entertainment for the day was mostly group singing (no dance routine, but original song and lyrics with hand gestures - eeekkk!!!), a guitar solo that's very Jesse Cook meets Gypsy Kings meets Six-Finger Qin Demon (handy fingerwork and guitar-thumping. Impressive!), lion dance (typical), stupid jokes (courtesy of two moronic emcees) and a guest appearance by Yu Di. Yu Di's a singer from the 70s and 80s who now sings oldies for a living. If you caught NTV7's Superstar singing contest a couple of years back, you'd remember her as one of the judges. Think of her as Malaysian Idol's Fauziah Latiff.
The performances dragged on into the afternoon and it was getting really stuffy by then, but food was still being passed around-- roasted pork, blueberry cakes and the lou sang from before. Most of the people left after lunch was served. We headed home at around 3.30pm. By the time we reached KL, it was raining and the traffic was really crappy. MRR2 was really backed up and we had to take a detour. Whereever we turned to, the roads were also congested. Sao. Reached PJ at around 5.30pm and I rushed back to prepare for dinner (refer to the sequel). That concludes my CGM post.
No citrus personals being cast in or rescued from the Lake of Singlehood. My boat has left for shore.
Nothing much was going on in the hall, mostly people mingling, looking at some exhibiton booths and having breakfast. Some people were trying to solve "lantern riddles". Hate those IQ questions and riddles. Chinese ones are even more absurd. Others were watching the local lion dance troupe practise. The hall is big but really stuffy. Not much ventilation and the huge crowd wasn't helping the situation. Mass started at 11.00am and it was presided over by 5 priests. After that, an opening ceremony with lots of confetti, 3 roast pigs and a giant lou sang. Meals were then distributed-- yummy fried noodles with curry chicken and fried fishballs. The entertainment for the day was mostly group singing (no dance routine, but original song and lyrics with hand gestures - eeekkk!!!), a guitar solo that's very Jesse Cook meets Gypsy Kings meets Six-Finger Qin Demon (handy fingerwork and guitar-thumping. Impressive!), lion dance (typical), stupid jokes (courtesy of two moronic emcees) and a guest appearance by Yu Di. Yu Di's a singer from the 70s and 80s who now sings oldies for a living. If you caught NTV7's Superstar singing contest a couple of years back, you'd remember her as one of the judges. Think of her as Malaysian Idol's Fauziah Latiff.
The performances dragged on into the afternoon and it was getting really stuffy by then, but food was still being passed around-- roasted pork, blueberry cakes and the lou sang from before. Most of the people left after lunch was served. We headed home at around 3.30pm. By the time we reached KL, it was raining and the traffic was really crappy. MRR2 was really backed up and we had to take a detour. Whereever we turned to, the roads were also congested. Sao. Reached PJ at around 5.30pm and I rushed back to prepare for dinner (refer to the sequel). That concludes my CGM post.
No citrus personals being cast in or rescued from the Lake of Singlehood. My boat has left for shore.
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