Sabah Dragon Boat Race 2009

On The Fifth of The Fifth
Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream …………………

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Sabah Harvest Festival- Break Dancers

B-Boying and the Borneo Boys
 

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At the Tadau Kaamatan

Samson & Delilah

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Borneo Pesta Kaamatan- Tug of War

Games Without Frontiers, War Without Tears
Its a knockout
If looks could kill, they probably will
In games without frontiers-war without tears
Games without frontiers-war without tears
-Peter Gabriel
The Vikings Vs The Normans

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Pesta Kaamatan- Harvest Festival

Let the Ceremony & Fun Begin
First,  a Thanksgiving Prayer for the bountiful harvest that the Bambarayon (Spiritual Guardian of the Paddy field) has bestowed upon this blessed land that we call “The Land Below the Wind”.

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Lady Kadazan

Lady of the Gong
Kotobian Tadau Tagazo Do Kaamatan.
Make a date this coming harvest festival  -  30-31 May, 09

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Peak Nam Tong Chinese New Year Gala Night

No Show Business Like Peak Nam Tong
Peak Nam Tong(PNT) sure knows how to put on a show! Not contented with the great Dragon-Lion-Unicorn showmanship performances usually put on every year, this year it went one better and had a gala night with singings and other stage shows. And what’s more,  Hong Bao (Ang Pows) were given out [...]

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Red, Red, Red @ 1Borneo

Acrobats & Musicians, Ooh La La! (CNY Roundup 2)
1Borneo beats everyone else hands down again. The hypermall was dressed up in crimson red (did I hear scarlet? Tough!) and ready to woo the New Year big spenders or perhaps window shoppers, rather. Mind you, the car parks were absolutely filled to the brims and spilled over to [...]

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Chinese New Year Night Market Fair

On The Night When Everybody Is Watching Everybody Watching Everybody (Spring Festival Roundup 1)
That is what the Chinese New Year Night Market Fair is all about. Let’s join in and rub shoulders with whoever and whomever and end up buying whatever you don’t need. Fell for it every time.

 

Rainfall was still with us in the [...]

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Gaya St. Chinese New Year Carnival

Wet, Wet, Wet!
And Damp, Damp, Damp. Chucking it down the last five days and dampened the spirit of celebrations. The final day of the carnival, though stayed dry for the duration of the show, saw the turnout of crowds  greatly reduced from last year’s. Still, in the spirit of  the Coming of Spring and supporting the [...]

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Spring Forward to Gaya St. Spring Festival

Tonight’s the Night
Gaya Awaits You! For the next five nights- 19-23 January, feast yourself to a song and dance extravaganza at Gaya St.

Many Happy Returns of Spring!—— 7 More Days!

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Mythical Creatures Mambo at Padang Merdeka

The Day The Dragon Came A-calling…….

And The Lions…..

And the Unicorn
It was a cloudy and drizzling day (17/01/09), but all the fun was had at the Padang Merdeka, Kota Kinabalu. And you know what? The show was finished early and on time. Even a member of a dance troupe was commenting and praising on the fact. Not too much [...]

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Motor Show Update

Here Come the Biker Chicks
Yo, medallion men! I’ve found the biker chicks. Hope you are ecstatic in cloud 9. You’ve gone and missed the show, haven’t you? Now regrets are what you’ve got! This one is dedicated to all the medallion men and lady-killers.

Are These the Real McCoys Or Harley Davidson?

And folks, the final day was [...]

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Chun- The Coming of Spring

Chun Jie – the Spring Festival
Get ready for the big celebration coming soon. Chun Jie, otherwise known as the Spring Festival or Chinese New Year, is celebrated in a grand scale by many in Sabah, particular those of the Northeast Asian origin. Come New Year’s Day the Lion, Unicorn and Dragon Dance troupes will be [...]

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Sabah Motor Show Bonanza

Mosey On Down To The Motor Show
Rain & humid sunny days greeted the Sabah motor show. But still, I did mosey on down to the Auto Show held recently at the Likas Sports Complex parking lots. It was quite an interesting day out for me. Pity, the event was not given a bigger publicity to [...]

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New Year in Kota Kinabalu

KK Jamming!
Whoopee!
A night of gaiety and merrymaking in the city centre of Kota Kinabalu and its surrounding areas heralded in the New Year. KK was jam-packed with revellers on the eve of New Year. It seemed like the whole KK population jammed the streets of KK to welcome in the brand New Year. KK [...]

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Hogmanay- Happy New Year

Here’s Wishing You A Happy New Year
————————May Your New Year Be A Good One—————–

 We will open the book.
Its pages are blank.
We are going to put words on them ourselves.
The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.
———–Edith Lovejoy Pierce
 
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The [...]

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Lego Colouring

Colouring & Lego Contest
The day the grrown-ups were let loose to be creative and be kids again. Honey, I shrunk myself. That’s right, folks! That was the day kids could run free and be themselves and be king for the day.  Yeah, back to the good old days where kids would be kids.
Recently, Mothercare [...]

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Stairway to Heaven

Hell Or Heaven 2008
Who says Sabahans are boring and conservative? All they need is
an outlet n wat dya get? Hell or Heaven!! This cosplay party, organised by Street2 and held at Promenade Hotel,  was a blast, everyone came out fully dressed up in Lolita, Goth or their fave Anime character. Even we MCs were [...]

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Christmas Greetings @ Gaya Street

Nights of  Peace, Love and Goodwill
Gaya Street came alive last night! Throngs of people were at the once a year Christmas Celebration event. Carol singings and inter-church choir & dance performances were highlights of the night. And Christmas would not be Christmas without a nativity play.  Yep, that’s what you got.  Take it or leave it! I [...]

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