Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋節 (Pesta Tanglung)

Mid-Autumn Festival also called as Moon cake Festival or Lantern Festival, it fall on the 15th day of the 8th lunar calendar (Chinese calendar) which it full moon night, it usually fall on September in our calendar. I sure every know what should do in this month, Yes that right eat moon cake and play lantern, kid love this festival, they like to walk along with friend during the night at the park together with the lantern holding on their hand. While parent will enjoy the moon cake and serve it with Chinese tea. Well do you know how moon cake coming from? Moon cakes were used stating with Ming Dynasty revolutionaries. On that dynasty there is a war between china with Mongolian, the Zhu Yuanzhang (朱元璋) and his advisor Liu Bowen (劉伯溫) putting a letter inside a cake and distribute it to it backup soldier, and they planning to ambush Mongolian at the full moon, they spread out the cake so the Mongolian will not know what there are try to do. At last they manage to take down the Mongolian. According to the old folk, there is a lady name Chang'e 嫦娥, Wu Kang 吴刚 and a Jade Rabbit玉兔 live on the moon, but this langandary been break by USA when they sent people to moon and see nothing at there. Beside that there is a lot of story about this Festival, from example the Houyi (后羿) and Chang'e’s （嫦娥）story but there is a lot of vision on this story. Never mind I will pick up my favorite vision. Chang'e and Houyi were immortals living in heaven. One day, the ten sons of the Jade Emperor transformed into ten suns, causing the earth to scorch. Having failed to order his sons to stop ruining the earth, the Jade Emperor summoned Houyi for help. Houyi, using his legendary archery skills, shot down nine of the sons, but spared one son to be the sun. The Jade Emperor was obviously displeased with Houyi’s solution to save the earth. As punishment, he banished Houyi and Chang'e to live as mere mortals on earth. Seeing that Chang'e felt extremely miserable over her loss of immortality, Houyi decided to journey on a long, perilous quest to find the pill of immortality so that the couple could be immortals again. At the end of his quest, he met the Queen Mother of the West, who agreed to give him the pill, but warned him that each person would only need half a pill to regain immortality. Houyi brought the pill home and stored it in a case. He warned Chang'e not to open the case, and then left home for a while. Like Pandora in Greek mythology, Chang'e became curious. She opened up the case and found the pill, just as Houyi was returning home. Nervous that Houyi would catch her, discovering the contents of the case, she accidentally swallowed the entire pill, and started to float into the sky because of the overdose. Although Houyi wanted to shoot her in order to prevent her from floating further, he could not bear to aim the arrow at her. Chang'e kept on floating until she landed on the moon. While she became lonely on the moon without her husband, she did have company. A jade rabbit, who manufactured elixirs, also lived on the moon. THE END Now talk about the story of Jade Rabbit 玉兔who manufactured elixirs for Chang’e. Old folk say you may find that the dark areas to the top of the full moon may be construed as the figure of a rabbit. The animal's ears point to the upper right, while at the left are two large circular areas, representing its head and body. In this legend, three fairy sages transformed themselves into pitiful old men, and begged for food from a fox, a monkey, and a hare. The fox and the monkey both had food to give to the old men, but the hare, empty-handed, jumped into a blazing fire to offer his own flesh instead. The sages were so touched by the hare's sacrifice and act of kindness that they let him live in the Moon Palace, where he became the "Jade Rabbit". THE END Well there are more story on this festival, there is too much vision and no one know which one is true. So enjoy you Moon Cake festival and your moon cake too.

Fu Wa - 福娃

The Fuwa (Chinese: 福娃; pinyin: Fúwá; literally "good-luck dolls" and can be known as "Friendlies"), are the mascots of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. The designs were created by Han Meilin, a famous Chinese artist. The designs were publicly announced by the National Society of Chinese Classic Literature Studies on November 11, 2005 at an event marking the 1000th day before the opening of the games. There are five fuwa: Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, and Nini. Together, the names form the sentence "北京欢迎你", Běijīng huānyíng nǐ which means "Beijing welcomes you". Originally named 'The Friendlies', they were promoted as 'Fuwa' when there were concerns the name could be misinterpreted. While originally given artistic licence in his commission, Han Meilin was subsequently requested by officials to include various Chinese design and fauna in the Fuwa. Han Meilin drew 1,000 models of possible before settling on the five characters. He has since disowned the Fuwa and did not include them in his museum.

Below are 2008 Olympics in Beijing's mascots :

Name: Bèibei (贝贝) Gender: Female Cultural inspiration : Chinese sturgeon; Traditional Chinese New Year decorative picture of lotus

and fish; fish design from Neolithic artifacts.

Olymipic ring : Blue

Element : Water

Personality : Gentle, pure

Represented ideal: Prosperite

Represented sport : Aquatic sports

In traditional Chinese culture, the fish represents prosperity, as the character for fish (魚) sounds the same as that for surplus (餘 / 余). The "carp leaping over the dragon gate" is a traditional allegory of following one's dreams and achieving them. The patterns from Beibei's headgear comes from artifacts unearthed at Banpo, site of a Neolithic village of the Yangshao culture.

Name: Jīngjing (晶晶)

Gender: Male

Cultural inspiration : Giant panda; Song Dynasty lotus-shaped porcelain.

Olymipic ring : Black

Element : Wood

Personality : Honest, optimistic

Represented ideal: Happiness

Represented sport : Weightlifting, judo

As an endangered species, the panda is both a national symbol of China and an international symbol of environmentalism. Jingjing's forest origins also symbolize the harmonious coexistence of humankind and nature.

Name: Huānhuan (欢欢)

Gender: Male Cultural inspiration :Olympic flame; Fire design from the Mogao Grottoes.

Olymipic ring : Red

Element : Fire

Personality : Extrovert, enthusiastic

Represented ideal: Passion

Represented sport : Ball sports

Huanhuan represents the passion of sports, the Olympic spirit of "faster, higher, stronger", and the passion of the Beijing Olympics. Huanhuan's headgear comes from a fire design in the Mogao Caves, the best known of the Chinese Buddhist grottoes.

Name: Yíngying (迎迎)

Gender: Male

Cultural inspiration : Tibetan antelope, Tibetan and Xinjiang ethnic costumes.

Olymipic ring : Yellow Element : Earth Personality : Lively, vivacious Represented ideal: Health Represented sport : Track and field

The Tibetan antelope is an endangered species native to the Tibetan Plateau, known for its swiftness. Yingying's headgear incorporates elements of Tibetan and Xinjiang ethnic costumes.

Name: Nīni (妮妮)

Gender: Female Cultural inspiration : The swallow; Beijing's shayan kites. Olymipic ring : Green

Element : Air

Personality : Innocent, joyous

Represented ideal: Good fortune

Represented sport :Gymnastics

The swallow is a messenger of spring and happiness in Chinese culture, and is seen as a symbol of good fortune. The Chinese character for swallow (燕) is also used in Yanjing (燕京), an old name for Beijing; thus the swallow alludes to Beijing. Nini's headgear uses the design of Beijing's shayan kites, which are colourful cross-shaped kites modeled after swallows.

There are 100-episode Olympic-themed cartoon series featuring the Fuwa was released in China, primarily on BTV (Beijing's municipal television network), on August 8, 2007. Titled The Olympic Adventures of Fuwa (Chinese: 福娃奥运漫游记), it was jointly produced by BTV and Kaku Cartoon.

Albino

What is Albino ? Albino is a person or animal whose skin and hair lack pigmentation and whose irises are pink because of a hereditary condition albinism. Albino is hereditary; it is not an infectious disease and cannot be transmitted through contact, blood transfusions, or other vectors. Most we can see is the human Albino and animals Albino such as White Tiger or White Crocodile is Albino animal. Yes that correct. That is the most we see but there even the frog can be Albino animal, not just human or tiger and crocodile. Every living have the possibility to become Albino, even the white dove and white rabbit also is under Albino. There is an different between an normal animal and Albino animal beside it type of skin colors is white, but the eye is different color with the normal one, if you don't believe go and check out with those Albino people. Well some think this Albino is special but something it is been spelled or curse, well that is the god create, not one should blame or even complain this, that is natural. Don’t you think that is a good think, this make the animal been so special because there is only one is Albino is an billion of it same spices? Well is better we not making fool on the Albino, we should be happy to see them because there is really rare in our daily life.

Poor Seals

Poor seals… every year there is a lot of seal been killed in order to get it treasure. Don’t you think this is so cruel?Almost every year, there are thousand of seals been killed, and most it is the male adult’s seals but some even kill the baby of the seals, don’t you think they are crazy. Well most of the hunters hunting of seals for their pelts, blubber, and meat, but some have their penises brutally removed to export to countries such as Japan where they are used as aphrodisiacs.

Don’t you think this is good? If these problems still keep going on, the population of the seals may drop and even seals can become almost extinct animals like Sumatra Rhinoceros, don’t you hope you grandchild have no change to see the seals again just like the Tasmanian Tiger extinct on 1936 in Tasmania?, that we only can see it on book or an black and white video clip only? I don’t wish that happen to me. Well that really cruel, the hunter is killing thousand of seals, not few, is thousand. Thousand of seals dead like this, the blood cover all over the ice and the sea. It seems turn into a red ice cube and the corpse lying over the ice. I hope if all of us did’t buy the product that make of seals skin, I pretty sure that there will be less hunter hunt the seals because there is less people want it. I really hope this activities will stop soon as make it as an illegal activities so they can stop killing seals. I hope that happen.

A Miracles Fish

Well, do you believe that they are miracles fish exist in our world? Yes it is exist, and it even can be catch at the drain too. Do you get what I mean now? This fish have different name the Malay call it as Ikan puyu, Puyu-puyu, Pepuyu, Betuk or Ikan longkang. While in Chinese they call 刺鱸、過山鯽、避邪魚、草攀鱸 or you can searh it information in Chinese words at here. And English is called as Climbing perch or Walking perch. While it scientific name is Anabas Testudineus. You may found this name look very peculiar, is it can climb or walking? Yes, I have try it by just putting it on a ground that without of water, it can still survive for a few hour. That why there call this fish as Climbing perch or Walking perch. Many people believe that this fish have many ability to protect his owner. As what I heard, If you put it at your car porch, it can protect you house from been broken in, but how it help? Well as I heard the elderly say this fish will cough if it saw unfamiliar people try to get into your house. Wow you see, is this better then a dog? But whether is true or not, I am not so sure. As you can see many supermarkets or mini market feed this fish at the counter, do you know why? Allow me to tell you, this fish can prevent the owner or people near him from been hypnosis and then steal the money at the counter. Beside that, it also says that it can block the curse that try to lie on the owner. If you are running a business like supermarket or mini market, why don’t try to feed one, who knows it really can help you. Well this fish is very cheap, and I got 7 in my aquarium at the car pouch. You even can catch it at the drain but tell you first, it can swim very fast and it body have spike on it spine and you will hurt your hand. To make it easy got and buy it at Satok Sunday Market, they sold this in 3 sizes that is large, middle and small and the price is RM 5, RM 3 and RM 1, very cheap right? Well you can get even cheaper at Market Balai Ringin which it very far from Kuching, I bought 5 fish at there with only RM 5 only and all is in large size. We still no so sure whether this fish really got all this ability or not but just try it who knows that true. So go and get one.

Bigfoot found it Sibu?

Did you read newspapers reported that there is a Bigfoot'sfoot print in Sibu? Wow that really terrible, but no one ever see it in front on it! Is this true or it just a superstition? Only certain people claim that they had saw a gigantic shadow or the tree is vibrating very strong, but that can’t prove that is Bigfoot did it. Last three year a Bigfoot’s foot print was found at peninsular Malaysia – Johor, and now it was found in Sarawak! That mean there is some family of Bigfoot in Sarawak, there is no one can answer where this Bigfoot come from? It sound very superstition and it just like a joke to fool around those sucker about the Bigfoot. There is no evident prove the foot print is belong to the Bigfoot, furthermore it is easy to create a big footprint on the ground. This kind of new can make the villager live near the footprint fear about the Bigfoot will come attack the village again thus make them suffering insomnia but some may happy if there can found one. Actually we can’t do anything because we don’t know whether that the Bigfoot is really assist or not and no one can answer this question yet but I believe this mythic can be solve soon in the future.

Wow a Firefly!

Yesterday night, I saw a yellow light is flashing near my mosquito net, and I found the yellow light is firefly. Wow this is the first time I saw a firefly right in my eye, most o the time I saw it flying around and today I see it in front of me! I quickly take my camera and snap it unfortunately is too dark and the entire photo I snap is dark and the yellow light is not so nice.

This morning, I go to Wikipedia and search the information about firefly, and I found that firefly is the family in the beetle and it scientific name is Disambiguation . I is hard to see firefly flying around at my home, but how this firefly fly into my room since my mosquito net is closed and my door too, but never mind I will welcome it back again.

Well firefly have a short life span so I open out the mosquito net and let it out, at last It flew out, I so happy to see it. Do you ever heard the old folk say, don’t point at the firefly else you well suffer nocturnal enuresis. Do you still believe it? Well I think there is some hidden meaning in it, I think it might meant that do not hurt the firefly, because children always feel strange about something that is new for them and they well sure catch it. I think most properly like this.

So next time don’t catch it else, you mom will sure teach you a lesson on cleaning your own bed.

Sichuan Don’t Give Up

12.5.2008, at 2.28pm Sichuan was happen a 7.9 magnitude earthquake, and wipe out all the building in Sichuan, and burying a lot of citizen below the building. The worst still is at that period is the schooling hour and most of the children are study in school, and a lot of children were stuck in side the building and some even buried in the building and death. I really sympathy on them, some of them have lost their part of body and some lost there love one too. It was really sad to heard, but they have a very strong sprit of determination that is keep on survive no matter what happen to them, that is the sprit that we have to learn from them. From their appearance, we can see that they really need our help, I dare to say, the children in Sichuan have a very strong on adjusting the way of their life. They can study even the place where there study is not comfortable, this is a very good example that we should learn from them. From their appearance, we can see that they really need our help, can we help them? Yes we can, we can donate some money to them at the http://www.artistes.com or you may go to some shopping mall, they do have help to collect fund to them. Let together help them build back their home.

The Earth is Sick

The earth is sick? Why the earth sick? That is all coursed by human being! Do you agree with me? Yes, it is human make the earth sick, because the daily activity that we did is causing the earth sick. For instance, thee car that we drove every day is releasing Carbon Monoxide (CO) that make the o-zone layer become ticker and ticker. Beside car, the refrigerator also can make the earth sick, from the gas that it release that is chlorofluorocarbon (CFC), it is a gas that containing carbon, hydrogen, chlorine, and fluorine, some forms of which damage the ozone layer in the Earth's atmosphere. Can we help earth? Yes we can, all we have to do is less doing open burning, use bicycle instate of car I possible or even better walking. We can save earth from been sick, let be the doctor of the earth, stop the pollution. I sure we all can did it, believe me!