My Pledge to the Mother Earth

Our mother earth is sick. She is seriously sick. She suffers from high fever and shows no symptoms of subsiding. This is all because of the humans activities. Because of this, many side effects are caused. For example, our mother earth suffer from respiratory problems because of the smoke emitted from factories and vehicles. As a result, she throws her temper on us as a warning. This is why natural disaster is getting more and more severe and unpredictable.

Therefore, many worldwide organisations has held various activities to 'cure' our mother earth, such as the World Climate Conference carried out by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

Although I can't contribute much on these activities, I am very conscious about this matter, because we, humans, residents of the earth have the responsibility to protect our environment. Hence, I pledge I will give in all my efforts to protect our mother earth.

The first thing I'll do is to reduce the usage of non-biodegradable products such as plastic bags and polystyrene lunch box. Next, I'll also try my very best to reduce the usage of electricity in order to save our natural resources and reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. Then, I'll also try not to use air-conditoner to reduce the usage of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC).

I hope by doing this, our mother earth will get well soon.

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Duan Wu Festival

The 'Duan Wu' festival or simply rice dumpling festival (as we used to eat dumplings to celebrate the festival) is celebrated on the 5th day of the 5th month on the lunar calendar. I'm sure that every Chinese is very familiar with the story behind this festival, which is to commemorate the patriotic poet, Qu Yuan who committed suicide as an act of patriotism.


Rice dumplings.. :P

As we all know, eating rice dumplings and dragon boat racing are the common activities practised on Duan Wu festival right here in Malaysia. In Kuching, dragon boat racing is held at the Sarawak River in conjunction with the celebration of this festival. I also like to eat rice dumplings. I love the dumplings stuffed with chestnuts and mellon sweet. It is one of my favourite food. However, in Taiwan, other than those practices, there's an unique activity going on that particular day which is 'li dan' which means "egg-standing". It does not carry the meaning of "standing on an egg" but it means "making an egg to stand". Sharp at 12 noon, people will go outdoors and "stand" the egg under the sun. Don't be surprised, the eggs stand upright!! The Taiwanese had broken the Guinness World record by standing 1972 eggs in year 2005. Some Malaysians do also practise this tradition but it is not as common.


"li dan"

The Koreans also celebrate this festival. For your information,the Gangneung Danoje Festival(Duan Wu festival in Korean) is a national event that was even acknowledged as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. However, the Chinese were very mad when this festival was declared as the heritage of Korea as the Chinese claim this festival originated from China. Although the festival falls on the same day, the purpose of celebration is a little different.The Dano festival is a sacrificial ritual to the spirits of agriculture, heaven and mountain, in celebration of the end of sowing season. The Koreans also eat rice cakes on that day. They play traditional folk games on that day. One of the games is the traditional Kune (Korean swing). The special thing about this swing is the Korean will not sit on the swing but stand on the board to swing. What an exciting way of playing a swing!



Korean swing~ wee~

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My First "Blogging" Experience..

Finally, for the first time, i have my own blog (though I was not so happy about it.. haha!). I never expected that I would have my own blog because I have always been lazy to manage these things and I am not the kind who likes to share. That's why I was very reluctant when my English teacher asked us to create our own blog. My teacher had considered that some of us may not have Internet connection at home. So, she brought us to the computer lab to create our blog. I appreciate her effort because if not, I might have just ignored her instructions. However, the Internet connection at school was so slow that I almost gave up! We also had to share the computers because there are limited computers. This had caused total chaos in the computer lab as we kept running around the lab to look for the computer with a better connection. However, everybody managed to create their blog at the end of the period. What a memorable experience...

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