First Time-s

Mian and me attended college IC's Pongal celebration last Friday. We went there late. We joined Melissa's team. Lesley and June're long being there already, helping out. We boiled rice in clay pot (is it clay pot?) with milk (this's my first time seeing rice with milk, so... weird). We nearly reach Pongal at a time, where the bubbles (or what's it called?) were going to spill out from the pot, but we failed in the end. One of the teams reach pongal after that. We added some more rice later and started cooking it and put brown sugar, cashew nuts and raisins inside it. Finally it's done, with ashes inside, and the rice was brownish in colour. It tasted sweet.

We were the last group to finish it. It really took us a long time. Lesley and June're there from 8 am, mian and me went there two hours later, and we more than one hour to cook the rice. After that we had lunch there, the mee and bihun're better than the dewan makan's. (shhh...)

Pongal festival is celebrated in harvest time, thanking the rain, sun and the farm animals that have helped in the harvest. It's a three-day-event. The one we had in college's the main day, usually fallen on January 14 or 15, the "sun-appreciation' day. So, we did it under the sun, it's HOT, seriously, it's even more exhilarating that we needed to cook under the sun, you see, we cooked using charcoal, we gotta maintain the fire, we burned papers, branches; and it took a really long time for the rice to be cooked. I hoped i could pour oil on the fire...

However, it's fun and interesting. It's a new experience for me. The IC members worked hard, they didn't sleep for the whole night in order to set up for the event. Clap clap...

I went to a Orang Asli Village yesterday at Pulau Carey together with my drum teammates, the dance team and some seniors. We went there to perform for a Chinese new year open house in the village. We got to see the orang asli's dance, which was very entertaining, i like their music. Their art is impressive, with awesome carvings. The houses are made from wood and leaves (I think so), and the kids are shy. ^ ^ The village was not as 'rural' as i imagined. They have a proper toilet!

Our dance team was doing a great performance as usual. While our drum team did a good work too, thanks to the seniors for teaching us. Although there were imperfections (quite a lot), but we worked hard for the last few days for it, which i think is a very good experience for us. Now i have a pair of legs which don't seem to be mine, they're dreadfully painful.

And well, YEAH, i get darker and darker...

The wifi's irritating! i can't upload pics!