On 12-July 08 (Saturday), one of the auspicious Japanese festivals was held in Panasonic Sports Complex, the Bon Odori. Our Japanese class organised an unofficial trip to this event. This is my first time to attend such event and it was a magnificent and an exciting trip overall :).
In the past, where I worked in JVC Shah Alam as an engineer, once a while, heard of this event, however unable to participate, due to tremendous workload. Tremendous as in, where everyone delightfully countdown for New Year, undoubtedly, had to work :(! By the way, for your information, Panasonic Sports Complex is just opposite to JVC plants. So near yet so far :)! Anyhow, it was still a fabulous experience working in this multinational company :).Definition of Bon Odori (盆踊り) quoted from Wikipedia:
"Obon (お盆) or just Bon (盆) is a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the departed (deceased) spirits of one's ancestors. This Buddhist custom has evolved into a family reunion holiday during which people return to ancestral family places and visit and clean their ancestors' graves, and when the spirits of ancestors are supposed to revisit the household altars. Also called the Feast of Lanterns, it has been celebrated in Japan for more than 500 years and traditionally includes a dance (Odori - 踊り), known as Bon-Odori."
Bon Odori programme breakdowns printed on the fan, given to visitors upon entrance.
Me, in front of the Panasonic Sports Complex entrance.
Battalions of visitors walking into the sports complex!
Wow! Lots of people!
Different people from different walks of life!
Foods, beverages and merchandise booths.
Everyone is excited and can't wait for the festival to kick off.
10,000 visitors?
Or more than 10,000!!??
The stage of performance with drums and etc to perform the Odori.
Festival kicks-off with an opening speech by don't know who ... :p.
Performers donned in their Yukutas, getting ready.
Off stage dance performance, emulation (in-sync) of the stage dance.
Me and Ten Ten (Japanese classmate).
Elite troops of this 2008 Bon Odori trip :).
Me and my A1 Japanese class' sensei, Kawa Oka sensei (川岡 先生) :).
Dance emulation by the spectators below the stage.
The Crane - silly me :p!
Crouching Tiger?
The Dragon - crazily out of mind :p?
Behold earthlings, Crouching Tiger & Hidden Dragon's troop, defy us, DIE :)!!That's all folks. We left the complex 30 minutes earlier to avoid massive jams upon dispersion.
Non related yet worthy sentence:
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising up every time we fail - Ralph Waldo Emerson.
6 comments:
TANOSHI SO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Um... who's the camera man?
@Divine Fang.
Thank you very much :). If I'm in the picture, Ultrabeast or other people is the camera man. If I'm not in the picture the camera man is me.
How's the quality of the picture and the scenery taken? Good & bad comments are welcomed. I didn't turn on the flash light, most of the pictures are blurred due to this, a bad mistake done in the past and I repeated it again :(!
@Preston
The quality of the picture... hmm... I'd say the subject plays an important role in photoshooting and I really like the "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" photos. Camera phone, compact camera, prosumer camera, DSLR... whatever... you guys looked good!
If I were there I might pose like Ganryu... doing his foot stomp or something like what a sumo wrestler would do. The crazier the better.
Eh? No video clips?
@Divine Fang
Ganryu? Good idea....then you can photoshoped (blurred) ur hand as in execution of "Infinite power arms" by Ganryu....hahaha.
No video clips, insufficient time to borrow from my friend :(.
とった写真は綺麗な！日本語も上手だ。おもしろいブログね！
@ricky soo
どもありがとうございます！日本語はまだまだだめです、もっと練習しないと。一生懸命頑張ります：）。
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