Be the Emperor Among the Kings!

After Semester One exam, I had almost a month of freedom and boredom. Semester Two starts at 12th July, with packed timetable and expected heaps of works since the very first days. Anyway, I am not writing this to grunt about my (coming) busy campus life but to show you Christmas in June – Mid Winter Carnival.

We celebrate Christmas during winter in northern hemisphere, but it is summer at 25th December in southern hemisphere! Christmas without snow, looks like typical Malaysian Christmas though. Hence, since year 2000, volunteers in Dunedin held celebration at the end of June, usually during the longest night in the whole year. For this year, Mid Winter Carnival was held at 26th June. People (and volunteers) involved in giant lantern making and procession, which Creatures of the Sea be the theme of this carnival. Lets look at some of the ‘live scenes’ taken during the procession (credit to Mark A. Chong).

Sea Horse lantern. It reminds me of dragon dance.

Dancers walked in front of drummers.

Little fairies.

These girls are so young, most probably not more than 13 years old.

Dunedin City Council at night (actually it was just 6pm, do not get fooled by the dark sky).

Fireworks after the procession.

This may be the last post before semester reopen. Wish all my friends, whether back in Malaysia or round the globe, all the best in your life and study. Dear faithful readers, good luck!

Be the Emperor among the Kings! is four years old now. I still remember my initial idea that made me establish my own Blog – become famous in spreading information about saving the world. Before that, I tried collecting and uploading ‘horrible’ pictures about animal abuse onto several social network, including Friendster, Multiply and Photobucket. However, I got very few responses and views. I abandoned them after some time. Even though I was  disappointed, but my website was always visited and supported by a young mother, named x7heavens. Then I decided to establish this Blog from scratch, as a door to step into the cyberworld completing my own mission.

Dear readers, you can still trace back my oldest posts writing about some world issues. I stop writing those ‘serious’ topics long time ago. Instead I invented my own writing style of ‘melting’ information into articles about my life. From time to time, I still support some internet campaign, including Earth Hour, Blog Action Day etc.

Now, the main purpose of this Blog is updating my readers about my life far from Malaysia. As long as this Blog is updated, I am safe and sound. I never think the total number of clicks will exceed 10K. I really appreciate your support and patience. I hope I can do better in the future. Before I end this, please do me a favour. Pray for my success and wellbeing. Thanks.