Thursday, February 28, 2008

元宵节

通常元宵节大家都已经恢复心情开工和上课,但是中国一些地方还是大肆庆祝。元宵节除了是中国情人节、吃汤圆、猜灯谜、赏花灯之外你知道它的来历和习俗吗?





关于元宵节的来历,主要有三种说法。一为汉文帝为纪念平吕之乱而设;二为纪念东方朔与元宵姑娘的传说;三为东汉时期道教人士祭祀三元中的上元。





客家人是过了元宵节、吃了汤丸以后,就要送回家过年的亲人出远门,表示祝愿亲人一年在外平平安安、年底再回来团圆。





。“灯”与“丁”谐音,因此生了男孩的人家,会在元宵夜举行热闹非凡的“上灯”活动,在元宵节或早三几天,上一年“添丁”的人家要在神庙里或祖屋中厅的梁上悬挂大花灯笼,并请亲朋好友前来吃洒祝贺,这就是“庆灯”,又叫“喝灯茶”、“吃灯桌”。这天晚上灯烛辉煌,锣鼓喧天,一直闹到深夜。期间户主抱来去年出生的男婴,先向先祖神位参拜,接着参拜长辈,长辈给“利是”表示祝愿,完毕后众人开怀畅饮,吃过灯酒,男婴就算正式加入家族行列,将名字注入族谱。一般是一个儿子挂一个灯笼,哪个围屋挂的灯笼越多就越光彩,表示人丁兴旺。





“灯茶”有的地方叫“元宵茶”,一般是正月十三前后置办,也有个别从正月初八就开始了。正月十三办的叫“开灯茶”,寄寓着光明与喜庆;正月十六办的称“圆灯茶”,预示年头至年尾平平安安,圆圆满满。调配“灯茶”是以各种淡茶为基茶(也有用开水或鸡汤、猪骨汤的)加上肉食类:瘦猪肉、鲜虾、鲜鱼;蔬菜类:菠菜、茼蒿、芹菜、蒜、包菜及豆类;调味类:盐粉(有的地方吃甜茶,不加盐粉),胡椒、茴香、味精、脯类等,作为下料。各乡各家不同。





灯笼依其形状,目前分为泉州式和福州式两种。其中以泉州式为中国灯笼的代表。





泉州式灯笼的形状有筒状及圆形兩种。灯架使用桂竹或麻篱等较具韧性的材料,以交叉编织完成。外围以細棉紙或单光紙裱上,並在上面绘图及題字。最后塗上桐油防水,便可宣告完成。


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福州式灯笼,常见的形状亦是筒状及圆形。中间有竹篾(串在一起竹片)插在灯笼上、下灯头的凹槽,并以棉线帮助固定使之支撑住整个灯笼。上、下灯头有两条粗铁丝连接可用以把灯笼打开、关闭, 由于原理类似雨伞,固又称伞灯。





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还有一种灯叫宫灯,宫灯的形状大致成六角形,周围六个边都有突出的雕饰。雕饰与雕饰间连着经装饰的布,雕饰及底部常有着垂下的装饰古时结婚时一般会由妻方的人所提着,故亦称为新娘灯。 这里的宫灯中间的上、下各有一个轴心以控制六个装饰,方便控制改变外观。




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种类主要分成筒型灯和圆形灯两大类:


字姓灯(筒型灯类):灯的一面是姓氏,另一面是祖先曾经担任过的官名。如姓「谢」是太子少保,姓「郑」是延平邵王等。





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吉祥灯(筒型灯类):灯的一面是姓氏或神的名字,另一面是八仙(吕洞宾、何仙姑等)、福禄寿三星等吉祥图案。





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一般型(圆形灯类):和字型灯、吉祥灯一样,一面是姓氏、神的名字或吉祥话,另一面是吉祥图案。





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官灯(圆形灯类):灯上所绘的字和图,与一般灯相同,不过底是黑色,字是金色。到皇帝御赐,才能悬挂这种灯笼。





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从品种上看,花灯大致可分为四大类:


  一、座灯,安放在地上或是特制的架上,灯体庞大,气势宏伟,灯光明亮,并配有走马灯,并以声、光、
电动集于一身,远观近看皆宜。





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  二、挂灯,该灯体积相对较小,做工却特别精巧,色彩鲜艳,图案优美,“料丝灯”、“针刺灯”便是其
代表作。





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  三、水灯,即放于湖面之上,放灯者许下心愿,随波而荡,预示着心想事成;该灯采用防水材料制成,光
的明亮和形的美观倒映水中,色彩流漓,波光粼粼。龙灯、鲤鱼灯、荷花灯是常见的水灯。





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  四、提灯,即孩童提在手上玩耍的灯,此灯小巧玲珑,星星点点,造型大多模仿十二生肖动物。如:玉兔
灯、戏猴灯、公鸡灯等。



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valentine's day 2008

this day, people may ask : "where are u goin to celebrate ar?" "what's your plan today ar?" "how u celebrate ar?" bla bla bla... for me it just a normal day..erm..ok...ok...i admit it's a bit special than normal day, because traffic jam every where which near nice restaurant and shopping mall, and food is more expensive!



of course this year i surrouded by such question again. yea..this year is special for me, not what what big or surprise celebration..but because my bf at his hometown and i'm at PJ! when i ans like this in msn, people having another question : why he not come back t celebrate with u? but why he must come back? i not advise he do so. (i think i'm the 1 stop he come back :p) he still having his holiday with hs family, plus the meal can delay at other day what... at least back to normal price already mah.. kekeke....i dont want flower or big celebration, this festival just a chance to let ourselve (especially me) to have a better meal only.eat! eat! eat! :D



work as usual working day, no early offwork email announcement from company (almost all festival but not this, is it company not treat it as festival? lol) reach home drinking mushroom canned soup with extra potato, and watching a movie which my bf not interested with - beyond our ken (公主复仇记)



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this movie release around 4 years ago. i saw its private vcd in pasar malam taht time but i stingy to spend on it. i never read the story (may got but i forgot?) but after i watch it, a conclusion on my mind : i'm watching it in a right time!



from the poster u need not me to list out the cast. yea..gillian chung which haveing some problems about scandal sex photos. why i say in a right time?



movie : gillian betrayed by her ex bf which their sex photo uploaded on a web.

reality : many actress sex photo spread like wide fire on internet and one of them is gillian



movie : daniel,the ex bf of gillian, is a playboy

reality : edison, which believed is gillian's bf , is a playboy



i just smile when the gillian say some words in the last scene. it makes me wonder is it a bit teasing tat words come from her mouth? is it gillian the reality having the similar characteristic with the movie gillian? who knows?



i dont wana talk more about the story as it will lost the surprising points but i would like to share 1 of the sentence which appear in the movie:



“呢个世界根本就无王子,挣得仆街,同埋扮王子的仆街;同样,这世界是没有公主的,只有巫婆,和一些自以为是公主的巫婆”



about the director, he is 彭浩翔,an hong kong director which have a few creative movie. quite impress some of his movie. more info, click here



for those who watched the movie just can click here

chinese new year 2008

again another chinese new year...again i'm getting older..and again the chinese new year is getting more and more not alike chinese new year. for me its not like a festival for me now but its more like 'meet-friend-period".



the day before cny : this should be a day which every houses are clean and tidy and preparing to have cny. i just came back in the midnight, went to sister's shop buat kacau, sleep, reunion dinner...till that time my room still in a mess and guess what? i'm watching TV! my dad came out with a DVD on hand and turn off my TV. he rather watch old new year movie - 呆佬拜寿. mumnonstop blow me to bath and clean my room untill 11pm++ she give the last warning : bath now or no bath after 12am (=.='') done it as her wish and after 12am just start clean the dust in my room..room still in a mess. :p brother phne from taiwan and complaining there have not much cny feel too. surprisingly this bro talking in nice tone with all of us even with that bro too!shocked me



1st day : surprisingly woke up 9something ( maybe last few days used to wake up early for work in a stress?) lion dance as usual,coincidence brother was in this troop again, eating like hungry ghost while lion dancing at the living room o.O bro phone back again and this time i ask him to buy some special thing to me like 倒扁 prodcuts. hehehehe..



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the lion is eating vege (采青) and........ hey boy! what are u doin there? the cymbals was playing by female newbie,the sounds is not match with drums and totaly annoying!mess lion dance music i have ever heard.



staying at home watching TV till 5pm something there just come 1st batch people - a friend of mine which 2 only! night yam cha session. when reach dato's house, all say bye bye..is it all really scare gamble with yi zai and boss? LOL



2nd day : a day which we should go to my mum's mum house. dad went cylcing to cameron so me and my mum planing how to went there as she think bus + walk is far (doesnt walk is good for health especially for old man?)aunty came and fetch her and i waiting a friend of mine,永照 to have a meet after almost 1 year. we took bus and took a photo. not photo about us but this :



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weng soon...a friend of mine and my friend. plan to capture this long time ago and this time yong zhao also support me to do so... here it is!



put my mum's aeroplane and follow yizai to another bai nian session. finally met inhouse's friend >> not lengzai as i expected but quite friendly, nonstop talking wrong things and yizai teasing me gan jiong cause lengzai =.= do i look like that type of person? night falls and we lost while fetching me to my grandma's house. sorry and thanks dude! i owe u 1!



went out with yizai them again to play firecrackers. hiding here and there like people runing out from the jail.at last we decided to play at dorcas house. her friend from hong kong look so excited and all going crazy. boom the rocks, the drains etc...feel so funny when yizai said hate those car lepak on the street ( look like police car patrol mah..)feel not shung when an uncle trying to cheat and chase us to other place. feel speechless when my bro borrow my money to gamble as he purposely not bring his wallet! feel paiseh when found out i ate almost the whole cheese cake by dorcas hong kong friend. sounds so many feeling in 1 night huh?



3rd day : a day which i had the most regrettably in cny 2008. just bust for the money thing and never have time to enjoy the reunion lunch. and have no time for chatting and photo session! damn! >.< thats the only photo i took :



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this reunion have too many mistake..completed but not a perfect 1. if have chance to make it another 1, hope it's a better 1. thanks who make this happen and the efford u did! =)



4th day :have to work with the laptop i borrow from company. i thought its better to work in kampar than go back PJ earlier. but i regret when the stupid laptop cant support my private software as it crash with other original software inside. it quite high spec but heavy useless stupid laptop for me at that time. i have to borrow my friend pc which have to stay at his shop and disturbing his work. and connection is damn slow!went to my aunty's house and finaly have a talk with my biu goh..hahaha!met and chat with him less than my friend every year!lunch with guai toi,dorcas and east god and met kong and an uncle which wore a big tongsam which not suit his size! look really funny! opps forgot to took his pic. :p



Went ipoh with yizai them at night. brother wana follow. its goof at least i'm not the lowest mark of all! ha! 1st time play win him! boss nonstop claiming 2 'dao gei' hanging around with them. =.= speechless



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met finix, vincent, karming, ah see and soon wah at bowling centre! me and finix make the promise which we took a better photo this year. both hoping to fat and finaly it come true in the picture! :D



5th day : work. spend me whole evening waiting for the source downloaded.



6th day : act clever and thought it will be better if use cable. borrow a cable from my friend and his friend nosntop asking him : "ur gf ar?" =.= they all 3 years ++ younger than me and do i look similar age to them?not the 1st time everybody thought so. once again speechless



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why people look more ok but i look more dao gei after perm my hair + t shirt + shot jean pants? T.T



cable not works at all since the connection is down at my sis shop. shift to my anuty's house. another less meet and chat d biu mui and aunty...



7 days just pass like taht...and i found out didnt make a meet with many friends! >.<

Friday, February 22, 2008

记折堕一事

out of toilet paper so many days...the form just reach yesterday...god knows how many days we still need to wait! i'm so regret offering myself to do this task and in the end so 折堕 go almost whole building (just left 3rd floor.. account flooor..and i bet they wun borrow d la!)like begging to get toilet paper!! what a world!



offering myself - walk to another building - 2nd floor - they jz hav 3 rolls - borrow 1 roll - up to 4th floor - find miss j - not around - go HR side get help - miss c phone to 1st floor (which not related to my side) - note down my name to make sure i will return once i got the stock - down to 1st floor - taking 3 jumbo rolls walk on the street -->> 犯贱



found out another thing.... :

time : 1 n half hours ago

venue : 2nd floor



me: i heard request form need to be fill in softcopy except signature wor.. is it true?

my head : oh really meh? i dont know wor... (turning head to another colleague) is it true?

colleague D : no la! we also print it out and fill with pen d..who say softcopy?

colleague E : got such thing meh?

colleague F yalo... who?

me : er...miss J...

colleague D E F : haiya no need bother her la..dun hav such rules

me : har? #$@%....
colleague D : she bully u only

me : not me but she told taht to colleague A lor...



conclusion... that miss J holidng a bulu ayam anggap is ordering arrow! >.<
and even though got toilet paper liao but still cant need to endure shit cause those heads having meeting! (FYI the meeting table jz beside toilet only)

Monday, February 04, 2008

coming home

chinese new year...most people expecting this celebration and start to apply leave or skip class just hoping to stay longer in their hometown. i'm sure most of the most people will bik cik and impatient to the damn traffic jam at highway. its really irritating n suffering. the cars are like ants on the floor and u see the endless of the road...bla bla bla... need not me describe too much and u guys sure had faced it urself b4, but what i wana say is...we should thanks God cause we still can get back home.



every year b4 chinese new year china main cities' railway station is full of people...i know about it since last year when i edit news... i really cant imagine if i am there. this year unexpected natural disaster make it worse. those people.. oh gosh... a policeman get interviewed by tv reporter and his voice is totaly hoarse and eyes full of red nerves from controlling the situation at railways station for couples of days. another news also says work hard over police man pass away. (feel so touching and warm right? i wonder our country's policeman can that resposible and 'human'?) another nother news says XX thousand people stay at Guangzhou and cant get back to hometown. and a news which repost a guy too eager to get home and burn herself by high voltage and his girlfriend broke her bone.... endless stories from china this year..



now people start coming back from hometown...Guangzhou guess their railway station will busy till 21st feb(the last day of cny) so, compare to them, our traffic jam is jz really 0.00001% from them! why we still wana complain about? i'm really really thanks God which i can stay at kampar for my chinese new year. and a peacefull save cny...really thanks =)



a few news about china disaster here , here and here