Labuan Buddhist Association Mooncake Festival 2014

[2013]

12 September 2014

Around 6.30 p.m., it started with Vegetarian dinner. As that time, I was very hungry so I did not take a picture of my food. Haha.. It was in a buffet style. After finished dinner, all of us must wash our plate by self, not like in café that left the plate on the table.

The event was started around 7.30 p.m. by singing San Bao Ge (三宝歌). 

Host of the day

It followed by Chairman Speech. This year, it has a new Chairman while the previous Chairman is assisting the Chairman. 

Chairman speech

After Chairman Speech, it followed by a cute girl singing. Small girl can sing alone on the stage, she was so brave compare with me. 

Now was game times, the game was “What the big wind blow?” (大风吹, 吹什么?). The host will say “big wind blow” Then the children will ask “blow what?” and the host will answer a thing such as lipstick, cartoon socks and so on. Then the children need to find out the thing that request by host. For the first child that success to find out the thing will get a paper lantern. 

After games, it followed by dance performance by children. 

After dance performance was singing performance by “Elsa” as the kid wears princess cloth that made she looks like Elsa.

Then the event was followed by signal language performance.

After signal language performance was girls dance performance. My sister is one of the teacher to teach them dancing. 

Again was “What the big wind blow?” game that hosted by the host.

After the game, it was followed by singing performance by 3 little girls. The sound of 3 little girls are so sharp and loud so at this performance, you cannot talk because your friends definitely cannot listen to your voice as their voices are too power than your so you just stay quiet and enjoy it.

After the power singing performance, it’s times for game. This game titled “Yes or Not?” The children will queue up at one line. Then the host will ask some questions, if you think the answer is “Yes” then stand on left side and vice versa. At first, the children were quite blurring with the rules of game and questions so they just followed with each other. I think the questions that prepared were quite hard for the children to understand what it means.

Previously the games were played by children, now the game mixed with children and their parents. First, all the parents’ eyes will be covered by eye mask then they need to carry their kid on their back to go around. Then their kids will feed their parents to eat mooncake. The parent who is the first to finish the mooncake will be the winner.

After the games was singing performance by a kid. 

Then finished of the singing performance and followed by signal language performance by a group of kids.  

After finished watching the signal language performance by kids then now is the same performance but by a group of young teenagers. You can watch the video which as below:-

After that, it followed by game titled “Find father, find mother, find child”. This game hosted by UMS Labuan’s students. This game is need a father or mother with his or her child. Then the child’s eye will be cover by eye mask. The father or mother need to change their seat and start to let the children whose eye covered to touch their hand and face. For those child feel that he or she is one of their parents after touching some of the fathers or mothers will stand on the back of the parents that they choose.

After game finished, the children will take off the eye mask and see whether they had choose the right mother or father. Some of the children had miss choose for father or mother, it is so funny. Even one of the children cannot find her mother after touching all the parents’ hand and face. 

This game had 2 rounds and for the second round, I had recording the game which you can watch as below:-

This was the last round of “What the big wind blow?” game.

Then it was followed by the poetry reading. Now a day, the kids were so talented that they even can read poetry.  

After poetry reading was the dance performance by a group of pretty girls. 

After dance performance was the signal language performance by a group of UMS Labuan’s students. Every year, they will come to join for mooncake festival in Labuan Buddhist Association.

This event marked a beautiful ending with kids playing around with lantern.