Borneo Cultural Festival 2008, 27th June - 5th July, Town Square, Sibu.
Somehow this year's BCF is kinda quiet. Literally. Not much happening and the events and booths are somewhat . Sad to say it is no different from the typical booths opened by the foundation students at the LT Foyer every semester in Curtin.
Understandably, the current economic recession affected this year's and upcoming years' festive mood. No one can put on a good :D face in public nowadays without being called sot.
Anyways I went there for the closing ceremony on Saturday, 5th July after there's nothing much to do at home during a temporary power trip. The closing had more people than previous days, and being a person who don't enjoy waling in large crowds, I desperately tried to enjoy the whole thing. On the opposite of Town Square we have fun fair and more fair on all Sibu industry stuffs such as water tanks, STIHL tools, excavators and safety boots. Nothing cultural on that side apart from seeing the people enjoying tossing bets and try the games of lucks at the various makeshift entertainment section (you know, throwing darts at balloons and stuff).
Then we headed on to Town Square on the other side of the road. Expecting more culture on that side, we only found more food (can be considered culture) and sadly no expected-traditional dances or whatsoever on the main stage. I just caught my good old SMK Methodist school singing choir on the stage at that time (I think that's culture too). Then we just hang around checking out Sibu arts and drop by lil' Chinatown.
Town Square Paifang
Dudes on stilts. Guan Yu?
I should've gone earlier on different days, because apparently there were planned activities on each day throughout BCF, including performances by other cultures. I missed the sukaneka (mini-sports) activities in the morning, and I would have loved to play with the sago log race (oh and there's no tibau, or Melanau's gigantic swing this year, nuts).
Hopefully the recession won't affect much of the mood next year.
Somehow this year's BCF is kinda quiet. Literally. Not much happening and the events and booths are somewhat . Sad to say it is no different from the typical booths opened by the foundation students at the LT Foyer every semester in Curtin.
Understandably, the current economic recession affected this year's and upcoming years' festive mood. No one can put on a good :D face in public nowadays without being called sot.
Anyways I went there for the closing ceremony on Saturday, 5th July after there's nothing much to do at home during a temporary power trip. The closing had more people than previous days, and being a person who don't enjoy waling in large crowds, I desperately tried to enjoy the whole thing. On the opposite of Town Square we have fun fair and more fair on all Sibu industry stuffs such as water tanks, STIHL tools, excavators and safety boots. Nothing cultural on that side apart from seeing the people enjoying tossing bets and try the games of lucks at the various makeshift entertainment section (you know, throwing darts at balloons and stuff).
Then we headed on to Town Square on the other side of the road. Expecting more culture on that side, we only found more food (can be considered culture) and sadly no expected-traditional dances or whatsoever on the main stage. I just caught my good old SMK Methodist school singing choir on the stage at that time (I think that's culture too). Then we just hang around checking out Sibu arts and drop by lil' Chinatown.
Town Square Paifang
Dudes on stilts. Guan Yu?I should've gone earlier on different days, because apparently there were planned activities on each day throughout BCF, including performances by other cultures. I missed the sukaneka (mini-sports) activities in the morning, and I would have loved to play with the sago log race (oh and there's no tibau, or Melanau's gigantic swing this year, nuts).
Hopefully the recession won't affect much of the mood next year.
1 comment:
nice food or not?? moi only enjoy the food part, the rest well, too crowed don't really like, held in mid year mean there's still be plenty of Borneo fesv that i will miss out...
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