Sunday, December 23, 2007

Koh Tong - Winter Solstice Festival (The Celebration of Spring)

It was Koh Tong, or known as Winter Solstice Festival. on saturday. Most households would have tong yuen and pak cham kai as food offering for altar of the household deities. It was celebrated in a simple manners.

Tong yuen with gula melaka
in-the-makingky mum's preparing pak cham kai and sang choy for the sembahyang.
After that we make our journey to segamat to visit my parents.
Gunung Ledang, johor - the place where the mystical bunian princess lives
Going back home has a very nice feeling ...


my father bought this for us - the famous segamat durian
on sunday, we met up with my cousin - yoke fong, for yumcha session. segamat town, only moderate in size, offers suprisingly number of cafes with good food and drinks at affordable prices.


nanyang white kopi - only costs rm1.70
kopi peng and wholemeal bread with kaya and butter. we would never miss them each time we come back to segamat.
As monday both of us have to work, we have to travel back on sunday evening itself. mum cooked an early dinner and insisted we ate before we left. the traffic jam started at 6.44pm immediately after we passed air keroh, melaka.
it started to rain at 7.14pm, the crawl continue ....
started to feel a little desperate for a toilet stop ......

.... the never ending line of cars heading to seremban and kl

..... 7.46pm ..... getting very desperate ..... we have not reached seremban yet.

ohmigod .... we didn't realize we are running on a near empty gas tank!

finally we found a petrol station after driving for more than 20km.

god has mercy on us ... we finally reached home around 9pm. it has been a long and tiring weekend.

2 comments:

david santos said...

Nice posting, thank you

I wish you a good end of 2007 and a good year of 2008.

Jacky Cham said...

hi kinyeung/pohyin...thanks for dropping by my blog. ur blog looks interesting....i'll be more frequent to read ur blog. by the way...i reached kl around 1.30am the other day...akkkakkaa.