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| Friday, 13-Feb-2009 17:03 |
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Bali 190109 - 220109 (Day1 & Day2)
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| Wednesday, 4-Feb-2009 13:04 |
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Bali 190109 - 220109 (Day1 & Day2)
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Day 1: Welcome to Bali
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excited sampai gambar bath tub pun ambik
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toilet pun ish ish ish
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the pool..can see it from our room's balcony
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erina menikmati welcome drink
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| Sunday, 1-Feb-2009 07:48 |
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Melaka Dec08
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| Sunday, 4-Jan-2009 09:45 |
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Old pics - Cameron Highland Aug08
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Bercuti-cuti bersama family
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| Sunday, 4-Jan-2009 06:36 |
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Old pics - Cherating Jul08
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| Sunday, 4-Jan-2009 06:11 |
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Old pics - Langkawi Dec07
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| Saturday, 3-Jan-2009 10:36 |
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Mak aiiiii..SETAHUN!! tak update!!
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HAPPY NEW YEAR FOLKS!!!
Shinnen akemashite omedetouuuuu..
Kotoshi mo yoi otoshi wo narimasu yo ni 
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| Wednesday, 2-Jan-2008 16:05 |
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Happy New Year 2008!
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| Monday, 26-Nov-2007 17:22 |
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Erina 26months: Hina Matsuri 3/3
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| Quote: | The 3rd of March - (by the Solar Calendar) is called "Hina-no-Sekku","Hina-Matsuri" (Doll's
Festival) or "Momo-no-Sekku" (Peach blossom's Festival) which used to be one of the important
seasonal events of ancient China and has now developed into a function symbolic of Japanese arts
and customs and has been in existence in Japan since the Edo Period (17 - 19 centuries).
Momo-no-Sekku used to be held on the 3rd of March according to the Lunar Calendar, though today it is actually not until early April that the peach blossoms begin to bloom, and that is how the name of this festival came about.
On this day families with young daughters celebrate this event at home to ensure their daughter's future happiness. That is, they decorate hina-Ningyo (special, beautiful dolls which are replicas of an ancient emperor and empress and their subordinates).
The dolls are not the everyday dolls usually played with but are ceremonial dolls, a heritage of the household, handed down, many of them, from generation to generation. They are displayed for a few days in the best room of the house at this festival time, after which they are carefully boxed and put away until the next year. Parents who are able to do so buy new sets of dolls for a girl baby born since the preceding festival, and relatives and friends make gifts of dolls.
Peach blossoms, symbolizing a happy marriage, are indispensable decorations of this festival day. The blossoms signify the feminine traits - of gentility, composure and tranquility.
A set of Hina-dolls usually consists of at least 15 dolls, all in the ancient costumes. The display also includes miniature household articles which often are exquisite artistic productions. The dolls most highly valued are the Dairi-sama, which represent the Emperor and Empress in resplendent court costumes of silk. They are attended by their two ministers, three kanjo (court ladies), and five court musicians. All are displayed on a tier of steps, usually five, from 3 to 6 ft. long and covered with bright red cloth. This stand is specially set up in the home only on this day.
The Imperial couple occupy the top step, the Emperor at the left of the Empress. Court ladies and banquet trays and dishes occupy the second tier; the other dolls are arranged on the lower tiers.
In the old days, on March 3 by the Lunar Calendar, all the people, men, women and children, made crude dolls of paper, and in making them they transferred their ill fortunes or sickness to the dolls. Gathering the dolls, they went together to a nearby brook or river, and cast them, bearing all their evils, into the water. It was thus an occasion for a family outing, just when the pleasant spring season started. Also the date which this festival is held marks the onset of spring.
Hina-matsuri used to be one of the very few occasions when little Japanese girls had their own parties. It was customary up to the prewar years for them to invite their small friends to these parties at which they partook of the sweets and food offered to the dolls. Sometimes they cooked and prepared the food and cakes to be offered to the dolls. They drank Shirozake, a sweet mild rice wine, on the occasion. The main offerings are small cakes - hishi mochi (diamond-shaped rice cakes) fruit-shaped candy, tiny white and red dainties of osekihan (glutinous rice boiled with red beans) and colored wheat gluten. The colorful air of both the dolls and the young girls add to the gaiety of this festival. Old country families still treasure their family hina-matsuri dolls and doll furniture which are preserved for centuries. Brides used to take their own dolls to their new homes.
Many interpretations are given about the festival. Families observe it to encourage filial piety, ancestor worship, loyalty, but above all is the love of children by Japanese parents, their joy and pride in them, and their desire to please them, and this love often impels poor parents to sell some of their belongings to buy dolls and decorations for the festival.
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Masa outstation ke Japan, sempat juga melawat host family junior kat Fukushima city. Lama betul tak jumpa Satou-san and family. Nampak uzur sedikit satou otousan. Satou okaasan pula sihat. Masih aktif lagi.
Kebetulan sempat datang menziarah, Satou okaasan ambil kesempatan serahkan patung hina "hand-made" yang dihasilkan sendiri. Tapi yang simple aje la. Terkejut juga sebab susah-susah aje dia buat semua ni.
Asalnya bila balik Malaysia terus nak tangkap gambar Erina dengan hasil kerja Satou okaasan ni, tapi baru sekarang ni berkesempatan:)
Satou otousan & okaasan
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| Tuesday, 20-Nov-2007 14:10 |
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Raya Openhouse cum Erina's Belated Birthday Party
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