Every year wesak day sure is a busy day for me as i’ll be in Shah Alam Buddhist Society (SABS) whole day..well not really whole day la, until around 3 or 4 pm i think
but this year Wesak, i was at sabs from morning til night, (exclude the 2 hours of bathing and nap time) not sure what’s the reason, probably because it’s new, it’s really big, everyone likes to come and visit, so ppls keep coming non stop, so i just stay there to help a little lor
Wesak day is a day for the triple celebration of the birth, enlightenment and passing away of the Buddha. it was a big day for all Buddhist devotees, everyone will go to Buddhist temple to bath the Baby Buddha, so do i hah
planned to reach there around 7 but woke up at the time of 6.30 am, and it takes almost 20 minutes to reach there as the new SABS located in bukit rimau already but not sri muda anymore, so reached at 7, bring all my equipment including the keyboards, brother’s guitar,the keyboards holder..brought to the basement as we’ll be performing there
around 9.30 am(bathing baby Buddha ceremony), all 6 of us start to prepare by wearing the black colour ”haiqing” not sure what’s the name in english, and get to snap a few photos ah haha. and then when the thing start, 6 of us stand in front, i hold the lotus lamp, so did my bro, jiafen and the form 1 boy(not sure his name) hold colok, yeu yang and shu yi hold flowers, luckily the ceremony go on smoothly, it just that our steps not even aiks haha
right after that we go to the basement to prepare, i was quite nervous about the performance actually, we did rehearsal it the night before and i actually realise the PA system is not that good and it causes noisy sounds when we play the keyboard and guitar together..but luckily everythings go on smoothly
Mei Qi and Ron were the mc for the performances yesterday, i realise that Mei Qi was actually improving, glad to see her improvement…ahh.. like witnessing a child grow up, that kinda feeling is hard to describe in words haha.. well Ron is my new friend, get to know during the buddha statue consecration, his english is real powerful and he is good in hosting
before that i actually met my students in one of the kkbc’s kids group, he was preparing to go on stage for the drama and then suddenly he saw me and he looks so surprise and excited..kids are always like that, they feel paiseh or shock to see their teacher appear in any places (exclude the school) but i like their face look shock like that, cuz it’s cute hahah
salute those from intec,UiTM like Shengkai, Andrew,Yingying,Powchun and so on, they jaga stalls for the whole days! must be tired then. i went to powchun’s stalls and saw lots of forks and small knifes, and was like lelong-ing those equipments hehe..i bought a batch from andrew also
i stay there until around 4 something by helping in the counters, then only daddy feel like going back..aurrhh finally…
once reach home, i pengsan to the "lazy chairs"dunno what it call in english, straight fall asleep, plan to wake at 6pm but woke at around 6.45pm, i thought daddy should be coming back home d, but the FACT is…he still at sabs! my goodness.. but luckily i reach on time for the english dharma talk, can’t understand all, thanks to the translator Ron haha..
well..that’s how i celebrate Wesak day this year, honestly i feel quite touching, cuz SABS is really a very nice place, it become sooo big, after so many years of raising funds from the public..
i swear that i’ll continue to contribute as the sunday dharma school teacher(kids section) and continue to lead the youth section if i get the nearer University..but if i study outstation also i’ll try my very best to come back here every weekend
thanks for reading
Love for SABS,
Ashley_teng