Chinese Orchestra Night

This is really a wonderful coincidence! Uncle Tiong, my dad's best friend bought four guests of honour tickets and were ready to watch it. I was not so sure whether he had been so sincere to watch it or not as most of the people would feel bored about. Anyway, he thought everything would turn out as planned, at least from his conversation with his naughty boy.

Then, it's the long school holiday that lasts for two weeks. They then changed their mind out of sudden to cancel their initial plan of watching the concert and went back home in Semporna! Uncle Tiong then raised his invitation to us to have the tickets! What wonderful chance! of course we were so excited and went to that concert. They splitted our group to two-by-two, so we would have chance to watch both the days. The first day was held on 1st of June, 2011 and the second was 4th June, 2011 which was the day we heard from Kevin that he would be transferred to Sibu right after he went to Singapore for visa run =( Anway, it went like this: parents went to the first session and children went to the second session. So it would be equal chance but not really the same as the first session, not the entire Sabah Ochestra Clubs were playing, so it sounded like the second was the most grand concert.

They have played lots of musics and most of them originated from Mainland and Taiwan. Of course, if the independent schools don't apple polish the governement, it would naturally show that they are going against them. Well, I don't have comment on this!

The most important point I was there because I do love chinese orchestra musics and have always dreamed to be one of them but because of my brother, I didn't join =( It was a miss that I didn't bring along the camera! What a MISSSSS! Anyway, I found out that Malaysian Chinese still have hope to cultivate their traditions here. But for me, probably I've been suppressed for toooo looonnnggg, I would chooce to leave this place and start all over in other places.

Particularly, I'm happy to learn how to sing this Kadazan's traditional harvest folk song. The following is the lyric that I want to remember:

Pak pak kang kudo
Sumunsui dot jambatan
Jambatan dot tamparuli
Pakasut tinggi oku

Silakan nodi kasutku
Naratu lod jambatan
Tinggal po dot sutakin
Nowitku ginumuli

Ontok do hari tiga
Tomu lod tamparuli
Mingusuk po hilod kadai
Mogihum dot kasut tinggi

I wish this song will be remembered and the language will not disappear as I know that this kinds of language is endangered because they have replaced their mother toungue with malay!! This is very sad!! And I hope that somedays later people will do some significant studies to make sure this language will be protected against the adverse deprivation effect created by people and environment!