Malaysian Celebrations

There are plenty of celebrations in Malaysia that I am still not familiar with. So when we are asked to list down all the Malaysian celebrations that we know, I was only managed to list down 20 celebrations out of 26. Among them are Mothers Day, Fathers Daay, Children Day, Teachers Day, Valentine’s Day, Labour Day, Isra’ & Mi’raj, Nisfu Syaaban, Nuzul Koran, Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Eid al-Adha, Gawai Day, Wesak, Thaipusam, Indian New Year, New Year, National Day, Maulidur Rasul, Mid-Autumn Festival (Moon Cake Festival) and Pongal Festival. However, some of these celebrations that I listed down are not very familiar with. Basically, I know about the existence and the date of these celebrations but I do not know the origin and also not very familiar with the nature of how they are celebrated. After a brief discussion in class on the various celebrations in Malaysia, I then got the rough idea about some other celebrations especially those which are celebrated by other races as well as in Sabah and Sarawak. They are Dong Zhi Festival, Bai Tian Gong (Praying to the heavenly God), Vaisakhi, Good Friday, Dumplings Festival, and finally Naw Ruz.
Then, we are divided into small groups to study about these celebrations and we are given certain celebrations to focus on. As for my group, which consists of 3 people, we are asked to find the information on Mothers Day, Fathers Day and Children day. So after class, we went to cyber café to find the information about the celebrations. We decided to divide the work between the 3 of us to make it faster. So, I myself was assigned to find out about Mothers day, while Faizura was on Fathers Day and Arifah was on Childrens Day. After gathered all the info, we then do a discussion that night to finish the work assigned. We divided the information of the celebrations into 3 sections which are the date it was celebrated, the origin and finally the nature of the celebrations. After finished with the typing, we printed them out and then, made a copy for everybody.