Wesak Day Malaysia 2010

Ou my Buddha

Is another year of Wesak. Mr Today skipped helping up in FGS this year and joined the largest Wesak celebaration in KL Brickfield: Buddhist Maha Vihara.

Knowing that our prime minister Najib would be there in the morning, Tom and i went to there around 5 or 6. First was for the purpose of skipping the crowd, second was to witness the decorated floats at night.

It was a sunny day, but not until around 5pm. The sky rained heavily and we were on the way to Brickfield via monorial. Keep hoping and wishing that "Ah Sky" and "Ah Dragon" would stop the rain so that the possession could be carried on later.

It was still raining one after another while we reached the temple. Instead of being affected on the unpredictable weather, the crowds and happiness of every Buddhist didn't deteriorated. Some of them bought lotus, some of them bought flowers, some of them received blessing from the monk.

Mr Today and Tom brought our hearts and wills to this meaningful day.

The street of Brickfield was blocked few days in advance for this event. Stalls and vegetarian hawkers were being set up in both side of roads. They were mixed of Indian and Chinese hawkers along the street. Never had this scene before.

The floats started around 7. It was in time we arrived there around 5. It took times for us to shoot photo, loitering around the temple, praying, and took dinner along the side. The bad was we used two polystrene for the dinner plates. So, next time remember to bring own container :p

According to the report of News, there were about 30 floats took part in the possession. They were consisted of Buddhist society all around the Klang Valley.

Initially we didn't plan to finish whole the possession. Thinking the route was too long, departed from Brickfield to Bukit Bintang through Petaling Street, Bukit Nanas, Jalan Pudu. It was 12km long.

We started to shoot photo on every floats at Brickfield. After that we chased the floats from the last one to the first float, just like how the fan chasing superstar from one street to another street. Without knowingly, when we managed to chase back to the first float, we were already in Bukit Bintang. Phew. It was really fast.

Along the road, devotees voluntarily provides us drinks, candles and flags. This made us feel embarrassed on ourselves if we stopped half way on the possession.

Ok la.. Then we said to ourselves that no matter how we also must finish it. Under the name of Buddha, we joined the crowds and marched back to Brickfield.

If you asked me"would u feel tired?" , I would say"not at all".

If you asked me "is your leg like wanna break after 12km", i would say"no also.. i have my new sport Oasis shoes" :P

If you asked me "will we join again next year", i would say "yeah. Why not. It was fun when walking in crowd"

When reached Brickfield, it was approaching 10 at night. It was time to say "Goodbye" to Siddharta Buddha. We returned the goodwill of whole journey to ourselves, people who need it and the world for staying peace.