Wishing You A Joyous Kaaamatan and Gawai Festival
Posted by Kuyat Nangka on 12:06 AM with 4 comments
Harvest Festivals is celebrated everywhere around the world to celebrate at the end of the harvesting season. With the bountiful harvest, farmers all around the world celebrate it with their own ways.
We are lucky in Malaysia we have 2 such festivals celebrated in Sabah and Sarawak. The harvest festivals in Sabah is called “Pesta Kaamantan” and celebrated on 30th May annually. In Sarawak, the harvest celebration is called “Ari Gawai” and celebrated on 1st June annually.
The similarity of both celebration usually starts early with gala dinner and beauty pageant such as Kumang Gawai for Sarawak and Unduk Ngadau for Sabah. During this pageant, young maiden from different local ethnics will compete to win to be crown as the winners. It is an honour for the headman of the village and the villagers if one of their maiden which joins wins the competition.
I’m proud that I was born in a multi ethnics families which celebrating all kinds of celebration. On this, I would like to take the opportunity to wish my family and friend who celebrating this upcoming harvest festival have a joyful kaamatan and gawai festival. “Kotobian Tadau Tagazo Do Kaamatan” and “S’lamat Ari Gawai, Gayu Guru Gerai Nyamai” from me.
Categories: Celebration
4 comments:
Sibu VERY crowded, very busy since lastweek... Should be quiet by this afternoon/evening, all back in their rumah panjai...
everyone will be ngirut in rumah panjang tonight!!
hahahhaa... mayuh utai bak wharf sibu. maneh amat urg bukai bak menua S'wak bisi cuti 2 hari. here no cuti cuti. Just now go to change my car tire, very kesian see the iban worker that can't go back for gawai since 2 years d. The problem was his boss does not want him to take cuti.
Hello,
I would appreciate it if you didn't simply grab my photo from my website and my blog without any permission, remove my watermark and copyright on the image and simply use it for your own purposes. Haven't you ever heard of copyright infringement, bro? I hope that you understand that this act of simply using other people's images without prior consent and credit ackowledgement is not encouraged. Please remove this image immediately. FYI, I have screencaptured your entire blogpage as evidence of copyright infringement should you fail to comply with this request. Thank you.
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http://sabahwarriors.blogspot.com/2010/05/happy-kaamatan-harvest-festival-2010.html
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