Bon Odori Festival pics~~~

These are the pics as promised. Sorry it was a bit on the late side, but still, its better than not posting any at all.
Enjoy~~~

p/s: The pics aren't placed in the order they were taken. There were some videos taken, but i couldn't be bothered to post it here...

The drum beaters ready for action... hold on. One of 'em got a broken arm! Talk about dedication to work!!!

Some VIP making the opening speech; "Aaa... Good morning..", he said. Odd

More ladies in Kimonos...

And the crowd goes wild! Not. This is the main stage and all of the visitors/participants as seen from the main building of the sports complex...

Some of the visitors chilling out

A tribute to the photographers (Amateurs and Pros). The event must've been a slice of heaven for them...

A shot of the evening sky before the event

A Japanese kid playing with the water-balloon-yoyo-thing

Some of the crowds which turned up in a Kimono or Yukata

Dancers and drummers getting ready for the event.

A tribute to the RELA officers. Without them, who knows how ugly the event could've turned out to be...

Some of the Malay ladies with kimonos posing with a Japanese lady and her daughters.

The main stage in the middle of the sports complex field.

Kawaii~~~ 4 Japanese girls striking a pose with their Kimonos. If any of you are reading this, please contact me...

More girls running around with their Kimonos

Another group of Malay ladies striking a pose with their Kimonos

The scene of the food-stalls area

Woah... more Malay ladies with Kimonos

Some old guy trying to attract customers to his stall...

Someone's balloon in the sky...

Bon Odori Festival (12/7/2008)

Had a visit to the Bon Odori festival at the Matsushita (or now Panasonic) Sports Complex yesterday. What’s Bon Odori? Go google or Wiki it. I don’t want to do some documentary here since I want to post as many pics as possible.

So here are the pics... Oh wait. Darn, I forgot to upload it to this laptop! DARN!
(I’ll hook it up later, but for the sake of things, please google it. I know there’ll be tons of pics of the event all over the net.)

By the way though, I didn’t join in the dance. Why? Well… one of the reason was i was too busy filming and taking pics of *ahem* KAWAI~~~ ladies in kimonos. Another reason was that we (yes, I didn’t attend it alone and no, I’m still a loser and the others we all male) had a discussion. Since no fact can be referred to for a concrete answer, we left and went home. But I did get a sort of souvenir, just for the sake of event. What is it? Find out when I upload the pics.

In case any of you are wondering why i don't update as regularly as you thought, well... in my current condition i just can't. I'll tell you about it later.

Bye.