Thursday, November 08, 2007

Happy Deepavali.

Happy Deepavali or Diwali, the Festival of Lights, to everyone! Sorry, don't have any suitable pictures to make a greeting image, ehehe. *paiseh* Kinda weird though, having so many colleagues celebrating it but didn't receive even a single invitation for makan (during Raya, even the security Uncle invited me and some other Malaysian colleagues, over to his home to menjamu selera). Perhaps they don't really celebrate it or I'm listed as one of the out-casts in the Company, ahaha... Whatever lah, tak kisah pun.

Until few days back, I still thought Deepavali was the new year celebration but its actually to commemorate the victorious day of good (Lord Vishnu) over evil, according to my PM. Its not the Epic of Ramayanan, though there's some similarity in the base storyline, in a way. And in India, the two occasions that are mainly celebrated are Deepavali and Pongol, the harvest festival in the southern region. Unlike the lunar calendar which is widely used by all chinese, each region in India consists of a different sect and each having different calendars, hence, multiple new years throughout the continent. Just got to know this the other day when travelling to the client's site with the PM.

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