Rainforest World Music Festival 2011

Hmm, where should I begin? Alright, the first time I heard of Rainforest World Music Festival I had no clue of what were they offering. I watched it on tv years ago and I knew it was exciting, lot of fun, and it’s a heaven for music lovers (rainforest music precisely…). I started attending RWMF in 2008 and it was a blast! Without second thought, I promise myself I’d attend 2009 RWMF and ever since that, I made  3 consecutive pilgrimage to Cultural Village, Kuching. Hahaha…

RWMF 2011…with Bearmany, world cup fever remember??

This year around, please don’t be surprised if you see me in the midst of the crowd jumping and waving my hand in the air to the music…(exactly what I had done for the past three years albeit the muddy ground). Strangely, I forgot where I save my pictures from 08 and 09 visits (geeze..).  I didn’t realize I still had 2009 ticket inside my wallet as well!

RWMF 2009…RM 90

RWMF 2011…RM 110!!!

RWMF 2011 will be held on the 8^th – 10^th of July at Sarawak Cultural Village, Santubong. I’m coming to watch the second day performances (since I have to drive all the way from Sibu on the first day, and get back to Sibu on the third day every year hence, explains my one-day-only visit to RWMF). You can get your ticket from online here or you can go to their nearest counter at Tourism Board (waterfront, Kuching). Have I bought I my ticket? YEEESSSSS! Please, don’t miss this event as it exposes world class musicians and if you are really into music, you might want to try their workshop or just enjoy other activities around cultural village. Till then, see you on the second day of RWMF readers!!

You won’t realize your body moving to the beat and next thing you know, you’re sweating with mud all over your feet…

The coolest stuff ever!

What stuff? What is this? (wait and see…)

Hello there…it’s been awhile now. This time around, I had one of the most memorable Gawai celebrations with my family. Why, cause all my family members were here during Gawai this year. It’s probably two years ago since our last gathering and last week, we met again, older, wiser, and getting bigger…hahaha. So what is Gawai Dayak? Well, according to Wikipedia( yeah, I don’t know how to explain it and need help):

Gawai Day or Gawai Dayak is a festival celebrated in Sarawak on 1 June every year. It is both a religious and social occasion. The word Gawai means a ritual or festival whereas Dayak is a collective name for the native ethnic groups of Sarawak (and neighboring Indonesian Kalimantan): the Iban, also known as Sea Dayak and the Bidayuh people, also known as Land Dayak. Thus, Gawai Dayak literally means "Dayak Festival". Dayak would visit their friends and relatives on this day. Such visit is more commonly known as "ngabang" in the Iban language. Those too far away to visit would receive greeting cards.

There you go…so first of all, we had planned a family photo just to imprint the precious moment of all time in a frame and hang it on the wall.

It wasn’t allowed in the studio, but I don’t care…

We went as a big band and it took 4 cars to fit us all (such a huge family,gheehehe). This was our first family photo and the scary part was the tiny studio couldn’t fit whole of us in camera. Finally the photographer manages to arrange our position (after 10 minutes of waiting) and everybody gave their best pose...*click!  

Head count anyone?

So how was our Gawai this year? Lots of booze and karaoke session went on and 3 days on non-stop crazy celebration did take its toll. I almost lost my voice for a good few days and not to mention, doing wonder girls ‘Nobody’ dance at 4 a.m., waking up next day and remember nothing ‘bout it…(no! I would not expose my embarrassing photo here!)

I think it was a masterpiece song..hahaha

I must say we didn’t visit much but we stayed in the house, having fun with each other. Other relatives also stayed and celebrated Gawai with us to some extent there were 30 of us sharing one bathroom and a toilet! As for our outdoor activity, we went to Kubu Brooke in Julau swimming(although the river was knee-deep only) and strolling along the river bank.

Peace!!!

As my brother and sister going back to their respective workplace, I continue my journey to Kuching for a few days.

Taken using Samsung wave…

Beautiful sunset….

While staying there, I spent RM400+ on clothing and that was a huge amount of money! Nevertheless, I deserve a new shirt and short since Sibu didn’t sell up-to-date clothing (seriously…). Alright, back to the coolest stuff. It is a clip-on tuning device for guitar (my brother got it for me). The clip-on tuner provides an accurate reading with a bright back light, best suited when tuning is required in dark and noisy environment such as during a gig (whooaaa!). After tuning my guitar, I admit my guitar sounds pretty damn nice!!

Tuning in progress…

For more info, visit here.

Thanks for reading guys! Till then, enjoy this song(I’m so crazy about this song after gawai *karaoke mode)

Tanak Kampung by Jimmy Palikat