Malaysian Celebration

During this lecture hour we had a brainstorming activity concerning the various festivals and celebrations we have here in Malaysia. Together we had come out with about 36 celebrations that later were categorized under cultural celebrations, religious celebrations, and others.

Interestingly, most of the festivals fell under the religious category such as Hari Raya Aidilfitri and Christmas, followed by those related to cultural practices like Lantern Festival and other events celebrated nationwide such as the National Day and Valentine’s Day. Having them written down in our list, Dr. Edwin grouped us to complete a reading passage on one celebration for each group. I worked with Nurulhazhan and Siti Fariha to come out with an article about Hari Raya Aidiladha.

We e-mailed the first draft to the class representative for compilation and after the lecturer reviewed our first draft of the article, we were asked to add more information and compose it in the form of paragraphs for each subtopic. These include the date of celebration, its origin, the nature and practices during the celebration and the greetings as well. After refining it twice we inserted some photos in between the details and complete it before submitting the full article.

From this activity, we were able to discover other celebrations that we never know existed or celebrated by certain ethnic groups from certain religious practices in Malaysia, Naw Ruz and Onam, for instance. Apart from that, I gain more knowledge about all the festivals because each of us has a copy of the celebrations as reading materials that surely comes handy for our classroom teaching in the future.