I can’t really say too much about this years Buddha’s Birthday aka Wesak (Vesak) Day … The one day I helped out and it happens to be the day it rained cats & dogs 
why oH why didn’t I do the Saturday shift when the weather was perfect?? … yes well, 姐 can answer that.
So as usual, this BLIA event was held at the Supreme Court Gardens. It was held earlier than usual again to avoid the rain (but that obviously didn’t quite work).
Again, I missed out on a lot of the entertainment. Well, that’s to be expected working behind the scenes…. But I watched the Lion Dance 
! I don’t really know what it is about lion dancing, maybe the cute lions, the entertainment factor or the music, but it seems to just draw in a crowd like the Pied Piper.
And now, just because I’m lazy and I’m not great at writing coherently, here’s some random things to note:
- The lion didn’t catch the orange!
- -tut tut- to the Deputy Lord Mayor, Michael Sutherland, for arriving late. But hey, I guess he was just running on Asian Time aka Rubber Time (Jam Karet)
- A big chunk of food and drink is consumed by the volunteers
- There were definate improvements from last year, namely the ‘Eating Area’ (they have one!)
- Summer on Saturday and Winter on Sunday
- I now know what Icey Ice is!
- A Macedonian Orthodox Wedding involves a lot of work (crowns, candles, bread, incence, vocal work of the priest, walking in circles? etc)
- People still eat Ice Kachang when it’s raining
