Bon Odori 2007

Last weekend I attended Bon Odori festival at Matsushita Corp Stadium, Shah Alam. Bon Odori is a Japanese Buddhist festival to honor the departed spirits of one's ancestors. In Malaysia it is not so much associated with Buddhism but more with Japanese culture.

Visitor can only enter to the stadium after 5pm and the dancing celebration only start 7pm. To make sure I got a parking space not far away from the entrance, I reach Matsushita Stadium around 5:15pm and I already have to walk so far before reach the entrance.




At the entrance , visitor are given a fan to cool down a little under the hot sun. Look at the amount of fan they are giving away. Ohh yeah you can't wear high heel to the stadium.



Since the dancing only start 7pm, what do you do between 5pm to 7pm. Well these is what you do eat, eat and eat. Yep, there are foods everywhere.



In the middle of the stadium is the stage where the drummer and dancer going to perform.

About 6:45pm everyone is getting ready for the dance to start. The dancer and the drummer all posing near the stage for people to take picture.

They are so many Pro-photographer with their bazooka camera. Make my D40x look like water gun only.
When the dance start everyone at the field dance along. Everyone look so enjoy, specially those next to the Japanese babes .....hehehehehe.....


Few more photos






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Update on my Pothos project

Few months back

Now,

As you can see the jelly stuff grow better then plain water.

Cloud

Usually don't have a chance to see daylight after work. But few day back, have to rush back for dinner and saw the beautiful sky, so I used my handphone camera to take this photo. Too bad I don't have my Nikon D40x.

My other camera accessories

Camera cleanning set. Bought from Foto Selangor for RM20.

Raydawn rubber lens hood also bought from Foto Selangor cost about RM25.

Sakura Tripod bought long time ago along with my Olympus mju-400

Camera bag

My Nikon bag. Small and easy to carry. Can't really put much stuff in it, just the camera, extra battery and silica gel.

My other cheap bigger bag. A lot bigger than my Nikon bag. Used it to carry my charger and accessories.

Home make dry box

Due to low budget. Buying a dry cabinet or a dry box is out of question for now. That is why I make my own so call dry box. Since I'm making one , I'm going to make a big one that can fit all my camera equipments including those items that don't need to be dry. Like the camera bag, cleaning set and others.

A dry box is actually an air tight box with hygrometer and dehumidifier. We should keep the camera equipments under 40%- 55% humidity (recommended).

This is the box i purchase from Carrerfour for RM20. A proper dry box should be air tight but this is not a air tight box. Can't find one air tight box that can fit all my stuff. This will do for now.

This is the digital hygrometer I bought from pet shop for RM30.

It has a remote sensor that I can put inside the camera bag where I stored my D40x. This way i can monitor the humidity inside the bag too.

This is an analog hygrometer also bought from pet shop that cost only RM9. I used it to monitor the humidity of the box.

These are the silica gel (dehumidifier). I put this inside my camera bag where I keep my camera. to control the humidity inside the bag. It cost me RM4 each pack.

This is another dehumidifier - Thirsty Hippo. Contain calsium chloride that absorb vapour.

I got enough dehumidifier to keep my room dry... wahahahahhaha.....

With this set up. I can keep the humidity between 40%- 55% even without an air tight box. Once the humidity go more then 55%, is time to change the Thirsty Hippo.