Kaamatan 2009 – Outside the Hongkod Koisaan
hinugu, hongkod, kaamatan, koisaan, unduk ngadau, vogok June 8th, 2009For the fist time, I stayed until the closing part of the Tadau Kaamatan or Harvest Festival… on 31 May 2009. The final stage of the Tadau Kaamatan or State Level Tadau Kaamatan is held for two days… every year on 30 and 31 May. The district level Tadau Kaamatan is held during the month of May and the closing is held at Hongkod Koisaan, Penampang.
Me and a friend, Willy, went to KDCA’s (KadazanDusun Cultural Association) Hall or better know as Hongkod Koisaan (Unity Hall) at Jalan Penampang around 12PM. The highlight of the festival is the Unduk Ngadau or Beauty Contest which is held inside the Hongkod Koisaan.
Usually I attend the Tadau Kaamatan to see the stalls and watch the cultural performances held outside the Hongkod Koisaan. The events starts at the morning with traditional sports competition… not sure what are all of them but to name some, they are like mipulos (arm wrestling), migazat dukug, etc… When we arrived at the Hongkod Koisaan, most of the games have completed… we only manage to watch the mipulos for a while but it also quite pack with people… so we can’t get proper angle to take photos.
Then we went to take some bites… have not taken proper breakfast that morning, so it was brunch. We were looking for ‘hinugu vogok’ to eat but could not find any. We asked one of the Rela, and he said maybe they are no longer selling vogok this year… duhhhh… Vogok is traditional food for KadazanDusun bah… well probably they scared of H1N1… Anyway, since we can’t find our traditional food, we decided to eat western instead… KFC… to punish whoever bans those meals!!! 😆
More photos…
Five photos below are taken behind the Hongkod Koisaan hall… they are getting ready to perform inside the hall…
Stalls…
Catapult or Lastik… mamalastik…
Blow-pipe or Sopuk… monopuk…
Looks like the Digi’s yellow fat man was not around… He is replaced with this two Digi’s yellow nets…:lol:
Inside the traditional houses…
Langsaran… seen from bottom of the house…
The kids enjoying the langsaran…
No comment…
Traditional performances…
WiFi service around Hongkod Koisaan provided by MOSTI… Kementerian Sains, Teknologi & Inovasi Malaysia…
TYT arrived as we completed checking the stalls and tranditional houses…
Somewhere, there is one sad kid…
To be continued…
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June 8th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
1. What is that thing on top of the wifi setup?
2. u didnt see the kaamatan dog?
2. i discovered a new traditional dance, will blog about it later hahaaa
June 10th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
1. I have no idea Ben… but Disney answered it at the bottom…
2. no… but if i see it, i wont take any photo of it… too much story about it and i’m not in favour how it treated or dressed
June 8th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Hi Timothy, Thanks for your blog registration! 🙂
June 10th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Thanx sunsuron 😀
June 8th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
The thing above the wifi ap is the motorola wimax cpe aka wimax modem provided by redtone.
June 10th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Thanx for clarifying tat disney… i really don’t know wat was it except for the AP… i forgot about redtone… i thought it belongs to MOSTI 😆
June 10th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
OK it seems that thing is the Motorila CPEi 100 according to this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIFL5zytaDg
But when I googled (gizmodo, engadget and motorola site) it looked different there – black and boxish instead of looking like R2D2!
June 11th, 2009 at 12:34 am
emm… looks like the r2d2 model is an older model according to the youtube link… the blade or boxish is newer with smarter antenna technology…
now, if anyone wants to subscribe wimax, make sure u dont get the r2d2… get the blade… 😆 😛