Swordie Bloggie

It’s May… and this is the month of fiesta in Sabah… the Harvest Festival or Tadau Kaamatan Festival month. District of Tuaran hosted the launch of the state level Tadau Kaamatan Festival on 1st May 2011.

The grand festival cum the closing of the state level Tadau Kaamatan celebration will be held for two days at Hongkod Koisaan  Penampang on 30th & 31st May 2011… and both days are public holiday. The highlights will be the final Unduk Ngadau  or Beauty Pageant. Winners from districts level Unduk Ngadau will be competing on that day for the crowning of the state Unduk Ngadau 2011.

As for the men… drinking will be the event they are looking forward. But I hope everyone will control or take care their drinking… the beer, tapai, talak, montoku or whatever you call it… don’t drink and drive… if you drink and drunk, keep calm and don’t drive… don’t put others in danger or trouble. And if you prefer to walk around the Hongkod Koisaan compound with your only bottle of beer, this leather beer holster is a good companion…  ladies, this is a great gifts for his birthday 😆 Your man will love this holster… 😛

Today is the national day… in any country around the world, national day or independence day is celebrated with a big celebration… fireworks, concerts, air show, marching… just anything to display the country’s achievement since its independence… after all its the country’s birthday… anniversary… 😀

But this year, for a month, the atmosphere is just not there… it’s hardly to see anyone flying the flag… you can count the number of cars displaying the flag with your fingers… I’m not alone, others in other parts of the country are also saying the same thing… what is going on? Izzit more worth to buy a 25th anniversary gifts for parents compared to buying a flag?…

Can’t really blame the people… two incidents during the Merdeka’s month have greatly affected the patriotism atmospheres… how could the leadership said it’s just a minor thingy when two principles of two national schools… one at north and one at south of semenanjung express their racist remarks to the students and teachers openly seem to be off the hook?!!!… Teachers just can’t do to that… Teachers can’t preach racism!!!… But here we have two school principles doing and preaching racism to the nation’s new generation… to the nation’s future leaders!!! Should we blame the people for losing their senses?… I don’t think so… the authority should have swing into action and punish the two immediately!!!… if they have done that, I’m sure the sense of patriotism will be very high…

This is the biggest shock of this year world cup so far… No country will expect going to the world cup, get thrashed then create a history… Well, it happen to North Korea… or Korea DPR.. when they were thrashed 7 nil by Portugal… 😛

This is what the Portugal coach (Carlos Queiroz) said who dubbed his team as Os Navegadores in Spanish… or The Explorers in English… “Fantastic, just fantastic. That was one of the greatest wins I’ve ever seen from the national side. Everyone’s over the moon”… yea, sure everyone is on the moon… except Korea DPR 😛

Os Navegadores is the nickname given to the team in honor to the nation’s famous wayfarers, Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco da Gama, who respectively reached and then rounded the Cape of Good Hope back in the late 15th century. This time, returning to the southern tip of Africa for their meeting with Korea DPR in Cape Town on Monday, Portugal’s modern-day pathfinders made some history of their own in racking up a 7-0 win, the biggest in their FIFA World Cup history.

Now, since Portugal has made their world cup history, everyone is wondering what is Carlos Queiroz’s coach gifts to his team?… Or is he going give gifts to his team only or give gifts to the whole people in his homeland… the Portuguese…? Is he going to take  Portugal to the final?… and probably win the FIFA World Cup 2010?… We wait and see…

The scores were netted by…
– RAUL MEIRELES (29′)
– SIMAO (53′)
– HUGO ALMEIDA (56′)
– TIAGO (60′ & 89′)
– LIEDSON (81′)
– CRISTIANO RONALDO (87′)