Tapestry of Culture

Went to state MCW (multicultural week) on Friday. Well, this event was actually to officially open the MCWs of all the unis in WA. It was nothing much, but I suppose it was meant to be just an opening ceremony. The highlight of the event was (for me) the cultural dress parade led by the Brazilian Carnival drummers. Oh and the title was the theme of this launch.

chinese ochestra

brazilian carnival drummer

And there was several awards given out.

After that there was the Irish Riverdance performance. Quite amazing. They really need a lot of strength to dance and you can really see them breathing quite heavily. Go youtube or sth to see samples.

And after that, after much self-encouragement and persuasion, I finally had the courage to ask random people (and some not so random people) to let me take a photo of their cultural costume that they are wearing. Eh, not easy k. I have to sort of stress that it’s the costume I want, and not them so as not to sound like a pervert.

Malay -baju melayu & Thai

Chinese-qipao & Vietnamese

Malay/Indonesian-baju kebaya

Indian-kurta

(West) African & Kenya

Chinese-qipao, Japanese-kimono, dress & Indian-saree

And this one, I thought one of them was a cultural dress so I was like ‘so which country is this dress from?’ and she was like ‘oh, this is just a dress’ ‘oh (shit)..*fake laughs…looks cultural though (wth am I saying)…and wat about you?’ points to next person..=.=

Dutch

African

Indian & Malay-baju kurung

Indian, Pakistani-Salwar kameez? & Indian

Indian

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(Information from wikipedia- THE encyclopedia).

After that, some of us from UWA went to eat dinner at Northbridge. On the way there, took some photos…the city was packed (it’s a Friday night).



Now, ‘wagged’ work coz somehow I got sick…