Chinese New Year&Deepavali&Hari Raya Celebrations (NE)

On 12th of February, we celebrated Gong Xi-Deepa-Raya as a school. It was unique to celebrate these three greatest festivals of Chinese, Malay and Indian altogether. There was a concert formed up by the performances of different races in the hall. All the Chong Boonites together with the school staffs gathered in the hall to celebrate this annual event.

The purpose of having this celebration was to demonstrate the racial harmony in our school as well as in our nation. Since Singapore is a multi-racial country, we live in harmony with other races and are keen to celebrate other races' festivals. This is important as it helps us to know more about the culture of other races.

The concert was divided into three categories, which consist of Malay traditional dance, Indian cultural dance and Chinese modern dance. There was also lion dance performance in the concert. The performance brought vitality and bless to all of us and the lion was gratifying which made us laughed in delight. Besides that, the Chinese modern dance was incredibly well-performed. The dancers danced in enthusiasm and was well-rehearsed. The dance they performed was full of energy. The Malay dancers had performed their culture dance elegantly. Their movement were graceful and the dancers had showed the dignity of their culture dance.

Lastly, we have the Indian cultural dance members to perform the Indian dance. The costumes of the Indian dancers were incredibly unique. It consists of beads and golden rings which had displayed the splendour of Indian culture. The Indian dancers performed in a wild and vigorous manner. The climax of the concert was the dance performed by the teachers. Teachers were dressed in costumes of different races and they performed enthusiastically. All of us were impressed by them and they brought laughter and joyous to this special festival.

I enjoyed the concert very much and was truly engrossed to every performances that were performed. I am looking forward to next year celebration and I hope it will as spectacular as this year.