Sunway Pyramid Wesak Fair 2012
Dear Students and Friends,
I have just received an mms update from Beng Kooi regarding Kechara’s Sunway Pyramid Wesak Fair… and I thought it would be great to share this event with all my blog readers!
This year, Kechara has a prime spot at the Sunway Pyramid Shopping Centre (huge and one of the major shopping complexes in Kuala Lumpur…has everything you need) to host our Wesak Road Show. The theme will be “The Joy of Sharing“, and it will be taking place Friday till Sunday (20/04/2012 – 22/04/2012). We are located right at the main entrance of Sunway Pyramid, with huge Kechara buntings placed on all 6 surrounding pillars of the concourse.
It’s Thursday night and many Kecharians are now busy setting up for tomorrow’s event. I love my Kechara people… they are always so dedicated, professional and efficient… working very hard to make every Kechara event a success. I like it not only because it shows their dedication to Dharma, but it has a deeper meaning to it, which is to bring Dharma to others.
There will be lots of activities lined up for the event, including performances on the main stage and games with prizes to be won! Some of the prizes include my blog merchandise hehe… Do bring your kids along as there will be many fun activities just for them!
KSA, KD, KP, KMP, KEP, beCause, MKC and KSK will also be there. Kechara Soup Kitchen have re-created a make-shift homeless shelter for those who would like to experience what it’s like to live on the streets!
Just like all of Kechara events, may this year’s Wesak fair successfully bring interesting events into the lives of many others. I thank Sunway Pyramid Shopping centre for their generous help, their cooperation and their genuine celebration of all the holidays in Malaysia in this case Wesak Day. Sunway Pyramid management are wonderful and helpful people to work with. I really really really appreciate them very much. They really promote ONE MALAYSIA.
Tsem Rinpoche
PS/ 2 of the blog team members will be there… find them to take pictures with BIG speech bubble quotes like these hehe (HINT: Scroll down to the bottom of the page!)
The grand entrance of Sunway Pyramid!
It’s a very big mall… and it keeps expanding as new phases are built every few years!
Sunway Pyramid at night.
On Thursday night, the mall closes… but the work for Kechara has just begun! 30 ft Kechara buntings are placed all around the centre court’s six pillars.
Kechara Discovery sorting out their Himalayan bags!
… a break before getting back to setting up hehe
Kechara Paradise setting up their booth.
Rehearsing for the actual performance… but what’s it for?? Come visit the fair and see them perform!
Friday 20/4/2012 – Saturday 21/04/2012
When you enter the mall, you are greeted by these stairs leading into the center concourse. This is where Kechara’s Wesak Fair is held at!
Multiple informative panels beneath the staircase.
… The view after walking past the informative panels.
These banners are displayed on all the surrounding pillars… Makes it very clear and easy to spot if you’re looking for Kechara’s Wesak Fair!
My blog banner hehe It’s very well designed by Cynthia.
Chinese panels for our Mandarin-speaking friends.
The itinerary for Friday, Saturday and Sunday!
The main stage was specifically erected for the event! In the middle of the concourse is a wishing tree…
The wishing tree invites people to pick any item and to purchase them. Kechara Soup Kitchen did this activity to raise the items needed for The Klang & Coasy Chik Sin Thong Old Folks Home, Persatuan Rumah Caring Kajang and Rumah Charis. They’re 3 worthy charitable causes to help…
Oatmeal is needed in one of the 3 charitable cause.
Do take a look at the photos below to see the response…
Kechara Saraswati Art‘s booth!
Lots of beautiful handmade handicraft from the only Tibetan art studio in Malaysia.
Kechara Paradise’s booth. They have plenty of different types of incense, wealth vases, roos, Dharma wheels…
Kechara Media and Publication’s booth! They have lots of Dharma book’s produced in-house.
Kechara Discovery’s booth!
A few of the beautiful malas…
Our seamstress Pat organizing the KSA booth before…
… people come!
BeCause is an initiative by Kechara House that does community service work. They visit old folk’s homes, orphanages, hospitals etc
Kechara Saraswati Arts displaying the beautiful colouring done by kids during the colouring competition at the Grand Setrap & Wealth Festival!
A drawing done by a kid…
Many parents bring their kids to colour at the children’s area. This cute little girl enjoyed painting her DIY bag with her mother.
A canvas bag drawing done by…
… Nicole!
This kid sure loves Mother Earth… how cute.
These two kids enjoyed playing the wooden blocks while their parents supervise them.
Things seem a lot bigger when you’re small!
This booth is for those interested in donating towards the running of Dharma classes.
Some people register themselves to receive wonderful updates on Kechara.
People visiting KSK’s booth to know more.
Kechara Soup Kitchen’s booth!
Right next to the booth above is a make-shift homeless shelter.
The public are invited to sit within the make-shift shelter to experience what being homeless is like.
Behind the make-shift homeless shelter is The Food Bank. Those who purchase items from the Wishing Tree will come back and put the items in here!
Lots of shoppers at Sunway Pyramid shopped for a good cause today!
Many people donate items with are essential for Chik Sin Thong Old Folks Home, Rumah Caring and Rumah Charis.
The Food Bank gets full fast!
Donating more Milo hehe
You can see items overflowing at the bottom of the Food Bank!
After it really cannot contain anymore food… it’s time to clear the items out…
… and hand them over to the respective charity homes! This lady in white (third from the left) is Wendy Yap, from Persatuan Rumah Caring Kajang. She runs an old folk’s home and also takes care of single mothers. She’s very happy to receive the food items from the Food Bank, and said that if more people were like KSK, her work would be much easier. I’m glad that we could help her in some way.
These two men are from the same home, Rumah Caring. According to Wendy, they were considered “failures in society”, but they both now help Wendy run the home. How wonderful that they now use their lives to help others.
Any Loke and Bean are a married couple who always help out during events such as these. Any is an emcee and Bin is good at the technicalities behind it! What a great combo.
A magic show called “Mysterious Magic”!
Young kids on stage performing “Songs of Harmony”.
This boy eagerly awaits his balloon-shaped animal! Hehe
Chris Seah performing a few songs.
Later in the day, the magician takes the stage again… this time he engages with the Sunway crowd!
Performing one of his magical tricks!
Something that was not on the itinerary was a Flash Mob!
A group of teenagers came on stage for an impromptu performance…
After performing on stage, they took their dance moves onto the floor. This really got the crowd going.
Line-dancing performance.
There are many women around Malaysia who enjoy line-dancing.
It’s a good way to keep your body active and healthy.
It was nice to have these ladies perform at our Wesak Fair.
Any Loke emceeing the lucky draw!
Mei Fong wants to see what he won hehe
Dotted around the concourse are bowls with quotes in them…
Is this your quote for the day? Hehe
From far, far away… Darth Vader and his Dark Side troops arrives!
Darth Vader doesn’t need an introduction…
… but Any Loke decides to… interview them?? Hehe
He wants to bring them over to the Dark Side!
Cute Jutika Lam taking a photo with a lady holding a speech bubble quote!
Many people running around expressing how they feel hehe
It’s fun to see everyone let loose, relaxed and having fun!
Pamela expressing how she feels!
Pastor Susan expressing how she feels!
Abby expressing how she feels!
Victor Phang wants to smell good!
Dr Lanse expressing how she feels!
Little boy and his dad expressing how they feel!
Pamela has a lot to say hehe
Yik Ming and family wants to join the Dark Side!
In front of Sunway Lagoon!
Straight from Wee Liang’s mouth!
Good quotes coming from the Dark Side?
Darth Vader turns peaceful… while his friend turns on him!
Star Wars taking people hostage!
Darth Vader’s softer side…
Sunday 22/04/2012
Children get to make their own potted plants.
Reaching for the top hehe…
This small boy certainly loves his Angry Birds drawing.
Our talented Magician certainly draws in a lot of crowd.
Going up close and personal, the Magician showing some nice magic tricks to entertain the kids.
Kechara Food Bank corner is overflowing with donated food stuff… it won’t stay this way, the hunger on the streets is endless…
May Woo presented a gift to one of Kechara Wesak Fair kind sponsor.
One of our young volunteers, Wan Hong explaining about KSK to a participant.
Our volunteers giving away free goodie bags to participants.
Scene 2 from the dance performance… the models represent all of samsaric’s deception that Milarepa had to face.
Scene 3 where Milarepa has already overcome all of samsara’s deceptions.
The casts in the short performance, Lee Swee Keong played as Milarepa and Eric Choong, who designed the gowns worn by all 4 models.
Capoiera performance.
The Star Wars characters are so well loved that one of Malaysiakini’s reporters wanted to feature them on his blog.
KH Ng presenting Mr and Mrs Pintor a Because T-shirt as a token of appreciation for their Capoiera performance.
The Star Wars characters posing with a few Kecharian that put extra effort to make this event a success.
Star Wars characters unmasked! The 501st Legion taking a picture as memory on their volunteering for our event.
Talented young Musicians performing for charity.
Dato’ Ruby handing over a box of goods representing the goods that will be donated to one of the homes from Because.
Kecharians having fun on stage with the blog quotes!
It was so fun, more Kecharians came in to join! hehePlease support us so that we can continue to bring you more Dharma:
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Here’s the video of the 501st Legion (Star Wars team) in action for the Kechara Food Bank charity drive: http://youtu.be/0Kfuk0EmIMQ?hd=1
Kechara organization event will also full of fun and entertainment. At the Sunway Pyramid event, special high light is our food bank organize by Kechara Soup Kitchen department. It create a lot of awareness from public help the poor who in at the street.Many people brought many supply like rice, milo,oat, noodle for the poor. Few charity home also get the benefit from food bank. Good job has done to serve many people from our Kechara Soup Kitchen.
Wow ! Very nice picture and update , I like the food bank which to create the awareness to the public , It will help attract more people to join the KSK and Kechara activities . Rejoice !
This is a meaningful and fun event with the whole family can enjoy it together.. So many activities in one day..
Please keep your eyes for next event from Kehcara as you dont want to miss it..
CONGRATULATIONS to all the organizing committee members, volunteers, friends and sponsors who helped made this event a success.What a fun, exciting and creative Wesak Fair!
Thank you, Rinpoche and blog team for sharing this wonderful updates.
Yeah! It was an amazing roadshow with its diverse events and great awareness for the Kechara organisation. I love the long tall banners and the amazing Food Bank. I dunno where Dato Ruby got that idea but it was certainly effective. Every evening, the bins were piling in with food. Thank you Sunway for doing all this.
The flash mob kids filmed their own performance and have uploaded it onto YouTube. Here is the link:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB7zxFWvGyI&list=UUGSCsYHVBYTcMKAJ5kN5pLg&index=1&feature=plcp
Kechara not only stole the show, but also showed many that doing Dharma can be fun, joyful and modern. Everything is soooo full of joy and love – Joy of giving and sharing. Whether you are a Kecharian or not is not an issue…… as long as you participate, you are considered as part of the family for giving, sharing and giving to benifit others, just like in all Kecharian events! Many thanks and appreciation to Sunway Pyramid Centre for providing the facility to make all these “Joys of sharing” possible. They are indeed caring and sharing like what our Guru, Rinpoche said in his master Blog,”Love is not getting what you want but giving what others need without agenda.”
這是三天的克切拉团体展銷會，與去年不一樣，因為我們走向服務社區活動為主。我們有當天第一次展示的糧食銀行、克切拉地球計畫、兒童遊戲學習空間和各式各樣的舞台娱樂活動。這個展銷會，是一個靈修的延伸空間，每個到來的新朋友們，不分種族，不分宗教，不管是大人或小孩；都盡情地享受著現場所提供的活動和每個特殊的學習天地。
克切拉的名字，在購物中心之間流傳著，它的特別之處在于不再局限於宗教的藩籬，沖破了这層隔膜讓大家體會的是人性本善的使然，是自在和無分別的。這是我在此次展銷會最大的感受。宗教不是一個距離，種族不是一種分別，所有的良善和本性隨喜的性格，每個人都一樣的，只是需要一個自由的空間讓它得以延伸罷了。
“宗教不是一個距離，種族不是一種分別，所有的良善和本性隨喜的性格，每個人都一樣的，只是需要一個自由的空間讓它得以延伸罷了”——赞！
今年的双威卫塞节，我感觉跟去年的不同。我超喜欢Star War星球大战的几个家伙，在克切拉的档口一点都不会格格不入，而且超酷！完全能跟Food Bank食物银行、绿色主题、灵修，哦，还有十几个年轻小伙子活力十足的嘻哈舞蹈融合！
Gambateh !
Thank you for the lovely info of the Kechara Wesak Fair at Sunway Pyramid. It was in a spectacular position, thanks to Kevin Tan’s assistance – on the lower ground right below the main entrance so that all visitors to the busy Mall would come in and look at the activities happening there over the weekend. The variety of performances and activities really gave people a different perspective of Wesak – which celebrated the Joy of Giving. People often associate Buddhism with austerity and silence.. this is a different presentation which shows that Buddhism can be joyful and fun – yet with the core values of giving and sharing. Thank you to all those who worked so hard over the weeks and months to plan for this and the volunteers on the three hectic days. It was a great time had by all! Thank you most of all to Rinpoche who shows us that with Dharma, we can be ourselves – but better!
First and foremost we would like to thank and congratulate Mr Kevin Tan and Sunway Pyramid Marketing team especially Ms Wee whom has helped and assisted very much in bringing together this event by sponsoring venue and many other things. All Kecharians who were at there helped and worked harmoniously to bring joy, love and kindness to all walks of life there.
We would like to thank all the committees and volunteers whom has came and helped to bring this event a joyous one for all.
Most importantly, we would like to thank Rinpoche’s blessing and the blog team for posting up all these beautiful pictures to share.
Nothing , not even the Dark Forces from Star Wars could dampen the spirit of Kecharians during the 3 day Sunway Pyramid Wesak event. I believe the Joy from sharing is all conquering.
I congratulate all the organising committee members, volunteers, friends and sponsors who had helped made this event a success. In particular Kevin Tan , the COO of Sunway Pyramid who went out of his way to accomodate us.
Last but the most important , we thank our Lama and Guru for blessing and inspiring us always.
非常有意义的活动，尤其是克切拉香积厨的食物银行，吸引了不少善心人士的随喜捐赠。
从精彩图片中感到克切拉人的热诚和努力！
Wow! Thanks Beng Kooi for all the exciting pics! A BIG THANK YOU to Sunway for having Kechara!!!
This is such a different Wesak fair. I like it very much because it embodies the qualities for Buddha’s teachings. There was so much love, kindness, harmony and care in the event. The energy was wonderful!
Thank you to Sunway Pyramid management team for their support in making this event a success.
Despite being the 3rd weekend of the month (usually slow on retail sales as most people had finished last month’s pay while waiting for the next pay cheque) Sunway Pyramid was packed with shoppers. The entire 3-day was busy for those who were on duty, but it was a good avenue to share our joy with so many people.
To those shoppers who so kindly donated to Food Bank, we thank you for your generosity and look forward to seeing you in Kechara!
This is fantastic – so lively, so unusual. I don’t think I’ve seen Wesak celebrated in such an eclectic way before – especially not with Star Wars characters from the “Dark Side”? Kechara certainly does it differently!
I wanted to also take this time to thank Sunway for their HUGE support not just in this event but continuously. Kevin Tan has been instrumental not just in supporting this Wesak event but is also a member of the education committee in Kechara. His lovely wife Michelle is also in edu comm, involved very much with the Manjushri Kids’ Class. So they are bringing Dharma to people on different levels – through education programmes, and also through shopping! Thanks Kevin and Michelle.
Well done to everyone involved. Those quotes are fantastic too – a great way for bringing the blog to people and sharing wisdom in a truly modern way – futuristic even, with Star Wars!
This is a fun and creative Wesak fair ! Kechara promote Care, compassion in fun ways. wisdom can be fun too.. 🙂
Wow that must have been wonderful!
Thanks Rinpoche! The photos and captions are funny! I’m a big fans of Star Wars also!! hehehe… ‘Star Wars taking people hostage!’ is my favourite photo 🙂
In H.E. Tsem Rinpoche’s blog, Rinpoche was kind to extend his appreciation to the management team of Sunway Pyramid. Actually, I am guilty of not doing enough to benefit others consistently. Instead, I am very gratefully to Kechara for giving any opportunity to benefit others. I, instead, is apreciative.
Wow, Darth Vader and his Dark Side troops coming to visit Kechara Wesak Fair at Sunway Pyramid!!
Basically, the black one is not darth vader, It is actually Tie Pilot… hope someone can change it before some of our members see this, especially our vader boss… thanks
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Today is the last of this year’s 3 days Wesak celebration. Come on over! Bring your family and friends
and join in The Joy of Sharing, 10 AM to 10 PM. Sunway Pyramid main concourse. U can’t miss it.
Looks amazingly fun. Thanks for sharing the updates and photos. See you guys later at Sunway 🙂
Thanks for sharing this amazing updates. All the pics all very nice!
Thank you Rinpoche, Beng Kooi and blog team for all the updates! The photos are really nice!! I especially the quote dialogs 🙂