The picture of crowd taken by the TV live broadcast crews and projected on a big screen.  It looks like there was a door in the sky and the crowd appeared there.

On our left hand side.

On our right hand side.

Crowd far away.  They were late comers and were not allowed to enter to the limited space like us.  And the crowd group at both sides were getting bigger.  They were clever because they did not have to wait for so long before the event started, but they did not get a strategic seat.

Did you see similar photo somewhere?  This is a typical photo style on a National Day celebartion.  And this time, I have the opportunities to take this type of photos.  The elements are a flag as a foreground, a kid turning her head back facing the camera, adults and the event scenes as the background.  Unfortunately, the kid was not looking at my camera.

Yayasan Sarawak building was just right behind the stage across a road.

The sky was still blue, they still haven’t finished setting up things.

The police station on my right hand side across a street.

The stages.  Many times, there were someone in front of me holding up his camera or her mobile phone while blocking my view, they all went into my camera.

Can you see there were a lot of flags on top of the “beam” of the stage?

The light in ball shape and the flag holders around it.

Wow…  This is my 11th post on Malaysia Day Celebration in Kuching on 10 Oct 2009 (Saturday) at Padang Merdeka or “The field of Independence”.  2.5 hours of waiting and 2 hours of the programmes on the stages had almost fully taken up all my camera memory card’s space (8GB but only left 100+MB).  And for the past two weeks, you can see I had only written about the Malaysia Day.

This will be the last time, Malaysia Day is celebrated on a working day.  Our government has announced a few days ago that starting from next year ( 2010) onwards, Malaysia Day will be a public holiday to commemorate the establishment of the Malaysian federation on the 16th September 1963 where Malaya, North Borneo (Sabah), Sarawak, and Singapore joined to formed Malaysia.

Let me list out all the posts:-
46th Malaysia Day Celebration in Kuching - Part 1
Part 2 - Before the Event Started
Part 3 - The Flags
Part 4 - Speeches
Part 5 - Dance from Sabah
Part 6 - Dance from Sarawak
Part 7 - Dance from Peninsular
Part 8 - The Marching Band
Part 9 - Stage Performances
Part 10 - The Media
Part 11 -  Surrounding Us (this post)

Should I make it a dozen?  I have got the 12th post about Malaysia Day 2009 ready but I am still thinking of whether I should post it because it is the negative thing of the event… …