Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to all Muslims.

As usual, this cat is decorated with a festive theme again.  The new thing for this year is the frame which surrounded the cat statue.

SiewPeng and Colin with the cat statue in Raya theme.

The squares in yellow and green are not puzzles but a type of food made of rice called Ketupat.

These are the Ketupats on the cat’s ‘hand’.

This year the cat is wearing a green head wear called Tengkolok (traditional Malay head gear for men), last year it wore the same thing but in brown.

And again I have seen this every year since 3 years ago, - the light.

It is a long public holiday this year because usually there are 2 days off for Hari Raya Aidilfitri and our Malaysia National Day (31 Aug) falls on the 2nd day of Hari Raya Aidilfitri, therefore a replacement holiday is given on the 1st Sept (3 days). That makes three days of public holidays in a row!

If it is a public holiday in your country, what are you doing today?

“Selamat Ari Gawai Gayu Guru Gerai Nyamai” (Happy Gawai day, long life, health and prosperity) to everybody celebrating it in Sarawak.

Since last Chinese New Year, this cat statue is surrounded by a square frame, now the frame was installed with lights and words wishing the Dayak happy Gawai Day.  Now the cat statue is wearing a brown cloth.  The cloth is the same as last year’s except the head accessories.

Close up look of this “big white cat”.

These are other decorations hanging around the cat.  We have saw it in Sarawak Cultural village and the long house.

How do you usually sleep on a flight?  This is what SiewPeng and I always do.

Sometimes, we are not head to head but head to shoulder.   We always put the seat’s handle between us in “up right” position so that we can have more space.

I am sure even after we get very old we will do like the old couple in the picture above.

When my camera is mounted on my tripod, the angle can be rotated is 90 degrees (horizontal - vertical and vice versa).  I rotated while the shutter was released.

I took the picture above with 8 seconds shutter speed.  The first and last 3 seconds are static and in between, it leaves the light trail.  I have not tried “Light in the Night” technique for quite some time.  You can find my previous light painting photos here (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Q&A).  I told myself to stop posting them until I have something new.  Yes, this is something new that I have just tried.

It looks like my touch light.

The camera was shaken.  How nice if the tripod is programmable and can rotate by itself.

If you look carefully, you will find that the center of rotation (the point that does not move in any rotation) is at one of the corners outside the pictures.  Next time, I will try to rotate it in the middle of the photos itself instead.

Here I end the Kuching Waterfront Fountain series until the next time I go there again.  And let me show you the related posts in this series:-

Part 1 - Kuching Waterfront Fountain.
Part 2 - with Square Tower.
Part 3 - Mini Waterfall.
Part 4 - Light Off.
Part 5 - Stopped.
Part 6 - Rotating. (this post)

Hope you enjoy them.

There is a cycle for the fountain pool to show different patterns of water dancing.  At that moment, I found 2 big contrasts.  - Static and Dynamic.

The fountain nozzles were stopped, but the surrounding was still moving.  Even their nearest water fountains were still spraying water.  Human, vehicles, birds were moving around, but the nozzles in this pool were as static as the “ground”.

My lung was also static because I hold my breath while I press the shutter button and wait for 8 seconds of shutter time, to prevent the shaking of my camera.

The nozzles were calm, and lined up with the red and orange light shined on their backs.

It was the turn of another pool to shoot the water taller than a human.  5 minutes later, this pool would be active again.

Sometimes, when we let our minds relax and stop thinking,  (it is actually hard to stopped our mind from thinking, because we keep too much unnecessary things in our mind), some great ideas will suddenly appear “automagically”.  And we can think of some solutions / ideas which we have never thought before.  Have you had this experience?

The water fountain needs a break to allow it to serve longer, same as our heart.