Dung Dung Cheng

I don't realize how much I love the Lion Dance until yesterday. I felt really down when I didnt even get a glimpse of the show in The Curve because of the sea of people, crowding the small area. Plus, I am not that tall so I was really at a disadvantage.

I have always loved the Lion Dance or the Dung Dung Cheng as I would like to call it. Chinese New Year is always being looked forward to for this particular reason. Watching it being performed is such a joy-rising experience. It gives me goosebumps and I love the sounds too. In fact, for the past 5 years, I've never missed watching it live - either at a hotel or shopping malls. If you see me in a crowd, you'd notice how excited I look, it's like I'm seeing it for the very first time. Tourists pun tak jakun macam saya.

I don't know when exactly I start liking the Lion Dance. As a toddler , just the sound of the Lion Dance is sufficient to make me cry for long hours. My mom said I have a faint heart. So they got worried everytime it's Chinese New Year because back then, our Chinese neighbours down the road would always hire the Lion Dance group to perform. So you figure out yourselves how hard a time I gave them. They had to put up with my cries and pleas to get away from the "bunyi dung dung cheng".

Because I was so mortified with the Lion Dance, it has always been used as a threat to make me behave or listen to my parents. Hehe Finish up your meal or dung dung cheng will come and get you. You do that one more time, I swear I will get the dung dung cheng. And it worked everytime.

But that was all in the past. Now, if they were to use that to pose a threat, I say, "Bring 'em on! I can't wait to see the Dung Dung Cheng!" :)