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Celebrating New Year - Orang Asli style
David is a regular columnist for local English daily New Straits Times and his ponderings are also published in The Expat, a favourite magazine for expatriate community living in Malaysia.
We visited Abang Sum, one of Outskirt Outreach’s co-founders from the Temiar tribe, and were pleasantly surprised to find the whole village celebrating New Year. According to Temiar calendar, New Year falls on 10th Jan and it’s a day when everyone eat, drink and be merry. Needless to say, we were quickly ushered into Abang Sum’s house for a traditional food binge with his wide circle of family and friends.
After exploring the village ground and more eating sessions around the neighbourhood, Abang Sum gave David a short blowpipe lesson; no animal was kill during the practice because the target was a banana tree 
Posted: February 1st, 2008 under View - Diary entries, View - Guestbook album.
Tags: Orang Asli