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Location: Kek Lok Si Temple, Air Itam
Contact: 04-8283317
Organizer: Kek Lok Si Temple

Schedule:
Feb 7th – 7pm – Opening Ceremony
Feb 8th to Feb 12th – temple open to public 8.30am to 5.30pm only
Feb 13th to Feb 15th – temple will be light up from 7pm to 7am
Feb 16th to Feb 28th – temple will be light up from 7pm to midnight
Feb 29th to March 13th – temple will be light up from 7pm to 10pm

Voted as no. 4 “Must visit places in Penang” by VisitPenang website readers, this 119 years old Temple of Supreme Bliss is the focal point of Chinese New Year fesival for the Chinese community in Penang.

During the Chinese New Year celebration, thousands of devotees turned up for the annual lighting ceremony at Kek Lok Si Temple in Air Itam.
Starting from Chinese New Year, Kek Lok Si Temple will be light up every night at 7pm until midnight to symbolize peace, luck and prosperity.

Approximately 230,000 light bulbs and 10,000 lanterns light up the temple every night for 33 days in conjunction with Chinese New Year. Making this 120 year old temple one of Asia’s most beautiful temple.

The Kek Lok Si Temple (Penang Hokkien for “Temple of Supreme Bliss”) is a Buddhist temple situated in Air Itam in Penang and is one of the best known temples on the island.

The temple is a focal point of festivals of the Chinese community in Penang. The Chinese New Year celebrations are particularly impressive: for 33 days following Chinese New Year, the temple remains open until late at night whilst thousands of lights turn the scenery into a sea of light.

It was all red with excitement on Armenian Street, Cannon Street, Chulia Street, Soo Hong Lane, Ah Quay Street, Quay Street, Kampong Kolam as celebrations for the Chinese Spring Festival or better known as Chinese New Year were held on this heritage trail of Penang. There were cultural and historical displays along the streets, showcasing Chinese culture which is quite an eye opener for me as well.

Happy Chinese New Year!!

Location: Kek Lok Si Temple, Air Itam

Time: 7pm

Contact: 04-8283317

The annual lighting up ceremony of one of Asia most beautiful temple will be held at 7pm on 21st Jan 2009. The 119 years old temple will be light up for the next 33 days.

Organizer: Penang Chinese Clan Council and the Clan Associations Youth Committee

Contact: Leong Ho Fai 012-4052934, Lim Hock Chuan 012-4052465 or Ang Tong Kai 019-4138738.

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Locations: Armenian Street, Cannon Street, Chulia Street, Soo Hong Lane, Ah Quay Street, Quay Street, Kampong Kolam

This year 2009’s Chinese New Year falls on 26th of Jan 2009. It is a public holiday in Malaysia.

The Penang State Government is collaborating with the Penang Chinese Clan Council and the Clan Associations Youth Committee in organizing the Chinese New Year Cultural and Heritage Celebration 2009. The event will showcase the richness of the living heritage in Malaysia in line with our status as a Unesco World Heritage City.

The event, to be held on 1st February 2009 from 12noon till 12midnight is spread out along Armenian Street, Cannon Street, Ah Quee Street, Acheen Street, Soo Hong Lane and Chulia Street.

Location: Campbell Street, Penang

Organizer: Penang State Government

Contact: 04-6505136
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To make the coming Chinese New Year a grand and joyful one, the State Government is organizing a Chinese New Year Open House at Campbell Street on 29th January 2009 from 6.30pm to 10.30pm in the company of several cultural shows, such as lion dance and chingay performance.

More of these cultural performances would not just be educational and interesting for our visitors from near and far. It would provide a platform for the performing arts to progress further. Furthermore, it would also amaze our visitors with how well we preserve our individual cultures and at the same time we continue to progress as Malaysians!

Tomorrow will be the first day of the Chinese Lunar calendar or better known as the first day of Chinese New Year! By today families from all over the country would be gathering at home for a reunion dinner. A very meaningful season which signifies the beginning of good things for the year, and also emphasize on the importance of  family.

Together with this new year,  Penangite.net will be relaunching with a new look, new content and more updates after a long cold season. However a new season does not always promise good things as there was a major hiccup yesterday whereby all the content I just posted up mysteriously disappeared and Wordpress reverted back to it’s default install state.  Seeking the help of my webhost Exabytes was rather futile as well, as all they could identify was a database error, which logically would not cause a total roll back of the database’s content.

With that followed a whole slew of spam comments! Are the two related? Was Penangite.net hacked? I’m guessing a big MAYBE, but as usual, not much help to be had from Exabytes, but then again who would admit to having their servers’ security being compromised, that’s just blatant bad publicity, I guess the truth is IN THERE, what do you think?

Signing off for now, Penangite.net wishes the Chinese community of the country and all over the world a Happy Chinese New Year, and for the other communities happy holidays!!