Whilst Perkim had previous experience in organising similar events for non-Muslim, the anxiety this time around was caused by the recent Perkasa event, so in assuring us they will do their best Perkim actually assured us that they fully respect the Chinese culture and furthermore they would not wish to see anything counter-productive to what they set up to do.
It turned out to be a very successful event, the atmosphere was so fantastic that the crowd quite forgot about the hot sun in lining up for the food, rushing for the angpow including the cash sprinkled down by the performer of the lion dance on pole. Whilst a group of the children was enjoying thier telematch the other group was struggling to beat each other in the Chinese chess.
TBMRA set up an information booth hoping to generate stronger interest in our activities, but certainly the pull of the angpow & food by Perkim; the excitement of the Chinese chess competition were certainly too much for us to match.
