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Y Saturday, January 17, 2009
Last firday, we celebrate pongal near the yishun sec school carpark at 1.10pm. At about 11.50pm, we went to help out with decoration. The boys help the teachers to tie up the Sugar Cane plant. And my friends were helping out to do kolam. kolam is made with decorative patterns with coloured rice. we need to mix the colour power to make coloured rice. My teacher called some of the parents to help out with the pongal. At about 1.10pm, the sec 1 tamil student came and the parents teach them how to do the pongal. Parents teach us to do two type of pongal. the salty one known as 'ven pongal' and the sweet one known as 'Sarkkarai pongal'. Ven Pongal is made up of Split Bengal Gram, grated Coconut , Ghee, Jaggery, Cardamoms, Cashewnut. 'Sarkkarai pongal' is made up of Raw rice , Grated Jaggery,Cashew nuts,Dry grapes ,Ghee. After that we teach the students how to do kolam. They also try do kolam on their ownself and then we teach them how to do "Thoranam" which is made from tender coconut leaf. Then the Ms Ng Ngoing Keng , Mr Apollos, Mr Jeremy Ng came and gave a speech to the students. After that the students went to have some foods. And then it was the end of the pongal celebration. The teacher told that Pongal is a harvest festival. Pongal means the "boiling over" of milk and rice . There are three type of pongal. The First day of pongal is known as 'Surya Pongal' and is dedicated to the Sun God. The Second day of Pongal is dedicated to cattle and is called Mattu Pongal. People offer prayers to the bulls, cows and other farm animals. Cows and bulls have always held a special place . Cows give nourishing milk while bulls and oxen help plough the fields.Thus, Maatu Pongal is a day when cattle are given a well deserved day of rest and are given pride of place. The Third day of pongal is known as ' Kanni Pongal'.In this day of festival young girls from all the houses in that street will dance in front of their relatives house so as to get their appreciation from them. The dance, which they perform, is KUMMI and KOLAATTAM. After explaining about Pongal, the student get to know more information about pongal. I just want to tell that i had a wonderful time with the sec 1 students.
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