Lantern Fest
By Proshini Nadesan, (Petroleum
Geoscience 3rd Year 2nd
Semester)
More than 200 people released
Chinese lanterns into the sky Saturday night, lighting up the whole Oval Park
for The Lantern Fest, an event organized by Chess Club. Nirosha, Foundation
July Intake said she and her friends were very excited to create magical
moments as it was their first time participating in a Lantern Fest.
However, the Saturday night’s
weather was unforgiving when it started raining around 9pm, delaying the
lantern releasing and canceling few other activities that was planned to keep
the crowd entertained. Noor Ameera, The Project Manager said, if it rained
heavily, the Lantern Fest was to be postponed to the next day and the other
plan was to just give the participants their lanterns on Monday. There was 3
food truck serving western food and drinks around the Oval Park’s parking lot.
Despite the excitement of
participants, safety and environmental concerns surrounded the event and the
organizers assigned their members to follow the glowing lights and collect the
debris. “There were possibilities for the lantern to get stuck on trees and
start a fire. That is why we have fire extinguishers surrounding the parameter”
Muhammad Azim Azrai, Head of Department for logistic said. There was also
concern by the locals nearby about possibilities that the motorist on road near
the launch site maybe be distracted by the sight of rising lanterns.
Fortunately, there were no traffic problems and no fire reported.
The First Lantern to be released
Foundation Student’s releasing their first lantern
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