Good news for everybody! We’ve got a 3 days holiday starting from the 2nd of November (Sunday) to 4th of November (Tuesday). However, anybody know what’s these holidays are about?

It is the People’s Unity Day / День народного единство

This holiday is absolutely new in Russia. It was created in the year of 2004 to celebrate the liberation of Moscow from Polish trrops in 1612 (which marks the end of the ‘time of troubles’).

Even Russians themselves had ask for the purpose of this holiday. It was believed that the Duma thought that they need a holiday during the November (if not, it would be no holiday from June to January) after abolishing the Revolution Day (Nov 7th).

I know most of us do not have the holidays that our fellow Malaysians enjoy at home, but I think the absence of a school holiday would not diminish the spirit of celebrating Deepavali! Happy Deepavali for all and hopefully I got some kuih tomorrow!

The recent raya celebration in Hiroshima was a successful one. With Volgograd Malaysians increasing each year, it is hard to feed all those empty stomachs now! I believe most of us have a good time taking pictures and greeting each other. Maybe we should wait for the next event to come??