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On Friday November 26 Pagnia Xiong had her concert in North Carolina, I was fortunate enough to attend the concert and also bought a VIP table. I dragged a few friends along with me and I thought this concert was well worth it. I had a grand time although we did miss the first hour [...]

Here are the first two dances by my cousins on the first day of the Georgia Hmong New Year. When my aunt had burn the CD for the dance they somehow messed up on the burning and the vocals to both of these two songs/dances were not recorded. Even with the problem with the songs [...]

Here are photos from day two of the Georgia Hmong New Year. Again this year there wasn’t many performers and not many people showed up but regardless we still made the best of it and had a great time. My two cousins, they are wearing the Hmong strip outfit, two of the dancers from the younger group. [...]

This weekend was the Georgia Hmong New Year 2010-2011 and I’ll have to say, we had a blast!!! The New Year this year wasn’t eventful and big as last year but we still had a great time overall. There wasn’t a special guest and not a lot of performers this year. I believe there were [...]

During the Hu Plig Noj Peb Cuag ritual we have to kill a few chicken for dinner and then use two chicken for the soul calling, a male and a female and then we also use a rooster for the xwm kab which is the offering chicken for our ancestors. During this ritual only chickens [...]

Every year a chicken ceremony happens before the New Year celebration begins and each clan or village (for our case it’s the Moua clan) participate in a very special and important ceremony called “lwm qaib” which means, well honestly I cannot translate it, but the process of lwm qaib noj peb caug is when all [...]

Okay I promise I am really done with my outfit!!! I was finished putting everything together including sewing it into the shirt and apron but I haven’t been able to bead and put coin on my waistband for my Hmong outfit and finally was able to finish it up today. It took me a total [...]

My friend from NC came to visit me and we went on a nature hike at Buford Damn at Lake Lanier, I wish I had better shoes and some shorts on, but pity I didn’t. I had sandals and a pair of skinny jeans on, boy was I an angry woman! I love nature walks [...]

I know I had been blogging about my trip a whole lot, I promise, it’s almost done. I actually have lots of music to share, but its hard to share when my laptop isn’t so friendly with me lately. My volume on my laptop has not been working for me so I will have to [...]

One of my favorite place I went to during my MN trip was the Como Park Conservatory, call me weird but I enjoyed the conservatory very much. It was very educational and fun all at the same time. The best part about it is that the conservatory was free to go in, donation was appreciated [...]