(Far left) A view of the moon bridge at Selangor Japan Friendship Garden in Shah Alam. Photos: SS KANESAN/The Star
A burbling stream and traditional Japanese tsukubai basin are among the elements featured in the Selangor Japan Friendship Garden in Section 14, Shah Alam.
The Japanese-themed garden, which spans 2.42ha, has been welcoming visitors from near and far for about a month now.
On a Friday evening, a few office workers were spotted sitting on a bench and watching koi fish swim under the water lilies.
Friends Nor Fariza Mohamad Norzan, 27, and Farhana Taiban, 23, have made it a weekly ritual to take a walk in the garden, appreciate nature and just relax.
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Edna O Brien
In Edna O’Brien’s “Irish Revel,” Mary is a 17-year-old girl who’s been invited to a party in town. She dons a black dress that belonged to no one in particular in her family but came to her small farm home in Ireland all the way from America. It’s a dress she considers special for a special occasion.
She undoes her braids to reveal the crimped hair she may have deemed fancier than her normal straight locks or the braids themselves a style to keep the hair out of her face while she tended to her baby twin siblings or the many chores on the farm. Her efforts to look special or fancy go unnoticed and she can’t shake the image of the “mountainy” girl assigned to her by the other girls at the party.
President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, attend Mass with their families before the presidential inauguration at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2021. (CNS/Reuters/Tom Brenner)
Editor s note: The Jan. 20 Mass in Washington, D.C., on Inauguration Day morning was closed to the public, but the pastoral associate for liturgy and director of music ministries at the St. Matthew s Cathedral, who helped plan the liturgy, shares here the music, readings and prayer selections. Others involved in the planning of the liturgy included the presider, Jesuit Fr. Kevin O Brien; the rector, Msgr. Ronald Jameson; the parochial vicar, Fr. John Benson; and members of the Biden-Harris inauguration committee.
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