Here are two images I had taken for my advance portraiture class, these two are my Fantasy Photoshoot. I had dressed Cindy up in the White Hmong pants outfit and took the pictures from there. I had taken these images over Thanksgiving break and did not capture many good photos, but I guess two is good enough.
I just got back from the North Carolina Hmong New Year late last night and was super tired, although I did sleep in the car during that 4 long hours in the car, I was still super tired! anyways…
First off, how was everyone’s Thanksgiving? Mine was good, I had a good time spending it with the family! My whole imediate family was there which includings our family and my dad’s younger sister’s family and my dad’s younger brother’s family. We had pho on Wednesday night, yumm! then on Thursday morning we had brunch then for dinner we had Turkey! My mom’s yummy turkey! We took some photos, I’ll post them once I finish editing them!
anywho….
I was at the North Carolina New Year Celebration on Friday and Saturday, just got back home late last night and still is super tired from the long drive and the tiring days. I was dressed up on Friday for about ummm, I say 2 hours, then my feet was starting to hurt because I was in high heels and the rocks were not doing so well on my feet and it was very windy and cold so I gave up on it and changed to something nice and warm. I pretty much just walked around the new year and then spent the majority of my time watching the dance competition and then we headed to my aunt’s uncle’s house and spent the night there. I actually went out with a friend of mine and then met up with two of my Georgia friends, in fact I saw a lot of Georgia people!
Day two for me, but day three for the celebration, I didn’t do much, I got there saw, two of my friends, one of them is considered my sister in law, and we talked for a bit then went down to the entertainment area and met some people and then we all split up. I pretty much just stayed around the entertainment area and just watch the end of the dance competition and also the guy’s handsome competition LOL… I thought the winners were well deserved between the two competitions.
As always the food there was great! Hmong sausage with purple rice and peppers and papaya, yummm! thats what I always end up eating when I am at Hmong events! LOL
So I stole these pictures from Nye Noona since I didnt bring my camera I wasn’t able to take any pictures. Click here for her entire post.
Here is another dance performance by my cousins at the Georgia Hmong New Year. The name of their dance group is “Ntxhais Hmoob Yaj Siab”, these girls are in the age range of 8-13.
THey danced to Kos Lis and Suab Nag’s song “Nkauj Toj Siab Nraug Huav Nroog”
Enjoy!
My lilttle cousins danced for the Georgia Hmong New Year and I thought I should share their dance. The girls ranged from age 5 to 13. In this dance, it was a total of two groups combine together. These girls did a great job for their age, if they continue dancing, they will become extremely good dancers and I cannot wait til these girls gets older and show their skils!
Happy watching!!!
First off, I want to say THANKS to my friend Lasia for the awesome Hmong Lyrics, as she had said, her Hmong writing skills are still pretty new, so there may be some spelling errors in it, so if you guys find any, please let me know so I can correct them.
WHEW!!! This must had been one of the hardest songs I had ever translated! Why, well in this song, they used a lot of metaphors that are used amongst the elders to teach the youngsters life lessons and a lot of those are just almost impossible to translate into understanding correct American terms. I know what they mean and what they are, but it’s just hard to find the right words to make the term meaningful or understandable. SO IF ANYONE CAN CORRECT OR FIX ANY OF THOSE TERMS SO IT’LL BE MORE UNDERSTANDABLE PLEASE DO LET ME KNOW SO I CAN FIX IT!!!
This is one reason why I LOVE the Sounders!! They turn old Hmong terms into a great modern and meaningful songs, or they use huge Hmong words that are not used in everyday Hmong language anymore, another word, they are preserving the Hmong culture in their songs! Not just that but their songs are very meaningful, the depth of their songs are deep and strong, and I just never get tired of listening to their music.
Again, just a reminder, their album will be released this Thanksgiving, so go out and buy their album, support them! We all had been waiting for about 5 years for this album to be released and it’s finally here!!!
I had said I’ll translate this song from one of my previous post, so here it is.
Artist: The Sounders
Song: Piv Txoj Lus
Album: Kuv Hlub Koj (KHK) will be released on November 26 2009
luag tej laus piv txoj lus hais tias
The elders had always said
tsis pom dej dag ces siab tsis nqig
If you don’t see fake water then you’ll never know
luag tej laus piv txoj lus hais tseg
the elders had always stated that
ua tau tsiv tag mam pom ntoos yiag
after you build your home, then you’ll see better woods
luag tej laus ua paj lug hais tseg
The elders leave words that
ua hlav luam ces zoo khaws ntsug
good business only comes to those with good hearts (???)
luag tej laus ua paj lug hais tseg
The elders leave words that
yuav poj yuav sev tsuav zoo thawj tug
getting marry is best with the first one
luag hais tias
they said
yuav poj yuav sev
getting married
tag lawm mam pom hluas nkauj zoo dua kev
then you’ll see someone better
luag hais tias
they said
qub neeg qub siab
same person same heart
tsis yug dua tshiab ces yeej hloov tsis tau
if you are not reborn, you won’t be able to change
tej tug tij neeg ob peb lub siab
some people has many hearts
twb muaj ib tug tseem ntshaws tus tshiab
even with someone by their side, they still want another
cas ib lub paj muaj ob tug ntxhiaj
why does a flower have two scent
muv ntsia npaum cas los tsis zoo lub siab
no matter how many bees are surrounded, they are never happy
luag tej laus piv txoj lus hais tias
The elders had always said
yuav poj yuav sev yuav saib caj cev
before you marry, you look into the family history
luag tej laus ua paj lug hais tseg
the elders leaves words that
tau tus tsis zoo yuav pua ib sim
if you marry someone bad, you are forever in ruin
luag hais tias
they said
yuav poj yuav sev
getting married
tag lawm mam pom hluas nkauj zoo dua kev
then you’ll see someone better
luag hais tias
they said
qub neeg qub siab
same person same heart
tsis yug dua tshiab ces yeej hloov tsis tau
if you are not reborn, you won’t be able to change
tej tug tij neeg ob peb lub siab
some people has many hearts
twb muaj ib tug tseem ntshaws tus tshiab
even with someone by their side, they still want another
cas ib lub paj muaj ob tug ntxhiaj
why does a flower have two scent
muv ntsia npaum cas los tsis zoo lub siab
no matter how many bees are surrounded, they are never happy
tej tug tij neeg ob peb lub siab
some people has many hearts
twb muaj ib tug tseem ntshaws tus tshiab
even with someone by their side, they still want another
peb ua tij neeg twb txawj tu siab
we as humans do know how to feel sorrow
luag hais npaum cas los yeej tsis nkag yus lub siab
no matter how much others said, they still don’t understand
Pictures and information was taken from their website!!
Youtube of The Sounder’s song “Kuv Hlub Koj”. I really like the video!!!
The most anticipated album of the year has to go to The Sounder’s upcoming album entitled “Kuv Hlub Koj” (I Love You) or as it had been titled in the album “KHK”.
The Sounders new album titled “Kuv Hlub Koj” will be released on November 26, 2009. The new album will also include 6 new music videos (hopefully from this album). They will also have a huge concert on November 27th 2009 in Sacramento CA at the Radisso Grand Ballroom at 500 Leisure Lane, debuting their new release “Kuv Hlub Koj”. Special guest performers will be Sudden Rush, Proto J and The Clue.
So everyone please go out and support them, buy their album and attend their concert if you will be in the Sacramento area during the Thanksgiving weekend for the Hmong New Year in Sacramento! If only I was to be in that area, I would be the first one there and I’ll be a VIP if possible! That’s how much of a huge fan I am!
Finally this album will be out in a week! I am really hoping to be able to go to North Carolina for the NC Hmong New Year so I can look for this album!! I will totally buy it and support these guys! I had been a fan since their first album and I had been a fan since then! These guys had not ever once disappoint me with their music!
I am really liking this song… I got my hands on this song today and the song is called “Piv Txoj Lus” from The Sounder’s unreleased album. The song title translates to “Let’s just say”. It’s hard to actually give the meaning of the title of this song, but the song title is suggesting old saying that was said by the elders to teach the youngsters life lessons.
I would totally translate this song but then I don’t have the Hmong lyrics and I have’t been able to talk to Sara lately so once I can, I hope she wont mind writing the song lyrics for me to translate.
This means I really need to find a Hmong class so I can learn how to read and write in Hmong fully. I can read Hmong but my Hmong writting skills are horrible.
If you guys don’t know yet, The Sounders are my all time favorite Hmong band!
Watch for their newest album due by late this year or early next year! I can’t wait to get my hands on this album!!!!
My friend Lily’s son Christian was my sweet little model for my environmental photoshoot. It was a last minute thing and so the shoot didn’t turn out as I had hope for. It was a bit late in the day, that was not a problem until I found out that one of the JTL lights were not as strong as I was hoping for, and then one of the battery packs for the JTL lights went out on me so I ended up having to use only one set of light towards the end of the shoot. We had to fight the rain and rush this photoshoot before it starts to rain. I must say with the rushing and what not the photoshoot turned out decent enough for me to be able to turn something in.
Again, big Thanks to Lily and Christian for helping me out on this photoshoot.
My cousin Emily and Jerffery danced at the Georgia New Year in the dance group called V-Y. I had learned from my aunt that their dance group is called V-Y because these dancers consist of Vang and Yang individuals so they decided to name their group V-Y for their last names.
I thought they did a great job and was very entertaining, in the Hmong community it is very hard to get the guys to actually come out and dance in Hmong, as they say, it take lots of guts. It was well paid off, they were great.
Here are some photos of day two of the Georgia Hmong New Year. As always day 2 hardly have as many people as the first day, but regardless, it’s the Hmong New Year and it only happens once a year.
I mainly stayed indoors at the entertainment area and didn’t bother to go out elsewhere. I didn’t dress up today, I was supposed to, in fact I had my stripe Hmong Clothes out and ready to be worn but then I woke up late and was too lazy to get dressed (I am white Hmong, not stripe Hmong, but my aunt bought me a stripe Hmong outfit therefore I have one).
I had only went to the soccor and volley field once and didn’t bother to photograph anything from there. I had only went to that area becuase I had tried to look for my friends from Florida, besides that Iwouldn’t had bother to head out to the fields.
Enjoy!
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