Garlanded

On hand to welcome the Chinese visitors were Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment Datuk Christina Liew and assistant minister cum Sabah Tourism Board (STB) chairman Datuk Joniston Bangkuai who garlanded them with Sabah’s native bead necklaces.

Not everyone, however, has the luxury of garlanded playwright Mike “” Bartlett on board, nor the ability to round up the usual suspects, a sublime team of our finest homegrown character actors.

His detractors would’ve liked him much better had he died a brash revolutionary, to be ceremonially garlanded on birth and death anniversaries and forgotten for the rest of the year.

In Kumbakonam, the AIADMK cadres took out a rally from Gandhi Park to Kumbeswarar Koil South Street where they garlanded the statue of MGR.

Supporters showered flower petals on his vehicle as it entered the Bishop House and even garlanded him when he alighted from it.

During her rites, her image was taken from her temple to the men's baths, where it was undressed and washed in warm water by her female attendants, then garlanded with myrtle.

The goddess Mariamman statue will be garlanded with Neem leaves and flowers.