Bullock cart becomes source of CNY joy


Ox-picious decor: (Seated, from right) Koay and her colleague Ooi Zhi Yun, 26, accompanied by Lim and Berry posing for a photo at a village in Bayan Lepas, Penang. — LIM BENG TATT/The Star

GEORGE TOWN: When you dutifully stay home as the Year of the Metal Ox arrives, and your neighbour just so happens to have two big bulls and a bullock cart, what will you do to while away the hours?

That was just what a villager in Bayan Lepas, who wanted to be known as Goh, mulled while watching his neighbour’s healthy bulls, which were used to pull the Thaipusam chariot in non-pandemic times.

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