Happy Tiger Year 2010 虎年行大運

Very soon, we will be celebrating Chinese New Year in 7 days time. It is also very special this year because the First Day of Chinese New Year falls on the Valentine’s Day (Feb 14) as well.

I went to Chinatown few days ago just to experience the atmosphere of Chinese New Year preparation. Chinatown in Singapore is the best place to experience the atmosphere as the place is decorated with lots of lanterns and also lots of stalls are selling CNY related products.

Spring Flowers & Auspicious Food are Must Have

Chinese New Year also implies the arrival of spring. Therefore, many people like to decorate the house with some spring flowers. As I walked pass one of the temple at Chinatown, it places many pots of pink and red “Fake” spring flowers right outside the temple.

Even though it is fake, I still can’t help but to snap a few photos and I still like it as it brings out the feeling of Chinese New Year.

Spring Flower

Chinese also have lots of superstitious practices during chinese new year. One of them is to eat some auspicious food. I saw that at Chinatown too. They are actually sugar coated vegetables and fruits… In case if we do not know what those auspicious food means, the stall owner makes it simple for us. They write the name of auspicious food on a small red cardboard and you can pick whichever you like.

Auspicious Food during Chinese New Year

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Sky Sun and Cloud behind a Building Shade

I just bought a 2nd hand Sigma 20mm F1.8 len and I decided to buy a 82mm CPL filter to fit on the len. I went down to Cathay photo last Saturday to pick up a Tokina CPL. Right after buying the filter, I could not wait and I went to a coffee shop, opened it up and immediately trying to find some object to snap.

After fixing the filter, I walked along the street… and started snapping at some building, some people and also the sky.

Finally, I sorted the photos on Aperture, I found that I like the sky, sun and cloud in the photos.

Sky Sun & Cloud

Sky Sun and Cloud next to a Building Shade

Windows

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Touching & Romantic ROM Photos – Sneak Preview

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