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Chinese New Year 2010

KP Yang — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:49:04 +0000

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

Let’s Watch the Spectacular Fireworks!

KP — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:58:52 +0000

Singapore Fireworks Celebration & Festival 2008

Singapore had its Fireworks Celebration & Festival 2008 at Marina Bay floating platform on the Friday and Saturday nights. It was a spectacular and amazing night to witness and experience the attractive fireworks right at the heart of the city.

I was there to witness this marvellous event on both days. I really enjoyed it though it was drizzling on both nights. This was the best fireworks viewing experience that I had.

I was there to see 2 or 3 years ago but I had quite an awful experience before. it was so crowded and I could not really enjoy the night. Worse still, the smoke and burning smell left behind by the fireworks really made me breathless.

Due to this bad experience I had, I decided to take a risk and go over to the other side of the Marina to view the fireworks this time. The location I went is right opposite the floating platform, on the other band of the marina.

Wow, I like the place very much. Firstly, there is a big field and therefore it was not that crowded. It is much further from the fireworks lcoation and therefore the smoke and burning smell did not affect me on both nights ;-)

Plus, it is good location for me to take good photo shots as it can capture a wide area of the sky. Unfortunately, I do not have a wide angle lens, otherwise, I can capture the fireworks and the whole city skyline together.

I let my camera continuously snapping pictures for 10-15 minutes. I even filled up my 1G memory on the 2nd nights. I had close to 350 photos. Amazing and I like it very much as this is the first time I managed to take the fireworks photos myself ;-)

Alright, I have uploaded some of my photos on my Picasa album as you see in the slideshows below. If you do like to have some of those original photos, do let me know and I will be happy to share with you.

Singapore Fireworks Celebration & Festival 2008 Day 1 – “French Romance”

Singapore Fireworks Celebration & Festival 2008 Day 2 – “Korean Fantasia”

Singapore First Ever Night Festival – Part 2 – Electric Canvas

KP — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:54:09 +0000

Light Installation by Electric Canvas at Singapore Night Festival

Singapore had its first ever night festival 2 weeks ago. The festival spaned across 2 weekends. First weekend was the Dancing Sky performance by Studio Festi and second weekend was a light intallation by Electric Canvas.

Unfortunately, I did not manage to visit the 2nd weekend as I went back to my hometown, Melaka. My sister and her friend went for the 2nd weekend.

They showed me the photos, wow, I wish I would have seen that live with my own eyes. The light installation is spectacular as well. I am impressed that they can tansformed the building of national museum into different skins and colors using lighting technology.

“Wow…” That’s what I feel when I first saw the photos. I have requested for some photos with the different skins and feel from them. I uploaded them to my Picasa album, here’s the photos to share with you ;-)