My World-Chinese New Year in the Year of the Ox

My part of the world is busy preparing for the coming Chinese New Year in the Year of the Ox. If I do not have time to go round visiting your blog, please forgive cause I will be too busy spring cleaning my home and stock up my fridge cause all the markets, majority of shops and malls will be close on the first two days of chinese new year i.e. 26 and 27th January 2009.

The above photo are waxed ducks which are available only during Chinese New Year.

Chinese sausages. I would cook rice with waxed duck and chinese sausages, yummy, they would smell very delicious.

Everyone busy shopping or browsing through the stalls in chinatown.

Come night, and it would be very very crowded.

If you want to know why these people are queuing at this shop, you can view my food blog.

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Chinese New Year Shopping In Chinatown, Singapore-Part 1

I am starting a series of shopping for Chinese New Year in Chinatown, Singapore. This is the first part of the shopping spree.

During Chinese New Year, many chinese like to buy auspicious food, decorations and any things that could bring good luck to the home. The above are some figurines of the beloved God of Fortune and pineapple decorations. Pineapple is 'Ong Lai' in Hokkien, meaning fortune coming.

Maybe the ox can help bring luck to the stock exchange.

Chinese New Year 2009 - Decorations in Chinatown for year of the OX

This year decorations for the Chinese New Year at Chinatown are full of oranges and oxes.



Now this is funny, a blow up mascot of the God Of Fortune. I wondered if the organizer was not blessed by God of Fortune to come up with a bigger budget for a better Mascot of the God of Fortune. I hope they have a bigger budget for next year.

This will be the stage for performance on the eve of Chinese New Year and all roads will be closed in here. They will be lighting of the firecrackers at midnight. I wont be here cause it will be very very crowded and I hated to be squeezed in the crowd. Anyway I think I will be too tired washing up after the reunion dinner on the eve of Chinese New Year. Reunion dinner is compulsory in almost every chinese family on Chinese New Year's eve.

Year of the Ox - these oxes are so cute, I decided to have them as my header.

More posts on Chinese New Year in the days that come. :)

Pink Saturday-Chinese New Year Decoration at Plaza Singapura

Today my contribution for pink saturday is the big ball of flowers with so many pink and red flowers. It was part of the chinese new year decoration. Chinese New Year starts on 26th January 2009 and lasted for 15 days.

If you think the decorations are familar, you are right, they were recycled from the christmas decoation. You can view them in my previous posting angels and angels flying.

The chinese characters meant "Ying Chun" or Welcome Spring.

For more pinky participants, please visit Beverly of How Sweet The Sound.

Skywatch Friday - Changi Boardwalk Part 5-Sailing boats

Continued from Changi Boardwalk Part 4, this post will be all about sailing boats. There is a sailing club over here too.

It was very cloudy and I thought it was going to rain but good thing, the clouds soon clear.

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Changi Boardwalk Part 4

Continued from Part 3 of Changi Boardwalk.

Along the walk, we could see private clubs and they have their own private swimming pools but members still prefer to head to the beach and swim in the open sea.

I spotted these two dogs (I think they are golden retreiver), they are so obedient (note they are not leased), they dont run wild nor disturbed anyone on the beach/boardwalk and they just sat beside their owner. They are so beautiful.

These are sailing boats waiting for someone to take them to the sea.

I will featured them in my next post.

Please return tomorrow for the sailing boats in skywatch (sailing boats)

To be continued.....................

Changi Boardwalk Part 3-The walk

Continued from my previous post on the Boardwalk.

It is a long walk for me.

Well, I get to stop and look at some flowers and take some rest.

I guess we are too noisy, we frightened the cat.

On the way to the kelong walk. The kelong walk is the best spot to take sunrise and sunset photos.

Did you spot the bride walking for a photo shoot, I featured her in my earlier post. The pavilion is the best spot for fishing in the below photo.

Lots of greenery over here. Nice to be here with family just to relax and destress.

Please return for more photo of Changi BoardWalk.

To be continued.....

Puppet Show at United Square

It's part of the chinese new year celebration at United Square. I love this huge puppets from Yangzhou, China.

A short video of the performance. Do watch it, it is very interesting but I did not take a long video otherwise it would take a long time to load into blogger.

This girl is very talented, she could made the puppet dance and move the fans in the puppet's hands. Very interesting.

A very short video of the performance.

Giant Puppets Performances from 9-18 Jan

Showtimes: Tue-Fri, 1pm & 7pm

Sat-Sun, 1pm, 4pm & 7pm (no shows on Mon)

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Changi BoardWalk Part 2-Chalets

Continuing with my walk along the boardwalk, we could see some bungalows and chalets in the fenced compound. And I can recognize the above bungalow, having been there when I was a teenager. Wow, the bungalow still exist...lol.

Holiday makers BBQ in the compound.

To be continued...........

Pink Saturday-Chinese New Year Decorations at Liang Court

My pink contribution for this saturday is this giant gift box decoration at Liang Court Shopping Mall. The Chinese New Year is just around the corner (i.e. 26th January 2009) and it lasted for 15 days.

Red, Pink and Gold are the favourite colours associated with Chinese New Year.
These chinese knots are so beautifully knotted and they are real huge.

For more pinky participants, please visit Beverly of How Sweet The Sound.

Skywatch - Sunset at Changi Village

Changi Point at Changi Village is a very ideal place to take photo of sunrise and sunset. But I am not a professional photographer so my photo is not very well taken. But I am contented with the way it turn out. :)

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Changi Board Walk - Part 1

Changi Board Walk is the latest attraction in Changi Village. It is about 1.2 km walk from Changi Village to the other far end of the island. It will be another 1.2 km when you walked back to Changi Village, so total walk is 2.4 km. But I only made the 1.2 km walk caused we took a bus back to Changi Village after completing the 1.2 km walk....lol (Ok, we cheated....hehehe...too tired and hungry to walk back.)

Closer look at the map. On the right of the map is the bridge (I featured the bridge in my earlier post.) and I am supposed to walk from the bridge to the far end of the map on the left (Kelong walk). The bridge leads to the picnic area.

The jetty (circled) was featured in my earlier post.


The Changi Boardwalk consists of four sections namely, Sunset Walk, Kelong Walk, Cliff Walk, Sailing Point Walk.

I have already shown you the bridge, jetty and please return to see my walking trails. :)