Chinese New Year 2011 - Chinatown Light Up - Fire Eater Performance

Wow Dont play with fire unless you are trained to play with fire. He make fire performance looked so simple and easy but it was so dangerous.

But nice to be able to capture the action so close to you.

Chinese New Year 2011 - Chinatown Light Up - Fireworks

To end the night event, there's fireworks and firecrackers.

Hubby and me wanted to cross the road to watch the firecrackers but was too late when we heard the firecrackers from where we were but the fireworks make up for our disapointment with the firecrackers.

Just as I thought the fireworks had ended, there's another display of fireworks. So much to see and there's so much excitement for the chinatown light up for chinese new year 2011. The light up will last till mid February 2011. Chinese will be from 3rd February 2011 to 17th February 2011 but the official public holiday will only be on 3rd and 4th February.

I am almost done with spring cleaning in my home and next week, I need to stock up food in the fridge cause majority of markets and shops will be closed during the two public holidays.

This year, I will have guests in my house so I need to cook some yummy food

Hope you enjoy the videos that I managed to load onto You Tube. It took me just about ten minutes to load onto You Tube cause it seems like it took forever to load into blogger for a two minute video...lol

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Chinese New Year 2011 - Performance during Light Up at Chinatown Singapore

When I went to Chinatown last weekend for the Chinese New Year Light Up, I thought it is just a ceremony to switch on the lights. I did not know there were so many performances. Pity there were such a big crowd that I could not reach the front of the stage.

This is the nearest I could get and with the zoom feature in my camera, I managed to capture a short video of the performance by Melbourne. It is fantastic and they are so good balancing on or in the huge ball.

Chinese New Year 2011 - Chinatown Light Up - Lion Dancers

I am glad I was there last weekend. First time I saw so many lion dancers. There were 138 lion dancers altogether.

The best and more experienced lion dancers get to perform on stage. I was not at the front of the stage cause there were so many people over there. I am not one who like to caught in the front or middle of a crowd..lol.

I was at further end of the back of the stage.

Chinese New Year 2011 - Light Up at Chinatown Singapore

It is so crowded in chinatown Singapore. Seems like a lot of people busy shopping for the coming Chinese New Year.

Chinese New Year will be coming soon. In celebrating the grand festival, there's a street light up in Chinatown. This year chinese new year will be from 3rd February 2011 to 17th February 2011 but the official public holiday is only on 3rd and 4th February.

I was there during the official light up on 15th January 2011, the light up will be on for about a month in Chinatown.

Lion Dancers getting ready for the light up.

Finally the lights are up and it will be lighted till mid february 2011.

More videos and photos coming up in later posts. Hopefully I can load some long video in blogger. Sometimes it seems like it takes forever to load a one minute short video.
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