lundi, janvier 30, 2006 CNY @ Singapore Chinatown 2006 Sinuses choked with gunpowder, skin flecked with fallout, eyes stinging with the smoke and red paper, it was, all in all, the perfect recipe for a terrorist attack - but what isn't these days?People were crowding around the firecrackers to hear/see them, but an ill-timed gust of wind blew everything onto us and into our eyes. Bodies already sticky with the heat, it didn't help matters when it started raining bits of used dynamite. And that was all before the (probably) NSmen started tossing bits of silver paper onto the streets using two blowers. 'That's more waste of tax dollars,' I remember thinking (and remarking) to someone. I was disappointed that the offerings at Smith Street were less than exuberant this year. There were some slim pickings for pussywillows (I counted a maximum of four stalls selling this seasonal plant), and prices didn't drop as drastically as I remembered from three years ago, where red-topped containers were going for $1 apiece. And we stayed till 0330hrs! I always feel more like one of those ang mohs who come to soak in the atmosphere than a Chinese whenever I am in Chinatown around CNY. [CNY @ Singapore Chinatown 2006] |
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