Mid Autumn Festival, 2019 September

Every Year Mid Autumn Festival there will be nice lantern display. Went to Gardens by The Bay to picture them weeks ago. The weather was subtle, atmosphere was good.Took some nice pics to share. I find last year one a tad better but well .. Here goes!

No photographer will miss this scene. It's too obvious to pass. I like using wide angle for most of my shots. I love it!

 Didnt managed to capture super tree lights into this pics if otherwise will be gorgeous.

 Captured with wide angle & cropped. With most background lighted & nice reflection, this looks so captivating.

 The backdrop nice ya!

 I am very particular about the exposure of the buildings behind the scene. I have to watch front exposure while exposing correctly the hind exposure of the buildings. Lucky managed to pull it off nicely.

 This is another short bridge no short of visitors walking pass. I had to  wait until no people quickly snap! It's not exactly well lit. Had to use slightly long exposure to compensate for lack of light.

 Standing in the middle of road where buggy cars buzz by (lucky they drive super slow cos alot of people walking around. but i don't really care la. I have to take a good pic le! Notice the giant baby sculpture far right background. i purposely include this inside the pic.

 Side view. someone caught in my shots.

 So difficult to wait until no one walks across.

 Huge vase that is. There are different animal signs in every lantern, four faceted i never took all sides.

 Whole rows of lantern. Thought it was nice so stopped to take a pic.

 Took from other end. Can't stop people from walking so caught in shot again.

 Should have moved closer and taken another shot. Its actually a revolving screen telling some stories. I missed that.

 There's a story theme behind this. Marriage procession i guess. Interesting!

 It's a bit challenging to take this shot as i am standing on a steel/wooden bridge, one of the main entrance leading to the park. It's vibrating vigorously when people walked pass. I have to bump up iso but with small aperture to keep everything sharp, take the pic as quick as possible to prevent camera shake. Phew! .. sweating.

 Now this is a nice one. Same thing took this right in the middle of the shaking bridge. A golden chance no people walks near quickly take!

Chinese New Year 2011

We welcome a brand new 2011 with our Lunar Chinese New Year. Celebration lasts throughout for 15 days starting from 03Feb.
It's a day of receiving Ang Baos (Red Packet) for good wishes and blessings. Though so, we must not forget to reciprocate by giving our parents Red Packet also.

This year Bak Kua is selling at exhorbitant prices ($50 per kg!)

Normal time cost only $20-$30 per kg.. We never bought it but i got a packet free as a festive gift! Yeehar :)

There are some CNY goodies like the ever popular Pineapple Tarts, mini prawn rolls, mini pork floss samosa, cashew nuts, pistachios and all kinds of sweets etc..and the list goes on!  It is important to offer our prayers to our ancestors and Buddha. We prepare fresh flowers, fruits and food. Abit of hard work though. :)

My mum always prepare many goodies to satisfy our taste bud. As we go vegetarian on this day. All food excludes meat, garlic,onion, leek etc. Look wat my mum came up with, a vegetarian prawn fritters and the ever popular vegetarian spring rolls. It's a big hit! There are others like vege mock duck, vege char siew, vege fish etc. Must say that all these taste quite nice and not forgetting pipping hot peanut soup to round up our sumptuos meal. Yummy!

Preserved plums are among the must buy list for CNY. It's nice to eat but beware of high salt and sugar content. Anyway, one year once, who cares right?

清明节

华人过清明算是重大节日之一。我觉得一代一代传下来的传统有必要保留。不过很可惜，我只能感慨的说：一代不如一代了。在过个几年，还会有人了解清明的含义吗？

母亲是个很传统的人，每当过年过节都会大费周章张罗，忙到晕头转向。我也得跟着帮前帮后。不过从中领悟到过节的真正含义还有对先人的那份孝心。每一个籍贯都会有不同祭祖的方式，最让我津津乐道的是那桌香喷喷的家传菜了。

鸡对我们海南人来说是不可或缺的。好吃的白斩鸡一定要选用老母鸡才行！

趁米饭还很烫时用手掌把饭捏成一粒圆球还真考功夫。

我最爱的一道炒杂菜是我必吃的人间美味。。

这可是用鸡骨和鸡油熬出来的汤。不需太多调味料已经很够味了。

我现在尽我微薄的力量将这些点点滴滴用照片呈现出来，用我的方式把从小熟悉的事与物保存下来。