Backdated : Walk through Chinatown

Today is a holiday! For me at least. Happy Hari Raya Haji to all my Muslim readers :) For non-Muslims, have a good holiday (not applicable to those who are not having this holiday... sorry :S )

Anyway; back to my trip in Singapore in Sept;
After dinner at IKEA;

Four of us decided to take a walk at Chinatown for me to view the lightings of Chinatown during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

I was amazed all right.

The main Road.

They decorated up the stretch of main road at Chinatown. So brightly lit up yea? ^_^

Crossing over at the top of Chinatown, I saw this Chinese Style Pavilion.

How unique… I definitely don’t see this kind of things at where I reside.

View from the pedestrian bridge.

The massive pillars holding up the roof at Chinatown, the sea of people walking below!

Strings of Lights.

Lanterns of Lights hanging everywhere above us! Did you also notice the massive of people? It was a very crowded that night.

I saw this ice cream stall!

I remembered that FuFu posted about his trip in Turkey and of the ice cream that is all rubber like. Click here to read about it.
So I was like oh it is here in Singapore too! I got to try it! The guy played a few tricks on me before giving me the ice cream haha. See the second picture? See an ice cream cone on the floor? The guy actually dropped the cone while he was playing a trick on me :P. He tried to make it like he dropped the cone while passing to me… but he dropped it himself haha! Of course I did get tricked by him. This guy is from Istanbul, was nice to pose for me and smile for me to snap a picture ^_^. This ice cream maybe different from the one FuFu has, but it was something I had to try.

As we exited Chinatown;
I saw statues that depict the Mid-Autumn story.
Chang Er.

“The time of this story is around 2170 B.C. The earth once had ten suns circling over it, each took its turn to illuminate to the earth. But one day all ten suns appeared together, scorching the earth with their heat. The earth was saved by a strong and tyrannical archer Hou Yi. He succeeded in shooting down nine of the suns. One day, Hou Yi stole the elixir of life from a goddess. However his beautiful wife Chang Er drank the elixir of life in order to save the people from her husband's tyrannical rule. After drinking it, she found herself floating and flew to the moon. Hou Yi loved his divinely beautiful wife so much, he didn't shoot down the moon.”

Wu Kang.

“Wu Kang was a shiftless fellow who changed apprenticeships all the time. One day he decided that he wanted to be an immortal. Wu Kang then went to live in the mountains where he importuned an immortal to teach him. First the immortal taught him about the herbs used to cure sickness, but after three days his characteristic restlessness returned and he asked the immortal to teach him something else. So the immortal to teach him chess, but after a short while Wu Kang's enthusiasm again waned. Then Wu Kang was given the books of immortality to study. Of course, Wu Kang became bored within a few days, and asked if they could travel to some new and exciting place. Angered with Wu Kang's impatience, the master banished Wu Kang to the Moon Palace telling him that he must cut down a huge cassia tree before he could return to earth. Though Wu Kang chopped day and night, the magical tree restored itself with each blow, and thus he is up there chopping still.”

Chang Er on the moon?

I am not sure about this statue. Could it be Chang Er on the moon? I am not sure.
I took the explanations of the statues from The Stories of the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival.

After the walk in Chinatown for me to view the beautiful lightings we decided to go for ice cream (yes more ice cream for me!). But that I shall save it for my next post before I make this post all too long :). Be sure to return for my next post yea :P? Have a Happy 3-day Weekend!

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