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So today right, i wEnt to ChinAtoWn to dO somE nEw yEar sHoppIng wiF mi faMily in the morning and we reached there at abt eleven for some laTe breakfast of pOrridge and you tiao (the porridge didn't taste really good, but the you tiao was all soft and crispy...... hahhaz) So after breakfast went the the streets where they were selling really cool antiques which looked so authentic and was realli caught up with the spirit of CNY there...... not many ppl were wallking ard the streets which was a rare sight at this time of the year but i guess onli crazy ppl like us would actually be there at this time of the day (cuz the weather was real hot and there was totally no shelter at all, but we did manage to avoid the night crowd which would be far worst than squeezing up onto a 72 bus at 8.30am) However, i did manage to see one of mi neighbours (Ian, which was kinda a surprise for mi, cuz i didn't expect to actually find him working...... hahahaz...... not in a bad way of course...... guess he is realli starting to mature liao which is a good thing........ muz haf been something that happened in the camp tat got him to where he is right now..... i wonder wat it is.... :p), working at a stall selling VCDs and juz chatted for a while b4 moving on to other stalls.
We walked along the streets until we reached this realli cool temple along the street (it's a makeshift temple), inside the temple, there are many statues of buddha in diff colors and each placed according to the chinese zodiac signs....... they allow ppl to actually "bath" the buddha according to their zodiac sign and this is said to bring good luck and prosperity for the New Year. ( i think it is pretty cool and i think everyone should go and try it, even non-buddhists, to pray for a fresh beginning and other wishes for the New Year) And there is even an exhibition going on within the temple depicting all the history and relics during the many dynasties in the world of Buddhism. I was so facsinated by the relics cuz it showed many of the statues of all the diff Gods like the Four heavenly kings and luo hans....... I didn't even knew that Buddhism actually had such rich history and such interesting stories.... ppl who realli wanna noe y CNY is celebrated or juz to look at the realli ancient relics, should more or less make an effort to go down and take a look and u can even try to sound the bell to bring in the New Year. There is this huge bell placed in the centre of a tent and u are bounded outside its perimeter and from ur position, u are suposed to throw a coin and if u can hit the bell such tat a "gong" can be heard, good luck will come ur way and ur wishes may come true....... hahaz... i did managed to sound the bell once in the first try so i guess i muz be quite lucky..... u can see so many coins on the floor and even coins outside the boundary cuz so many ppl actually miss such a HUGE bell.......LOLz...... :p
Bought a new pair of jeans and two shirts at Chinatown pasar malam which was real dirt cheap ( can u imagine jeans at $20??? and it is bell bottom too.....), thinking of going back there again to do some more shopping so whoever going down in the near near (realli realli near) future do inform mi cuz i also wanna go....... After chiNatoWn, we were real exhausted (haf been shopping for the past 2 hour or so in the real terrible weather) but as i haf not got any decent shirts for CNY, i had to perservere and so we decided to go to Bugis, where i finally goT mi shIrts froM seIyu and it s this really plain white shirt with strips/ lines across its front and back..... i think it looks so cool....... so we ended up buying, two more shirts and a skirt for mi sister which adds up to quite a lot........ and went homE satisfied and fulfilled bUt not totally cuz i thnk tat i missed out many stalls due to the fact tat we did not manage to walk finish all the streets which were selling CNY stuff....... i think there were a total of 4 or more streets tat were closed so that stalls could be set up and i guessed i walked less than half of the whole area and realli misssed out so much things.....
Well, nvm, we can go another day to continue shopping and visit the realli cool temple again as i didn't haf time to read finish the large amt of information at the temple. So tataz pplz and i guess i exceeded the limit i set for miself again cuz ppl hav been saying i beri the lor sor...... but nvm i am happy writing it so i guess u ppl are happy reading it to read all the way till here..... :p niTez
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first to post a comment..that is if u even realise tt i posted a msg here.. wheres yr tag board? i want to flood it =p hahahah
nice ar, introduce us to all ya frens as sinister trio.. so funny..and u made yz sound as if she stares into space all day long..hahaha
anyway, nice reading yr blog and hope ya contd writing =)
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ailema, at 3:19 AM
hahaha, amelia, i thought is, hope U continue writing.. haha, edmond's entry is everyday based de liao.. =X
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Scorpioraus, at 5:52 AM
hahahz... u can use this as a tagboard lor..... i lazy to put up a tag board and i also dun noe how to do it lor.... so those who wanna leave msg should leave them here.....:p
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Me-Myself-&-I, at 8:50 PM
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