One Night in Beijing

元宵in 北京 12 Feb 06

元宵in China is happening!

Ever since they allowed fireworks again in the city of Beijing after 12 years of ban, all the Beijing residents are taking advantage of the 'un-ban' and 拼命放. And they really really 的拼命 loh. From nightfall at about 6pm daily, they have been at it until now that we are pretty xian of seeing fireworks, and they have until 12midnight tonight to finish all their load. The best thing is, our neighbours are so xiao on, that they fired so closed to our block, that the sparks from their fireworks landed on our balcony. Never in SG, will you ever get to see fireworks so close. And the fireworks explode just about one imaginery level above our 7th level 'mansionette'.

No joke, that's how close we were.
It was today when we saw so many fireworks, that we realised what are the 'bom bom' sounds that we have been hearing. They sounded pretty much like rifle shots and grenade explosions of kind.


Anyway, we accidentally chose 元宵 to go 雍和宫，the biggest lama temple outside of Tibet. Super lots of people, that the 民警 barricaded the usual way and we have to make a detour around the whole temple to the entrance proper.

Big temple anyway ... holds some record for the biggest statue carved out of a single sandalwood in the whole world.

We also popped over to HRC Beijing today, for our lunch and to pick up some HRC shot glasses. Quite exp but ... these type of things ... is must buy one loh


I have lotsa of pictures taken using my cam and on Kaiting's D50. But i need to do some editing ... will post them later when I have time to. Gotta work tml morning, and gotta look sharp for the first day of work =P

Temperature today:
0C to 7C

posted by taxi taker @ 10:36 PM