Light up the Year of the Rat!
Happy Chinese New Year! We’ve now officially rung in the Year of the Rat, but the parties are still ongoing (and the rats look a lot like mice). One of […]
Tag Archives: Festivals
Mid-Autumn Lanterns
It’s mid-autumn again, which means that it is time for another Mid-Autum Lantern Festival at Gardens by the Bay! Despite the haze … … hundreds of people showed up for […]
Light Festival Frenzy
Singapore is busy lighting up the night with two festivals right now: i Light Singapore and Light to Night. The i Light Festival is the more far-ranging of the two, both […]
Happy Year of the Pig!
Gong xi fa cai! That’s “Happy New Year” (or, more precisely, “best wishes on your getting richer”) in Mandarin. Chinese New Year — often abbreviated to CNY — is the […]
Lanterns in the Gardens
We have just reached the conclusion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, a festival celebrated in China (and, therefore, in Singapore) to mark the harvest each year. To celebrate this year’s event, […]
Sandsational!
The island of Sentosa has just finished hosting “Sentosa Sandsation,” billed as Southeast Asia’s biggest sand festival. I have no idea what the competition might be for this title — […]
When the Sun Goes Down
Singapore has multiple nighttime light festivals — i Light Marina Bay and Light to Night are two of the bigger ones — but the Singapore Night Festival is the largest […]
Singing for the Gods
On our way to the wet market at Beauty World last week, Prescott and I stumbled upon yet another mysterious giant tent in the middle of a field. My querying […]
Towers of Glory
If you ever have the chance to go to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on The Mall in Washington, DC, I would highly recommend it. The Smithsonian chooses anywhere from one […]
Capitalist Communism
Vietnam remains a communist country (for those who don’t remember their history classes: the US lost the war, the North Vietnamese Army took control of the South, the country was […]
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