On the 1st day of CNY itself,i realize that i ran out of small change in rupiah,so i need to change some dollars and there is only 1 shop opened that time. I changed S$110.00 at a crazy rate of 9200/SGD when yahoo finance was showing 9400/SGD (or more). Learned from past years experience,I changed in Sillypore at 9330/SGD 2 days before CNY eve, where half my budget goes into. Not a bad choice for this CNY.
Early morning,1st destination was to A2 food court to have late breakfast,thank heaven most shops were opened. My original plan was to head to Astro,but they were closed on 1st day of CNY. After brunch,i then head over to Tua Pek Kong temple at windsor.
It wasnt exactly crowded in the early afternoon. The smoke reminds me my last CNY trip where by i visit the same temple in the earlier part of the morning,and it sure was much crowded. My friend told me the next following CNY 2017 ,he's never gonna join to temple anymore,hehehe...he was complaining of the smokes by those incense from temple. Makes people who are not used to it may feel as if the whole temple was on fire isnt it? Hehehe...
Nope,like i said earlier,my timing was just right. The temple isnt exactly crowded...
...and there it is...more gigantic incense to be light up on the later part of the day....
If you think this is crowded,last year there were at least twice the amount of worshipers. The crowd for this year at my chosen right timing seems to be so much lesser as compared to last year's.
(the more devoted one tends to worship at much earlier hours with their whole family)
Its afterall the start of the Lunar New Year,i notice most of them came in families of young and old. The above were the inside of the temple when i stepped in...and slowly, i step out to outside of the temple to the incense paper burning area...
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