Lunar New Year Looney

Its Spring Time!!!
Or rather is spring cleaning time!

Chinese new year has a good custom, that is to throw away any old and unwanted, replace it with brand new.

It symbolises the going away of the bad luck, incoming of good luck











But in a way it created tons of rubbish, trash were thrown everywhere.











Every corner of the corridor is a place for the lazy bums to place their unwanted items instead of bringing it down to the refuse collection point.











Believe or not, there are people who will go through other people's rubbish, and salvage it for themselves. Like they say: "A man's rubbish is another man's treasure"











Guess what all these people are queueing for?











Buy ToTo? 4-D? collect freebies?











Nooooooo... The Queue that stretches of 30m, easily 60 person in the queue. They are buying "Bak Guah" the fragrant BBQ pork, from a particular store in Chinatown. The once-a-year popular "Lim Chee Guan"
I really don't know what's the crazed about, but the queue is there everyday for the whole of the Pre-Chinese new year period.











This old street busker usually wears singlet and shorts with wooden slippers, but for this occasion he is dressed in his best for the tourists. I never understood a single word he sang, he's not even in tune.










This stall sells melon seeds, they are known as king of melon seeds.

Shoppers are allowed to taste / sample their products before buying, but people take advantages of them. Many grab hand full after hand full of melon seeds and walked off without looking back. Kids watching such behaviour from the adults did the same thing. Not to mention the shells thrown on the floor... yucks!!!











2 days before the new year... 1.20am in the morning...
What am I doing?














Shopping for groceries of course!

Why? Because supermarkets and coffee shops and anywhere that sells food will be closed for 3 days. Unless I eat at MacDonald's every meal.

Well... Happy New Year to all