So you want to know what Singapore’s all about: Hungry Ghost edition
Due to a recent spate of interactions with bloggers and some wandering around today, I’ve decided to do what I should have done a while ago and turn this baby into a partial photo blog. After all, I like wandering, and I’ve been walking around various parts of the island today and actually remembered that hey – my phone has a pretty sweet camera on it, so I snapped some shots.
It’s the hungry ghost festival right now. Traditional Chinese believe that during this month in the calendar year, their ancestors revisit the earth in the form of ghosts. In Singapore, many people set up shrines with burning incense or burn offerings in metal cans to honor the ghosts or scare them away, and the belief is that the family should not eat out at night, and you should not wander around alone, lest stray ghosts find you. The first six photos are various hungry ghost offerings that I encountered within a five-minute walk in a fairly central district. The rest are various shots of the city. Explanations of each when you click on the photos to enlarge:
That’s all for today. I’ll post more when I do more wandering.
i think the photos would look better if you resized them down. at original size, the resolution’s a bit off. also, my so-called broadband would load smaller photos within a fruitfly’s lifespan.