Comments on: A postcard from Singapore VIII http://blogs.reuters.com/photo/2008/01/31/a-postcard-from-singapore-viii/ What makes a great picture? Sat, 17 May 2008 02:42:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Stuart Clyne http://blogs.reuters.com/photo/2008/01/31/a-postcard-from-singapore-viii/#comment-332712 Stuart Clyne Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:47:25 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/photo/2008/01/31/a-postcard-from-singapore-viii/#comment-332712 Joachim, what an educational piece - and from someone relatively new to Singapore too! I moved to Singapore 8 years ago and never tire of the many cultural festivals we have here. It's a great experience to wander through Chinatown in the run-up to Chinese New Year, or to visit Little India during Deepavali. Glad to see you're enjoying your time here. Hope you managed to try yusheng for CNY. It's more Singaporean than Chinese - but it's delicious and a really sociable meal. Good luck and prosperity! Joachim, what an educational piece - and from someone relatively new to Singapore too! I moved to Singapore 8 years ago and never tire of the many cultural festivals we have here. It’s a great experience to wander through Chinatown in the run-up to Chinese New Year, or to visit Little India during Deepavali. Glad to see you’re enjoying your time here. Hope you managed to try yusheng for CNY. It’s more Singaporean than Chinese - but it’s delicious and a really sociable meal. Good luck and prosperity!

]]> By: Joseph Nebus http://blogs.reuters.com/photo/2008/01/31/a-postcard-from-singapore-viii/#comment-332709 Joseph Nebus Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:39:20 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/photo/2008/01/31/a-postcard-from-singapore-viii/#comment-332709 Singapore doesn't slow down for Chinese New Year so much as it comes to a complete and somewhat eerie halt. It's wonderful seeing the decorations and public festivities and all that attendant excitement, and hearing evidence of lion dancers wherever you are, but seeing so much of the island closed entirely was disorienting my first year there and didn't lose its novelty in following years. I'm sorry that my camera was reliably stuck in shop for the appropriate days. I also enjoyed watching on Channel 5 the apparently random bunches of movies they would pick for the holiday. I could never figure the theme they had for the special programming other than ``we had the rights to these movies''. Singapore doesn’t slow down for Chinese New Year so much as it comes to a complete and somewhat eerie halt. It’s wonderful seeing the decorations and public festivities and all that attendant excitement, and hearing evidence of lion dancers wherever you are, but seeing so much of the island closed entirely was disorienting my first year there and didn’t lose its novelty in following years. I’m sorry that my camera was reliably stuck in shop for the appropriate days.

I also enjoyed watching on Channel 5 the apparently random bunches of movies they would pick for the holiday. I could never figure the theme they had for the special programming other than “we had the rights to these movies”.

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