Entree Kibbles: Chinatown Street Light Up (Daytime) for Lunar New Year 2023 - Year of The Rabbit @ Singapore #yearoftherabbit

Saturday, January 14, 2023

Chinatown Street Light Up (Daytime) for Lunar New Year 2023 - Year of The Rabbit @ Singapore #yearoftherabbit

The Year of the Rabbit would be in arriving in one week's time yet I have just started blogging about the street decorations at Singapore's Chinatown! Sigh; that's the problem when one has a full-time job, and couldn't afford the time to check out the area at the start of the year.

Nevertheless, the street light-up would be until 19 February 2023 although I would strongly recommend visiting the area before the start of lunar new year (22 January) so that you can soak in the squeezy, festive atmosphere!

To be frank, I thought this year's centerpiece didn't impress. Featuring a 10-meter structure of a 'multi-generational rabbit family' consisting of grandparents, parents and four kids, it was indeed a cute family portrait but unlike the tiger year; my eyes weren't wowed.

Even the decorations (flowers, ingots, lanterns) hung across the streets were homogenous with hardly any differentiation except for the words.

Up at People's Park Centre; my routine location during the annual street light-up decoration posting. It's more popular at night and I am still contemplating if I should pop by for some photographs at night on an upcoming weekday.

The pictures; including a panorama of the areas bordering Eu Tong Sen Street, New Bridge Road and Upper Cross Street.

Down at the street level again. There were discussions that the iconic People's Park Complex (yellow-green building) would up for a collective sale, with risk of demolition. That would have been a pity as it has been such a permanent fixture for Chinatown for the past few decades!

More of the main rabbit family. There were criticism, as there always will, that the rabbits appeared to be pooping. Well, I personally don't think so.

I actually like this rabbit posts on the sides of the roads that helped to prop up the hanging decorations; looked like they were helping each other to get the work done.

Middle section of Eu Tong Sen Street and New Bridge Road; making use of empty stretch even though it's hard for members of the public to selfies, given the heavy road traffic along both roads.

For humans, we tend to give human traits to animals so that they are more relatable. It's funny though, when we see glasses on rabbits, and they were not hung on ears to prevent them from dropping.

For street light up, you usually don't see any other animals except for the main zodiac animal. It's therefore interesting to see a dragon!

Part of a dragon dance scene, with the rabbits working on "moving" the dragon. Anyway, it can also signify that right after the rabbit year would be the dragon year, which is considered the most auspicious among the zodiac animals.

Rest of the sculptures in the middle of Eu Tong Sen Street and New Bridge Road, of various poses and participating in numerous activities. I am hoping the authorities would close the roads on the eve of lunar new year so that members of the public can step forward to take close-up photographs and selfies.

If you don't wish to visit on eve, knowing it would likely be super duper crowded, you can find some other places at Chinatown for close-ups and selfies, like the above, which I chanced upon outside Chinatown Point.