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Photo from this years Thaipusam festival in Singapore. Taken in early Feb but sitting on the camera till a week or so ago due to my hard drive crashing. I’ve been to the Thaipusam festival three times now here in Singapore and it still blows the mind. I don’t have faith, so I can’t understand what drives people to do this.
You can see the whole Thaipusam Festival, Singapore, January 2010 photoset on Flickr [flickr.com].
Lion dance [wikipedia.org] performed at my sister-in-laws house on the third day of Chinese New Year this year.
Another [confusion.cc] trip [confusion.cc] to Japan in the middle of winter. More specifically a trip to Kyoto.
This trip was precipitated by a visit by my mother and sister to Singapore to see my daughter. Since their flight was via Tokyo, they decided to take a stopover and visit the land of the rising sun, a new destination for them to check off. Candice, Tori and I decided to join them.
Even though the flight was to Tokyo we spent the whole trip, sans train rides to and from Narita airport, in and around Kyoto. This was my planning—Kyoto has the highest density of places to see. And while I’d like to see stuff I’ve never had the chance to see it made sense for my mother and sister to see the ‘must see’ sites in Kyoto on their first trip. It also made sense to go to some place I was familiar with to make it easier to get around with Tori. So Kyoto it was.
We only had 5 days, so we focused on the big must see sites: Nijo-jo [wikipedia.org] the Shogun home, Ginkaku-ji [wikipedia.org] the Silver Pavilion and Kinkaku-ji [wikipedia.org] the Golden Pavilion. Fushimi Inari-taisha [wikipedia.org] and Kiyomizu-dera [wikipedia.org].
In addition to temple and shrine hopping, we spent our evenings wondering the streets of Gion [wikipedia.org] where we spotted not one, but two Geisha. We spotted both Geisha on the same night walking along one of the tea house lined streets. In fact as Tori was playing in a small water fixture next to a door we almost got run over by one of the Geisha when she came out of the door on her way somewhere. No pictures of Geisha though, it was dark and flashing people in the face is not something I am good at.
It was a good trip with the family, Tori had a lot of fun and I have a lot of photos of her. But overall I did not take a lot of good photos. The winter weather and focus on Tori were not conducive to taking photos. I took a lot of snapshots but few turned into good photos. There is defiantly a bent towards good photos in the morning, less time and attention to the shots as the day went on. Still, I did take a lot of shots and some turned out good.
You can see the whole Kyoto, Japan, January 2010 photoset on Flickr [flickr.com].
One more visit to OCH, actually because my sister [flickr.com] was visiting and wanted to take some photos. Glad I went because the building seems on the verge of being off limits; there are post holes all around for what appears to be an imminent fencing off. Additionally the whole building has been cleaned out and whitewashed. Not so spooky anymore without the Satanist graffiti.
You can see the whole Old Changi Hospital, Singapore, January 2010 photoset on Flickr [flickr.com]. See also here [flickr.com] and again [flickr.com] for previous visits.
N** [nirsinay.com] and I rented a couple of Canon 70-200mm 2.8L zoom lens and went looking for the monkeys at Upper Pierce park a while back. We didn’t spend too long with the monkeys for a number of reasons, so there are not too many good shots. But this guy posed for several nice photos.
You can see the rest of the Monkeys at Upper Pierce, Singapore, December 2009 photoset on Flickr [flickr.com].