In this post, like what have been mentioned in the previous post as well, we're going to talk about how the atmosphere is like during Deepavali, Hari Raya as well as Christams.
Indians and Hindus in Singapore celebrate Deepavali with fancy light and candle decorations that create an exclusive spectacle as night draws near. The ambiance Deepavali creates, coulped with the joy and happiness of the people are celebrated all over multi-racial and multi-nationality Singapore, regardless of their religion and nationality.
"Little India" on Serangoon Road is decorated and is filled with elaborate and fancy lights, garlands and colorful arches. With that, I can assure you that you will love the way Little India is different from the rest of the places in Singapore. The main focus of the business there are mainly for the locals, not the tourists.
There are a lot of shops and places here in Little India such as The Tekka Centre, Tekka Wet Market, Buffalo, Kerbau and Serangood Road.
The Tekka Centre is the first building you will see when you alight at the Little India Train Station. It's full of buzz and always crowded with people all day long even on normal days.
Festive bazaars and numerous cultural activities such as the Indian Heritage and Craft Exhibition, Street Parade, Countdown Concert are also held in the Little India to celebrate Singapore Deepavali. The festive stalls are decorated with wares such as fragrant flowers, garlands used during prayers, traditional oil lamps and beautiful Saris with intricate brocade patterns and glittering gems.
Along at the Serangoon Road, it will also be flooded and crowded with people and the ambiance on the night of Deepavali would be much more exciting and happening.
Therefore, I hope with this, it helps you to have a clearer view of how Singaporeans will anticipate Deepavali at Little India on Serangoon Road. Moreover, to have a clearer view and to embrace the atmosphere at Little India, the best solution is to go there!
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NEXT! For the Muslims,one month before celebrating Hari Raya, they are expected to start fasting from dawn till sunset in the evening at around 7pm. However the sick ones are excused this obligation. During this period, Muslims are taught not to indulge in any form of cheating or lying. All followers have to observe self-control and to be submitted to the all mighty Allah, the Holy One.
However, after their one month of fasting, they will then celebrate their form of success from fasting for the whole month. The Muslims in Singapore would usually prepare for Hari Raya Celebrations weeks before the festival. In Geylang Serai is where Muslims would gather at Geylang Serai would always be filled with decorations. Commonly in the evenings,the road of Geylang are brightly decorated and colourful littered up. crowds of busy shoppers can be seen during this period of time. You can see Bazaars set up, shopping centres and shop selling mainly festive goodies.
Indians and Hindus in Singapore celebrate Deepavali with fancy light and candle decorations that create an exclusive spectacle as night draws near. The ambiance Deepavali creates, coulped with the joy and happiness of the people are celebrated all over multi-racial and multi-nationality Singapore, regardless of their religion and nationality.
"Little India" on Serangoon Road is decorated and is filled with elaborate and fancy lights, garlands and colorful arches. With that, I can assure you that you will love the way Little India is different from the rest of the places in Singapore. The main focus of the business there are mainly for the locals, not the tourists.
There are a lot of shops and places here in Little India such as The Tekka Centre, Tekka Wet Market, Buffalo, Kerbau and Serangood Road.
The Tekka Centre is the first building you will see when you alight at the Little India Train Station. It's full of buzz and always crowded with people all day long even on normal days.
In Tekka Centre is a multi-use building complex comprising a wet market, shops and food centre. Week before Deepavali, Tekka Centre would definitely flooded with the Indians and Hindus as they would buy their clothes, foods and other important stuffs for themselves to prepare for Deepavali. There are no fewer than 10 shops with these eye-catching dresses or what they called 'sarees'. Also, there are antiques-and-collectibles shops.
Along at the Serangoon Road, it will also be flooded and crowded with people and the ambiance on the night of Deepavali would be much more exciting and happening.
Therefore, I hope with this, it helps you to have a clearer view of how Singaporeans will anticipate Deepavali at Little India on Serangoon Road. Moreover, to have a clearer view and to embrace the atmosphere at Little India, the best solution is to go there!
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NEXT! For the Muslims,one month before celebrating Hari Raya, they are expected to start fasting from dawn till sunset in the evening at around 7pm. However the sick ones are excused this obligation. During this period, Muslims are taught not to indulge in any form of cheating or lying. All followers have to observe self-control and to be submitted to the all mighty Allah, the Holy One.
However, after their one month of fasting, they will then celebrate their form of success from fasting for the whole month. The Muslims in Singapore would usually prepare for Hari Raya Celebrations weeks before the festival. In Geylang Serai is where Muslims would gather at Geylang Serai would always be filled with decorations. Commonly in the evenings,the road of Geylang are brightly decorated and colourful littered up. crowds of busy shoppers can be seen during this period of time. You can see Bazaars set up, shopping centres and shop selling mainly festive goodies.
This is called the ketupat which we will usually eat during Hari Raya
Along the road of Geylang..
Not forgetting the traditional goodies/cookies!
yumyum!!
carpets are the most forward looking shop to all customers during this time.
the reason being is because every year, they sell unique, fancy kind of carpets to our own comfort!
Also, to add on and to show our happiness, fancy lights are also sold here to decorate our house windows and etc! (:
Feast your eyes on visual panoply of seasonal decorations, and we’re not just talking about the annual Christmas light up along shopping strip Orchard Road. Shopping centres like Tangs and Takashimaya compete with each other every year with illuminating decorations that seem to creep magically from the ground level all the way up to the rooftop, while other major malls like Wisma Atria, Orchard Central and ION put on quite a show too.
The light-up stretches over a mile down from Tanglin to Concorde Hotel, varying in color from blue (Tanglin to Shaw Centre) to orange (Ion Orchard to the Heeren) to red (Orchard Shopping Centre to Concorde Hotel).
In shops you can find beautiful sarongs, carpets, food, music CDs, household items and VCDs. A wide variety of food is sold and they usually include Malay kuehs, otah-otah, breads, curry puffs etc. Many Muslims will shop here for their daily necessities and for the food.
For the ladies, these are the types of clothes that they would wear during Hari Raya.
It is called the Baju Kebaya
This on the other hand is for the men. It is called the Baju Kurung.
this is also worn for the men
There'll be bazaar here and this are one of the popular shops that they will go.
to add on the the celebration, they sell this for the kids to play during hari raya
the reason being is because every year, they sell unique, fancy kind of carpets to our own comfort!
Basically during the one month of fasting, Muslims would go here and shop to prepare for the celebrations. It is usually crowded with people mostly in the evening which is after they break their fast. The atmosphere there at Geylang Serai is like a heart-felt and you'll get all excited to celebrate it when you see all the decorations and the clothes sold there. It also feels like as though you're at the wet market with shop owners shouting the discounted price according to their customer's wants. In addition, Hari Raya Songs will be played along as you walked through the bazaars there. It's noisy and are always crowded. However, this is the only time where all Muslims will gather.
This is the environment at the Geylang Serai
The shop owners trying to negotiate with the customers with the price.
Thus, if you want to have a feel and embrace the ambiance here at Geylang Serai, do come down either during the festival or on normal days. Well, obviously it is better if you could come down during the festival itself.
To ensure that you won't get lost..
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Even though Singapore do not get experience the four seasons, much less snow, here in Singapore, definitely know when is the season to be jolly. Well, who cares about having snow to complete the festival when we can revel in Christmas splendor in scorching Singapore without risking frostbites and chapped lips. There'll be classic Christmas song sung by choirs fronted by cherubic children. You can feel Singapore Christmas festive at Marina Bay and will be lit up in Christmas Splendour everynight, and also expect parties everywhere in Singapore usually on the Christmas Eve.
Street performers will go wild in the city especially on the street of Orchard Road, with their capers and feats of gravity defying acrobatics. Choirs of cherubic children can also be seen and heard angelically carolling, human statues roam around freely and interacting with the crowds and stilt-walkers skip about, always game for a picture or two. So it’s just not about taking photographs with men in bright red fat suits and white beards impersonating Santa Claus.
Not forgetting, for every Christmas Day in Singapore outside Tanglin Mall, there'll always be snow during weekdays it will be from 7.30 to 8pm and on weekends, 7:30pm - 8pm & 8:30pm - 9pm.
The 'snow' looked really pretty when it started spraying into the air, and from a distance it did look like snow. The Christmas tree is lovely, and very cleverly decorated purely from recycled plastic bottles.
Doesn't it look fascinating and fun to be there and enjoying the Singapore kind of "snow"?!
So, well if you're dying to have a feel of this "snow" in Singapore specially during Christmas Day, come down at Tanglin Mall. The nearest MRT is the Orchard Station.
(TAKE NOTE: THIS EVENT ONLY HAPPEN DURING CHRISTMAS)
To see the view and experience the night life at ION Orchard....
In conclusion, from the two posts that I've posted about the Festivals that would be anticipated in a multi-racial Singapore, you would have a rough idea on how Singapore life is. Moreover, this is also to let you know the places that you can visit to when these occasion and festival occurs and you could be part of their race/culture too! (:
Signing Off~ Aizura
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