Chinatown was dead as a ghost town last night and Marina was bustling with the crowds. River Hong Bao once again spelled “kitsch” (like a blown-up scale of the ubiquitous pasar malams you get all over suburban Singapore nowadays –i.e. pirated VCDs, cheap watches, 3 for $10 T-shirts, handphone accessories and the works). Accidentally deleted all my digital photos from last night :( so can’t show you pics of oversized pink and blue sheep soft-toys, fluorescent yellow Made-in-China stuffed doggies with over-sized heads and cheap sewed-on plastic eyes, Southpark Kennys in a whole range of shades of orange, jumbo styrofoam mandarins and gold nuggets and cartoon-nish looking statues of zodiac animals. Very surreal..

New year period can be such a drag when you have hardly any relatives to visit and all the shops are closed. Spent the afternoon taking pictures of new year goodies we have been stuffing our face with – view my “Amateur Food Photography” : p Have been over-eating (so what’s new?) and not looking forward to the end of the hols… sigh…