Thursday, 7 February 2008

Kung Hei Fat Choy!

... which I'm reliably informed is the traditional New Year greeting in Chinese - “congratulations and be prosperous”... if it's not I dread to think what I've been saying to folk! So, welcome to the year of the Rat (which was also the year I was born) - I particularly liked Google’s banner to celebrate…



This evening I headed over to Kowloon for the New Year Parade… it was certainly colourful and noisy! Lots of dragons and rats – and all led off by a pipe band! Some photos down at the bottom…

Before heading off, I went to see the Man Mo Temple, which is right next to my apartment – Hong Kong’s oldest dating back to 1847 (the temple - not my apartment!). The photo shows coils of incense – all lit – and together with the incense sticks lit by all the worshippers (New Year’s day is one of the busiest) the aroma was quite overwhelming!



I hope you’re enjoying the blog! I’ve had some requests for things to include… and will try to oblige over the next few days! In closing may I wish you all a prosperous year of the rat!

















3 comments:

Anonymous said...

There's only one word for it, WOW!

And I hope you too have a prosperous year of the rat, although that sounds almost like an insult in english I think.

Amy K said...

Bigger photos is my request. You're seeing some amazing things.

Michael said...

Hi Amy - do you mean bigger pages on the blog page or when you click on them? Not sure my little laptop could cope with uploading anyhting too much larger!