Mid Autumn Festival Celebrations at Gardens By The Bay, Condos & Toastmasters Clubs

  Outings and Events - Gardens By The Bay

Mid autumn festival, a harvest festival, a festival of the moon is celebrated in Singapore and Asian countries and places with Chinese populations and Chinatowns. 

In Singapore you can see seasonal displays at Gardens by the Bay.  How long should you allow? Twice as long as you thought. 

Condos Holding Parties

Private events take place in condos. At a condo in Cashew Heights, Singapore, adults and children were given lanterns.

Cashew Heights Condo party for the Autumn Festival, with flowers and coloured paper langerns. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Toastmasters

Toastmasters clubs in Singapore decorate rooms with lanterns and serve calorific moon cakes.

Tampines Changkat Advanced Toastmasters Club in Singapore.  Lanterns for the Mid Autumn Festival.

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardens_by_the_Bay

https://www.youtube.com/user/gardensbythebay/videos

https://www.toastmasters.org/Find-a-Club/

Chinese New Year Decorations of lions and oranges for the Year of the Rabbit at Changi Airport, a Singapore Condo, and Chinatown, Singapore, and KFC Vietnam

 The lunar New Year is also known as Chinese New Year in places which have large and small Chinese communities. Chinese New Year decorations celebrate Chinese New Year in China and worldwide. See them in Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Chinatowns in London, England, New York in the USA, Vancouver in British Columbia in Canada. 

Common colours are red and gold, and red and yellow flowers. Potted trees have miniature orange fruit which looks like small oranges. Bigger mandarin oranges are given as gifts, a minimum of two. 

Animals depicted are lions, often a lion dance, and the symbol of the year, which is the rabbit in 2023. 

Changi Airport Rabbits

Changi Airport rabbits. For the year of the rabbit. Chinese New Year. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Not, as I at first glance thought, Easter bunnies.

The mythical dragon, in a supermarket.

Lion decoration for Chinese New Year, at Cold Storage supermarket in Rail Mall, Bukit Timah, Singapore. Photo by Trevor Sharot.

Cashew Heights Condo, New Year Decorations ready for Chinese New Year, Jan 22-23rd 2023. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

These colurful decorations of wall hangings with messages in Chinese writing, and flowers, and a red banner overhead, are outside the gym facing the swimming pool.

Cashew Heights condo, entrance seen from the road, from a taxi. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Chinese new year decorations, with traditional red lanterns. Cashew Heights condo corridor, Bukit Panjang, Singapore. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

From Facebook, Nee Soon South Community Centre in Singapore, Dusit Thani hotel, Singapore.

In Nee Soon South Community Centre, two lions entertainment, on floor marked for sports events.

KFC in Vietnam, 2023 offerings for 2023, the year of the rabbit. The incense sticks vertically strike an odd note, since you are told not to place chopsticks vertically in bowls of rice or other food, because that is how food for the dead is left on altars. 

Chinatown, Singapore, street lights. From V Chen, a friend of mine from Toastmasters International clubs in Singapore.

For Chinese New Year, oranges given as gifts, red packets to contain money gifts of new bank notes in multiples of lucky eight. Banks give out packets with their name on the back, sometimes free, sometimes which a minimum deposit or spend.

From Online Florist. A gift basket of fruit, with red tassels and messages for prosperity in Chinese (Mandarin) and the symbol of two oranges on the basket.

Glossary (mini dictionary)

CNY - Chinese New Year

Com - company

KFC - Kentucky Fried Chicken

SG - Singapore

UK - United Kingdom

USA - United States of America

Useful Websites

Changi Airport, Singapore

https://www.changiairport.com/

Cold Storage Supermarket, Bukit Panjang, Singapore

https://coldstorage.com.sg/cny

GST refund for tourists

www.iras.gov.sg

Heathrow Airport, London, England, UK

KFC

Nee Soon South Community Centre

Nee Soon South Toastmasters Club

Online Florist

https://www.onlineflorist.sg/

Singapore - a detailed description of Chinese New Year customs as well as the Chingay Parade

https://publicholidays.sg/chinese-new-year/

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Christmas Decorations in Singapore, Free to see, Buy Paper Plates Or Gingerbread Houses

 Santa fallen over - after a heavy night in 2020. Cashew Heights condo in Singapore. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Santa decorations and tree in Cashew Heights condo in Singapore in 2021. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Looking carefully, I see that the Santa on the left is the same one as last year, presumably kept in storage.

Xmas decorations on sale in Fairprice supermarket, Bukit Panjang, Singapore. Photo by Trevor Sharot.

A friend in Singapore in a Whatsapp group told us that she created a lovely vase of decorations at an even better budget price from Daiso. I saw Xmas decorations in Daiso in Ion, at the central crossroads of Singapore in the middle of Orchard Road.

Free to see, decorations in Scotts Road leading to Ion Shopping Mall, far centre, at Orchard Road at lunch time in the rain. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Ion, later the same day in the sun with Xmas lights. Corner of Orchard Road, adjoining Orchard MRT unerground railway station. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

On a budget? Paper plates for Xmas at Daiso. In Ion, Orchard Road, Singapore. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Got cash to splash?

Gingerbread House in the Tanglin Club, Singapore. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Useful Websites

https://www.daisosingapore.com.sg/

https://www.fairprice.com.sg/

About the Author of this blog, Author Angela Lansbury

BIOGRAPHY

Angela Lansbury B A Hons ACG ALB PM5 EH5 DL5 VC5 
The Author of several books, including  Etiquette For Every Occasion. Wedding Speeches & Toasts. How to be the Best Man. Quick Quotations. Who Said What When.

Blogs travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com

translateforfun.blogspot.com

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Club Vice President Public Relations (VPPR), Previous President

Join BHA 1st Wednesday 7pm and 3rd Saturday 2 pm Singapore time 

Vice President Public Relations (VP PR) of Tampines Changkat Advanced;

Secretary of weekly online Singapore International Dynamic Toastmasters Speakers’ Club;

Member and past president of Harrovians toastmasters club, UK; Past member of HOD Toastmasters, London. Past member in Singapore of: Toastmasters Club of Singapore (TCS); Tiarel; and Senja Cashew.

More details from Toastmasters International find a club.

Regular attendee at annual Swanwick Writers’ School, England.

Regular attendee at annual Writers’ Holiday, Wales.

Contributor to poetry readings, and after tea courses on: Speaking On Radio To Promote Books; and Plots And Character.

Winner of many club and area speaking contests in the UK and Singapore.

Language advisor to Empire Toastmasters club in Indonesia.

Language and speech workshops in Singapore.

Speaker on radio and TV in England, Scotland, the USA, and Australia.

Compiler of a school course on public speaking for teachers to prepare pupils for school open days with attending ceremonies before government ministers, Singapore.

Former member of Harrow Writers’ Circle, London, and two writing groups in Singapore.

Angela is on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter. She would be delighted to link up with new friends.

I  also have a blog on comic poems.

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