Lion Head

Lion Head for a Lion Dance in the Lion City.

I missed nealry all of the Chingay festival ceremonies as they were from 8 to 10 in the evening and during the grand parade yesterday I was at the A-yue concert but when I came out I had the chance to see the tail of the parade with lots of beautifully decorated trailers and thousands of brilliantly dressed participants. I will try not to miss it next year and I will book my tickets early. I believe it definitely is the highlight of all the Chinese New Year ceremonies.

Lion Dance

If in Brazil you have the Samba schools training all year for the Carnival, here you have tons of Lion Dance schools. You can see them moving in their trucks all around the city. But these past weeks you really feel their presence drastically intensified. There are also a few preview parades and everyone is getting ready for the BIG one starting tonight for the Chingay festival dubbed Asia's grandest street & floats parade, officially the biggest New Year's event celebrated to welcome the arrival of Spring. Spring? What is spring in Singapore? Is there really any such season as spring?