Singapore River Hongbao 2014

Every year, Singapore River Hongbao carnival will held at the Floating Platform, Marina Bay. This year will be the 28th years that the organiser had organised.

At the Singapore River Hongbao 2014 Carnival, you will be expected Chinese handcrafted lantern displays, LIVE performance on Chinese culture. If that not enough for you, you can visited to the Food Street, where you can try Yunan and other cultural food.

You also can visited to the Cultural street to get the ethnic costumes, cultural products, handcrafted jewellery and many more. You can also can get Calligraphy for free! If you are stamp or first cover collector, you may wish to visit to Singapore Post Office Booth to buy Limited Edition Gallop Year stamps and First Cover!

The carnival also have wishing well where the public can toss and throw their coins to wish for wealth, health, career and marriage.

Member of the public can visit to Singapore River Hongbao 2014 from 29 January to 8 February 2014. Admission is Free. 

Member of the public are advised to take public transport as the road will be quite congested. You can alighted at any of the nearby MRT stations:  CC4/DT15 Promenade Station, CC3 Esplanade Station, NS25/EW13 City Hall Station and/or NS26/EW14 Raffles Place Station.

You may want to read last year, Singapore River Hongbao (The Year of the Snake) 2013 here.

Memories of Singapore River Hong Bao

Every Lunar New Year, The organiser will organise the Singapore River Hong Bao carnival at the Marina Bay riverside. River Hong Bao have been organised for 27 years and the admission is free.

The member of the public can expected Live performance from the Local and China performers, World food street, Chinese showcase, The Chinese Zodiac display and Uncle Ringo amusement carnival.

During the hare days, it was like a family affairs outing to visit to Singapore River Hong Bao. As during the times, there was not much attractions e.g, Singapore Flyer, Marina Bay Sands etc to visit.

I could remembered when I was a kid, My parents and my younger brother, we would travel to Marina Bay River (Along the stretch of Marina Bus terminus) and visit to Singapore River Hong Bao. (At that time, we took a bus to City Hall and walk towards to Marina Square as Circle Line was not built yet.)

The carnival was very grand and very huge at that time, They even setup First Aid counter, Lost and Found Counter and Temporary Police Centre. Do you know that, at that time you could able to play Roller Coaster, Pirate Ship and Ghost Train ride?

The Carnival had many Chinese Myth showcase displays which was sponsored by individual company. They also displayed in the sea as well! Do you know that TCS (MediaCorp) also held it Chinese New Year countdown together with ChinaTown and TV studio before?

I could remembered that I pulled my dad hands and take photos together as my dad do not like to take photo. Till now my dad still the same habit! Ha Ha.. Soon after, Marina area was being re-delvoped and to build more attractions (eg, Esplanade theatre, Marina Bay Stadium, Singapore Flyer etc) as the nation progress. The Singapore River Bao Carnival became smaller due to the area re-delvoped.

When the Esplanade theatre was completed, Singapore River Hong Bao was shifted beside the empty space and when the Marina Bay Floating Platform (Marina Stadium) was completed the construction, the carnival was shifted over here.

Time passed and the Singapore River Bao also transformed over the year. With the beauty of Marina Bay skyline, it also attracted not only the local but to the tourists as well.

It's been awhile where we can see this outdoor amusement park. The new generation of kids would not able to experience the real fun that we had during the time we do not have a lot of IT gadgets. But most important, our Tradition will never change and it will pass down to the next generation.

Happy Lunar New Year to everyone!

Celebrate the Nation with Lego

This year, Singapore will be celebrating her 47th Birthday. As part of the celebration, up to 200,000 Lego bricks and minifigures will recreate a Mini Marina Bay Floating Platform replica on the National Day Parade (NDP).

For the price of SGD$5, you can be part of the Building a LovingSG charity. All proceeds will go to The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund. You can build a pair of customized Lego minifigures. One of the Lego minifigure will be placed on the seating gallery of the Marina Bay Floating platform and while the other one for you to keep for your participation.

On 22nd July 2012, Sunday, my aunt and I head down to Marina Square and participated in Building a LovingSG. It was crowded and many people queue-up to donate and build a pair of customized lego minifigures. We donated SGD$10 and made our lego minifigures and at the same time took some photographs of the Lego minifigures and the replica of Marina Bay Floating Platform which are displayed.

After customized our minifigures, we passed one of the minifigure to the volunteer and he put it at the seating gallery and glue it! I can't' wait to see the actual display during the National Day Parade on 9th August 2012!