more photos from 2013 CNY Day 1~

Had steamboat for lunch with family. (●⌒∇⌒●/)

Itadakimasu!

Mom also cooked tom yam fish super nais~! Omnomnomnomnomnom~~

me peeling off the shells of the quail eggs~

Pretty, yummy little scallops (^ᴗ^人)

♥

In the evening we went to Ayer Itam for tea time before heading to Kek Lok Si temple. I wanted to see the thousands of lanterns being lighted up since they only do so for 15 days or 1 month(I'm not quite sure) every year during CNY.

This is Kek Lok Si~! Well, just a small part of it.

Moi and kois!

So many different koi fishes~

The tallest Kuan Yin_Goddess of Mercy_statue in Southest Asia! Last time I blogged about it, most of the pillars were still under construction.

Piles of amulets for sale~

Photos before the lanterns were lighted up~

So many lanterns!

Behold~! This is how the temple looked like with all the lanterns and LED lights lighted up about 7.30pm-8.00pm.

There're even LED lights on the potted plants~!

And lastly, a close up shot of the Kek Lok Si pagoda ( ´ ▽ ` )

PART 2: 2013 Penang Yosakoi Parade

I'm back~!ヾ(●⌒∇⌒●)ﾉHere's the second part of the post on the Yosakoi Parade. These were taken at night around Beach Street.

My photos are a lil' blur so I stole some from my friend Marcus who were there with me to watch the parade. I'm lazy to reference each and every photos of his in this post. You'll notice some photos with better resolutions_those are his. And no, Marcus, I'm not jelly over your camera ٩(≥3≤)۶

Anyway, here are the pics~!

There was a horse carriage! This was taken before the parade starts.

Parade begins~!

Ok, this I'm not sure what it is. The children were carrying it and rocking it back and forth while shouting something I didn't quite catch. Can someone enlighten me about it?

Some random shot LOL. The lil' girl was standing on her dad's shoulder to watch the dance performance. Brings back memories (๑>◡<๑)♡

So jelly of her. There were so many people there I couldn't catch a glimpse of some of the performance. Was tiptoe-ing most of the time my legs hurt.

Some modern elements incorporated in the parade. Dancers dancing to catchy beats.

More children and adults performing in happi coats~

Pretty ladies in colorful kebaya parading~

Kendo demonstration~

Also performances by local students~

Luffy and Captain Jack Sparrow was there together with many other cosplayers from the Malaysia Cosplay Toshokan.

Sumo-man was there too!

Hahahaha. He had the best costume on that day (≥v≤)

That's most of it.

Here's something to end the post with_photos of the lanterns light up that nigh at the carnival area taken by Marcus.