Rushing to Place Jossticks

[yipdanny]

You may need a diving case to protect your camera! :bsmilie:

be prepared with your goggles.
especially at waterloo street.
the incense are too much for your eyes to tahan.
later very difficult to shoot

 

[Canonised]

Hi all,

Does anyone know any details about an event during Chinese New Year Eve or Chinese New Year Day where aunties all rush into a temple to be the first to put joss sticks onto an urn.

Can we be situated inside the temple first before they rush in?

Maybe you ask the temple owners to organise a "CS photographers rush-in" event first before the actual "aunties rush-in". :sweat:

 

[marky]

Most probably i'll be going to Guan Ying miao on CNY AFTER the fireworks.. hehe.. i'm gonna be there taking pics from the outside and when the crowds leaves, then go inside to put joss-stick..

 

[etegration]

:nono: Not Hai Shi, should be Zi Shi.
子 (2300 to 0100)
丑 (0100 to 0300)
寅 (0300 to 0500)
卯 (0500 to 0700)
辰 (0700 to 0900)
巳 (0900 to 1100)
午 (1100 to 1300)
未 (1300 to 1500)
申 (1500 to 1700)
酉 (1700 to 1900)
戌 (1900 to 2100)
亥 (2100 to 2300)

interesting...

 

[denniskee]

:nono: Not Hai Shi, should be Zi Shi.
子 (2300 to 0100)
丑 (0100 to 0300)
寅 (0300 to 0500)
卯 (0500 to 0700)
辰 (0700 to 0900)
巳 (0900 to 1100)
午 (1100 to 1300)
未 (1300 to 1500)
申 (1500 to 1700)
酉 (1700 to 1900)
戌 (1900 to 2100)
亥 (2100 to 2300)

like that how to tell people meet is at 1430hr?

 

[Andy Ang]

That's why efficiency is low back then. The timings are also agr agr one.

 

[raincool2005]

i think it will be hard.. not just crowd... but also the air.. can make your eyes teary.. :sweat:

 

[thheng71]

Went there after the cny eve fireworks & that was ard 1am. The crowd was still very heavily there.

 

[mojopy]

i think it will be hard.. not just crowd... but also the air.. can make your eyes teary.. :sweat:

hmmm... i went there just sometime after midnight (accompanying my father).
not as smoky as compared to a few years ago.
the smoky atm was due to the incense from the joss sticks.
i remembered the very first time i went, the whole greenery in front of that HDB block facing the guan yin temple was full of joss stick that in the incense from those only filled up that whole area.
wah... that time. step into the crowd for a few minutes already started to tear.
can't even shoot properly.
but this year is so much better.
no tears from me. :sweat:

 

[mojopy]

Went there after the cny eve fireworks & that was ard 1am. The crowd was still very heavily there.

they open 24hrs that period.
even had to deploy police to help control crowd.

 

[raincool2005]

heard this waterloo temple is very famous in Singapore...

my parents went at around 1am.. the crowd has lessen down a lot. :sweat:

 

[freakshow8]

MAde it there guys! Thanks for the help and tips!

 

[compro_1975]

MAde it there guys! Thanks for the help and tips!

pix can not be seen

 

[eikin]

MAde it there guys! Thanks for the help and tips!

congrats, that's a great take white balance is alittle off though, alittle high on magenta i think

 

[sehsuan]

This reminds me somewhat of my childhood days... I put on my swimming goggles when my folks took out joss paper to burn... :bsmilie:

In fact, I used to put some Optrex in the goggles, too! :bsmilie:

 

[LOTUSfairy]

i think the effort made to go dowm there and have the pic taken deserves the :thumbsup: .