Celebration
15 days of Chinese lunar new year celebration is finally over. The Chinese Valentine’s Day or YuanXiao (元宵) was the last celebration on the 15th Day or yesterday. Everything is back to normal today. Shopping malls stopped playing back New Year songs. All new year decorations around town have been dismantled. I’m reluctantly back to work now! 
As my life will go on, a last piece of photo taken during the new year celebration is posted here as a conclusion to my celebration.
As usual, I took the shot with Nikon D60 and Nikkor 35mm lens. Firing a direct fill flash helped balancing those shadow areas nicely and 1/200s fast sync shutter speed proved to be useful to freeze their action. To avoid my wife from murmuring me, I’ve added some soft skin effect to hide some of the blemishes! Haha!
I love this portrait. It was captured in Genting Highland during CNY this year. A strong feel of Chinese New Year with Cherry blossom as background. Smiles from both Jean and Chloe’s face look wonderful to me. Hope you like it too. That’s it for the Year of Tiger! – Travel Feeder, the ultimate travel photo blog RA9WE4S9YPVR
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Sounds like a devotee? Yes. Temple after temple on the 5th Day of Chinese New Year (年初五). We went to TianHou Temple, the biggest temple in KL after brunch (Malaysian slang: Breakfast and Lunch together!), and visited the Taiwan’s FuoGuangShan (佛光山) initiated DongZen Temple after dinner. It was actually planned by me. If you have read my previous post about TianHou Temple at night and FGS DongZen Temple at day last year, this is an update to the same places but in different time of day!
What are the 2 things dominated temples during Chinese New Year? Bingo! It’s lanterns and incense. Here are some photos captured in Tian Hou Temple…
There were people all over the temple who came here for prayer, devotion, site seeing, lantern watching, photo taking and so on…
What you could see from the above photos other than lanterns are lanterns or else lanterns. Have you got enough?
In the evening, we travelled for 1 and a half hour to another temple in Jenjarom, near Banting, Selangor. It’s DongZen Temple. Parking were all full and we needed to parked our car 2 blocks away. DongZen temple is the uprising destination during Chinese New Year because of it’s attractive lighting at night. Many people come here merely for it light decorations every year. I’m one of them…
All decorations with lighting are creatively designed and constructed with steel frame and thin cloth.
Wu Hoo! (五虎) Five tigers in the Year of Tiger.
GuanYin in a lotus pond.
Lanterns. This time is a mix of red and yellow lanterns…
At around 10:00pm, actress acting like a GuanYin (观音) parading in the crowd and splashing holy water to the crowd.
This sculpture of Buddha attracted many crowds as well.
Remember where the ‘paper felt’ buddha statue stood last year? It’s GuanYin statue this year…
As there were so crowded inside the compound, I did not take many photos indeed. These are just some introduction images to DongZen Temple at night. The traffic was so jam when we left the place and guess what? We reached home at 1:30am! 
Today is the 11th Day of Chinese New Year. There are still 4 days for whoever interested to see all these lighting and lanterns at these 2 temples. And I’m still have 4 days to celebrate this Chinese New Year of Tiger. GONG XI FA CAI – Travel Feeder, your only travel photo blog.
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What a Chinese New Year! On the 9th Day of Lunar New Year, people celebrating Tian Gong Dan (天公诞) or Birthday of Lord of Heaven, but unfortunately, I’m taking my first rain check of the year! Today supposed to be my first day of work but I went sick. Too bad. Extremely hot weather, too much snacks and beer as well as less sleeping hours for the past 8 days of Chinese New Year attributed to my fever and sore throat.
I hope everything will back to normal after 1 day. Anyhow, I’m still wishing all of you who are praying Tian Gong (拜天公) on today, the 9th Day of CNY….Happy Tian Gong Dan!
天公诞快乐！
See ya!
Cecil Lee
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