26th Februray was the 26th day of the first lunar month of this year. I heard the buddhist temple would be open for the Goddess of Mercy vault openining event. I was heading there. Along the way in an elevator, I thought I'd take a photo because the light at the top and mirrors of the side make it interesting.

2 月 26 日是今年农历正月 26日。我听说观音堂佛祖庙有为观音开库接红包而开。我正要去那里。在途中进了白沙浮商场电梯看到灯光配旁边的镜子挺特别的，就拍了张照片。

I went into Bugis+ mall to go through the place to get to the temple.

我走进Bugis+购物中心，穿过去寺庙那里。

I reached there and it wasn't crowded as I expected. They didn't have the event last year. In prior years, the place would have been so crowded they had barriers to control the crowd going in.

我到达那里并没有像我预料的人群。去年没有这个活动。在前几年，这个地方会非常拥挤，以至于有设立障碍来控制人群。

There was still control this year but there was a long snaking queue. Not too long ago, you could only go in certain days depending on whether your ID number ends with a odd or even number. I went in and prayed for a while and then get the ang bao from them.

今年仍然有控制，但排起了长队。不久前，你只能在特定的日子里去，而要看你的身份证号码的位数是偶数而定。我进去拜拜了一会儿，然后从他们那里拿到了红包。

After that, I went to the Indian temple next to it. The one where our Prime Minister said people would go that after the buddhist temple to be doubly sure.

之后，我去了旁边的印度庙。我们的总理说人们会在观音堂出来后去那个地方，以加倍确定。

Look at the figures at the top. It's a work of art.

看看上面的人物像。这是一件艺术品。

Or you can go close from the side to look.

或者你可以从侧面靠近看。

I decided to go up the residential block nearby to take some photos of the buddhist temple.

我决定去附近的住宅区拍一些观音堂的照片。

They didn't allow devotees to place flowers inside the temple and I heard this on the news. Yet, those stalls with the big umbrellas were trying to sell you flowers. I wonder how many people who bought and had to take the flowers home thought it was a scam,

他们不允许信徒在寺庙内放置鲜花，我在新闻中听到了这一点。然而，那些摆着大雨伞的摊位却在向你推销鲜花。不知道有多少买花得带回家的人认为这是骗局

After that, I went down to look for place to eat passing buy this decoration that was there for Chinese New Year.

之后，我下楼去找吃饭的地方，经过这个农历新年的装饰品。

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