Chinese believe that the gates of hell is opened up during the Lunar 7th Month and ghosts are allowed to wonder on the earth. To ward of bad luck, this is an inauspicious month for marriage, moving house, travelling etc...
I took a few pictures of a group of taxi drivers celebrating the Chinese 7th month Hungry Ghost Festival.
In 1999, the 7th month started on 11 August and ends on 9th September 1999

Visited a client at the recently T.O.P. development called Toa Payoh Crest at Toa Payoh Lorong 1.

And this is the last weekend of thet few days of Chinese 7th month in 2017.

What is interesting is that this Chinese 7th month festivities located at an open space next to Block 127 Toa Payoh Lorong 1 market is an older estate.

Thus, it is no surprise to find a traditional style Opera stage:-

Perhaps by the next 15 years or more; there will no longer have such stage performers or audiences that can appreciate this type of performance.

As there simply may no longer have a market for this. Instead, one would end up getting those young pretty Getai singers. What a pity!

Elaborate seat covers:

This is common. A bidding point where people pay the highest price for various auctioned items:-

 

More photos: 2017 7th Month, at 127 Toa Payoh Lorong 1

On my way to an audit at Lorong Ah Soo, Hougang.

These three persons were folding gold ingots:

Nowadays, most other persons would literally have no time to fold these papers individually into gold ingots as shown above.

They would just burnt stacks and stacks of the unfolded gold papers

This people for convenience; because of the sheer volume of the Golf papers; do not fold them into gold ingots..

Outsourcing? Why not if you are the boss with many (construction related) workers!

Year 2018

This lady asks “Can meh?”