DIWALI

This is some Diwali celebration outside a hypermarket called "Big Bazaar". Its something like our Carrefour. This branch which is just 15 min walk from my apartment is the smaller branch. I've heard that there's a bigger Big Bazaar on the other side of town. I've bought 70% of my basic household items from this place. Those sales items are really cheap... 50% off. Oh... I'm drifting off from the main topic - Diwali.. Yup... they have some performance of a band and dancers, playing loud music. Maybe equivalent to our Chinese way of getting a lion dance troupe to perform during occasions.

Besides the usual festive sales, the main thing abt Diwali, the festival of Lights is of course the Lights. Lights in all kinds of forms, 1) Candles, 2) Electrical Lights and 3) Fireworks...

1)

Candles... My neighbour units are all litted up with candles at their doorway.

2)

Dun really have a good photo on lights ... this will do?

3) Lastly the fireworks! As I'm only using my Nokia 6280 2.0 megapixel camera... Have limited nice shots of the fireworks. Also, no luck lar... alwiz when aim with my camera, the big ones dun appear... once I put down my camera... all the big ones banged everywhere.

It's like a warzone in Bangalore, the city people will start firing their fireworks from 6pm to 1am! Non-stop throughout the darkness... the night sky lighting up every minute and the explosions sound like city kena heavy bombardment... can be very noisy.

As the building in Banagalore is relatively low level, I can get a good view of the whole city in all directions from my rooftop at the 5th floor level. The rooftop is also used for people to play fireworks. I have bought a box for abt S$17... but dun dare to play by myself.. no experience... hehe. Wait for this coming sunday singaporean party... will bring the crackers along to see if they wanna have a go.

Bright one like the sun in the night...