Christmas time in Singapore starts almost the day after Halloween. The decorations start appearing in the first 2 weeks of November, the lights are up in the streets, etc. It is a bit strange to see so many Christmas trees and fake snow when it\u2019s so hot outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Singapour, la p\u00e9riode de No\u00ebl commence pratiquement le lendemain d’Halloween. Les d\u00e9corations commencent \u00e0 appara\u00eetre d\u00e9but novembre, les rues sont illumin\u00e9es, etc. C’est un peu bizarre de voir autant de sapins de No\u00ebl et de fausse neige quand il fait si chaud dehors.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Here more than anywhere else, Christmas is just an excuse to sell more stuff. The Christian community is very small and this celebration doesn\u2019t have its meaning. So much so that the 1st of January, all the decorations have already disappeared. It is quite a feat as it\u2019s a bank holiday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ici plus qu’ailleurs, No\u00ebl n’est qu’un pr\u00e9texte pour vendre encore plus de choses. La communaut\u00e9 chr\u00e9tienne est tr\u00e8s petite et cette c\u00e9l\u00e9bration n\u2019a pas vraiment de sens. A tel point que le 1er janvier, toutes les d\u00e9corations ont d\u00e9j\u00e0 disparu. C\u2019est quand m\u00eame un exploit puisque c\u2019est un jour f\u00e9ri\u00e9 !<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The celebration that is really meaningful is coming up in February (Chinese New Year) and decorations are starting to come up. It will be the year of the dragon \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n La f\u00eate qui a vraiment du sens arrive bient\u00f4t en f\u00e9vrier (le Nouvel An chinois) et les d\u00e9corations commencent d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e0 appara\u00eetre. Ce sera l’ann\u00e9e du dragon. <\/em>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now that we are in 2024, the time seems to just go even faster. I am starting to be stressed about all that is left to do in 6 months!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maintenant que nous sommes en 2024, le temps s\u2019est acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9. Je commence \u00e0 \u00eatre stress\u00e9e par tout ce qu’il me reste \u00e0 faire pendant ces 6 mois !<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!!!<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n BONNE ANNEE 2024 !!!!<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes, I know, Christmas is behind us but I didn\u2019t have time to write about it last month. It\u2019s been[…]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sebetanne.co.uk\/hkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sebetanne.co.uk\/hkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sebetanne.co.uk\/hkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sebetanne.co.uk\/hkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sebetanne.co.uk\/hkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33023"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sebetanne.co.uk\/hkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33041,"href":"https:\/\/sebetanne.co.uk\/hkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33023\/revisions\/33041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sebetanne.co.uk\/hkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sebetanne.co.uk\/hkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sebetanne.co.uk\/hkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sebetanne.co.uk\/hkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sebetanne.co.uk\/hkblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20231125_112454-scaled.jpg\")
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n