Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Diwali Fireworks
I've finally recovered. Still need to finish the remaining 6 days of the 12 days anti-biotic pills thou, but I feel a lot better now. Thanks for all those who called / emailed and asked about my health. Apparently, the doctor said that I do not have the built-in immunity of the virus / bacteria that are in India, that's why I'm more vulnerable to infection compared to local Indians.
Anyways .... so for the past 5 days I've been doing basically nothing other than staying at home and watching movies. The past weekend was the Diwali loong weekend, so Fri and Mon are off. And I toke Thurs off also cuz of my sickness.
But Diwali at Hyderabad is amazing. For those who dunno what it is, it is the festival of light. It is a big holiday, kinda like X'mas in the western world. Houses will be decorated with light, candles, flowers, and drawings. On the Diwali night (Friday), people will play fireworks thru out the city.
People drawing religious symbols in front of their house.
The type of fireworks that they have here is not the sissy weeny ones that you guys do during Victoria Day back in Canada. It is the kind that they will have at Toronto city hall or Niagara Falls during New Year. And yes, people play with those kinda bigass fireworks in their own little backyard or on the street.
Bigass fireworks
Is it dangerous ? Hell yeah. Especially majority of those who light the fireworks are little kids.
Run forest, RUN !!
Hold it in your hand and turn ..... wait until it explose in your hand ....
But is it beautiful ? I can tell you, it is probably one of the most beautiful thing I've ever experienced in my life.
Kids.
I've seen the fireworks at Niagara Falls. I've played with fireworks during Victoria Day while I was small. I've even seen the fireworks they have back in Hong Kong which costs the government millions and billions of dollars. But all of them is nothing compared to what they have here. Because for those fireworks, you usually only stare at one direction for 30 minutes and everything is done. But the ones they have here happens everywhere within the city, in any direction that you see, throughout the whole night.
Happening all around the city ...
That night during Diwali, me and the housekeeper guys climbed up to the roof of our house (which as pretty high up in the city) to see the fireworks. In all 360 degrees direction around us, the sky was filled with the light and sound of fireworks. All of your senses can feel the presence of the joy and happiness of the festival. Continuously, non-stop, for the whole night. It started to die down around 1am.
One of the housekeeper guys at the roof top.
Anyways, that's all for now. Later.
Anyways .... so for the past 5 days I've been doing basically nothing other than staying at home and watching movies. The past weekend was the Diwali loong weekend, so Fri and Mon are off. And I toke Thurs off also cuz of my sickness.
But Diwali at Hyderabad is amazing. For those who dunno what it is, it is the festival of light. It is a big holiday, kinda like X'mas in the western world. Houses will be decorated with light, candles, flowers, and drawings. On the Diwali night (Friday), people will play fireworks thru out the city.
People drawing religious symbols in front of their house.
The type of fireworks that they have here is not the sissy weeny ones that you guys do during Victoria Day back in Canada. It is the kind that they will have at Toronto city hall or Niagara Falls during New Year. And yes, people play with those kinda bigass fireworks in their own little backyard or on the street.
Bigass fireworks
Is it dangerous ? Hell yeah. Especially majority of those who light the fireworks are little kids.
Run forest, RUN !!
Hold it in your hand and turn ..... wait until it explose in your hand ....
But is it beautiful ? I can tell you, it is probably one of the most beautiful thing I've ever experienced in my life.
Kids.
I've seen the fireworks at Niagara Falls. I've played with fireworks during Victoria Day while I was small. I've even seen the fireworks they have back in Hong Kong which costs the government millions and billions of dollars. But all of them is nothing compared to what they have here. Because for those fireworks, you usually only stare at one direction for 30 minutes and everything is done. But the ones they have here happens everywhere within the city, in any direction that you see, throughout the whole night.
Happening all around the city ...
That night during Diwali, me and the housekeeper guys climbed up to the roof of our house (which as pretty high up in the city) to see the fireworks. In all 360 degrees direction around us, the sky was filled with the light and sound of fireworks. All of your senses can feel the presence of the joy and happiness of the festival. Continuously, non-stop, for the whole night. It started to die down around 1am.
One of the housekeeper guys at the roof top.
Anyways, that's all for now. Later.
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the picture of the kid's in that tunnel was really touching. Wow lu.. you i envy you the India experience.. but hearing that you are sick every week makes me think twice about trying it =D
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