Fish Liberation For my Bday + Art Fest : Mega Line Dance

This is my actual birthday gift from my parents. A unique way to celebrate my birthday on board "Imperial Cheng Ho". Took a free shuttle bus from the Buddha Tooth relic temple to the Marina pier. Went on board the boat and there was some chanting of prayers. After that, we all lined up and given a pail of fishes. Mum's pail doesn't contain enough water and the fishes were all trying to escape. We poured the fishes down the slide and they slide down into the sea. We felt happy when the fishes were in the sea and watched them swim off. After that, we went back for a vegetarian lunch. They also playing the guess the number game. Loser have to be punished to sing a song.

Buddha's teaching: 放生 / releasing of live is the practice of saving beings facing imminent death. As the Buddha stated, we are going through the repetition of rebirths since beginningless time and thus it is not easy to find a being who has not at one time been our mother, father, brother, or sister. So, when saving the life of another being, Buddhism believes that we are not just saving a fish or a rabbit, but the life of one of our mothers in the past. Among all negative karma, that for killing is the heaviest. Among all positive karma, that for releasing life is the highest.

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During the evening, went to the Marina Barrage to attend the Mega Line Dance. It's the closing for Singapore Art Festival. I love Marina Barrage. It's a nice place to go to. For kite flying, for relaxing. Lots of line dancers attend this event. I thought they would teach us how the dance move but it's like a line dance marathon, whereby they danced from 6pm to 9pm, non stop.

Since we don't know the dance moves, we went to the restaurant there to have our dinner. We ordered steamboat standard set for 3-4 persons and 3 bowls of chicken rice. Yummy. Loved the hot soup and they used charcoal which makes the food more tasty. The chicken rice also had a nice garlic taste to it. High recommended.



Some hiccups happened when we were leaving and that is my father's tyre got pricked by some sharp needled and we spent 15 minutes trying to call for help in the end reached home 2 hours later. Tired.