2012 Chinese New Year mall launch in SM North EDSA

Monday, January 23, 2012

The best part in having SM North EDSA being the largest mall in the Philippines and second in the whole world, it is also a great venue for events and annual celebrations, 2 weeks ago they just launched the mall’s Chinese New Year, like the annual Christmas mall launching, the event is high on energy and everyone watch the show and participate in the celebration, it is also important to SM North EDSA and other SM Supermalls to celebrate and welcome the year of the water dragon, because the main owners of this malls are Filipino-Chinese, and the annual Chinese New Year is already a part of our country's celebration many years ago. Let me greet you and my blog readers a happy new year or Kung Hei Fat Choy!

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I went there to witness the big unveiling of the mall to the public, me and my blogger friends watch the lion dance, dragon dance and exhibition, wushu demo, Chinese symphony group, Chris Tiu as the host and story teller of the event, he shared to us the story on how Chinese New Year started, the back drop showed us some animation clips about the origin of Chinese New Year and then before us, the Chinese Emperor stood up and welcome us, the Chinese Emperor is no other than Richard Yap aka Papa Chen of My Binondo Girl.

It was my first time to watch a whole lion dance exhibition, I didn’t know that they are required to do some stunts like jumping on those benches and roll in mid air, I enjoyed also the dragon dance, at first I thought that it was the boring part because the dragon is being carried on sticks and elevated on the air, carried by lots of people, it follow a dragon ball infront as it serve as the fireball guide, then during the dance and running around the hall, I saw that they do the hardest stunt like jump over in the long body of the dragon, it was the awesome attraction for me.

pinoy blogger wearing red for the Chinese New Year

The Chinese New Year celebration in SM North EDSA will be great if there are fireworks, but then the production team of the event manages to simulate a virtual fireworks and fire crackers, we heard cracking sounds and then smoke machines doing its job in creating a smokey celebration, add it with lots of confetti falling every where.

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check below my photo coverage of the launch

The water dragon statue stand in the middle of the Atrium level of City Block, SM North EDSA

Chinese Symphony group poses for a group photo op before the start of the show, at first I didn't even know that they are a choral group

Saw the Lion and Dragon dance group marching inside the mall

Chris Tiu started the show as the host of the event

Short words from the mall admin

2012 and the water dragon symbol

We call him Emperor Chen

Emperor Chen and the animal signs of Chinese calendar

Chinese symphony started to sing....one of the song that they performed is very familiar to me, I can't help my self but to sing with them.

A way of saying thank you and congratulations

more songs and now their choral master showed up in the front

Chris Tiu narrates a story about a town in China, about the people and the attack of an evil monster, but then the people uses dragon and lion dance and fireworks to scare the monster away.