A Trip to Chinatown

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I have two good friends Tom and Shizheng. We like to travel around Singapore together to visit the different places of interest and try out exciting food together. We heard from a friend of ours that there is a Buddha Tooth Relic Temple at Chinatown which has a lot of interesting display and history of Buddhism and Singapore. So, on Saturday morning, we took the MRT to Chinatown. When we reached Chinatown, there were many people on the streets. We were excited about the trip as the place was full of life and we started taking pictures right in front of the MRT exit. The streets were long and there were many shops selling small and cute things on both sides of the streets. There were many foreign visitors there too, shopping and enjoying the sights and sound of Chinatown. They looked so happy and were often seen asking for discounts from the shopkeeper. We walked for about twenty minutes and arrived at the Buddha Relic Tooth Temple. There were many people at the temple and we observed them praying and burning incenses. We copied them and took two sticks of incenses. Before we picked them up, Shizheng told us that we must put money into the donation box. We took out two dollars and put it inside the box before taking the incenses.. After that, we lit up incenses and stick it into the big censer in front of the temple.. As I was looking at the incenses, smiling widely, Tom took out his camera and took a picture of that moment. We went into the temple, there was a big dragon display, catching our attention. It looked very beautiful and well crafted with many little details carefully crafted on the dragon. Besides the dragon was two children and each has a big smile on their faces, making the fierce dragon looked friendlier. As we walked further into the temple, a big yellow monk appeared and when he turned around, there were words at his back. We looked

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