Have you noticed? A new zodiac animal has popped up in various parts of Singapore in the lead up to Chinese New Year.
This time around, it’s the pig.
Often portrayed as pink, chubby, and adorable, the mammal’s spawned a Peppa Pig fever all over the world in recent years (swine flu excluded).
Photo: The Straits Times
Some people in Singapore, however, are not charmed by the pig-shaped lanterns perched at a busy intersection in Chinatown.
With bleary eyes and dusty skin folds, they’re looking a little too realistic, leading people to call them ‘dirty pigs’, Shin Min Daily News reported.
Others, perhaps feeling peckish, said the decorations reminded them of pig stew.
The decorations at Chinatown has always been rather hideous when it comes to the main "attraction". 2017's rooster looked like a tea pot with a rooster's head for a spout. But the pigs really look worse than the previous years. 真的是一年比一年差…
— entrydenied (@entrydenied_) January 5, 2019
And those on Twitter have echoed their sentiments on the dull looking lanterns, with one user writing: “Who is the designer? Who is the consultant? I would like to have a word.”
Not exactly the reaction that organiser Chinatown Festivals was expecting, we think.
Another more forgiving Twitter user wrote: “Maybe it looks better when the lights are switched on.”
Who knows? He might be right.
Chinatown will kick off Chinese New Year festivities with a light-up ceremony on Jan 20, 6pm.
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