As a follow-up to my previous post about Macau: @osm0sis/m-a-c-a-u-through-my-lens
here are a few black and white photos I took depicting the lives and daily activities of the Macanese people:

Camera: Samsung Galaxy S4
Location: Macau

The streets of Macau's city center - near the famous Grand Lisboa casino

Camera: Samsung Galaxy S4
Location: Macau

Two friends catching up in one of the very few kiosk left in the city. Lilau Square is a small but interesting stop on the UNESCO World Heritage trail in the Historic Centre of Macau. It is here that you can find one of the first locations inhabited by Portuguese settlers as well as an East-meets-West architectural crossroad in the buildings seen on the square.

Camera: Samsung Galaxy S4
Location: Macau

Prayers at A-Ma Temple

Camera: Samsung Galaxy S4
Location: Macau

Friends enjoying a late night game of Mahjong.
The word Mahjong means “clattering sparrows”, due to the noise of the tiles when mixing them which resemble the sound birds make.
I have heard that, according to yet another Chinese superstition (there are so many), winning the first game of Mahjong is bad luck... so much for Beginner's Luck!

Here are a few more interesting facts you may be interested in:

• Mahjong is a popular Chinese game that involves the use of tiles in a game of strategy, memory and skill.
• Generally a game of mahjong is played by four people over a series of rounds, although variants with two, three or even five players, are also played.
• A total of up to 144 tiles are typically used in a game of mahjong, featuring depictions of bamboo, circles and characters from numbers one to nine; as well as special symbols from seasons, winds, dragons and flowers.
• The general aim of the game is to score points primarily by ‘wooing’ or forming ‘mahjong’, which is done by achieving a specific set of combinations of tiles by picking them up, while others are discarded.
• Mahjong has previously had a gambling component that resulted in the Chinese government banning the game in China from 1949 to 1985, and the game was later reinstated without that element.
• The origins of mahjong are quite disputed and it is possible that the Chinese teacher Confucius designed the game around 500 BC; or the Chinese military invented it in the later 1800s; or it simply grew or was created out of other similar styled games.
  Source: http://tenrandomfacts.com/mahjong/

Camera: Samsung Galaxy S4
Location: Macau

Shop lady selling sweets and pastries in a typical Macanese store. Notice the picture hanging on the wall behind her showing a portrait of the former owner of the shop, most likely her grand-father or great grand-father.

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Thank you for your visit
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To check out some of my previous posts, click on the links below:

Ayesha	Nepali woman
In the eyes of a child	Macau - through my lens

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